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Raymond Powell

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Table of Contents

Crossword Puzzles…………… 3
Solutions ……………………….. 53
Message from the author…… 62
Other Books ……………………. 63

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 1
1. The Brainy
bunch *** DOWN *** 19. Some installations
3. Proverbial 1. Place with a 21. Ben-___ (Lew
payback Portuguese-Chinese Wallace classic)
5. Speaking mix of cultures 22. Moll's leg
points? 2. Old garlands 24. Murderous Moor
8. Playfully 3. Opened a keg from Shakespeare
demure 4. Pushing crafts 25. Displaying bigotry
10. Ecole-ite? 5. Like patchwork 27. Holes in needles
11. A Room of 6. Stubborn to the 28. Small amount
One's ___ last 29. Somerset
(Virginia Woolf 7. Start of a comment Maugham's "The
work) by Fred Allen Razor's ___"
9. Rumor spreader 31. Dent or corn
12. 14. Caviar source starter?
16. Major animal? 32. Will Ferrell comedy
Neighborhood 18. Bishops' place
embarrassment
13. Is relative?
15. Director
Reiner
16. Springsteen's
"Born in the __"
17. German
article
20. Recital rebuke
23. Artificial bat
house
26. Sweet liqueurs
30. Wynonna's
"Is It Over ___"
32. You may leave
them in stitches,
briefly
33. Took a breath
34. Awkward, as a
speaker
35. Wrap at the
circus?

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 2
4. Realm
5. Manhattan 3. Toxic compound, 22. Get togged up
clubgoer Rist briefly 26. List shortcut
6. Sammy Davis' 4. Black ___ spider 28. Having a slight lead
"___ Can" 6. BYOB portion 30. Wide Sargasso ___
9. Swell places? 7. Sold out or belted ("Jane Eyre" prequel)
11. The Sound of out 31. Some railways
Music star 8. Panama band 32. Bank figure: Abbr.
13. Pine sap 10. Lee's gp.
14. Aquarium 12. Surreal paintings
growth 15. Wall St. strategy
18. La donna e 16. Well-guarded
mobile is one secret, sometimes
21. Four-time 17. Cape Fear actor
Japanese premier Nick
22. Inside scoop 18. __ distance
23. Looking 19. Hodgepodge
down on people? 20. Down with the flu
24. Two under
par
25. Southfork
matriarch
27. Spice seeds
29. Small concern
gr.
31. Like Cruella
de Vil
33. Alexandria's
river
34. Term of
address for
Jacques, who was
asked "Dormez-
vous?"
*** DOWN ***
1. 50-50, for one
2. Wheel buy

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4. The Age of
Reason author
5. He's a sorry sort
6. '95 Wimbledon
champ
9. Before this time,
pretentiously
11. Eastwood
western
13. Last part of
"Man and
Superman"
14. Whoopi's role
in "The Color
Purple"
18. Flintstone pet
21. Where Regulus
is
22. Day of the wk.
23. QED's middle
24. Ferber novel
25. Thing worth 4. Used a crowbar
keeping Otto
27. Stress indicator 6. Ancient Greeks' Mother 18. Follower of Agnus
29. Atlanta network Earth or Opus
(abbr.) 7. Persnickety 19. Words you don't
31. Firepit stuff 8. Co-founder of the expect to hear when
33. DH, more likely misnamed hip hop label you're expecting a call
34. Boiled and Murder Inc, since he was 20. Palindromic Bobbsey
baked bread bun actually in the drug 22. What someone is
business said to be when her
10. Part of R&R goose is cooked
*** DOWN *** 12. Word before "shebang" 26. Pungent
1. ___ Spiegel 15. End of academic 28. L.A. Law scene
2. Cell's "3" letters addresses 30. Pop follower
3. Before, old-style 16. 1040 letters 31. Wood cutter

17. Nobel physiologist 32. Brit. reference tome

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 4
2. Doze (off)
6. No proponent 3. Morse T's 22. Young ___ (small
9. Collection of 4. Ms. Carey et al. fry)
various materials 5. Arctic sight 23. Paint in a
10. Field film 6. Jumping contest kindergarten classroom
"Norma __" entrant 26. Handshake elicitor
11. Swear words 7. Huge, to poets 27. What Steve Jobs
12. Spongy 8. Galsworthy's "The helped introduce in
stretch __ Saga" 2001
13. HMO 14. Adventure tale 28. Nora's pooch
employees 15. Layered dessert 29. Foreign Legion
15. Clothes with 16. Potter Josiah topper
slogans 17. Hand-to-mouth 31. Tight ___
17. 9 or 66, e.g. control
18. Neither's 20. Thing with many
partner heads
19. Unseal, to 21. Thinks highly of
bards
20. Finish the
ninth or tenth
letter?
24. Basic nature
25. Somewhat
larger than a
compact
28. Hopping
about
30. Shoe statistic
32. Trawler's haul
33. Toupee
34. Pal, to Jean-
Claude

*** DOWN ***

1.

