Wonderword

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ACROSS

Polio vaccine pioneer Bacteria in undercooked meat

Blot gently Budget prefix Gas in flashtubes Pitcher’s stat *Music course for budding composers Animation frame 20 Mannheim mister Nondiscrimination want-ad letters

22 Rub out a

pencil mark 24 *Meatless

taqueria item 28 Castilian

hero

31 Gate securer 32 “Get lost!” 34 AT&T news

channel 35 Entrepreneur

Musk

38 Tire inflator 39 *Closet accessory for neckwear 42 Señora

Perón 43 Washington

MLB team 45 Bath tissue

layer

46 Like contentious discussions 48 Car music

source 50 Kagan of the Supreme Court 51 *Marshall Islands site of nuclear testing

55 The “HD” in

HDTV, briefly 56 “Wayne’s World” catchword Director Kazan Incubation target

62 Like the starting team, and a hint to the answers to starred clues

66 “The Simpsons” bartender 67 Host onstage 68 Banded

marble

69 “__ now or

never” 70 Author Dahl Sandwiches on pita 57 61 71 2 3

DOWN

Eve’s third son Tooth pain Dutch South African Circling the sun, as a planet Oslo’s land: Abbr. Former inmate Tabloid figure, for short Words before whim or hunch __ Angeles Newspaper ad, often Trackand-field competitor in 10 events Childish rebuttal Cotton unit

Vote for passage 23 Uncle Ben’s

boxful

25 Fix, as text 26 Wrist-toelbow bone Big spread with cattle, say

28 Abba of Israel 29 “Star Wars”

heroine 30 Printer toner

containers 9 10

11 12 13 18 27 33 Secondchance basket 34 Shed tears 36 Pizza parlor appliance Spanish “nothing” 40 H.G. Wells race 41 Fall (over) 44 “For Pete’s __!” Reaction to pollen, e.g. 49 “I beg to __”: “I don’t agree” Archie Bunker type 52 Adams with a

camera 53 Hauled 54 Extra NBA

periods 55 Prefix with sphere meaning “half”

58 Tall story

teller

59 Whip __ shape 60 “For __ 3-5”:

toy box spec 63 Texter’s “I

think” 64 Color TV

pioneer 65 “You’re it!”

game 37 47 51 HOW TO PLAY:

CIRCLE THEIR LETTERS ONLY. DO NOT CIRCLE THE WORD. Agent, Almond, Arachis, Block, Clear, Cotton, Dissolve, Doctor, Dose, Drops, Earplugs, Exam, Glands, Hardness, Head, Hearing, Help, Hydrate, Loosen, Medicine, Milliliters, Moist, Oils, Olive, Peanut, Relieve, Remedy, Removal, Repeat, Results, Safety, Saline, Secrete, Skin, Soak, Soften, Solution, Soya, Sterile, Syringe, Test, Tilt, Uses, Water, Wax

Saturday’s Answer: Framework