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Today’s Crossword

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ACROSS

1 Seething

6 Jaguar weapons 11 Half a dance

14 Stinger ingredient 15 Superman player

Cavill

16 “The Last Jedi” villain

Kylo

17 Alpine airs

18 Broken out, in a way 19 Days gone by, in days

gone by

20 Capital on the Volga 21 Suppress, as a story 22 Punching tools 23 Suffix with fruct24 Hall of Fame

manager Stengel 25 Sal of “Exodus” 26 Waters down 28 Taiwanese PC brand 29 Rita awarded the Presidenti­al Medal of Freedom

30 Hankering 32 Depilatory cream 34 Historic span: abbr. 35 Impediment to creativity ... and each set of puzzle circles

38 Big letters in familyowne­d supermarke­ts 40 Troubadour’s strings 41 Uncle __

42 Codes of conduct 44 Christian with style 46 Venerated one 50 Adorkable types 51 Lets off steam

52 JFK posting 53 “Psych” finale?

54 Is after

55 Field mice

57 Area 51 craft 58 Singer with Lawrence 59 Accept, with “for” 60 Greek org.

61 Lyft passenger 62 Difficult tasks 63 Hosp. parts 64 Mideast bigwigs 65 Will Rogers prop

DOWN

1 Work up

2 Risky propositio­n 3 Turow biographic­al title

4 Not working 5 Fleur-de-__: Quebec flag image 6 Poolside chair 7 Debate equipment 8 Get under one’s skin 9 Small songbird 10 Letters on a Qantas baggage tag

11 Like many tees 12 Greek

13 “... et cetera” 14 How some tickets may be sorted 21 Scented pouch 22 Put on 24 Plant in many Road Runner cartoons 25 Dunderhead

27 What Marcie calls

Peppermint Patty 29 Distance runners 31 Cultivates

33 Monastic figures 35 Golden State team 36 Christ the __: Rio landmark

37 Crime show with several spin-offs 38 “You obviously can’t depend on me” 39 Fetches

43 Most junk mail 45 Comic book personnel 47 Change symbols, in math 48 Opera with Desdemona 49 Alters with a light touch? 51 48-Down composer 54 “__ told”: “That’s the rumor” 55 Designer Wang 56 Name in boxy cars? 58 Higher ed. test 59 Cardinal’s letters

 ?? Puzzle by Jeffrey Wechsler ?? 9/6/18
Puzzle by Jeffrey Wechsler 9/6/18
 ??  ?? Wednesday’s Puzzle solved:
Wednesday’s Puzzle solved:

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