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Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Run __ of the law: get in trouble

6 Seized SUV, say 10 Pumpkin dessert 13 Style

15 Wind instrument in Donovan’s “Jennifer Juniper” 16 “__ ideas?” 17 Studio feature that produces reverb

19 GPS choice 20 AFL partner 21 Pool-filling aid 22 Spa sigh

23 Fifty percent 25 Very popular

movie star, e.g. 30 Advanced in age 33 Museum of

Natural __ 34 Goat’s cry 35 Pasta sauce

brand

36 Poe’s

“Annabel __” 37 2017 DayLewis film with multiple Oscar nomination­s 41 True master 42 Days, to Diego 43 Famous Downing Street address 44 Bone-muscle

connectors

46 Like moody Romantic heroes, as first described in the works of a British lord

50 Talk Like a Pirate

Day greeting 52 Centers of

activity

53 Before, to poets 54 Untidy condition 57 __ Van Winkle 58 Sassy West 59 Last leg of a race ... or a hint to the circled letters 63 SUV’s “U,” briefly 64 “Easy to Be Hard”

musical

65 Way out of jail 66 Ed.’s backlog 67 “Don’t move,

Rover!”

68 More sensible

DOWN

1 “Cocoon” co-star

Don

2 Spa skin-care

treatment 3 Waiting for a phone rep, maybe

4 Tres menos dos 5 Solidarity’s

Walesa

6 Juliet’s love 7 Tidal reflux 8 “Nevermore”

poet

9 Poet’s

contractio­n 10 Geometry curve 11 Losing money,

colorfully 12 Organ with a

pupil

14 Letter after pi 18 Pallid

22 Check no. 24 National Preparedne­ss Month org.

26 “Is __ legal?” 27 First of two nearly identical words to a tucked-in tot 28 Loan shark 29 Whiskey grain 31 Hit-or-miss 32 Rita Moreno, e.g. 35 Apt. ad count 37 Warms in

advance 38 Award recipients 39 Hops kiln 40 Organic

compound 41 School support

org.

45 Color, as hair 46 Tournament

passes 47 McAfee rival 48 Frozen spike 49 Coded writing 51 Nail-filing board 55 Car care brand 56 Mex. ladies 58 “The word” in

silence

59 FDA overseer 60 Breakfast grain 61 Hamm of

soccer 62 Important period

 ?? By Annemarie Brethauer ?? 3/30/20
By Annemarie Brethauer 3/30/20

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