New York Daily News

CROSSWORD II

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ACROSS

1 Charley horse locale, often 5 “Mad Men” industry, briefly

10 Key document? 13 Declares 15 LED’s “D” 16 IPA’s “A”

17 In the nick of

time

19 Tater ___ 20 Pants measure

21 Fresno campus

letters 22 Word before

“farm” or “frog”

23 Major mess 25 Jan. 15, for MLK 27 Honolulu’s

island

30 In direct

confrontat­ion 34 Raindrop noises 36 Bolt of lightning

speed?

37 Genre with

offbeat rhythms 38 “’___ death do

us part” 39 Texter’s “Holy

cow!” 41 Nickname that’s an alphabet trio 42 “Death Becomes ___” (1992 film) 43 Bill’s excellent

co-adventurer 44 “Chicago Hope”

Emmy winner Christine 46 “Is this seat ___?” 48 Ready for anything 51 Ink from a parlor

52 It’s a loch! 53 Leader of Kpop’s Red Velvet 55 Crab’s grabber 57 Hair stiffener 59 “A ___ in the Sun” (first Broadway play written by a Black woman) 63 Eats 64 Cold-hearted ... or like 17-, 30and 48-Across, based on the letters they’re spelled with? 66 Glacier material 67 Refried bean,

commonly 68 Open-book

exam?

69 Bench press target, informally 70 Rub together, as

molars

71 Bits of butter

DOWN

1 “___ quote you on that?”

2 Big name in

cosmetics 3 Camera part 4 Makes available,

as a Friday night 5 Ruckus

6 Talk over 7 Spectators’ jeers 8 “Seems unlikely” 9 Buddhist sect 10 ___ doll (nesting

toy)

11 Bug bite balm 12 Transporta­tion secretary Buttigieg

14 Be a huge fan of 18 Country east of

Yemen

22 “The Joy Luck Club” author Amy

24 Struggled 26 Treat that may

be glazed 27 Decide that one

will

28 Unearthly being 29 “Wait!”

31 “___ said than

done”

32 Sport with clay

pigeons

33 Brings in, as a

salary

35 Boots’ bottoms 40 Bodybuilde­r’s

goal

45 Potties

47 Really dug

something 49 Start of four U.S.

state names 50 Feudal

field-worker

54 Rocket launch org. 55 Poker pot piece 56 Trim for a fancy

valentine 58 “Hairspray”

matriarch 60 Baking ___ 61 Not yet

eliminated 62 Circus safety

measures

64 Fuel economy

abbr. 65 “Ni-i-ice!”

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©2023 Andrews McMeel Syndicatio­n 2/14

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