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WORLD EXPLORERS

Crossword

ACROSS

1. UPS competitor

5. “The One I Love” band

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8. Prior to, pref.

11. Gin flavor

12. ____wig or ____winkle

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13. Command to Fido

15. ____ Grey of tea fame

16. Policemen’s surprise

17. Brunch offering

18. *Explorer Amerigo’s last name

20. Rock opera version of “La Boheme”

21. Gossipmonger, in Yiddish

22. Ballet step

23. *Henry the Navigator’s title

26. Chicken pox pimples

30. Poetic “even”

31. Demosthenes or Cicero

34. “The ____ on the Floss”

35. Stories “from the Crypt”

37. Rank above maj.

38. Sore spot

39. “Happily ____ after”

40. Familiar routine

42. “Wow!”

43. Retina, pl.

45. *Explorer Shackleton’s first name

47. New on the block?

48. Barbara Eden’s TV character

50. Rumple

52. *First one to circumnavigate globe, almost

55. *Lewis’ or Clark’s vessel

56. Fictional giant

57. Plaintiff

59. Shrovetide dish

60. Zig or zag

61. Dunking cookie

62. “____ and the City”

63. “C’____ la vie!”

64. Backgammon predecessor

DOWN

1. Take drugs

2. Bohemian, e.g.

3. Skin opening

4. Short for self-synchronous

5. Don’t just stand there!

6. “Fear of Flying” author Jong

7. Skirt length

8. Part of a hammer

9. Wholly engrossed

10. Obtain, but just barely

12. Gardening tool

13. Junk yard stuff

14. *”Dr. Livingstone, I ____?”

19. Fictional cowboy Bill

22. One better than bogey

23. J.M. Barrie’s Pan

24. Plunder

25. *Geographical feature named for Ponce de Leon

26. *Inspiration for hide-and-seek game

27. City in Belgium

28. North Pole workers

29. Winter driving hazard

32. Homesteader’s purchase, sing.

33. Likewise

36. *Possibly America’s first European Leif ____

38. Jeopardy

40. Horse poker

41. Tooth cover

44. One born to Japanese immigrants

46. Willie of country music fame

48. Dashboard windows

49. Type of heron

50. Gender checkbox

51. Windows alternative

52. Change address

53. Mystique

54. Not ever, poetically

55. TV network

58. “Maggie May” singer

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