Times Standard (Eureka)

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- Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

1 Jitter juice 5 Postlarval 10 Many a phone call from one’s own area code, nowadays 14 Start, as an investigat­ion 15 Speed skater Ohno 16 Lineup at the polls 17 Legendary source of large footprints 18 Targets of some facial cleansers 19 Prey of Arctic wolves 20 Famous erupter of A.D. 79 23 Petite Grande 26 Broadcaste­r of the X Games 27 One with a handler 28 With 41- and 48-Across, what 56-Across declared while approachin­g the eruption of 20-Across 30 Short shot 32 Cricket segments 33 Like a superfan 36 What WD-40 has a lot of 40 City SE of Plumas National Forest 41 See 28-Across 42 ___ Cassady, traveling companion of Jack Kerouac 43 Paradise 44 Judas’s question 45 1 to 10, say 46 Markdown 48 See 28-Across 50 Cabinet title: Abbr. 53 Speaker of a language that has both Cyrillic and Latin alphabets 55 Habituates 56 Roman writer who came to a bad end by 20-Across 60 Knot again 61 Dog-___ 62 Largest city of Palestine 66 Ham-handed 67 Maxim 68 Grinds (out) 69 Wanders aimlessly 70 Vacuum inventor James 71 Horizontal line on a chessboard

DOWN

1 Good cheer 2 Certain early “astronaut” 3 Do background checks on 4 The T. rex in “Jurassic Park” and others 5 From New Guinea 6 “___ reflection …” 7 Wine specialty of the Douro Valley 8 Naproxen brand 9 Flag 10 Many a person once trapped behind the Iron Curtain 11 Home of Chanel and Cartier 12 Fell for 13 Complicate­d, as a breakup 16 Move to the side 21 Burden 22 ___ MacKenzie, beer mascot of the 1980s 23 Erenow 24 Wandered aimlessly 25 Adler who outwitted Sherlock Holmes 29 David Lynch’s first feature film 31 Fishy sandwich 34 Prefix with fauna 35 Nonhuman Twitter account 37 Title with a tilde 38 Top scout 39 Luges, e.g. 41 Serving of sole 45 ___ Caovilla (brand of highend women’s shoes) 47 So far 49 Like Easter eggs 50 Shoot 51 Author Ferrante 52 Gave credit to 54 Small, round and shiny 57 Barely defeats 58 Chapters in history 59 Locking block 63 Letters in front of an alias 64 State of Japan 65 “Fire away!”

 ?? PUZZLE BY JENNIFER NUTT ?? No. 1023
PUZZLE BY JENNIFER NUTT No. 1023

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