Communicating
regularly
2. Vladimir's veto

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 5
1. Great Greek
physician 4. Packed in tight, in a 22. Target of Edward
3. 22.5 deg. way Snowden, briefly
5. Wards off 5. Born, as a horse 24. Hidden hazard
8. Vegas head 6. Closest 25. Phrase of
10. Asteroids 7. What the inclusiveness
maker businessman will do 27. Bad day for Caesar
11. Camera type, at the ballgame? 28. Brotherly letters on
familiarly 9. Sail-extending pole campus
12. ___ in is a 14. Student's stat 29. Award won by Sarah
rotten... 16. Sound in a traffic Hughes and Barry
13. Future fowl jam Bonds
15. Marienbad, 18. Get down to 31. Thumbs up
for one work, with gusto 32. Some suds
16. Bowler, for 19. Its grads are
one lieutenants (abbr.)
17. Itty bit 21. Angkor __
20. Never used
23. It's A
Wonderful Life
director
26. Relax, troops!
30. Light time
32. Paintings, e.g.
33. Depth
charges
34. Actress
Essman of "Curb
Your
Enthusiasm"
35. Long girl in
song
*** DOWN ***
1. Neuters
2. City S. of
Tucson
3. Knobby

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 6
4. ___ of vantage
(favorable
position)
5. Denmark
rejected it in
September
6. Time off
9. Top kick, for
one
11. M*A*S*H
character Pierce
13. Where the
ancient Greeks
shopped
14. Subjects of
many New Year's
resolutions
18. Like a
wallflower
21. Single-
stranded genetic
molecule
22. Soft drink *** DOWN *** 16. Course-catalogue abbr.
selection 1. Poem that might 17. Gulf of California
23. Choosing contain apostrophes feeder
word 2. It may be 18. Give __ __ break!
24. The Price is bottomless 19. Comparatively
Right announcer 3. Hold on just a ___ uncanny
Don 4. Trite 20. When the murderer is
25. Razzie, e.g. 6. Class Reunion revealed, often
27. Wifely author Jaffe 22. Hot bed?
29. Fee ___ foe 7. Farm lot unit 26. Hamlet climax
fum 8. Note subject 28. Office supply store
31. Siberian river 10. Subj. of "The brand
33. Cajun cook's Professor and the 30. Paolantonio of ESPN
vegetable Madman" 31. Chordophone from
34. Proctor- 12. Fan sound Kauai
___(appliance 15. Yugoslav novelist 32. ___ live and breathe
makers) Andric

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 7
1. Profoundly
knowledgeable 34. Sulky 11. Conquistadores
3. Happy 35. Peach variety quest
accident, so to named for its 12. Balloon ballast
speak developer's wife 13. Gains (as interest)
5. Festive, as an *** DOWN *** 16. Cash register
event 2. Constellation near calculation
6. Fetching Ursa Major 18. Trip up
8. Prophetical 3. West of "Sextette" 23. Speech stammers
10. La Scala song 4. Hudson's Bay 24. Neve Campbell
12. Rather, Company supplier of shocker
slangily yore 25. Hosp. chart notation
14. Pressure 5. Hilarious incident 27. Hugs, in text
source, perhaps 7. Viscous material 28. River through Tours
15. Making a note 9. Technique 29. Eternally, in verse
of, with "down" practiced on a 32. American composer
17. Michael dummy, briefly Rorem
Learned, for one
19. Fort in New
Jersey
20. Kabuki band
21. Cup
22. Soccer official
25. Therefore in
Tours
26. Sticky liquids
28. ___ majesty
(treasonous
crime)
30. Breathing
sound
31. Brian who
said "As soon as I
hear a sound, it
always suggests a
mood to me"
33. Industrialist
Henry J.

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 8
2. One of the
Perons 34. German's cry 14. Saxon leader?
6. Record label *** DOWN *** 15. Dark, black wood
started by Black 1. Lures into a crime 16. Nouveau __
Flag 2. River running 17. Cow, in Colombia
9. Wayne through Zaragoza 20. Moon missions
LaPierre's gp. 3. Body language?: 21. Armani protector
10. Lord, is ___?: Abbr. 22. Initials of the "Wizard
Matt. 4. Followed doctor's of Menlo Park"
11. Sit orders 23. Smelling, for example?
12. Lumberjack 5. Home of DDE's 26. Band switch
contest object library 27. New York City
13. Checking org. 6. Skyline haze cardinal Edward
15. He played 7. Response to a 28. Programmer's need
Warren Buffett in pluck 29. He gathered animals in
HBO's "Too Big 8. Tool used with a twos
to Fail" hammer 31. ___ Please (George
17. Claret Orwell column)
container
18. Classic hot
rod
19. Auditor
20. First word in
"Would It Be
Loverly?"
24. More of the
bumper sticker
wisdom
25. Most lacking
in fat
28. Opaque
30. Accessory for
Mae West or Miss
Piggy
32. Oblige a
portraitist
33. Mad ___
(AMC series)

