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“CATCH COW”

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

ACROSS 1. Element #18 6. Salty approval 9. Creatures created from Medusa’s blood 13. Little dog 15. Meditation practice 16. Sign of Jesus 17. Harmonize? 19. Element #10 20. Dome-covered room 21. Signals to act 22. Five lines on sheet music 23. Govt. group that is collecting emails 24. Time frame that Louis Armstrong can perform in? 26. Shaving application 28. “That happened so long ___” 29. Dog in a rabbit’s coop? 34. Light rail car 38. “If you want my opinion ...” 39. Veggie in mattar paneer 40. Toy collector 41. “Downton Abbey” mother 42. Crone leans? 44. Student Success Grants org. 46. Slopping cry 47. Evidence that a post-surgery support works? 53. Letter closer: Abbr. 56. Statistical bit 57. Speaking engagement? 58. What might be on a filthy screen 59. Barely squeezed (by) 60. Style of speaking like Chevy Chase’s detective? 62. Only just 63. Jumping org. 64. Good place? 65. “Regardless of problems” 66. “The Misery Index” channel 67. Rip (from) DOWN 1. “C’mon, dude!” 2. Chops crops 3. Scolds 4. Never to be repeated 5. Big source of COVID news 6. Early resident of the Valley of Mexico 7. “Ai-yi-yi-yi” 8. Anne’s twins? 9. “No big” 10. Golfer nicknamed “The Slammer” 11. Brigham Young University city 12. Muscular quality 14. Put up tents 18. Fast asleep 22. John Hancock, briefly 24. Comic who said “I’ve arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically” 25. Route 27. They’re produced by the moon 29. [I drank too fast!] 30. It might cover a lot of space 31. Newswire letters 32. Pointer in the kitchen, maybe 33. GOTV ad maker 35. Daredevil’s action 36. ___-J (“Breezeblocks” band) 37. ECG requesters 40. Energy bar with a rock climber on its packaging 42. [I didn’t get my way!] 43. Bathtub gin, e.g. 45. Thinking-green prefix 47. Latte ingredient 48. Fall guys use them 49. Ultrasound targets 50. Room for people who speak in code? 51. Large flightless birds 52. Muffin grain 54. Mystical characters 55. Aortic insert 58. Take top billing 60. Roly-poly 61. Hack with an axe

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