Beach
By Graham Meyer
Across
1. War-strategy writer at the beach
7. Sleepover wear
10. Midway location
14. Calls to mind
15. Fond du ___, Wis.
16. It has a slimming effect
17. Singer Patti
18. Big sellers around Cinco de Mayo
20. Terre surrounded by eau
21. Basketball player at the beach
23. Full of beans, maybe
26. Zeroed (in)
27. Dome topper
29. Muffed a fly, perhaps
34. French novelist at the beach
38. 1959 Rose Bowl winner
39. One’s piece of the pie?
40. User of casts and reels
42. Mocha resident, most likely
43. Big-band singer at the beach
47. More foxy
49. Garment with laces
50. Like you
52. Prefix with punk
56. ‘80s singer at the beach
61. Lennon’s love
62. “Most important . . .”
63. First name of the freckly face of Mad magazine
66. One of Germaine’s brothers
67. “Runaway” singer Shannon
68. Italian hero feature
69. Best Buy purchase
70. Govt. org. that’s got your number
71. Contemporary novelist at the beach
Down
1. Baseball commissioner Bud
2. Tonsils neighbor
3. Opposite of yeps
4. Bout ender, for short
5. ___ and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
6. Bad way to buy a toothbrush
7. Radio-bribery scandal
8. Evolutionary link found in Indonesia
9. Snack with tea
10. Gem crack, for example
11. Verdi opera written before Otello
12. Music player that comes with white earbuds
13. American Beauty, for one
19. Relinquish
22. “___ on first?”
24. Quill user, maybe
25. Car whose base price was $3,990
28. Be unsettled?
30. Southpaw’s counterpart
31. Caramel-filled candy
32. Water pitcher
33. Truth alternative?
34. Foie ___
35. Chief justice Warren
36. Buckwheat’s catchphrase
37. Morse code elements
41. Computer speed meas.
44. Eavesdroppers?
45. Not-so-short story, maybe
46. 2-D measure
48. Singer/actress Martha
51. Many
53. The world’s most famous fictional Kazakh
54. Treatment favored by John Harvey Kellogg
55. Sculptor of The Thinker
56. Toddler’s bane
57. “From the same work,” in a footnote
58. Former Senate Majority Leader Trent
59. Ukrainian city formerly in Poland
60. Where to find Atlantis?
64. Run away
65. Run away
When winter temperatures become tiresome, people dream of summer. When summer temperatures become tiresome, people dream of the beach. Take this puzzle with you to while away a few minutes while you’re sipping mai tais and weighing whether to get in the water or lie there just a little longer. Or you can solve it between chapters of that trashy paperback. Or you can use it as cover, with a pencil thoughtfully at your lips and a far-off look in your eyes, while you’re actually checking out the volleyball players. In the last case, don’t let anyone see this paragraph if you get caught.
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