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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Mixes in

5 Pricing word 9 Tidied, as a lawn 14 “An Officer and a

Gentleman” star 15 Run the show 16 Many a flower girl 17 Lotion component 18 Wyoming national

park

20 Charmin maker,

familiarly

22 Put forward 23 Needle hole 24 Nocturnal birds of

prey

26 Chicken tikka __ 30 “Everything must

go” event 32 De-pleat?

34 Hor. map line 35 Guitar lesson

basics

37 Military title for

POTUS

38 JFK alternativ­e 39 “Tabula rasa”

philosophe­r John 40 Video chat

annoyance

41 Live coal

43 Hobbit enemy 44 __ polish

46 “The View” Emmy

winner Shepherd 47 Purpose 48 Gurgling sound 49 Post-WWII alliance 50 “Wiggle” singer

Jason 52 Sushi prep verb 54 Brewpub barrel 57 Meditate on 59 Gibbons of talk TV 61 “No need to mince

words”

65 __ pricing

66 Think alike 67 “West Side Story”

pair

68 Old character 69 The Brownings, e.g. 70 Garden annoyance 71 Newspaper

commentary

DOWN

1 Obviously impressed 2 Supply chain inconvenie­nce 3 Sport with teams of quadcopter­s 4 Tourney rank 5 Rowing machine, informally 6 Hearing-related 7 Period of the Peloponnes­ian Wars

8 Layers on a farm 9 Foyer

10 Eating patterns 11 Word before “Shorty,” “Smart,” “Hard,” and “Out,” in film titles 12 Environmen­tal prefix 13 Bear’s lair 19 Evil spirit 21 Hollywood Foreign Press Associatio­n awards

25 Director Craven 27 Emotionall­y crushed, and an apt descriptio­n of the circled elements in this puzzle?

28 Beer choice 29 Centipede

maker

31 Ararat lander 33 Semi

35 Billowy mass 36 Belmont Stakes

racer 40 Shang-Chi player

Simu 42 Converged 45 Without help 46 Punkie Johnson’s

NBC show

51 Part of a Cinderella

story

53 Give a speech 55 Online

periodical

56 __ community 58 Common result in championsh­ip chess

60 Currency

symbolized by € 61 Track circuit 62 Self-image 63 Italian three 64 Psychedeli­c

letters

 ?? By Neville Fogarty ©2023 Tribune Content Agency ?? 3/9/23
By Neville Fogarty ©2023 Tribune Content Agency 3/9/23

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