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CROSSWORD

FIELD LEADERS

- BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS 1 Arsonist’s obsession 5 Gauchos’ boot attachment­s 10 Elemental unit 14 Fail to list 15 Hard thing to kick, maybe 16 WD-40 Company soap brand 17 “Poker Face” singer, casually 18 Colosseum center 19 Couple gone kaput 20 “That’s gross!” 21 Monster or Rockstar 23 Some house rodents 25 “Gilligan’s Island” shelter 26 Far from stuffy 27 It has 32 men 32 Inadvisabl­e acts 34 Unable to pay 35 “Timber!” yeller’s tool 36 Hard-to-resist impulse 37 “Gravity” setting 38 Word after Keogh or Marshall 39 Jughead, to Archie 40 Like a moonscape 41 Festival de Cannes highlights 42 Horton or Babar 44 National Hot Dog Month 45 Groove left by a Conestoga 46 Miss greatly 49 Front part of a gun, say 54 Ab ___ (from the beginning) 55 Leaving nothing out 56 Party balloon material 57 Far from rosy 58 Bit of folklore 59 Plant used to make tequila 60 Peak visible from Taormina 61 Backyard structure 62 They may be garnished or frozen 63 “In that case . . .” DOWN 1 Get clouded, as a windshield 2 Collection of pixels 3 Feature of a Pythagorea­n theorem figure 4 H, on a fraternity house 5 Ramshackle digs 6 Reduces, as expenses 7 App-based car service 8 Proposer’s offering 9 “Sit tight!” 10 Civil defense sirens, e.g. 11 Alternativ­e to 7-Down 12 Panera Bread fixture 13 Scuba gear item 21 Spock’s prominent pair 22 Dry mop’s target 24 Initiation or confirmati­on 27 PowerPoint picture, perhaps 28 Dispose of on “Pawn Stars,” perhaps 29 Head into battle 30 Word after physical or final 31 Bills that will soon honor women’s suffrage 32 Scammer’s victim 33 Like much folklore 34 Bridge measure 37 Result of a governor’s signature 38 Shag carpet feature 40 Avoid socially 41 Support, as a Kickstarte­r project 43 Held dear 44 Puts a whammy on 46 Source of irritation 47 Like a Merino 48 Citizen of the Eternal City 49 Animals employing bio sonar 50 Provo’s place 51 Body part exposed by a flip-flops wearer 52 Story that may span generation­s 53 John Deere logo creature 57 Understand, as a joke

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6/2 © Andrews McMeel

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