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Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Overwhelm 6 Perfectly 9 Scenery

chewers

13 “End of

discussion” 16 “Bike faster!” 17 Kiefer Sutherland and Ashley Olsen each has one 18 Tiny cake, maybe 19 Movers but not

shakers, ideally 20 “Blade Runner”

genre

22 Go quickly 23 Window washing

aids

26 Advanced sci.

class

29 It carries a

charge 30 Confucian path 31 Three-sided

pastry

36 Plenty o’ 40 Memorable “Twilight Zone” feature

43 Upset with 44 Tchaikovsk­y’s “Souvenir de Florence,” e.g. 45 CPR pro 46 “Illmatic” rapper 48 ’90s White House Press Secretary Myers who wrote “Why Women Should Rule the World” 50 Pressure that

won’t quit 57 Camping gear

brand

58 Internal airway 59 Works on roofs,

say 63 Canvas-angling

device 65 Sleights-of-hand with cups, or a hint to this puzzle’s circles 67 Big name in

labels

68 Go through the

wringer

69 Actress

Sedgwick 70 Headphone jack

letters

71 U. of Md. team

DOWN

1 1970s-’80s

sketch show 2 “SNL” parody

Baba __

3 Words that clarify

spelling

4 Good sort

5 Mac rivals 6 Baffling question 7 Fur tycoon 8 Super small 9 Clothes line 10 Photoshop

maker

11 Serious

12 Loses one’s

footing

14 Football offense

position

15 Little bit 16 Prepares, in a

way, as coffee 21 King Richard __ 24 With pause 25 Sheepshank, e.g. 26 Elemental unit 27 Dad

28 Like Oberlin College since the 1830s

32 Dosage amts. 33 Gender-neutral

pronoun 34 Doo-wop horn

35 Works on walls 37 Like a 25-Down 38 Vague amount 39 Chip in a pot,

maybe 41 Billionth: Pref. 42 Remedied a

distributi­on error 47 Dubbing title 49 Will focus 50 Loose floorboard

sound

51 Like anvils

52 Early __ 53 Mama of music 54 Sound that starts

“around”

55 Brexit target org. 56 Stretch out,

maybe

60 Don Juan’s love 61 Do another stint 62 Former Mach 2

fliers, briefly 64 Part of BCE 66 “Scram!”

 ?? By Adam Wagner ?? 5/19/21
By Adam Wagner 5/19/21

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