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Today’s crossword

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ACROSS 1 “__ go, into ...” 6 Top level 11 Night school subj. 14 Boggy tract 16 Verdi aria 17 Poor grade 18 Determined 19 Terms for a student

loan 21 *Former Ford compact 23 *Orlando newspaper 24 Egyptian symbol of life 25 March time 27 Put in one’s two cents 28 Grammar best-seller

“Woe __” 29 Halifax hrs. 30 Not even 32 Low island 33 Cinque times due 36 Abysmal 39 School area workers, and what the four pairs of intersecti­ng starred answers depict 44 Beat 45 Duma votes 47 Mayall of “Drop Dead Fred” 50 Arctic bird 51 “Too many to list”: Abbr. 54 __ Fighters: Dave Grohl’s band 55 Millennium-ending year 57 Month after Shevat 58 Optical device 59 *German __ 62 Historic Honolulu

palace 64 Condense 66 *“Heaven Can Wait” (1978) Oscar nominee Jack 68 __ Miss 69 Defamatory text 70 Strip, as of rights 71 Poetic adverb 72 Rodeo catcher 73 “Star Wars” title

DOWN 1 Shocked letters 2 Like much court

evidence 3 More kittenish 4 *Hypnotist’s prop 5 This, in Toledo 6 JFK’s U.N. ambassador 7 Barrette target 8 “Pencils down!” 9 Coast-to-coast hwy. 10 *Janitor 11 Blissful 12 Star sometimes

eclipsing Venus? 13 Stahl of “60 Minutes” 15 Fertile Crescent land 20 Reward in a jar 22 NFL six-pointers 24 Come to the rescue of 26 Prefix with biology 30 URL ending 31 Actress Joanne 34 Steal ... or the one

who catches the thief 35 War of 1812 commodore 37 Considered figures carefully? 38 Like some wit or wine 40 “The Simpsons” disco guy 41 Rankle 42 *Lawyer, at times 43 Most unemotiona­l 46 “Help! We’re sinking!” 47 ’70s-’80s tennis star

Tanner 48 Yoga instructor’s

direction 49 *Regulation-sized fish 52 Mai __ 53 Get too close to 56 ER vitals 57 Carpentry tools 58 Cocoon dweller 60 Director Kazan 61 Pokes fun at 63 Ascribed, as blame 65 “Telephone Line” rock gp. 67 Last degree

 ?? Puzzle by Alan DerKazaria­n ?? 8/20/15
Puzzle by Alan DerKazaria­n 8/20/15

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