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CROSSWORD

BY THOMAS JOSEPH
ACROSS
1 Barge setting
6 Sub system
11 Curaçao’s neighbor
12 Tickle
13 Women, in hard-boiled tales
14 Buccaneers’ base
15 Diminish
16 It’s smaller than a full one
18 Even score
19 Army address
20 Print measures
21 Mystery writer Woods
23 Strata
25 Dressing part
27 Barracks bed
28 Llama’s land
30 Trade
33 Take to court
34 Before today
36 Vein yield
37 Gives approval
39 Bribe
40 Sculpting medium
41 Enjoyed avidly
43 Mates of harts
44 Gaggle group
45 Uneasy feeling
46 Tribal leader
DOWN
1 West Point group
2 Mecca’s place
3 Chart topper
4 Penny prez
5 Endures
6 Mocking
7 Yemen neighbor
8 Second-best in a tourney
9 Quaking trees
10 Goes through
17 Funny fellow
22 Help out
24 Dawn goddess
26 Most slender
28 Lone Star capital
29 Corp.’s superior
31 Stir
32 Mill contents
33 Malia’s sister
35 Sioux language
38 Cuts off
42 — Aviv