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TO THE NINES
BY: Brendan Emmett Quigley
Across
1 ___ latte
4 “Run Through The Jungle” band, briefly
7 Navy NCO
10 Brandenburg Concertos monogram
13 Smelted stuff
15 Chrysler Building decor
17 Shouldered
18 Very small server system?
19 Longtime flames
21 Scatting syllable
22 Bungle up plant pests?
25 Eras div.
26 Marrow’s center?
27 “Tsk, tsk”
30 Breakfast cereal served at the Genius Bar?
36 Weaves together
39 Sealed the deal
40 Stubborn social reformer Dorothea?
44 Music genre whose bands often use the genre in their names
45 Dr. who’s a headphone magnate
46 St. relative
49 Shiny comic book Gaul?
56 Sarcastic snort
57 Local legislator, informally
58 Make some repairs to a train station?
62 Like many a rural highway
63 ___ de Saint-Exupéry (“The Little Prince” author)
64 Mouth to the music
65 Discreetly include on an email
66 Student Debt Support org.
67 Coast Guard mem.
68 College football day, mainly: Abbr.
Down
1 Waits in the wings
2 Speaker on a soapbox
3 Unsophisticates
4 Dubya’s secretary of state
5 La ___ (sparkling water brand)
6 Subscriber’s option
7 Crow’s call
8 Like the times when radio was king
9 Cheri in the “SNL” Spartan cheerleaders skits
10 Psaki of MSNBC
11 Geodesy, e.g: Abbr.
12 El Big ___ (Del Taco purchase)
14 “Cryptonomicon” author Stephenson
16 Having two functions
20 Sequence of stages, in ecology
23 F1 neighbor
24 Bay Area force: Abbr.
28 Three, on sundials
29 Phone no. adjunct
30 [Finger snap!]
31 Chest press muscle, briefly
32 Trident-looking letter
33 Get ___ of
34 Opposite of là’s
35 “One of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy” according to Steve Martin
36 Ski area locales: Abbr.
37 “Call the exterminator”
38 Pick up
41 Dedication in verse
42 Some heavy planters
43 Home to Sub Pop records
46 Neat displays
47 “Amadeus” setting
48 Await
50 Very, very melodramatically
51 Language that roughly 2000 people speak globally (I’m sure many of them are teachers)
52 Radio-controlled device
53 Escorted through the foyer
54 Sports car features
55 Wriggly fish
58 Cool, in the ’60s
59 End of business?
60 “Senses Working Overtime” band
61 Vegetable that rolls
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