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Seventh Baptist

BY DAVID LEVINSON WILK

ACROSS

1. Trek ending in Mecca 5. Tennis shirts, often 10. Xerox machine problems 14. Butterlike spread 15. Separately 16. “____ stage left” 17. Like some parties and flowers 18. Luxury Italian car, informally 19. Turn down 20. St. John, when there are six religiously like-minded people before him? 23. Like a small garage 24. CBS forensics franchise 25. “The only laundry detergents available to you from me are Tide,

Bold and Cheer”? 32. Put the kibosh on 35. Not home 36. Middle parts of bodies 37. Alphabetize, e.g. 39. Giants great Manning 41. Volcano that towers over

Catania, Italy 42. What Wi-Fi can connect you to 45. Reason to go green? 48. FBI or DEA figure 49. Going for walks and playing fetch from 12:00-5:00? 52. Dominate, in slang 53. Spy who led the

Combahee River Raid in the U.S. Civil War 57. “Is it evening already?!?” ... or a hint to this puzzle’s theme 62. Dandelion, e.g. 63. Celebrations with hula dancing 64. Alphabet quartet 65. Suffix with hard or soft 66. Mobile payment service 67. Rooster on a roof, perhaps 68. Spinach is rich in it 69. German steel city 70. ____ Ed.

DOWN

1. “In what way?” 2. 1979 horror film with a hatching egg on the poster 3. Dig (into) 4. Group with five #1 R&B hits in the 1990s 5. Actress Gwyneth 6. Fish whose name is a celebrity’s name minus an R 7. It’s woolly but far from mammoth 8. Jerry of “Law & Order” 9. Visits 10. Yoda, for one 11. Guitars, informally 12. Common toothpaste flavor 13. Place to wallow 21. Zilch 22. DVR pioneer 26. When repeated, a dance move 27. Hip-hop’s ____, the

Creator 28. Before, poetically 29. “The Thin Man” pooch 30. “____ story short ...” 31. Exam with a max score of 180 32. Founded: Abbr. 33. NYC neighborhood above Houston Street 34. Last little bit 38. Pan Am rival, once 40. Guest book locale 43. Get an ____ effort 44. Vitamin in meat, milk and eggs 46. Decides, in a way 47. “I thought ___ never ask!” 50. Provides (with) 51. Winner of the Maurice

Podoloff Trophy 54. Chatty bird 55. Ecstasy’s opposite 56. Slangy refusals 57. Sport 58. Often-shared sandwich 59. First place? 60. Lays out by the pool 61. Scottish philosopher

David 62. Conflict during which the

Lusitania was sunk: Abbr.

ANSWERS 1/4/23 Roof

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