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CROSSWORD

To be continued

BY DAVID LEVINSON WILK

ACROSS

1. “Correct me ____ wrong ...” 5. Comedian Margaret 8. Beseeches 14. Mont Blanc, par exemple 15. ____ de parfum 16. Bad-mouths 17. Handyman’s accessory 19. Kind of joke 20. Two-time N.L. batting champ Lefty 21. ____ choy 22. Have another birthday 23. Caterer’s container 24. “The Big Chill” actor 28. Exam for a future public defender, for short 30. ____-advised 31. Things you can crack without damaging them 32. Mother of Beyoncé and

Solange Knowles 33. Ginger ____ 34. One might say “One, two, testing, testing” into it 35. “This isn’t over” ... or what’s indicated by this puzzle’s circled letters 40. Former U.S. Senate minority whip Jon 41. Social reformer

Dorothea 42. “Weekend, here I come!” 44. “Me and Bobby ____” (posthumous #1 hit for

Janis Joplin) 47. Feel bad 48. Opposite of plummet 49. Frank Sinatra School of the Arts co-founder 53. Nigerian tribe 54. Suffix with morph55. Energizer size 56. Duane ____ (drugstore chain) 58. Short-term govt. securities 60. Emulated a bookie 63. “Deal’s off” 64. University URL ending 65. Scott of “Charles in

Charge” 66. Gauge 67. After tax 68. MLB playoff event

DOWN

1. “Am ____ risk?” 2. Puts the pedal to the metal 3. Apple product discontinued in 2017 4. Anthony or Ball of hoops, familiarly 5. Green with the 2010 hit

“Forget You” 6. “2001: A Space Odyssey” computer 7. LGBTQ+ magazine since 1992 8. Former 9. Job hunter’s site 10. Short albums, briefly 11. Italian cheese 12. Member of the 2020

World Series champions 13. Scoffs (at) 18. “Having said that ...” 21. “The Fresh Prince of ____-Air” 23. Final: Abbr. 25. Ventimiglia of “This Is

Us” 26. Assimilate 27. “Hey, wait your turn in line!” 29. Q neighbor 33. Knee injury site, for short 34. Chex ____ (party food) 36. Scrutinizes 37. One of 100 in Scrabble 38. Perfect self, in psychoanalysis 39. Hyperglycemia sufferer 43. To and ____ 44. Volcano in E. Sicily 45. Small jazz bands 46. Pleasant-sounding rock? 47. Actress de Armas of

“Knives Out” 50. Lessens, as pain 51. Rainbow ____ 52. William Shatner’s

“____War” 57. Band that won the 1974 Eurovision Song

Contest 59. New Guinea port from which Amelia Earhart left on her last flight 60. What “X” might mean 61. Poet Amanda Gorman’s

“____ to Our Ocean” 62. [Send assistance!]

ANSWERS 8/31/22 Sobfest

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