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FISH HEADS
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1 ebay offers
5 ___ up (come clean) 9 Touch, like an
app’s icon
14 Perched on
15 Ocean predator
16 Eat into
17 Bourbon Street’s
city, for short
18 Marvel superhero
team
19 Metal fastener
20 Ideal example that others are compared to
23 687 days, on Mars 24 Morrison who
wrote “Beloved”
25 ___ out
(unsubscribe)
28 ___ out (plan in
detail)
30 Spread seeds
32 Closer
34 “SIMPLE” savings
plan
35 Sci-fi celebration
on May the 4th
38 Like the myth of
Valhalla
40 ___ Te Ching
41 Egg layers
42 All-star softball pitcher with three Olympic medals 46 Dead-end routine 47 Business school
subj.
48 Stereo knob by
“bass”
49 Ave. crossers
50 Lion’s home
51 The S in IOS (Abbr.) 52 Canoe, for
example
54 Colorful 1980s plastic footwear trend
59 Leafy pizzeria side 62 Hall of Fame
catcher Rodriguez 63 Great Salt Lake
state
64 Give the slip to
65 Refuse to obey
66 Fishing bait
© Andrews Mcmeel
67 Striped big cat
68 Suffix in language
names
69 Recipe amts.
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1 Explosive sound
2 Langston Hughes
poem
3 Country star who originally recorded “I Will Always Love You”
4 Small shovel
5 Dance similar to
the quickstep
6 Gospel singer
Franklin
7 Fragrance
8 Japanese lunch between two slices of bread
9 Jack Russell or
Airedale
10 Dry as a desert
11 “Your perspective:”
on Tiktok
12 Poem of praise
13 Tennis divider
21 Talks back to 22 Actress Faris
25 Button to click to locate your online purchase
26 Snickers bar
morsel
27 Lovers’ secret
meetups
28 Chopped into tiny
pieces
29 Like someone who feels little to no romantic or sexual attraction, for short
31 Theme park ride that might end in a pool 33 Barbecue
residue 36 Seldom-seen 37 Uterus 39 Dad, to
Grandpa 43 “bye 4 now” 44 New York’s
capital
45 Gas in bright
signs
2/27 51 Passover feast
53 For an 18+
audience
54 Green gem
55 The Y in YSL
56 Not in danger
57 Play an IRL fantasy
game
58 “___ Gotta Have It” 59 Good to go
60 Actor Mahershala 61 Carry with effort Friday’s Answer