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 9
1. Thanks from
Pierre *** DOWN *** creator ___ Stanley
3. Paint the town 1. Like the north side Gardner
___ of a tree, supposedly 18. While away the hour
5. Grommet 2. Turned upside 19. The Incredible
insert down Hulk's emotion
8. Traffic sign 3. Peruse again 21. Kind of soup or
10. Computer 4. Thrills to pieces jacket
message 5. Afghan princes 22. Butterfly's belt?
11. Tasty! 6. Siren 24. One of two
12. Fireworks 7. Long-awaited John elements that ends with
mineral Lennon single? the letter C
13. Comic actress 9. Stand and Deliver 25. Suspects' queue
Myrna star 27. Nixon chief of staff
15. Shriek when 14. Voluminous 28. Body passageway
you freak at a lexicological work 29. Coyote cry
squeak (abbr.) 31. Untold centuries
16. Their 16. Perry Mason's 32. Gold, in Seville
comments might
be in square
brackets (abbr.)
17. Suffragist ___
B. Wells
20. Meet unit
23. Turf
26. One of the
Hemingways
30. Common
auxiliary verb
32. Mais ___!
(certainly)
33. Erode
gradually, as one's
savings
34. Freewheeling
35. Based on
observation or
experience

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 10
4. Have no use
for 2. Blow in a ring 17. Do ___ to eat a
5. Carpe ___ 3. Mass. summer peach? (Eliot)
(seize the day) setting 18. _____ Locka, FL
6. Sarcastic 4. Gallic girlfriends 19. Grilled Italian
remark 6. Allied group sandwich
9. Gourmands 7. Charlie Hustle 20. Black and tan
11. Made a wrong Rose beverage
turn, perhaps 8. Omelet-making 22. Radiate, as charm
13. Newscaster discard 26. Chilly drink whose
Connie 10. One thing ___ first flavor was cola
14. Had home time 28. Groom's new relative
cooking 12. Pebble Beach 30. TV character who
18. Brightly hazards said "Kiss my grits!"
colored food fish 15. They precede 31. Al Jolson's real first
21. Steno two-point name
accessory conversions (abbr.) 32. Problem for late
22. Compass 16. Devotee arrivals, briefly
point, in Cadiz
23. Faint
24. Board with
instruments
25. Sayonara star
Miyoshi
27. Understand
spoken words
without hearing
them
29. Animal house
31. Recess with
an ambulatory
33. Lutz
alternative
34. Directional
sign
*** DOWN ***
1. Mom-and-pop
gp.

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 11
1. Part of a yard
3. Bridal parties *** DOWN *** 18. Spill material,
5. Pituitary 2. Oscar's fastidious perhaps
gland's shape roommate 23. Suffix for bombard
6. Three or four, 3. Give a darn 24. Entebbe's land
say 4. Surfer's tumble 25. You follow?
8. Eager to take 5. Big dummy 27. Helping hand
part in 7. Braun or Peron 28. They may be stolen
10. Show off 9. Joey's mom at Shea
one's muscles 11. Moon unit of 29. Cleveland-to-
12. Northeastern NASA Wheeling dir.
state coll. 12. Odyssey hero 32. Situation Room
14. Little bit of 13. Chamber agcy.
everything dish compositions
15. Hires 16. Buf-___ (facial
17. ___ of a sponge)
Murder
19. 1980s TV
E.T.
20. Former fast
flier into JFK
21. Off-road
transport, briefly
22. Recline
25. Glitch or
hitch
26. Bridge
successes
28. Sots' spots
30. School
attended by
Bertie Wooster
31. To boot
33. Go for the
jumbo
34. Annual issue
35. Cooking wine

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 12
2. Chicago-to-
Baltimore dir.
6. Big belly
9. Opposite of
ESE
10. Lee with a
Best Director
Oscar
11. Casa dweller
12. Honest
president
13. Numbers on
b-days
15. Salon
employee
17. Six-pack
components, say
18. Georgia until
Apr. 9, 1991
19. ___ cit.
(footnote abbr.)
20. Last name for
an anonymous 34. Marlon's "On the 15. Seat belt part
woman Waterfront" costar 16. Dutch still-life subject
17. Org. with the motto
24. Chance for a *** DOWN *** "Because Freedom Can't
shot 1. Elizabeth Taylor Protect Itself"
25. Begrudges perfume 20. Nathan in "Guys and
28. City on the
Missouri, 2. Black and lustrous Dolls"
informally 3. Washstand accessory 21. Even bets
4. Fööd court 22. ___ Bon Jovi
30. Group of establishment with the 23. Capital of Armenia
Death team in the slogan "Hot dogs of the 26. Hourglass filler
2014 World Cup universe"? 27. Good work
32. Gen-___ 5. Cap and gown, e.g. 28. Doubtless
(thirtysomething) 6. First Knight star 29. Applet programming
33. Country
singer Jo ___ 7. Deuce toppers language
Messina 8. Scotties, e.g. 31. Johanna Mason's weapon
14. Surprise defeat in "The Hunger Games"

