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CROSSWORD II

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ACROSS

1 P.F. ___’s 6 Metaphoric­al hurdle to jump through 10 Unleashes (on) 14 Edmonton NHL

player

15 ___ child (person without siblings) 16 Have down pat 17 Suds that may be sudsy 19 Cambodia’s

continent

20 Cutesy name for the pads on feline paws 21 Eighth of a circle

23 Excited about

something 25 Cooped (up) 26 Liability’s

counterpar­t 29 “Come

again?” 32 Moans and

groans?

34 “Aye aye, ___!” 35 Meh

36 Word before

“joke” or “bod” 37 ET of ’80s TV 39 Kin, for short 41 Operation Phone Home org. 42 Design detail, briefly 44 Blunder

46 ___ chocolate cake

48 Utter delight? 51 En ___ (all together) 52 Places 53 Bidirectio­nal 55 Move from the bar to a table, say 57 Performanc­e for

RuPaul 61 Pretentiou­sly

cultured 62 “Been there!” 64 Powerful

wind

65 Meat spread 66 Caramel-filled

chocolates 67 Cotton swabs

have many 68 Tiff

69 Like sugar

DOWN

1 Expense

2 “The Farmer in the Dell” syllables

3 ___ vera 4 Beginners 5 Hot drink with a colorful name 6 Schmooze 7 Babies’

bodysuits 8 World Cup

cheer 9 Fire-related

prefix

10 They may do

triple axels 11 Tricks of the

trade 12 Fifty-fifty flips 13 Buzzer beater? 18 Rodent first sent to space in 1961

22 Tax pro 24 “Weekend, here

I come!” 26 “Therefore ...” 27 Shows heavily represente­d at the Daytime Emmys 28 Source of extra

income 30 Stroller in

Stratford

31 Nary a soul 33 Vehicle for sand

or snow

38 Greek life group 40 Portmantea­u for some parents of child stars 43 Feline makeup that Taylor Swift draws “sharp enough to kill a man” 45 Numbers to be crunched 47 Avoids the

spotlight 49 Secretive org. 50 Yellow jacket

relative

54 “It’s ___!” (“Oh,

it’s on!”) 55 Pasta sauce

brand 56 Pointers 58 Robust 59 Central Plains

people 60 Egypt-to-Libya

direction 63 Mushroom’s

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