daily crossword
ACROSS
1 Potato bag 5 Rod in a grill 9 Macaroni shape 14 Vintage soda 15 Chisholm Trail city 16 Red, in roulette 17 Mine extracts 18 Club used for chipping 19 Capital of Ghana 20 *Mattress support 22 Spoken for 23 Skinny fish 24 Quick message 25 Blue Ribbon beer 28 Palm Pilot, e.g., briefly 30 Carve in stone 33 Attributive menu words 34 Parisian partings 37 Leave rolling in the aisles 38 Sermon topic 39 *Light, friendly punch 41 Sitter’s handful 42 What some missiles seek 44 Stevenson title doctor 45 “I warned you!” 46 Gothic fiction author Rice 47 WWII espionage gp. 48 Bugs and Jags 50 “Fire” bugs 52 Bourgogne and Chablis 54 Longstocking of kiddie lit 56 Spots for airline magazines ... and, literally, what the first words of the answers to starred clues can all have 61 NBA great Shaquille 62 Footnote “p” 63 Sitter’s handful 64 Modern mil. treaty violation 65 Egg cell 66 Humdinger 67 Knuckleheads 68 Short- or longsleeved tops 69 Marked, as a ballot
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1 Stereotypical “Dahling!” speaker 2 Flight-related prefix 3 General Mills brand 4 Affectionate greetings 5 Marble cake pattern 6 Capital on the Seine 7 Pic to click 8 Grab from the grill, as a hot dog 9 Poetry Muse 10 Tracks down 11 *Wishful lifetime agenda 12 Storybook brute 13 Withdraw gradually 21 “He loves me” piece 24 Sounding like one has a cold 25 Old Turkish title 26 Otherworldly 27 *Slapstick slipping cause 28 Sneaks a look 29 Obligation 31 Typical Hitchcock role 32 Publicizes aggressively 35 Martial arts schools 36 Currier’s colleague 40 Backup strategy 43 When the big hand is on two 49 In working order 51 Leans slightly 52 Beating around the bush 53 Agenda bullets 54 Common koi habitat 55 Look __: investigate 56 Washday woe 57 Nesting site, perhaps 58 Essence 59 Leafy veggie baked for chips 60 Gym specimen