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CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Mark McClain

WE HAVE IGNITION

ACROSS 1 Lad from Leeds

5 “Waterloo”

quartet

9 Put pedal to metal

13 Pie chart segment 14 Not worth debating 15 Urban fleet unit 16 Raring to go 17 Descartes conclusion word

18 “Tarzan” extras

19 Baseball bat

wood

20 Handoff recipient,

often

23 Mary Lou of the

1984 Olympics

25 Husking unit

26 Checked before

serving

29 “The Far Side”

creator Gary

34 Un-PC letter

starter

36 Currier cohort

38 “Dirty Dancing”

dance

39 Rioter’s booty

40 India’s secondlarg­est city

42 Far from sociable

43 In a muddle

45 Late comics icon

Lee

46 Self-assembly

retail chain

47 Mountainou­s

formation

49 Andre with two U.S. Open wins 51 Reservoir structure

53 Hardly original

56 BBQ chef’s accessory (or what the last part of 20-Across or 2- or 31-Down can be)

62 Day-___ orange

63 Sphere of study 64 Billing unit, often

65 Add at the end

67 Brushed-on layer

68 Estimate phrase

69 Blow, like Vesuvius

70 Wraps up

71 2012 loser to

Barack

72 Wine’s partner DOWN 1 World-weary

2 Left jab follower, often

3 Motel freebie

4 Disruptive brat

5 Flock response

6 Word before leader or loser 7 Bacall’s love, informally

8 Lacking a key

9 Wild guess

10 Elder Smurf

11 Corp. bigwig

12 Floppy drive insert

13 Cook in a pan, perhaps 21 Loosened, as laces 22 About 1/28

ounce

24 Has a sample of

27 Holiday lead-ins

28 Mississipp­i

formation

30 Archie Bunker type 31 Incriminat­ing evidence

32 Reed section

member

33 Bourbon Street locale, informally

34 Insult, slangily

35 Teeny bit

37 Salon style option 41 Totally senseless

44 Lends

support to

48 Depth unit

50 Placed in

order

52 New Zealand

language

54 Unite on

the fly 55 “This ___ hurt a

bit”

56 Watch part

57 Dumbbell

material

58 Enjoy a

page-turner

59 Fills up on

60 Oxidized 57-Down

61 Easy gait

66 Fleischer of Fox

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