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Today's crossword

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ACROSS

1 Next-level

experience? 10 “The Hobbit”

figure

15 Around 16 Registrati­on info 17 Strips at a party 18 Emma Roberts,

to Julia Roberts 19 Raises

20 London institutio­n with a Los Angeles namesake, familiarly

22 Drop (out) 23 Industry titan 24 Chichi

25 High wind 29 Hides 31 Technical

drawing 34 Boddington­s, e.g. 35 Doesn’t surprise,

in a way

37 Allow

38 Place where stuff sells left and right 42 Coastal habitat 44 Carry a torch for 45 Like many of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s jabots 46 “Now, about ... ” 49 Yoga roll 50 Onetime carrier

based in Cairo 52 “The Crown” role,

familiarly 55 Short-tailed

weasel

56 Taboo gathering? 58 Flip side?

59 “All good?” 60 Diamond Jubilee

number

61 Beach club?

DOWN

1 Chess pieces known as elephants in Russia

2 Focused

3 Elaine who had a recurring role as Jack’s mother on “30 Rock”

4 First word of Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’”

5 Potential Guinness entry, say

6 Perfect Portions

brand

7 Test with a max verbal reasoning score of 170 8 Enterprise rival 9 Smith of TV’s

“Empire” 10 “That’s a bad

idea”

11 O’Hare and

Bush, for two 12 Sea __

13 Nook

14 Straight from the

garden

21 Unsure sounds 23 __ du Rhône 26 Seasoning on a Chicago-style hot dog

27 Forgets, maybe 28 Heathrow

facilities 30 Japanese cutlet 32 “Roughly”

33 “The Flight

Attendant” star 36 What “p” may

stand for

37 Brand with a Pamplemous­se flavor

39 “What?!”

40 One who crosses

the line? 41 Warrant 42 Cocktail flavored

with orgeat syrup 43 “Always and Forever, Lara Jean” novelist Jenny

45 Holds up 47 Long-term investment accounts? 48 Pageant prize 51 Minute 52 Blue

53 Again 54 Boggle

pieces

57 All U.S. vice presidents until 2021

 ?? By Kyle Dolan & Dylan Schiff ?? 8/5/23
By Kyle Dolan & Dylan Schiff 8/5/23

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