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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Programs opened with a finger tap 5 Lucy’s pal on “I Love Lucy” 10 Price to pay 14 Harvest

15 Circle or polygon 16 Sailor’s hailing call 17 “Careful now” 19 Fleetwood of

Fleetwood Mac 20 Sitcom star 21 Astronaut’s home

in orbit: Abbr. 22 Said something 23 Quality that keeps wallflower­s by the wall

25 “Yay, the

weekend!” letters 27 Nursery rhyme guy who met a pieman

32 Miss, as a turn

while driving

36 __ and haw

37 Short on manners 38 Togetherne­ss 39 “Mayday!” letters 40 Small, in French 41 “__ we forget” 42 Hall of Fame

slugger Mel 43 “Full House” twins 44 Mennonites, e.g. 47 __ Modern: London

art gallery 48 Uses for support 53 Bicker

56 Post’s opposite 58 Prom crown

59 __ for thought 60 Fair-weather

forecast

62 Part to play 63 V-formation flyers 64 Nautical speed unit 65 __ and ends 66 Tropical getaways 67 “The __-bitsy spider

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DOWN

1 Fields of study 2 Fuzzy fruit 3 British meat pie 4 Secretly watch 5 Spanish “that” 6 Belief in one god 7 Avocado variety 8 Apostolic messages in the New Testament 9 Give permission to 10 Places for telling ghost stories and roasting marshmallo­ws 11 Cleveland’s state 12 __ puppet 13 Youngster

18 Like garb for a gala 22 Bro kin

24 “Park it!” 26 Precious stone 28 Pinterest posting 29 Volume-off button 30 Norse god of war 31 Brooklyn NBA

team

32 Big swallow 33 Turow memoir about first-year law students 34 Italian city with a

leaning tower 35 States of mind 39 Church towers 40 Kilt features 42 Decide to leave,

with “out”

43 The Grand __ Opry 45 “Go jump in the

loch!”

46 Satisfy

49 Poet Giovanni 50 Canonized one 51 Cookies in some

pie crusts 52 Really, really bad 53 Hairdo that may be maintained with a pick 54 Crucifix

55 Top prize at the

Olympics

57 Rod and __ 60 High-tech SFX 61 Low-__: like fuzzy

graphics

 ?? By Kelly Clark ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 9/12/22 ??
By Kelly Clark ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 9/12/22

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