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Today’s Crossword

- Puzzle by Jeffrey Wechsler

ACROSS 1 Touch off 6 Electrical unit 9 What wind ensembles usually tune to 14 Actress Anouk whose last name means “beloved” 15 Place for grazing 16 Appreciati­ve cry 17 Travelocit­y ad figure 18 “Hotel du __”: Anita Brookner novel 19 Still 20 Fabulous writer? 21 Roth __ 22 Washer function 23 Production capacity review 26 Refused 29 Very deep places 33 Shore soarer 34 Bellyacher­s 38 Excessivel­y 39 Work (on), as 9-Down 41 “__ Romance”: Jerome Kern song 42 TV princess 43 Radamès’ love 44 Cover letter letters 45 Far from bold 46 Pentax competitor 48 Cholestero­l initials 49 Hides 50 “U slay me!” 51 Chorus syllable 52 Travelers’ bus. 53 Teddy’s Mount Rushmore neighbor 55 Kitchen appliance 58 Inflation fig. 61 Office fasteners 64 Like battleship­s 65 Get by the sentry 66 Looked inside, in a way 67 Show the ropes

DOWN 1 It’s a long story 2 Flooring wood 3 “The Cookie Never Crumbles” co-author Wally 4 Alter the shape of 5 Custody 6 Kukla cohort 7 With 36-Down, what you can’t do regarding this puzzle’s circled letters 8 Portuguese territory until 1999 9 Pitmaster’s offering 10 Like dessert wines 11 “... this skull has __ in the earth ...”: Hamlet 12 Urban rtes. 13 Membership drive gift 24 “The Thin Man” role 25 Have what it takes 26 “The Goldbergs” actor George 27 Links legend, familiarly 28 Conflicted 30 Classic golf shoe feature 31 “Haystacks” series painter 32 Overcharge­s 35 “That really depressed me” 36 See 7-Down ... or, with “a,” what you can see in this puzzle’s circled letters 37 Isolated communitie­s 40 City south of Fort Worth 42 Magneto’s enemies 47 Sharer of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize 49 One of a gripping tool pair 53 Trojan War hero 54 “Hamilton” role 56 Mocked 57 Puzzlemake­r Rubik 59 Go around 60 Hall & Oates’ “Say It __ So” 62 Son 63 My __, Vietnam

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11/17/16

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