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Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Madeline of “History of the World, Part I” 5 Respectful address to a woman 9 Declare void 14 Sailing or whaling 15 Jackson 5 hairdo 16 Golden-egg layer 17 Line on a Yankee uniform 19 Lather, __, repeat 20 Have a share (of) 21 Arachnopho­be’s worry 23 “__ questions?” 24 Lean (on) 26 “Gorillas in the Mist” primate 27 Youngest “American Idol” winner 32 Skirt fold 35 Facts and figures 36 Square root of IX 37 Open and breezy 38 Like babies’ knees 40 Laugh really hard 41 Rule, briefly 42 Pueblo-dwelling people 43 Numerical relationsh­ip 44 Several characters on TV’s “The Americans” 48 List-ending abbr. 49 Throw hard 50 Morse code word 53 Portable charcoal grill 57 How some chew gum 59 Novelist Wharton 60 Washing machine feature shown graphicall­y in this puzzle’s circles 62 Free-for-all 63 “The African Queen” screenwrit­er James 64 Gas in a sign 65 Burpee buy 66 Hospital section 67 “¿Cómo __ usted?”

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1 Phi Beta __ 2 Lai or Thai 3 Name of eight English kings 4 Condé __ 5 Sharpie, for one 6 Off the beaten path 7 Dadaist Jean 8 “The Simpsons” bar 9 Marcus __, victorious commander at Actium 10 “I’m drawing a blank” 11 Zilch 12 44-Across’ land: Abbr. 13 Levi’s alternativ­es 18 Mystic’s deck 22 Sickly pale 25 Language that gave us “kvetch” 27 Gatsby of “The Great Gatsby” 28 Remind nonstop 29 Run amok 30 Fuzzy fruit 31 Fodder holder 32 Henry VIII’s last wife Catherine 33 In __ of: substitute­d for 34 Energy units 38 Cook just below a boil 39 Network absorbed by The CW 40 Possesses 42 Bums a ride 43 Piece from the past 45 On chairs 46 Smaller and weaker 47 Smoothed out the wrinkles 50 Cuts into cubes 51 Portion out 52 “Laughing” scavenger 53 Garment edges 54 Bordeaux notion 55 Gallbladde­r fluid 56 Part of Caesar’s boast 58 Holiday song ender 61 Ryder Cup coadminist­ratingorg.

 ?? By Robin Stears ?? 2/4/20
By Robin Stears 2/4/20

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