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“BONES DAYS”

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

ACROSS 1. Easy basket 6. Song bird 10. YouTube star Koshy 14. Sultanate citizen 15. Put on staff 16. Chancellor Scholz 17. “This week sucked!” [forearm] 20. “I’m drowning here, people!” 21. Wipe out 22. Older but ___ 23. [The opening band just canceled, watch this space] 24. City in Tuscany 25. Film with the second-best-selling soundtrack of all-time [shin] 33. Like some discounted mdse. 34. Dude from Dubrovnik 35. Hydrocarbon suffix 36. Country that is over 66% Buddhist 37. Big name in luxury hotels 38. Banks on TV 39. Heartland’s old name 40. Perfected 41. “Move over” 42. Every way imaginable [shin] 45. Blank space 46. Pop singer/actress Michalka 47. It might give you a leg up 49. Hungry stomach sound 52. Org. that covers calculus 55. Classic second-guesser [hips] 58. Spinning wheel part 59. Green served with goddess dressing 60. Nina Arianda’s role with a role in “Being the Ricardos” 61. Ways to go: Abbr. 62. Scoop 63. It might be thrown as an insult DOWN 1. Mini hash browns 2. “How I feel ...”, online 3. Easter dye company 4. It might be rented for a wedding 5. Sports tote with a swoop on it 6. “Didn’t see that coming” 7. Removes (of) 8. Northwestern Pennsylvania city 9. Butterfly catcher 10. Literature Nobelist Glück 11. Hero’s cry to a trapped group 12. Billy of “MacGruber” 13. Way off in the distance 18. Pop-pop’s spouse 19. “All Too Well” singer 23. No-win situations? 24. Organizers of sch. International Nights 25. Leans to one side 26. Shiraz native 27. Village roughly 15 miles north of Midtown Manhattan 28. Greats 29. Say “hello” 30. Folksy “hello” 31. Sign up: Var. 32. Vaquero’s gear 37. Two-time WNBA champ Jewell ___ 38. Cappuccino Chillers chain 40. Its busiest airport is Toussaint Louverture International Airport 41. Fruit loops 43. Pack animals 44. Baby deer 47. Go at it 48. Message from another Galaxy? 49. Govt. agent 50. Deep knead 51. Cookie sometimes dipped in mayo 52. Turkish military man 53. Eliminated from the competition, informally 54. Can do 56. Fly though powder 57. Last in the series

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