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PUZZLES FOR YOU

Mountain View News Saturday, June 8, 2024

THEME: SUMMER 
BLOCKBUSTERS

ACROSS

1. Molten rock in earth’s 
crust

6. Scarlett Johansson’s 2013 
voice only role

9. Jezebel’s idol

13. Not silently

14. Pro vote

15. Italian bowling

16. Proclaimed as true 
without proof

17. Rob Manfred’s org.

18. Savory taste sensation

19. *Tom Cruise’s 1986 
blockbuster

21. *It featured the song 
“What Was I Made For?”

23. Wrath, e.g.

24. Milton Bradley’s “The 
Game of ____”

25. General Post Office

28. A woodwind

30. Group of trained 
professionals, pl.

35. Icy precipitation

37. Concert units

39. Charles Dickens’ Heep

40. Scandinavian capital

41. Rebroadcasted

43. Khrushchev’s domain, 
acr.

44. *What the gang did 
in 1988’s “A Fish Called 
Wanda”

46. Exploding star

47. Clarified butter

48. Airport surface

50. Highway hauler

52. Breed

53. Miss Muffet’s repast

55. Not flow

57. *Tim Burton’s 1989 and 
1992 title character

60. *It featured the song 
“Summer Lovin’”

63. Popular fashion 
magazine

64. Road in Rome

66. Comment to the 
audience

68. Deposit the ashes

69. Giant Hall-of-Famer 
Mel ____

70. Canine skin infection

71. Humble and docile

72. Name badges, acr.

73. Streamlined

DOWN

1. Bonkers

2. Sir Mix-____-____

3. Kind of boots in the ‘60s

4. One M in MMR vaccine

5. Slowly and gracefully, in 
music

6. Mass number

7. Snake-like reef dweller

8. Teacher of Torah

9. *”Oppenheimer” subject

10. Popular smoothie berry

11. Pinnacle

12. Hula dancer’s necklace

15. B in FBI

20. Open up

22. Half of NFL

24. a.k.a. Hansen’s disease

25. *1990 Swayze/Moore 
blockbuster

26. Trattoria staple

27. Petroleum tanker

29. *It premiered in the U.K. 
on 6/6/76, with The

31. Chemical cure

32. Revered Hindu

33. Drawing support

34. *2001 blockbuster ogre

36. Type of rich soil

38. “Keep this information” 
button

42. Name-chooser

45. Wyatt Earp and such

49. Cuban dance syllable

51. Letter-resembling 
supports

54. End of a poem

56. Primary

57. Like certain china

58. Malaria symptom

59. Ankara native

60. Gangster’s pistols

61. Cosine’s buddy

62. U2 member

63. Vigor’s partner

65. It would

67. Comic book cry of 
horror


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