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ACROSS

1 Twirl

5 iPad maker 10 Take a __ at;

attempt

14 Wild feline 15 Fleeting 16 Freddie the

Freeloader, e.g. 17 Military force 18 Vehicle for the

adventures­ome 20 Oolong or pekoe 21 Cast a ballot 22 Ascended

23 “Be __ or be

square” 25 Current calendar

page: abbr.

26 Ted Danson

sitcom 28 Shakespear­e’s

“Julius __” 31 Name for a

Stooge 32 Screwballs 34 Police officer 36 Zealous

37 Water sources 38 Skin mark

39 __ flip-flop; change one’s opinion

40 Great Plains

Indian’s abode 41 Twenty

42 Red wine 44 Bumbling

45 Get __ of; discard 46 Vise 47 21st-century U.S.

president

50 Injure

51 __ the ball; bowl

clumsily 54 Enfeeble 57 Urgent

58 Valley

59 Claw

60 __ a test; passed

easily

61 Seeks damages

from 62 Exhausted 63 Ryan & Tilly

DOWN

1 Quarrel 2 Unsullied 3 Irrelevant 4 Certain vote 5 Hates

6 Babble

7 Yearn

8 Piece of chicken 9 File drawer,

perhaps 10 Articles of

clothing

11 __ list; paper full

of chores 12 Lincoln & others 13 Monotonous

speaker 19 Shoestring­s 21 Part of VIP 24 Group of cattle 25 Tall trees

26 Not naked 27 Chaos 28 Composer __

Porter 29 Co-conspirato­r 30 Lion’s cries 32 Held on to 33 Vaudevilli­an

Olsen

35 Hunted animal 37 Dandelion, for one 38 Bathtub ring 40 Courtroom event 41 Close noisily 43 Fighting forces 44 Customer

46 “__ a Hot Tin

Roof” 47 Likelihood 48 Boyfriend 49 Isn’t __ to; can’t 50 Guy

52 Neighbor of Calif. 53 Cots & cribs 55 “Don’t judge a book by __ cover”

56 Touch lightly 57 Water barrier

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Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

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