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1 Costa ___
5 Book of the Bible after John
9 Pan handler?13 Sticker on a car window, perhaps
14 “Get a move on!”
16 Scrub, as a mission
17 Without a stitch on
18 You can say that again!
20 Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr
21 “That smarts!”
23 Expanses of water
24 Dish whose name means “little meats”
in Spanish
28 Puccini opera whose title character is
an opera singer
32 Verse of homage
33 Befitted
36 Platform for a throne
37 “As if !”
40 Duelling weapon
41 Nyong’o of “The 355”
42 When doubled, a dance move
43 Cook, as baozi
45 Franchise that begins “a long time ago
in a galaxy far, far away.. .”
47 Bottle-cap game popular in the nineties
50 Exhale in frustration
51 2016 movie musical with a dance number
in Griffith Observatory
55 Wiggle room
59 Game with a Funny Bone and an
Adam’s Apple
61 Annoy a bedmate, perhaps
62 Absurdly chaotic situation, in slang
63 Adam of “Severance”
64 Agile
65 One “R” in R. and R.
66 Long fish
DOWN
1 McEntire who had an eponymous sitcom
in the early two-thousands
2 Desktop trash can, e.g.3 Egg container
4 Selfless devotion to others
5 In the style of
6 Stroke of brilliance
7 Earth ___ (ochre and tan, for two)
8 Spend time at the roller rink
9 Mixer in a Tom Collins
10 Bring on board
11 Days before holidays
12 Fedora material
13 Beaver’s construction
15 Troubled to no end
19 Bona fide
22 Type of poem with seventeen
syllables
24 Cheat ___
25 Take home from a rescue shelter, say
26 Name that means “born again”
27 Parts of a process
29 Sweat spot?
30 Smoke-shop purchase
31 Leftovers from a 30-Down
34 Sends out
35 Attention to ___
38 Event at which Alice meets the Mad
Hatter and the March Hare
39 Generosity
44 What a crown might cover46 “So from that spring ___ comfort seem’d
to come / Discomfort swells”: “Macbeth”
48 University of Florida mascot
49 Mockingly mean
51 Records in a book, perhaps
52 Each
53 Father of Regan, Goneril, and Cordelia
54 Fawns’ mothers
56 Material from shorn sheep
57 Painting and pottery, for two
58 “Be that as it may.. .”
60 “___ so fast!”PUZZLES & GAMES DEPT.
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A beginner-friendly puzzle.