New York Daily News

CROSSWORD II

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ACROSS

1 Shoots the breeze 5 Whispered

summons

9 Davis of “Thelma

& Louise”

14 Peeve

15 Sound effect

in a canyon 16 Demon’s

counterpar­t 17 Persia, now 18 Kim Possible, e.g.

19 Letter after rho 20 Celine Dion hit heard in “Titanic”

(In this clue’s answer, see letters 7-11)

23 24 Shrimp Intention on a Southern go-with, menu

25 27 Mud Go back bath to venues square one (Letters 2-7) 32 Race that’s

winding down? 34 “Certainly,”

by the Seine 35 Mixer at a bar,

often

36 Part of UCLA 37 Opposite of

34-Across 39 Comedian’s joke 41 Hat, slangily 42 Jazzy Jones or

James

44 Arena arbiter 46 Qualities 48 Arcade game

with a mallet (Letters 4-7) 51 Renders speechless 52 Big bother 53 Group that protects a QB

55 Aircraft’s delay maneuvers, or what 20-, 27- and 48-Across are doing?

62 Cried “Foul,”

perhaps 63 Google Play

purchases

64 Ugg product 65 Igneous rock

source 66 Oaxacan

bread? 67 Tropical

destinatio­n 68 Says grace, e.g. 69 Where Adam

and Eve met 70 Sports squad

DOWN

1 Not looking

good

2 Light and open 3 Ho-hum 4 Westernmos­t

country in Africa 5 ___ dish (microbiolo­gist’s item)

6 Big name in lawn

care 7 Demonstrat­es for 8 Nobelist

Morrison 9 Manipulate­d into questionin­g oneself 10 Head-scratchers 11 “Daylight savings waffle giveaway” brand

12 Fish in a 2003

Pixar film 13 Mathematic­ian

Turing 21 Insurance fraud crime, commonly 22 Wrangler’s rope 25 Sinful animal? 26 Rigatoni or rotini 28 Summer mo. without a federal holiday

29 “Cross my

heart!” 30 Touches up,

as text 31 Mouthfuls of

Bubbliciou­s

32 Large quantity 33 Like almost all BYU students

38 “The Matrix”

protagonis­t 40 Researcher’s

funding 43 Much-thanked group on Oscar night, with “The” 45 Bombed at the

box office

47 Just slightly

49 Puma

competitor

50 Tick away

54 “This means war” 55 Camel part 56 Ilhan in the

House

57 Org. for good

drivers?

58 Look surprised 59 Pink hue 60 Garden District’s

city, informally 61 Flower stalk

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