The Playground

Sudoku

Crossword

Across:

1 Coral ridge

5 Faction

9 Bullets, e.g.

13 Before

15 Balm ingredient

16 Utah national park

17 Profit or loss, e.g.

19 Land measure

20 Compass point

21 Is no longer

22 Prowler

24 Carotene beginner

25 Trio

26 Biz VIP (Abbr.)

28 Lady's man

30 Hall of Famer Willie

32 Weather conditions

34 Bubble source

36 Away's partner

38 Garish

39 British ___

41 Supreme Court count

42 Commercials

43 "The Matrix" hero

44 Shells out

46 Ancient colonnade

49 Extinct flightless bird

51 Possesses

52 Ouzo flavoring

54 Civil wrong

56 Gas clouds in space

58 Pillbox, e.g.

59 Health resort

62 God of love

63 Vocalizations

66 Chill

67 Advertising sign

68 Minimal

69 Little ones

70 Field of study

71 Venezuela copper center

Down

1 Bumpkin

2 Son of Seth

3 Diminutive suffix

4 Hale

5 Chip condiments

6 Certain Ivy Leaguer

7 Interpret

8 Choppers, so to speak

9 Flowering shrub

10 Knockout drops

11 "Encore!"

12 Humdinger

14 Most inferior

18 "Welcome" site

23 Branch

24 Curve

26 Moves along

27 Stevedore

29 Ice house

31 ___ of time

32 Okeechobee's state (Abbr.)

33 Go astray

35 Editor's pile, for short

37 ___ gestae

40 Academic term

41 Colorful salamander

45 Entrance

47 Burdens

48 Suffer

50 Acropolis figure

53 Hot spot

55 Propel, in a way

56 Orderly

57 Hence

59 Stigma

60 Baja bread

61 Nick and Nora's pooch

64 Foot part

65 School org.

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