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BROADWAY NIGHTS by Fred Piscop

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Across

1 Skunk’s defense

5 Not exactly around the corner

8 Tour de France mountains

12 Major Attaway plays one in “Aladdin”

14 One of six African languages spoken in “The Lion King”

15 Filling for some ravioli

16 Praises to the skies

17 Somali super-model

18 Elsa’s sister in “Frozen”

19 Mag execs: Abbr.

20 Batman costume part

22 In “Come From

Away,” 38 airliners are diverted to this small Newfoundland town

24 Off-kilter

26 Lad’s mate

27 Questionnaire datum

30 Butter serving

31 __ Abner of Dog-patch

33 “Chicago” show-girl __ Hart

35 Inner tube filler

36 Furry TV alien

39 Nightclub in a Ma-nilow hit

40 “Ain’t too Proud” to Beg” features the music of this Motown group, familiarly

42 Places to graze

44 Rickles of insult

comedy

45 “No __, Jose!”

46 “To Kill a Mock-ingbird” lawyer Atti-cus __

47 Word on a gift tag

48 “Frankenfood” letters

50 Where slop is eaten

51 Urge onward

54 Take an oath

56 “Jagged Little Pill” is inspired by the music of __ Moris-sette

58 Machu Picchu dweller

59 __ kwon do (mar-tial art)

62 iPhone assistant

63 Give birth to Porter

65 “The Phantom of the Opera” has been on Broadway for a record 31 __

67 Strike from a list

68 Frozen fruity treats

69 Comics page feature

70 Admit guilt, with “up”

71 Basketball scores: Abbr.

72 “Mean Girls” hero-ine __ Heron

Down

1 Eye salaciously

2 In “Beetlejuice,” Lydia is obsessed with the whole “being __ thing”

3 Burdensome debt, e.g.

4 Get ___ of (dump)

5 Exhaust pipe emission

6 __ carte menu

7 Ladder level

8 Big name in appli-ances

9 Provides for a time

10 Glaziers’ units

11 One with top billing

13 Break out of prison

14 “Shut up!”

21 Drs.’ org.

23 The whole en-chilada

25 Icy sidewalk mishap

27 Part of a boomer-ang’s path

28 In “Wicked,” Glinda is the __ Witch

29 Event at a conven-tion center

32 E-File org.

34 Fleming who cre-ated 007

35 “Trainwreck” ac-tress Schumer

36 Mahershala of “Green Book”

37 Glass in a monocle

38 Undeniable truth

40 Noah’s per-spe-cies number

41 Dumbo’s flappers

43 Like a wallflower

46 Surprise attacks

47 TGIF part: Abbr.

48 Heredity factors

49 Apple since 1984

51 “Ghostbusters” goo

52 City in which “Moulin Rouge” is set

53 Condo divisions

55 “Six” features all six of Henry VIII’s __

56 Starting on

57 Model in a bottle

59 Fictional planta-tion of Georgia

60 Like a desert’s climate

61 2015 award for Caitlyn Jenner

64 Make a decision

66 Catchall abbr.

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SEE THE BROADWAY STARS OF TOMORROW!The Jimmy Awards® spotlights talented teen performers nationwide.

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Each June some of the most talented high school students in the U.S. get an opportunity many kids fantasize about—the chance to perform on a Broadway stage! These triple-threat teens sing, dance, and act at the Jimmy Awards, a musical showcase at the Minskoff Theatre. It’s the culmination of the Broadway League Foundation’s National High School Musical Theatre Awards program, a nationwide celebration of arts in schools involving more than 140,000 students.

You can get in on the act! Search “Jimmy Awards” on YouTube to watch Jimmys nominees perform. And catch the 2020 Jimmy Awards LIVE on Monday, June 29 at 7:30pm ET. Visit JimmyAwards.com/live for information.

Many Jimmys alums have gone on to perform on Broadway. Examples this season include Andrew Barth Feldman and Josh Strobl (Dear Evan Hansen), Reneé Rapp and Kyle Selig (Mean Girls), Eva Noblezada (Hadestown), Antonio Cipriano (Jagged Little Pill), Christian Thompson (Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations), and Tyler Eisenreich (West Side Story).

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