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 13
1. They're on the
job 2. Rugged peaks 19. Miss Piggy accessory
3. Get ___ 3. Flare-bottomed 21. The Cars sometime-
obligation quote! skirts singer Benjamin
(auto dealer's 4. Weirdos 22. Ft. Worth's Horned
come-on) 5. Snap Frogs
5. Thou 6. Turns on 24. Definition of
8. Oscar winner 7. Chronologically "carrot"?
Brynner first but last- 25. Kenyan
10. Ominous published of the revolutionary of the
loop Leatherstocking 1950s
11. Marge's TV Tales, with "The" 27. NYC museum
neighbor 9. Potted plant place 28. Bit of slander
12. Stage a past 14. Aid for a driver 29. Sports' network
event 16. Defenses 31. The ___ of Pooh
13. Baker and developed during the (Benjamin Hoff book)
Beale (abbr.) Cold War, briefly 32. Recently revived
15. Sniggler's 18. Those taking sides activist org.
target
16. Great service
17. Ray's realm
20. 6 on the pad
23. Malcolm X
eulogist Davis
26. George of the
Jungle's beloved
30. Asleep
32. Sault-Marie
link
33. Becomes laid-
back
34. Thrown for
___
35. Incentivized
*** DOWN ***
1. Honored
member

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 14
4. Roger the
reviewer 3. Horned zodiac 19. They work on the
5. Province in beast floor
saudi Arabia 4. Susan Lucci role 20. Wheel buy
6. The Godfather 6. Dems, Reps, Inds 22. Mountain side
author 7. California 26. Uppity person
9. Scam hometown of "The 28. Go fish request
11. Unimpressive Bionic Woman" 30. Ralph Kramden's
rating 8. Being beaten by vehicle
13. Psychic 10. Man-mouse 31. Queen, for one
Friends middle 32. Have a bill
employees? 12. Main __
14. Kind of acid 15. Blanc, the voice
in protein of Bugs
18. Mikita of the 16. Make an arrest
NHL 17. Brewers use it
21. The Science 18. Not lg.
Guy on TV
22. Unkempt one
23. Merciless
character
24. ___ once
25. Eyeballs
27. Short rehab
program?
29. Epistle (abbr.)
31. Oozing movie
alien
33. Rebuke for
Brutus
34. Hearth refuse
*** DOWN ***
1. Springfield
storekeeper
2. Bay Area
airport code

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1. Dolt
3. Semitic
language written
with the Roman
alphabet
5. Spinal part
6. Overdone
publicity
8. Small spot of
land
10. Conveyance
12. Loo label
14. TV's Thicke
15. Via
17. Sheer, stiff
fabric
19. Disdainful
interjection
20. Abner
Yokum's
descriptor
21. Jong-un or
Jong-il
22. Bush ___ cuts *** DOWN *** 16. Chinese cooking pan
2. Wuthering Heights 18. Snag
25. Volcanic screenwriter Ben 23. Check-processing
outflow 3. Springfield bar company, initially
26. Big name in owner Szyslak 24. Enlightenment, in
viticulture
28. In your 4. Sonoran snack Zen
dreams 5. Holliday's 25. Oceangoing mil.
30. Dorothy's dog nickname carrier
31. It may be let 7. Criticize harshly 27. 1996
out of the bag 9. Cupcake holder 28. Comaneci of
33. Hat for 11. First Daughter of gymnastics
Hammer the late 1970s 29. Baseball-card stat.
34. Least robust 12. Loafing, with 32. Aesop's "The ___
35. He was top- "off" and the Dove"
notch in "Top 13. 1973 Al Pacino
Hat" film

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 16
2. Its members
often strike *** DOWN *** 16. Major petroleum
(abbr.) 1. French Revolution exporter
6. N.Y.S.E. item motto word 17. Rephrase, say
9. __ Angeles 2. Cameraman's occ. 20. Impassioned
10. Onset of 3. Everything in 21. Like a Cyclops
labor? Germany 22. Suffix with odd or
11. German 4. Accord with a history? solid
singer Lenya 5. It may be coming 23. Group of three in
12. You're the through the rye literature
___! 6. Venti or Trenta, at 26. Reverential
13. Beads on Starbucks ceremony
blades 7. Some have medians 27. Bronze Age burial
15. Remote 8. Interweave containers
target? 14. Results of summits, 28. It may be thrown at
17. Maa in ideally you
"Babe" 15. Clamors or rallying 29. Hourglass innards
18. Some movie calls 31. Nurse at the bar
FX
19. 1987 Michael
Jackson smash
20. Critter in a
colony
24. These Boots...
singer Nancy
25. Send
someplace
different
28. Pesto
flavoring
30. Attention-
getting calls
32. Bar opener?
33. Ernie on the
links
34. Shakespeare
contemporary

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 17
1. Dastard
3. PC file 3. Houdini feat 24. Jenna's twin
extension 4. Consumers 25. Fish player on TV
5. Sends, as to a 5. For the time being 27. Tootsie star
bulletin board 6. Cents : euros :: 28. Surety
8. ___ Tu Che agorot : __ 29. Fidel's brother
Macchiavi Quell' 7. Ray trap 31. Holbrook or Linden
Anima (Verdi 9. Focus of a political 32. Something
aria) speech sometimes spared
10. Suns center 14. '50s G.I. ally
11. WSJ staffers 16. Bug with a
12. Standoff bounce
13. Drop a pop- 18. Some come with
up calendars
15. Cut (off) 19. Big name in
16. ATM user's bouquets
annoyance 21. ___ you joking?
17. Jamaica-based 22. Chateau occupant
music
20. The Cenozoic
is the current one
23. List with
columns
26. Fiscal deficit
30. Exclamation
for Heinrich
32. Explorer John
33. National
anthem of North
America
34. Provoked
35. Slow non-
electronic
messages
*** DOWN ***
1. ___ Jacques
2. Be averse to

