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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Shed tears

5 Candy __ Saga: match-three game app

10 Fourth-yr. students

13 Org. with a Women’s Rights Project

14 Small cap

15 Split __ soup

16 *Sibling by marriage

18 Old tee, perhaps

19 Can opener

20 “Am __ time?”

21 Bad habit

22 Barnyard bird

23 *Best Picture Oscar winner directed by Barry Jenkins

25 Fictionalw­olf’s disguise

28 “Get Smart” crime org.

29 *Wee

31 Floats on the wind

35 Pretend

36 Video game princess

39 Early ISP

40 “Such a tragedy”

43 *Lengthy warranty period

46 __ hog

49 Played the lead

50 *Retrace one’s steps

54 Fin. neighbor

55 Mid-month date

56 “__-ching!”

57 Leash

60 __ & Perrins steak sauce

61 Coffee creamer option, or what can precede both parts of the answers to the starred clues

63 Trains that rumble overhead

64 “Murder on the __ Express”

65 “Just teasing ya”

66 Match, in poker

67 Raise a glass (to)

68 Salty expanses

DOWN

1 Stinging insect

2 Prefix with -plasm

3 Tusked animals

4 Small camping shelter

5 VIP with a corner office, perhaps

6 Mathematic­al comparison

7 Loosen, as a bra

8 “Burnt” crayon color

9 That woman

10 Parsley piece

11 Get through to

12 Bob who had a recurring role on “Fuller House”

14 Texter’s “Gimme a sec”

17 Music groups

21 Travel document

23 Pencil puzzle with dead ends

24 Fan setting

25 Honor roll figs.

26 Puerto __

27 “Les __”: musical nickname

30 Shape of some building additions

32 Equal chance

33 Heavy book

34 Iditarod vehicle

37 Floppy __

38 Toward a boat’s rudder

41 Boats like Noah’s

42 “j” topper

44 Dog-__: folded at the corner

45 “To be honest ... “

47 Hall of Fame jockey Eddie

48 National flower of Mexico

50 Olympic gymnast Simone

51 “Rolling in the Deep” singer

52 Halt

53 Sidewalk eateries

57 Demo stuff

58 Director Kazan

59 Country mail rtes.

61 Like habanero peppers

62 Picnic pest

 ?? By Jerry Edelstein ©2022 Tribune Content Agency ?? 9/13/22
By Jerry Edelstein ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 9/13/22

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