CROSSWORD

CROSSWORD HOW EMBARRASSING

BY BRENDAN EMMETT QUIGLEY WWW.BRENDANEMMETTQUIGLEY.COM

ACROSS

1. Blackout state 7. Crow’s nest holder 11. “Must we hear everything?,” for short 14. “Twelfth Night” duke 15. Tiny bit 16. ___ vivant 17. Civilian cleaning up debris in the park, e.g. 19. St. that straddles two time zones 20. Marsh birds 21. Cobbler ingredients 23. Doctor’s order 26. Speech therapist’s topic 27. Tiny cuckoo 30. More exposed 32. Spumante’s home 33. Detecting of umami, say 37. It keeps your car in place, for short 38. “___ is me!” (melodramatic line) 39. “Póg mo thóin” speaker, maybe 41. They pile up during vacation 45. They provide Aquafresh automatically 50. Chair designer Jacobsen 51. 52-Across rapper 52. “___ Dance” 53. Crimson Tide, for short 54. The Big Board, for short 55. Act as a go-between? 57. Challenge another rapper in freestyles 63. Moving job 64. Suffer embarrassment by your own actions, and a hint to this puzzle’s theme 68. Singer Rita 69. Accusatory phrase 70. Allegory and euphemism, etc. 71. Skinner box subj. 72. Fournier on the Knicks 73. Asserts it

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1. Spread seed 2. Star ___ (treadmill manufacturer) 3. Where Volodymyr Zelenskyy was born 4. Bread with hummus 5. .txt le size, roughly 6. Pulley part 7. Thing dropped after a memorable performance 8. Just peachy 9. Renewable resource 10. In eld coverage provider 11. Georgia’s capital 12. California home for E & J Gallo Winery 13. Twirling around 18. French river or its department 22. Flat land 24. Latchkey child, e.g. 25. With the bow 27. Polished off 28. Snatch 29. Haifa’s home: Abbr. 30. “Chatty Broads with ___ and Jess” (podcast) 31. “Not ___ out of you!” 34. Wrestling partnership 35. Blog that posts news for IT professionals 36. Dispenser at a French petrol station 40. British noble 42. “What I think,” initially 43. Vitals checker 44. Jacksonville-to-Miami dir. 45. Indentation setting 46. Stumped folk? 47. “Getting in the car now” 48. Some who make take a gap year: Abbr. 49. Workout program with punches and kicks 54. Sling content 56. “Hmm ... hadn’t considered that” 58. Tunnel builders 59. Skating commentator Lipinski 60. “CODA” actor ___ Kostur 61. They may be done while crawling 62. Squeaks (out) 65. Brief question to 47-Down 66. Fodder for dad jokes 67. Javier’s that

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