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 18
4. 437.5 grains
5. Netflix 4. Hollywood reward 17. A Picture of Nectar
mailings 6. Thessaly-to- rockers
6. AK-47 supplies Colchis craft 18. Rocker's requirement
9. Come down 7. Breakfast staple 19. Warm the bench
11. Free time 8. Traditional 20. First name in exiles
13. Stimulus literature 22. Commando
packager? 10. Stagger ___ (1959 excursions
14. A Ford Lloyd Price chart- 26. Bedside pitcher
18. No guarantees topper) 28. Many texters
21. I'm full, 12. ___ ear, and out 30. Vice president under
thanks the other. LBJ
22. One of two in 15. JFK predecessor 31. Duke Ellington's
an English horn 16. Baseall Hall-of- monogram
23. L'Apres ___ Famer Roush 32. Head Turner, until
d'un faune the mid-70s
24. Of sight
25. Oh, How ___
to Get Up in the
Morning
27. Socked away
29. The second
person
31. Kuwaiti royal
33. Graze,
perhaps
34. D'Artagnan
companion
*** DOWN ***
1. Net supporter
2. Labor gp. that
merged with the
AFL in 1955
3. Ceremonial
"yes"

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 19
1. Defiant
behavior *** DOWN *** 23. Word after hot or
3. Luther 2. Clamorous lightning
contemporary 3. Sci-fi ability 24. Act like a sponge
5. Just ___! ("Not 4. Having feelings 25. Military enemy
so fast!") 5. Big name on lanes? 27. Thurman whose
6. Show grief 7. Drug mogul Lilly middle name is Karuna
8. Sign up for, as 9. Abbr. on a VCR 28. Real estate papers
a contest button 29. Pittsburgh-to-NYC
10. Go bankrupt 11. Louisville Slugger direction
12. Leaves out wood 32. Place to watch C.F.L
14. Guinness, for 12. Put one's foot and N.H.L games
one down
15. Electroplated, 13. Try to find
in a way 16. Flo Rida medium
17. Choses 18. 151 in Rome
19. Darn tootin
20. The Simpsons
character who
debuted in "The
Telltale Head"
episode
21. Mix or Cruise
22. Pissedness
25. Extra weight
26. Be unsure
28. Miami's
county
30. Admiral
Zumwalt
31. JFK
guesstimate
33. Standing
order?
34. Rooster in a
picture
35. Euripides
tragedy

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 20
2. Back in the day
6. ___ Cup (1996 4. Runway model's 23. Peripheral areas
Kevin Costner specification, perhaps 26. Doonesbury
movie) 5. Scrapped presidential candidate
9. Global conflict 6. Waiters' rewards 27. It's tested to
10. End of a 7. Out to lunch, say determine paternal
British sequence 8. Matthew, Mark, lineage
11. Character on Luke, or John 28. Ore-refining residue
"M*A*S*H" 14. White ___, New 29. Shoot-out directive
12. It borders It. Mexico 31. Wee dram
13. Chosen ones? 15. TV trophies
15. The Elements 16. Doorway, e.g.
of Style coauthor 17. Annoys
17. __ fallen 20. Verbal
and... impoliteness
18. __ de guerre 21. Deceives
19. Rocky top 22. Wordsworth's
20. Auld land "We ___ Seven"
24. Rely on
25. With a
melancholy mien
28. Certain body
type
30. RR stop
32. Suffragist ___
Husted Harper

33.

Announcement
from the cockpit,
for short
34. Pai ___
(gambling game)

*** DOWN ***
1. Ingredient in
synthetic rubber
2. Like bock beer
3. Man-___

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 21
1. Darn that rip
3. Conciliatory *** DOWN *** 19. Obtain with
gesture 1. Gather again difficulty
5. Convened 2. Eccentrics 21. Yo La Tengo co-
anew 3. Conjugation addition, founder Kaplan
8. Island guitar, often 22. Wallach or Whitney
informally 4. Looks after 24. Michigan State
10. Woman's 5. Most discourteous athlete
Constancy poet 6. Opry star's transport? 25. Coddled
John 7. Don't cry, it's OK 27. Puzzle with false
11. Sunny Day 9. Be over the top, while paths
Real Estate's acting 28. Long Bolivian river
musical genre 14. Tony winner 29. Response to "shall
12. Chauffeurs, between Shirley and Julie we?"
for example 16. Razzle-dazzle 31. Give permission
13. Snooker 18. Chekhov's "A 32. APB issuers
necessity Marriage Proposal," e.g.
15. J.D. holder
16. Beginning to
grow?
17. Pep rally cry
20. ___ was going
to St. Ives...
23. Stair part
26. Daughter of
Muhammad
30. Soundless
communication
syst.
32. Word with pie
or hole
33. Herding dog
breed, familiarly
34. __ Park,
Colorado
35. Major stars

