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- RUTH ANN DAILEY Puzzle solution published here next Sunday. Direct comments to ruthann dailey@hotmail.com

ACROSS

1 Lava, undergroun­d

6 Garbage can concern

10 “Or __ story goes…”

15 “___, cowboy!” (Western cry)

16 Helen of Troy’s mother

17 11- or 12-year-old

18 Common pickup capacity

19 California site 34-Across couldn’t tour, due to security concerns

21 Echoic first name of Olympic hurdler Jones

22 Flock female

24 Plural “is”

25 Word on a wine label (often with “grand”)

26 Music legend who lunched with 34Across at the 20th Century Fox studios

30 Giants great Willie

31 Not of the clergy

32 __ Beta Kappa

33 Jack of “The Great Dictator”

34 World leader whose state visit to the United States began 60 years ago today 39 “Unto us __ is given”: Isaiah

40 Rebel Guevara

41 Glide on ice

42 “Able was ___ saw Elba”

44 “I love,” to a Latin lover

46 Reply to “Bet you won’t!”

50 Monk’s title

51 Where 34- and 67-Across met for two days

55 Cambodia’s Lon __

56 Submit a payment, say

58 Biblical garden resident

59 Genesis city of sin

61 Like much bar beer

64 Pasta suffix

66 Sit for a pic

67 American leader who met with 34Across

71 Hammer and sickle, e.g.

72 __-80 (classic computer)

73 Wide shoe sizes

74 Suspicious (of)

75 He visited 34-Across’s homeland in early 1959 for the American National Exhibition

80 Pre-CIA spy org.

81 Umpire’s call

82 Govt. stipend

83 Use a keyboard

84 The only American university 34-Across visited (09/24/59) in the city of the same name

88 Tried to save a sinking boat

90 Noble objective

91 Catastroph­ic

92 Iron-rich meats

93 Acknowledg­e silently

94 Inky black, to a poet

95 Abnormal swelling

DOWN

1 Trivial

2 “A Passage to India” heroine 3 Open a browser, say

4 “My own,” in Latin class

5 One drawing many blanks

6 Like days of yore

7 Word after “Agnus” or “Opus” 8 Takes too much, briefly

9 Exposed oneself to danger 10 Eyelid problem

11 “Wise” bird

12 Treat at an afternoon social 13 Shakespear­e play in two parts 14 Ultimate applicatio­n

15 Massage intensely

20 Historic time period

23 Libertine in “Pride and Prejudice” 27 Kit-__ bar

28 Mo. for fools and showers 29 Consequent­ly

30 “Real Time” host Bill

33 Groups of eight

34 Babes in the woods

35 Alpine river to the Rhone 36 Imam’s text

37 Rope fiber

38 “__ but known!”

43 Cake toppings

45 Poetic tribute 47 Provide funds for

48 Caribou cousin

49 First name in “wabbit” hunting 52 Lit. collection

53 Hertz rival

54 Thin overlays

57 Lacy table mat

60 Universal blood donor’s type 62 Mental dispositio­n

63 Orch. sect. with drums and cymbals 65 Not fit for consumptio­n

67 “Follow my lead”

68 Kind of wool

69 “Kinda” suffix

70 Farmyard clucker

71 Like some electrical plugs (chiefly Eur.) 75 Massage

76 Pale with fright

77 Plant circulator­y tissue

78 “Don Giovanni,” for one

79 TV’s Flanders and Stark

81 Capital on a fjord

85 Bit of body art

86 Barbecue bone

87 Miracle-__

89 Kool or Band follower

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