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- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Fred Piscop

PUZZLES

GRIN AND BEAR IT

ACROSS

1 Squandered, as a lead

5 Jared of “Lonely Hearts” 9 Credit card action 14 Suffix denoting wealth 15 Weights, slangily 16 Clad like many superheroe­s 17 He caught Don Larsen’s perfecto

19 Manage to avoid

20 Saw wood, so to speak 21 Submitted, as a

40-Down

23 Send to blazes

26 Usual tic-tac-toe result

27 Leader of Motown’s Miracles

34 Reflexolog­y place

35 “Born Free” 2-Down

36 Neandertha­l’s abode

37 “Finding Dory” studio

39 CPR pro

41 Maris who surpassed Ruth

42 Kept from swelling, perhaps

43 Often-buggy software version

45 Comics bark

46 Rough Riders leader, informally 51 Geological stretch 52 Manx cat’s lack 53 Cosmetic that’s sometimes flavored

58 Shopaholic’s binge

62 Standard Windows font

63 “The Seasons” composer, affectiona­tely

66 Barista’s artistic creation 67 Carrier with blue and white jets

68 “Enough ___!”

69 Started the kitty

70 Lockup unit

71 Addition column

DOWN

1 Baffin and Hudson

2 Big cat

3 Descartes’ “therefore”

4 Queer duck

5 Factor in club selection

6 Drop an easy one

7 Grounds for a civil suit 8 Running by itself 9 First part of an act 10 What a surfer may catch

11 Device for an Apple Pencil 12 Mani-___ (salon job) 13 Forbidden fruit site 18 Chemistry lab vessel

22 BBQ slab unit

24 Gibson of “Lethal Weapon”

25 “The Big Board,” initially

27 Kitchen rack item

28 ___ out (at the limit)

29 Stallone’s one-man army

30 Sgt. or cpl.

31 Katey of “Sons of Anarchy”

32 For all to see

33 Maker of squishy balls

34 BBQ rod

38 Introduce to the mix

40 Course conclusion, often

41 Hold spellbound

44 Oolong or gunpowder

47 Cried out loudly

48 Young friend of Pooh

49 Like freelance work, often

50 City on the Rio Grande

53 In ___ land (spacey)

54 1979-81 hostage site

55 Brad of “Moneyball”

56 Scandal suffix

57 Black Friday event

59 Strikeout king Nolan

60 Brickell or Sedgwick

61 Phases out

64 Norton, to Kramden

65 The whole shebang

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