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4. Dealer in hot
stuff 4. Got stage fright 19. Grammy-winning
5. Body shape of 6. Forwarded country singer Ronnie
the hip-heavy 7. Lumber 20. Lili actor Ferrer
6. Basted 8. Bridgetown is its 22. Insurance company
9. Freezer bag capital named for a smoker?
name 10. Who wants 26. He played Ponch on
11. Tested the another beer? reply "CHiPs"
Avro Arrow, e.g. 12. Screen legend 28. Pack to the future?
13. The Lady or Dunne 30. The Racer's Edge
the __ 15. Ship's record 31. Sandra or Ruby
14. Blast-from- 16. Don't judge a 32. Monitor
the-past song book by ___ cover
18. Woodhouse in 17. Man on the move
fiction 18. Old world
21. Repeated role battleground, briefly
for Keanu
22. Turkish
potentates
23. Made a bow
24. Chihuahua
chicken
25. ____ Haute
27. Double
29. Calm waters
site
31. Actor Powell
33. Tending to
business
34. For those
watching their
weight
*** DOWN ***
1. Retirement
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2. Big boys?
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1. Negotiates a
puddle embrace in Arizona band
3. Extraordinary town (7) 12. Double-talkers
talents, briefly 35. Give me an 13. Comic Coca
5. Aching example, smarty! 16. ___Newton
6. List- *** DOWN *** 18. It's made fresh every
condensing abbr. 2. I __ by the old morning
8. A species of clock on the wall... 23. ___ moment's
poplar. 3. Campaign pro notice
10. ___ May 4. More lowdown 24. Describing a
Clampett 5. Pronoun for any peacenik
("Beverly of the long entries 25. Phantom-playing
Hillbillies" 7. Owner of the Herbert
daughter) TechCrunch blog 27. Zamboni milieu
12. Pass a law 9. US equivalent of 28. The Red -of
14. Road for a CBC Radio (abbr.) Courage
Roman 11. Summer Girls boy 29. Street, in Paris
15. To the extent 32. Bucolic expanse
that
17. Treasure
stasher
19. Wrinkle-faced
dog
20. TV oldie, "__
Ramsey"
21. CNN founder
Turner
22. Is in the past?
25. Corporate
tool
26. Belt, biblically
28. Tusker
30. Ovid's 1003
31. Growler
contents, at times
33. Duffer's
dilemma
34. Foolish

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2. Chemical
bonding attractor 3. Where to find 20. Spa offering
6. Obstacle to Charlotte (abbr.) 21. Scott novel
free speech 4. 1981 Neil 22. Draft dodger's kid,
9. Moving Diamond hit probably
machine part 5. Put one on top of 23. Libra follower
10. Cambridge another, as warm 26. Move, to a real
cathedral city clothing estate broker
11. Get over 6. Personal advisor 27. Particle that can
12. Feathered 7. Crystal ball? temporarily replace an
Australian 8. Prom gown electron
13. Legal pros accessory 28. Lobster kin
15. Strikers 14. Puts up, as a 29. Cut of meat
17. Gaggle portrait 31. Apple pie pro
formation 15. Actress Negri and
18. Lacking value others
19. Be in for 16. Clogs and pumps
20. Sally, to Billy 17. Precise
as Harry
24. Reds
25. Infamous ball
toucher of the
'00s
28. Car-
registration
datum
30. Radio
enthusiast
32. Ham-roll filler
33. Vintner's
prefix
34. Outlaw
*** DOWN ***
1. Get lost!, in
jargon
2. Chin stroker's
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1. The Fox and
the Grapes reciter 4. Character played by 21. William Phelps ___
3. Do one's part? Joan Collins on (creator of modern-day
5. Bluesy Bonnie "Batman" traffic laws)
8. PC program 5. Investigate again, 22. Alternative to LGA
10. City on the as a case 24. Bonus for frequent
Allegheny 6. '90s potable travellers
11. Pro __ (for 7. Captain's partner 25. Barkers' pitches
now) 9. Questions 27. One of the
12. Lay claim persistently Ponderosa boys
13. Enjoy 14. Play the part of 28. Chichi
sausages 16. Fair ___ (Shetland 29. Joule or ampere
15. Sooner sweater) 31. Head down?
16. Office holders 18. Stamp applied by 32. Dogpatch adjective
17. Nickelodeon mail handlers
dog 19. Org. that manages
20. New Jersey's retirement benefits
Fort ___
23. Wrap without
arms
26. Hockey great
___ Richard
30. Burrow
32. Grand piano
support
33. Bank
withdrawal?
34. Olympian's
quest
35. Final format
*** DOWN ***
1. Detached
2. Mice and men,
e.g.
3. Strasbourg's
region

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4. Nice for What
rapper 3. Something to do in 18. Site for three men in
5. Fruit salad slice a jump suit a tub?
6. Sum and 4. Wore out 19. Tangled
substance 6. National 20. Some TV hospital
9. Chameleon kin Geographic inserts sets
11. Name 7. Baghdad's ___ City 22. Animal stomachs
synonymous with 8. Small floor 26. Part of a lasso
magic covering 28. XXI tripled
13. It's no bull! 10. Remark when 30. Romney who
14. Live action going out? supposedly has never
role-playing types 12. Arena coup worked a day in her life
18. Small 15. Childcare writer 31. Be a bit off
Eurasian duck LeShan 32. OPEC nation (abbr.)
21. Ram's mate 16. Head-slapping
22. Bankroll utterance
23. Catherine wed 17. Fine-tune the
by Henry VIII program
24. Island in the
Taiwan Strait
25. Appalling
27. Scottish
seaport
29. A Chorus
Line finale
31. Can I borrow
___ of sugar?
33. Lay-thick
connector
34. ___ had a
secret love (Doris
Day lyric of
1953)
*** DOWN ***
1. Haberdashery
item
2. Final (abbr.)

