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PUZZlE by AlinA Abidi

ACROSS

1 Breaded and topped with tomato sauce and mozzarella, for short

5 “Holy

mackerel!”

9 Instrument played by indie rock’s Sufjan Stevens

13 Black-andwhite item in a sleeve

14 V.I.P. on base

15 Winter bugs 16 With 26Across, game that uses a blindfold

18 Part of the

food pyramid 19 Gardening

tool

20 Fruit in the William Carlos Williams poem “This Is Just to Say” 22 Edward Snowden’s former employer, in brief

23 Black History

Mo.

26 See 16-Across 29 “Why?”

31 Puts up

32 Bird that had no natural predators until humans arrived

33 Tick (off)

35 Babe Zaharias was the first woman to compete on its tour, in brief

36 Item exchanged in a so-called “yankee swap”

41 John Lewis was born here: Abbr.

42 Org. that oversees O.T.C.s 43 Campaign

expense

45 Get situated 48 Pacify

50 Frequent reveler, or a hint to 16/26and 36Across

53 Hit the slopes 54 “___ be my

pleasure”

55 Lots

56 Hearty laugh

58 Tidy

60 Cartoonist suggested by this puzzle’s theme

65 Brand in the ice cream aisle

66 Aches (for) 67 Words after a

gasp

68 Its underside might be covered in gum

69 The first cloned mammals

70 Yarn

DOWN

1 Dad

2 “Midsommar”

director Aster 3 ___ faire (historical re-enactment event, for short)

4 Fly-by-night

type?

5 Fuel up, in a

way

6 Visual in an

annual report 7 Nimble

8 Hornswoggle 9 Toggle option 10 Artist’s

starting place 11 Get-go

12 Guest ___, what The New York Times calls op-eds 14 What an asterisk might suggest

17 Centaur’s foot 21 Transform

23 Repeated string in a chain letter subject line 24 Website with articles like “10 Surprising Ways to Use Mayonnaise Around Your Home”

25 Things best kept under one’s hat? 27 Data structure with a root node

28 Undo

30 Half of a halfbathroom 34 Tiny toy

maker

37 Tucker who had her first hit in 1972 and won her first Grammys in 2020

38 Cheese used in Babybels

39 Fruits whose seeds can act as a substitute for black peppercorns 40 Something to

do

44 Latin gods

45 Shared one’s

views

46 For all ages, as

a video game 47 Tell

49 Also

51 At all, in

dialect

52 Combined

57 Pretzel,

basically

59 Shaming

syllable

61 Drug dosages:

Abbr.

62 Light bulb moment sound

63 Show with the recurring character Target Lady, in brief

64 “Piggy”

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