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DAILY CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Leather accessory

6 Sandbox game items?

11 Rangers home, familiarly

14 Cocoon fillers

15 Actress MacDowell

16 Took a course?

17 Ancient Greek market

18 Fed. security

19 MSNBC’s “Inside With __ Psaki”

20 James Webb, for one

23 Really feel the heat

24 Introduces an MGM film?

25 Hosted

28 Arrests

30 __ Polytechni­que

31 “Severance” actor

33 Source of local produce, for short

34 __ regia: golddissol­ving substance

35 Puffy deep-fried bread

36 Muscles worked in pull-ups and pulldowns

37 Spice blend

38 “Black Skin, White Masks” writer Frantz

39 __ mignon

40 Inclined

42 Spelling practice?

44 Receiving line?

45 Layered snack

46 Silent nemesis in “Peanuts”

51 Is for many

52 Smoothie option

53 Daniel who writes the Gabriel Allon spy novels

55 Luthor in the

Legion of Doom

56 Row of pawns, e.g.

57 Needed Advil, say

58 Superlativ­e suffix

59 One-named rapper in the hiphop collective Doomtree

60 “The Constant Gardener” Oscar winner

DOWN

1 Pro concerned with returns

2 Brings it in, in a way

3 Each2

4 y=2x plot,e.g.

5 Coastal formation

6 Gilbert and Sullivan staple

7 Rice, for one

8 K-pop star, say

9 Book club?

10 Shows the door

11 Pitches delivered in sequence?

12 Member of a blended family

13 Tiny inheritanc­e?

21 __ out

22 Berkeley, familiarly

25 “Barracuda” band

26 Purchases a company to obtain talented employees

27 Follow up too soon, perhaps

28 Beethoven compositio­n for brass virtuoso Giovanni Punto

29 Repugnant

32 Imitate a dove

35 Many a reduction

36 Good & Plenty flavor

38 Vulcan or Agni

39 Tool for intricate cutting

41 Draw

43 Part of some email addresses

46 Vegetable baked for chips

47 Parts of a sleeve

48 Lithograph­er James Merritt

49 Precollege yrs.

50 The before times?

54 Wood shaper

 ?? By Will Eisenberg ©2023 Tribune Content Agency ?? 12/23/23
By Will Eisenberg ©2023 Tribune Content Agency 12/23/23

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