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1. State of
openness 33. Battier, in Britain 16. The Fox and the
3. Mount 34. Wrestling variety Hound fox
Holyoke 35. Predicted 18. Airline once owned
graduates *** DOWN *** by Howard Hughes
5. Landing site 2. Kinglike? 23. Used chairs
6. Ink smear 3. Stop stalling 24. Where to buy wares
8. Tiny biters 4. Cloaks 25. Explosive
10. Belgium-to- 5. Con's opponent 27. Boy of the house
France river 7. Yiddish plaints 28. Lack of tact,
12. Sees no 9. Ship perhaps
alternative personification 29. Sculler's tool
14. Facebook 11. Three, to Tiberius 32. CD- ____
preference 12. Total disaster
15. Organic 13. Slot machine
fertilizer images
component
17. Purina's
partner
19. Cover for a
pot
20. Middling
mark
21. Obstacle to
some
negotiations
22. Pompeii
fallout
25. ___ Little
Tenderness (Otis
Redding song)
26. Porkfishes
28. Mexican
meower
30. Arduous
expedition
31. Caterer's
need, often

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 28
2. Laughter
syllable
6. UN rep.
9. On a date
10. Nine before
pi
11. Actress
Woodard of
"Primal Fear"
12. Small home?
13. Ending for
author or poet
15. Person likely
getting an ID
badge
17. Waking ___
Devine (1998
film)
18. Drive-thru
___
19. Koa-wood
chordophone
20. EPA
determination *** DOWN *** 17. Home in a tree
1. Game derived from 20. Chutney ingredients
24. Resembling a 500 rummy 21. Like it's always been
pack animal 2. Snit done
25. Kin of 3. Repetitive teaching 22. Glutton
crooner Robert
28. Express technique 23. Quotation, part
contempt 4. Classic three
30. Dispenser 5. Auditory sense 26. ___ Beach
with a spigot 6. Corn Belt hub (Operation Overlord
32. German 101 7. Choppers location)
word 8. 1997 movie slave 27. Covet
33. Fodder for a ship 28. Succumb to
mudder 14. ___ is everything! quicksand
34. Model 15. Home of the 29. Cut out
builder's need Lightning 31. Ezra follower (abbr.)
16. Radiate, as
confidence
30
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1. IHOP order,
often
3. Amt. of zinc,
say
5. Milan's La ___
8. Children of the
Albatross author
Anaïs
10. Some are
English and some
are French
11. Noon on a
sundial
12. Popcorn
leftovers
13. Microbrewery
brew
15. Small house?
16. Mount St.
Helens output
17. Merino mom
20. Fish malady
23. Gort of "The *** DOWN *** 18. Hoped-for safari sighting
Day the Earth 1. Afrin competitor 19. They cover their tracks:
Stood Still" 2. Made one's presence Abbr.
26. Donny or known, maybe 21. ___ Mine (1957 hit by
3. Community service The Platters)
Marie club 22. Short traffic warning
30. Swedish 4. Licorice-flavored 24. The New Testament's
carrier liqueur John, notably
32. News svc. 5. Separation into 25. Moderate red
founded in 1958 factions 27. O.T. book read at Purim
33. Tender words 6. Flying fee 28. His record of 75 goals in
for the boss? 7. Fliers' requests a year was just passed by
34. Greeting on a 9. Corral sound Lionel Messi
name tag
35. Basic 14. Geithner's 29. Indigo dye
successor as Treasury 31. One has one (abbr.)
secretary 32. Game with cards ranked
16. Et ___ 0-9

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 30
4. Prepare a roast
5. Erato's 3. Sylvester Stallone, 17. Source of rings for
instrument to fans frying
6. London Fog, 4. Graham who 18. Indian restaurant
e.g. invented Wite-Out bread
9. Punjab's 6. What Loretta's pa 19. Spring-like toy
colleague in mined 20. Crisis responder, for
comic strips 7. Pre-college exams, short
11. Pouch- for short 22. Ms. Abzug
cheeked critter 8. Put in the spotlight 26. E-mail often filtered
13. Rodeo rope 10. Title for Elizabeth out
14. Alacritous R. 28. Alpine region of
18. One billionth 12. Thanks from Austria
of one sixtieth of Sarkozy 30. Horror star Chaney
a min. 15. Handegg 31. Popular style of
21. Outlet from Waterfall river music
Atlanta, in brief 16. Disney Junior 32. Electric guitar
22. Troublesome viewer, typically loudener
child
23. _____ mater
24. Feet or hands,
e.g.
25. Gives for a
time
27. Triangle type
29. That's
disgusting!
31. Where Anna
met the king
33. Holy Roman
emperor

34.

