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Today's crossword

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ACROSS

1 Starfleet

Academy student 6 “Ain’t gonna

happen” 10 Mattress support

piece

14 Fruit on a cocktail

toothpick

15 Lyft rival

16 Opera house level 17 *Hurdles for would-be attorneys

20 “Take a load off” 21 Toothpaste

dispensers 22 Group of eight 23 Break bread 24 More formal than

business casual 25 *Rural byway 29 Beyoncé’s “Best

__ I Never Had” 30 Made for __ other 31 Pampering place 34 Make mad 35 TGIF part 37 Growth on an old

loaf

38 “Woo-hoo!” 39 Cold feet

40 Light supper 41 *Clarinet, bassoon, etc., in an orchestra 44 Arcade coins 47 Backyard storage for hoes and hoses

48 Nobel Peace

Prize laureate Kofi 49 Spud, informally 51 __ Dhabi 54 Things to “see” in a dictionary, and what both parts of the answers to the starred clues are? 57 “Bloodline” actor

Chandler

58 Part of a plot 59 Windy City airport 60 Fly off the shelves 61 “To __ It May

Concern” 62 Narrow openings

DOWN

1 Corn discards 2 Jai __: Basque

game

3 Earth 4 December 24

or 31

5 Tapping out

messages

6 Digit

7 Award similar to

a Tony

8 Farm structures 9 Timeline segment 10 Like cold cuts 11 Ransacks 12 Youngest “Despicable Me” daughter 13 Peevish 18 Grandma’s

daughter

19 Bar mitzvah scroll 23 Two-part sci-fi epic starring Timothée Chalamet 24 Charging station 25 Novelty “pet” that’s really a plant

26 Greasy

27 Quite a while 28 Took off

29 Give it a go 31 Guitar Hero

challenge 32 Architectu­ral

drawing

33 Throw in 35 Change for a 50,

maybe

36 Possessed 37 Rosie on “The

Jetsons,” for one 39 Helsinki

inhabitant­s 40 Sound systems 41 Ferret kin 42 Respect highly 43 “Believe”

Grammy winner 44 Bulletin board

pins

45 BLT option

46 Small hill

49 Film crew

employee 50 __-Cuban jazz 51 Blueberryl­ike

berry

52 Ernie’s “Sesame Street” pal

53 Finds a purpose

for

55 Uncooked 56 Stanley Cup org.

 ?? By Robin Stears ?? 1/2/24
By Robin Stears 1/2/24

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