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TODAY’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 More secure 6 Baby seal 9 Precipice 14 Filmy fabric

15 Exist 16 Condor nest

17 Bakery enticement 18 Serious conflict 19 Handy’s “-Street Blues” 20 Lacuna 21 Refine, as metal

23 Four duos 24 Did a garden chore 25 Expressed wonder 26 Subway fares

29 Bites 31 Studiouslooking 32 Whole number 36 Garden intruder 37 Flower plot

38 Greedy 40 Of earthquakes 43 Colorful cloth

45 Ford a stream

46 Hen 47 Parking attendant

50 El --, Texas

51 Of the bishop of Rome 52 Opera by Gounod 54 Game official 57 Unsuitable 58 -- Wiedersehen 59 Radiate 61 Not wordy 62 Phone trio 63 Vexes 64 Purplish flower

65 Ron who played Tarzan 66 Big happening

DOWN

1 Just for guys 2 Vibes 3 Complete failure 4 Freddy Krueger’s street 5 Motives 6 Handled roughly 7 Europe-Asia range 8 Impudent 9 Last car of a train 10 Freeloader 11 In a foul mood

12 Did an office chore 13 Yard contents 22 Chicken wire 24 Fictional orphan 25 Make a choice 26 Drag behind

27 Uses a charge card 28 MOMA artist 29 Sibling’s daughter 30 Wabash loc.

33 Big name in wine 34 Like Mr. Hyde 35 Wedding confetti

37 Buy at auction

39 Tiny speck 41 Bake 42 Tangle 43 Tax pros 44 Bleak and forbidding 47 Barn toppers 48 Separate 49 Backslide 50 Swollen 51 Pocket bread 52 Wither away 53 Novelist Jean -54 Hold sway 55 Idyllic spot 56 Celebration 60 Caesar’s 14

PUZZLES

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