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ACROSS

1 Thwack

5 Informed (of ) 10 Compensati­on 14 Tuck out of view 15 Wrinkled

16 Many a univ. donor 17 365 days

18 Rub ingredient 19 HBO political satire starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus 20 Impractica­l way to

get dressed? 23 Barack and Michelle’s eldest daughter

26 Family room 27 Impatient

28 Lives

30 Cookie fruit 31 Planning meeting for the costume department? 35 “Stop filming!” 38 Broody sorts?

39 Sir or sri

40 More than dislike 41 Donkey 42 Disappoint­ing sign on a store selling warm-weather garments?

44 GPS display 45 Small village 46 Food cart snacks in

South Asia 49 Texting letters 52 Swerves 53 Really pulls off a

jacket?

56 Initial poker bet 57 Japanese noodle

dish

58 Carried debt 62 Appear to be 63 “You __ kidding!” 64 Grow tiresome 65 Jekyll’scounterpa­rt 66 Basil-based sauce 67 Yields, as a profit

DOWN

1 Bashful

2 Blip on a polygraph, maybe

3 Hugo-nominated novelist Palmer

4 Continues

5 “One more thing ... “

6 Totally beat

7 Ouzo flavoring

8 Scouting mission, briefly

9 Garden with forbidden fruit

10 Fluttering in the wind

11 Warning signal

12 Ballpark figure

13 Like cans in a recycling bin, hopefully

21 Doth own

22 Fall flat 23 Anime genre featuring giant robots

24 Wheel-connecting rods

25 NFL team whose mascot is named Roary

29 Punchline lead-in

30 __ and blood

32 “Pull up a chair”

33 Corp. computer exec

34 Fuzzy sitcom star of the 1980s

35 “The Grouchy Ladybug” writer/ illustrato­r

36 Out-and-out

37 Tries, as one’s patience

40 Place of origin

42 Cheerios grains

43 “__ Nagila”: Israeli folk song

44 Defiant retort

46 Cymbal sound

47 Bee product

48 Performed

49 Open up, in a way

50 Fast-spreading social media posts

51 Fragrance

54 Hip hop genre

55 “I’m __ your tricks!”

59 Pint-size

60 “Mangia!”

61 Many profs

 ?? By Bonnie Eisenman ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 9/21/22 ??
By Bonnie Eisenman ©2022 Tribune Content Agency 9/21/22

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