NEWS

Echoed sentiments

griddyjune(Answers with the next puzzle.)

ACROSS

1. Canned hams
6. Q-V connection
10. Not Lib’s or PC’s
14. “Hey”
15. James Bond’s school
16. Length x width
17. Speedy steeds
18. Ranks plant starters?
20. Tear
21. French street of regret?
22. American symbol
23. Puts Led Zeppelin frontman in the garden?
28. Levin or Gershwin
29. ___ Angeles
30. Image quality meas.
33. Beast that’s hungry, hungry
36. Angelic aura
38. What Santa tracks on the carpet
39. Shortens a roadway crossing a river?
42. Hoot
43. Panache
44. Widely held truth
45. Suffix meaning belief
46. com or net alternative
47. Airport letters
48. Awes a twisty puzzle?
54. Like Ringo or Bart
58. Albums
59. Sci-fi author Stanislaw
60. Stashes leather before tanning?
63. Excuse for why you didn’t do it
65. Bills mostly found in America
66. Ye ___ (blank); improper middle english usage
67. Oyster gift
68. Present and future partner
69. Hellos
70. Academic writing

DOWN

1. Pointy
2. Danger
3. Seldom used slap in confirmation ritual
4. Pro baseball league
5. Help signal from a ship
6. Eat dinner again
7. See 8-down
8. With 7-down, a type of boot
9. German preposition
10. Space agcy.
11. Lowlife
12. Rind
13. ’80s popstar
19. Gigs, for musicians
21. Cape Town’s country, abbr.
24. Do this in the bud to stop the spread of a problem
25. Walked
26. Poe’s added name
27. Internet speak for someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing
30. Princess Diana’s lover, Fayed
31. Breaded dog on a stick
32. One on a list
33. ___ Krishna
34. Water fowl
35. High schoolers’ year-end highlight
36. Hagar the Horrible’s wife
37. Cool ___ cucumber
38. Weekday wake-up time
40. Filth iota
41. ___-tat-tat
46. Canoe needs
47. Snaky letter
49. Zellers mascot
50. Duelling swords
51. Another name for aka
52. Mussels thought to be spreading through the western provinces and territories
53. Poet Dickinson
54. Buy things
55. Vocal icon Turner
56. Lemon and lime
57. Shut-eye
61. Santa’s postal code, ___ 0H0
62. French island
63. Mimic
64. Bizarre bassist Claypool

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