The Columbus Dispatch

CROSSWORD NO. 2

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ACROSS

1 Big vases

5 Vast blue expanse

8 Boxer Ali

13 Buche de ___ (yule

log)

14 Wine barrel

material

15 Call off an

engagement

16 “How can this favor

ever be repaid?!”

19 Typical prom

attendee

20 Bonobo, e.g.

21 Denial in

Deutschlan­d

23 Bring into the

family

25 Main entrance to a

compound

27 Outdoor timetellin­g device

29 Prez before JFK

30 “Future Nostalgia”

singer Lipa

31 Tube for watering

plants

32 Track unit

34 Highly proficient

36 Apple or

Blackberry

40 Moisten, as poultry

43 Author Rand

44 Palindromi­c flour in

roti

48 Letters symbolizin­g

easiness

49 Rest for a bit

52 Vibrating body part

54 Executive’s

aspiration, maybe © 2022 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATIO­N.

18 Music player

released in 2001

22 “Cool!”

23 Eruption fallout

24 Chloe x Halle, e.g.

25 Custardy

dessert

26 Squad

28 Arroz ___

valenciana

33 “Get a room!”

elicitor, for short

35 Impasses

37 Tear up

38 No, in Novosibirs­k

39 Santa ___,

California

40 Lead-in to

“ghanoush”

41 Section in a

personal blog

42 Harms

45 Tchotchke

46 Spot for a soak

47 “What ___

missing?”

50 “My view has

always been ...”

51 ___-up energy

53 Actor Malek

55 Speckled horses

56 Felt sore

60 Two stars?

62 Airport org.

63 Actress Longoria of “Desperate Housewives”

64 Airport pickup

stat

65 Beyblade or Super

Ball 57 Out in a court?

58 Car

59 “Monsters, ___”

60 “That’s my cue!”

61 “Right on!” ... or what you may say when considerin­g the ends of 16-, 25-, 36- and 54-Across as a unit?

66 Intelligen­ce group?

67 Night before

68 Low-carb diet

69 David Sedaris piece

70 Hoover ___

71 “Don’t go!”

DOWN 1 College, to an

Aussie

2 Aussie bouncer

3 Fig ___ (Nabisco

cookies)

4 What you can build up by working long nights?

5 In a bit

6 5-Across contents,

in French

7 “Allahu ___!” (“God

is greater!”)

8 Superstar

9 Insect in a colony

10 Bouncer’s job

11 Refreshing citrus

drink

12 Accepted something without questionin­g

17 Mysterious

Himalayan being

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