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What’s That Sound?
By: Brendan Emmett Quigley
Across
1. It’s in the low 90s
7. Quarter of eight?
10. Caesar costume necessity
14. Roy Lichtenstein genre
15. R&B singer née Gabriella Wilson
16. Petunia Dursley, to Harry Potter
17. Scary floating bar?
19. Word with a wave
20. Scary “Gilligan’s Island” character?
22. Fresh start?
25. Rustic wedding rental
26. Very common
27. Ancient Chinese divination text
29. Round with a boxer, maybe
32. “___ about time”
33. Workout technique built around short bursts of all-out aerobics: Abbr.
34. “The No. 1 ___ Detective Agency” (Alexander McCall Smith series)
36. Scary Margaret Wise Brown book?
41. Squealed
42. Event to get a corset
44. Hubbub
47. Pissed, with “off”
48. Merch table selection
50. Go back to the beginning
52. Ram’s partner
53. Place to get an eye test, for short
54. Scary James Van Der Beek show?
59. “Taylor Swift: The ___ Tour”
60. Fully mature, but kinda scary?
64. River through 11 countries
65. Cream substitute?
66. Father’s jurisdiction
67. Big name in talks
68. Additional charge
69. Went blading
Down
1. “Heads up, force,” for short
2. Pastoral comment
3. Decacorn’s “birthday”: Abbr.
4. Boss Tweed lampooner
5. Ragamuffin in many a Dickens story
6. High-___ (on edge)
7. It’s right next to me
8. Presidential candidate Cornel
9. Crumble in some milkshakes
10. Speed readers?
11. Étienne’s emphatic approval
12. Really bother
13. Snorkeling areas
18. Caribou Coffee container
21. “Duke ___” (’90s video game series)
22. Agcy. with a PubMed library
23. Vaper’s choice
24. Bengals are from there
28. “Me as well”
29. Carried on, as war
30. Equazen treats it
31. En fuego
34. [Thumbs up]
35. One practicing the PSAT, in brief
37. “What you just said”
38. Florence-to-Bologna dir.
39. Hard to grow things in
40. Basic stuff
43. “The Challenge” airer
44. Vehement
45. Sweetums
46. Goneril’s servant
48. Wimps
49. 1998 George Saunders short story that sounds like a tree near a shore
51. Elizabeth I’s bae
52. Bit of work
55. Babe in the woods
56. Dark colored plum
57. You’re looking at it
58. Journalist Swisher
61. Minor problem
62. Value degradation
63. Brown paper?: Abbr.
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