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Today’s Crossword

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ACROSS

1 Green Angry Birds animals

5 Salon style 9 “Jabberwock­y” opener 13 Les __-Unis

15 Eye layer

16 “For __ jolly ...” 17 Name on a two-liter bottle (and what’s inside) 19 Double-crossers 20 Like microwavab­le meals

21 Valued caches 23 Independen­tly owned suds producer (and the suds in question) 26 Parthenon goddess 29 “How cool!” 30 Length of most TV dramas

31 WWI battleship Graf __

33 Kin by marriage 37 CIO partner 38 Where Starbucks began (and a product it popularize­d) 40 __ snail’s pace 41 Note above A 43 Snoop (around) 44 Blockage 45 Slangy “It’s cool” 47 Currently combusting 49 Pepperidge Farm treat (and its ideal companion) 53 Novelist Waugh 54 Scolds harshly 58 Jones with a locker 59 What’s clued in parenthese­s for each of four answers, and found in correspond­ing sets of puzzle circles

62 Don Juan’s mother 63 Just

64 __ protector

65 Give a darn 66 Horseshoes turn 67 Dijon dad

DOWN

1 Cop’s quarry

2 “Like __ lump ...” 3 Marvin of Motown 4 Speech therapist’s

challenge

5 More virtuous 6 President Morales of

Bolivia

7 DVR “back up” button 8 Chanted word

9 Add, as a shrimp to

the barbie

10 Go this way and that 11 Autumn bloom

12 Flip

14 “‘And hast thou __

the Jabberwock?’” 18 Music box?

22 Deal with, as loose

laces 24 “Almost there!” 25 Borscht veggies 26 Quaker captain of literature 27 Fashionabl­e Brit 28 Ship frame 32 Freak out

34 2016 Best Picture nominee “__ Land” 35 All-inclusive 36 Salary

38 Like a path that’s cobbled together? 39 Allowed to get out 42 Examine in detail 44 Go from cloudy to fair 46 Wisecrack 48 Tweeters 49 Physician at the front 50 The first Mrs. Trump 51 Prying tool

52 Acts like a good dog 55 Lose steam

56 Elec. or mech. expert 57 __-Ball: arcade game 60 Suffix with concert 61 Big tee sizes

 ?? 9/13/17 ?? Puzzle by Adam T. Cobb
9/13/17 Puzzle by Adam T. Cobb

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