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GARAGE BAND

- BY Gail Grabowski

ACROSS 1 Smokehouse items 5 “Inside the Third Reich” author 10 Spring bloomer 14 “We’ve got a problem” 15 Make jubilant 16 Two caplets, say 17 Frame for a church window, perhaps 19 Up to the task 20 Potato sprout 21 “Sister Act” extras 22 Repeated word for word 24 Rudely abrupt 25 Diviner’s deck 26 Try to block 29 Flea, to a dog 32 Respond to reveille 33 Light-refracting device 34 Cloak-anddagger org. 35 Religious offshoot 36 Without peer 37 Backfire noise 38 Particle in a salt solution 39 Eastwood of Dirty Harry movies 40 Twill fabric 41 “Chi-Raq” director 43 Feature of many Cape Cods 44 Some Christmas candies 45 Mountain goat’s perch 46 Like a string bikini 48 Airport shuttle 49 Price of admission 52 His and ___ 53 Clay figurines, e.g. 56 Inventor’s spark 57 Island near Curacao 58 Opera highlight 59 Potpie morsels 60 Bit of salon litter 61 Walk like a tosspot

DOWN 1 Trump catchword 2 Nautical greeting 3 Speck of dust 4 “No talking!” 5 Impervious to hackers 6 Common Easter gift 7 Disneyland hat pair 8 End-of-list abbr. 9 Prepare for a concert 10 Baking potatoes 11 Gripper on an assembly line 12 Any of the Bahamas 13 Sunflower yield 18 Lavatory sign 23 Pull an all-nighter, perhaps 24 Number on a tag 25 Make impure 26 Sahara stopover 27 Before surgery, informally 28 Outdoor dining spot 29 Lying facedown 30 Hint of color 31 Raring to go 33 Tissue layers 36 Prowling urban feline 37 Arctic hazard 39 Weight-and-fortune cost, once 40 “Ditto!” 42 Dorothy Gale’s state 43 Stage offerings 45 Grouchy sorts 46 Model in a bottle 47 Relinquish by treaty 48 “Can’t argue with that” 49 Commuter’s expense 50 Commodore Perry’s lake 51 Abbr. similar to 8-Down 54 Miscalcula­te or misspeak 55 There’s one garaged in 17and 53-Across and 11- and 28-Down

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© Andrews McMeel

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