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“DOG CATCHERS”

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

ACROSS 1. COVID testing requirements 6. $5 10. Some homeschoolers 14. Rigid doctrine 15. Former NBA player nicknamed The Candy Man 16. Note in Nuremberg 17. “Lil’” cartoon character 18. Like a real scuzzbucket 19. Comic Drescher 20. What a freewheeling dentist does after putting on a crown? 23. Boxer’s feint 24. Word processor file 25. “Put a sock in it” 26. Crab eggs 27. Parisienne honorific: Abbr. 28. The goods place 30. “That’s impossible” 32. Alongside 34. 63-Down’s org. 35. Debt letters 36. Tunes that soccer star Brandi likes? 41. Golden Knights milieu 42. ___ billing 43. “I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation” speaker 45. Savory taste 48. Hell of a guy? 50. ___ precaution 51. Instant lawn product 52. Bake on the beach 54. WWE star Mustafa ___ 55. “UR the best!” 56. Emo casting call headline? 60. Stations of the Cross letters 61. “___, Sing America” (Langston Hughes) 62. “I ___ to die, Bury me low and let me lie” (Robert Louis Stevenson) 64. Bits of cocoa 65. Steve in the ESPN documentary “The Last Dance” 66. At full volume 67. Tween on “This is Us” 68. Chatted through a window? 69. 48-Across’s quarry DOWN 1. Metro stop: Abbr. 2. xkcd, e.g. 3. ___ Chase (Percy Jackson’s girlfriend) 4. Backing up sound 5. Some expensive strings 6. Bliss after pigging out 7. “Yeah, dog” 8. Win-win situation 9. Patty who sang “The Warrior” 10. Like chainsaw jugglers 11. The break of dawn 12. Pull from, as influences 13. Shakespearean writing 21. Scribble in the margins 22. Sch. of Athens 23. X5 and X7 automaker 29. Yogurt dish with a curry 31. Drop a few f-bombs 33. “Women in Music Pt. III” band 35. African antelope 37. Time traveling genre 38. “Hush your mouth!” 39. Pissed off words 40. Transaction done without taking credit 44. Salon application 45. Money maker? 46. Unification Church member 47. Totes cute 48. Methodology 49. Assassins in black 53. Therapeutic touch 57. Besmirch one’s name 58. Zipped (through) 59. Riding mower brand 63. See 34-Across

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