UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE CROSSWORD PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED

ACROSS

1 “Misery” lead 5 Function

9 Groom carefully 14 Earthenware jar 15 Wool suppliers 16 Hawk’s refuge 17 Leave out

18 Pasta choice 20 Japanese mat 22 Hoedown honey 23 Frosted

24 Jargon

26 Clear, as profit 28 Blunter 31 Gridiron pass 35 Nurse’s helper 36 Loan figure

38 Put — (save) 39 Water-power org. 40 From memory (2 wds.)

“The Gold Bug” author Conical shelter Actress — Heche “The Galloping Gourmet” Temporary Valuable furs HMO staffers Wide Pineapple island Kind of detector 42

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47 49 51 52 53 56 58 62 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 Open a letter Beside the point Toy with a tail Rodeo prop — vera Steel ingredient Photocopies Latest word Nautilus skipper

DOWN

1 Ducklike bird 2 Soprano — Gluck 3 Dismounted 4 Nat’s daughter 5 Crude oil processor Have title to Captive’s plea (2 wds.)

This, to Pedro Felt boot Enumerates Mr. Clapton Berlin single Shortfall

Arm bone Max opposite Kind of cracker “L’—, c’est moi” Page or LuPone Pep up Conform

Less fatty 6 7

8 9 10 11 12 13 19 21 25 27 28 29 30 31 3-19-19

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Age on the vine Be crazy about Sly looks Decimal base Capital near Zurich Changes an itinerary Strangest Soft leather Speck on a globe Operate “— Street Blues” 53 54 55

57 59 60 61

63 64 Wire thicknesses What the suspicious smell (2 wds.) Bear constellation Terrible tsar Limerick locale Unseen particle Onetime late-nighter Part of UCLA Immediately