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CROSSWORD
PUZZLE BACK-TO-SCHOOL
BY BRENDAN EMMETT QUIGLEY
ACROSS
1. Some medicinal plants 6. Noodles with the band 10. Hit one to the bleachers 14. Animals in your neighborhood 15. On vacation 16. Pueblo Revolt of 1680 tribe 17. “Thanks for getting my school supplies, but how do I write with these?” 19. Sultan’s country 20. “What are you trying to ___?” 21. No longer worrying (about) 23. Song that Dolly Parton wrote on the same day as “I Will Always Love You” 25. Arch 26. Bit of tea 27. Uruguayan pronoun 28. “I seriously doubt this will highlight anything” 31. “You think this will glue things together?” 33. Rude boy’s music 34. Setting for the final chess matches in “The Queen’s Gambit” 35. Bit of work 37. Baking meas. 41. Baking measurements: Abbr. 44. “Seriously? You think this will hold anything?” 47. “How am I going to measure anything with this empty suit you installed?” 51. Wish one hadn’t 52. Obie-winning playwright Will 53. “Only Connect” channel, with “the” 54. Santander rival 56. Knock off balance 58. Get smart? 59. Legal proceedings 60. “And this will remove mistakes? I’m not old enough to even drink!” 64. Kings of ___ 65. First subheading 66. Sporting tats 67. Bay Area force letters 68. Some Sunday supplements, in short 69. Dark crime films
DOWN
1. Side in the Super Bowl 2. Mike Trout’s team, on scoreboards 3. Beats on the field 4. ___ nous 5. Broadway star Lea 6. Tease 7. Stun 8. Run things 9. Bettor’s guides 10. Type of deal for superstar athletes 11. “Across 110th Street” singer Bobby 12. Military helicopter 13. Feature of someone who always loses keys? 18. Wisconsin governor Tony 22. Saturation point, in a business cycle 23. “___, Joy of Man’s Desiring” 24. Chapultepec Zoo animals 25. Punch in, as a guitar solo or backing vocals 29. Threw back some sliders 30. Hair metal band named for a rodent 32. Yorick, in “Hamlet,” e.g. 36. Strengthener of locks 38. Christine of “The Good Fight” 39. Did a DJ set 40. Take an unwanted look 42. Indian ox 43. Dad’s second wife 45. 39.37 inches, in England 46. Get Door Dash, say 47. Parts of a piano 48. Humanitarian org. focused on kids 49. Recovery room, briefly 50. ___ display (Mac screen feature) 55. Gambling game 57. Senator Paul who was an ophthalmologist 58. Droids and the like: Abbr. 61. “-”: Abbr. 62. Suffix for rocket or musket 63. Fork settings?: Abbr.
