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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 “Maybe less”

7 “I could use a

hand!” 11 Bioenginee­ring

letters

14 Capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province

15 U.S. citizen

16 Say no to

17 Formal induction ceremony for a league of pickpocket­s? 19 Unreturned serve 20 Hathaway of “The

Intern”

21 Forest female 22 “Amsterdam”

novelist Ian 24 “Stay” singer Lisa 26 Dos y dos y dos 27 Bicycles and

aviation, notably? 33 Shot in the dark 34 Hardly well 35 Compete (for) 36 MLB Triple Crown

category

37 Hard to clean

39 __ of thumb 40 British ref. work 41 Soft French cheese 42 Boot bottoms 43 Tax advice for slugger Aaron Judge?

47 From Denver to

Topeka

48 Puerto __ 49 Houston WNBA

team until 2008 52 iPhone platform 53 Westminste­r spot

for art lovers 57 Mimic

58 “That tracks,” and an apt descriptio­n of 17-, 27-, and 43-Across? 61 Abolish 62 Cologne ingredient 63 Acid artist

64 Over the hill 65 Flight sked figs. 66 Kind of oil used in

hummus

DOWN

1 Woman who says “Play it, Sam” in “Casablanca” 2 Babe in the woods?

3 Slender

4 Sure to fail 5 D’backs, in box scores 6 Warmhearte­d 7 Fabled napper 8 Former Abbey Road Studios owner

9 “Maybe I’ll have better luck” 10 Exact

11 Chew like a beaver 12 Flaky mineral 13 Rice paddy plow team 18 Mongolian desert 23 Inexact fig.

25 Yelps of pain 26 Fancy pillowcase 27 One floating down a river or speeding down a snowy slope

28 Gardner of “Saturday Night Live”

29 Heartache

30 Soft palate

projection 31 Boneless cut 32 Charges

33 Get taller 37 Completely disgust 38 Divide

39 Branch of engineerin­g whose name was coined by Asimov

41 “No clue”

42 Min. fraction 44 Concert purchase 45 Stepped

46 Shows disapprova­l, in a way

49 Mexican resort,

familiarly

50 Milky birthstone 51 Stitch up

52 Color printer refills 54 Turkish title of

honor

55 The other side 56 French 101 verb 59 Olympics chant 60 Short way to go?

 ?? By Tim D’Alfonso ?? ©2023 Tribune Content Agency 6/8/23
By Tim D’Alfonso ©2023 Tribune Content Agency 6/8/23

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