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Crossword Puzzle 1

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ACROSS

1 Tripoli’s country 6 College grad 10 Kill, as a dragon 14 Thorny plant 15 Latina toon

explorer 16 Scrabble piece 17 If Nicholson sang, danced and acted, he might be called __ 20 GQ or Cosmo 21 Photograph­ed 22 Inhumane

27 Salty drops

31 Big name in PCs 32 __ pork: Chinese dish with pancakes 35 “High” afternoon

meal

36 Forbidden 38 Series of missed

calls

40 If Robinson left En Vogue to sing in Jerry Garcia’s group, she might be called __ 43 Dog food seller 44 Crop up

46 Soul, to Sartre 47 Polar parka 50 Passionate about 51 Winona of

“Stranger Things” 53 Brings good

luck to

55 Taunt

58 Drone or worker 59 If Tomlin came from San Fernando, she might be called __

67 Trim, as a photo 68 Dry forecast 69 Religious

doctrine

70 Credit card

balance, say 71 Benchmarks:

Abbr.

72 Jerk or twitch

DOWN

1 JFK’s successor 2 Nest egg initials 3 Flickable lighter 4 Go on and on 5 Kitchen allure 6 Samuel Barber’s

“__ for Strings” 7 Cyberchort­le 8 Web addresses 9 Subject with

numbers 10 Georgia or

Washington 11 Pot cover

12 It may be blonde

or pale 13 “Roundabout” rockers with a positive name 18 Word before

hand or land 19 Capitol feature 22 Cave hanger 23 Plato’s school,

with “the”

24 Paid back, as a purchase incentive 25 Tweezer targets 26 Whirlybird­s 28 Realizes, as a

goal 29 Entertains with a

bedtime story 30 Give in to

gravity

33 Recital rebuke 34 Flower bed tool 37 Province on four

Great Lakes 39 Spooky

41 Bass ending

42 Pendulum

direction? 43 Links standard 45 Seemingly

forever 48 Orange-yellow

gemstones 49 Ukraine’s capital 52 The Nile runs

through it 54 Detectives’ aids 56 Bosom buds, in

texts

57 Nouveau Mexique, par exemple

59 TV screen type 60 Fury

61 Easy throw 62 Laid low

63 Cut (off)

64 JFK alternativ­e 65 Maximum

borders? 66 Oft-candied

veggie

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By Pawel Fludzinski and John Witzke

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