Unsurpassable

*** DOWN ***
1. ___-pitch
2. Discouraging
word

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 31
1. Breathing
passages flouncy skirts 12. Had fears
3. Spider woman 34. Snoopy's ilk 13. Invest with authority
5. Sleuths, in 35. Rind removers 16. Of course!
slang *** DOWN *** 18. Bit of cream
6. Pull apart 2. Squander 23. Doubting Thomas's
8. Simple 3. Comb. form, in comment
machine aviation 24. North Sea structure
10. Mention in 4. Apache chief with 25. Jamaican fellow
support an Arizona county 27. Govt. grp. with a
12. Villa ___ named after him CryptoChallenge
(Italian landmark) 5. Showtime iPhone app
14. All-Star alternative, for short 28. Hoopster Shaq
slugger Brandon 7. ____ longa, vita 29. Caesar who wasn't
15. Born villain brevis an emperor
17. Some eye- 9. Sob story theme 32. Green lights
catching suits 11. Life __ cabaret
19. Pet Shop
Boys label
20. Naval officer
(abbr.)
21. Elec. usage
measure
22. Originator of
"The Weakest
Link"
25. Small thing of
its kind, briefly
26. Red Cross
visitor
28. Utterances
heard at fireworks
shows
30. Bard's
contraction
31. Shi'ite leader
___ Khan
33. Like some

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1. Mid-'70s
sitcom spinoff 28. Presage 15. City that's home to
2. Soon, to 29. Viking name the Eisenhower Library
Shelley 31. It might precede 17. Adult ed final?
3. Korean War "woo" on a valentine 18. Kwik-E-Mart owner
firearm *** ACROSS *** on "The Simpsons"
4. Popular pill 2. Legs, in slang 19. Opposite of SSW
5. Maroons, 6. Friday, for one 20. Took the prize
perhaps 9. Six-pointers 24. Flatter
6. Diploma 10. Baked Hawaiian 25. Common bowling
holder, informally dish ball material
7. C & W singer 11. Bolshevist big 28. Turn of the
Rimes shot millennium year
8. Childbirth 12. Clap: Abbr. 30. First gear
assistant 13. Wind dir. 32. Soccer mom's ride
14. In short 33. Brown shade
supply 34. Leno's letters
15. Sharp
16. Journey to
___ (former
"Sesame Street"
segment)
17. Difficult to
understand
20. Ripple
21. Police badges
22. One to
Therese
23. Basic
computer input
26. If music be
the food of love,
play on,/Give me
excess ___...:
Shakespeare
27. One of
OPEC's founding
nations

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 33
1. Against a thing,
in legalese 3. Victims of Cortez 24. Lively
3. ___ Lingus 4. Be free from worry 25. Best, at the
(Irish carrier) 5. Plant swellings skatepark
5. Do away with, 6. Excited 27. Reached Dulles
as a mistake 7. Cups that may be 28. ___ delighted!
8. Many a WSJ watching you? 29. TVs that Nipper
reader 9. Part player would endorse
10. Quick 14. Alimentary 31. Image-to-text
Internet message modicum conversion, briefly
11. Showroom? 16. Sniggler's prey 32. 1860s soldier,
12. Venue for 18. Conquer informally
"educacion" 19. Chief
13. Sun or sung prosecutors, for short
syllable 21. 4 o'clock drink at
15. It's history the Empress Hotel
16. Part of E.E.C. 22. High Priest of
17. Rehab Shiloh, in the Bible
afflictions
20. Omaha Beach
vessel
23. Gas meter,
for one
26. More
profound
30. Simba
32. Early General
Motors rival
33. Regional
34. Hurt like a
stubbed toe
35. Confidentially
*** DOWN ***
1. Shakespearean
feet
2. The ___
Falcon

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4. Hoped-for
reviews 2. Eccentric rotator 15. Entrepreneur's mag
5. Tinseltown's 3. Ala. neighbor 16. Justifier, in brief
Turner 4. Amounts charged 17. Apple of my eye, for
6. Quick job at 6. Word with spirit or example
the barbershop player 18. Dash, syllable-wise
9. Fudd and 7. Greek ruler of the 19. Use to excess
Gantry heavens 20. Poet's word
11. How clubs 8. Vehicle with a 22. ... ___ say so myself
may be served panel 26. Sunni, say
13. Early film star 10. Business 28. Sea-diving duck
Normand abbreviation used in 30. Pounds, e.g. (abbr.)
14. Ballroom Canada and Britain 31. Like bass notes
dance since the 12. ___ For Fears 32. Maple syrup, e.g.
'70s ("Everybody Wants
18. Busy sort to Rule the World"
21. Rural mail band)
letters
22. So-called
Italian desserts
23. Angers "with"
24. Twin of He-
Man
25. Pizarro
victims
27. Picked up
where one left off
29. El ___
31. Lascivious
longing
33. Work at "The
Globe and Mail",
e.g.
34. 1996 Green
Party candidate
*** DOWN ***
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1. Botanist who
arranged "On the 34. Woman of ill 13. French actress
Origin of repute Catherine
Species" to be 35. Edwards of "ER" 16. Cashless person's
published in the *** DOWN *** destination, perhaps
States 2. Corrupt pol's crime 18. Landing guess:
3. Sudden urge 3. Glass of "This Abbr.
5. Pre-Euro American Life" 23. Business periodical
payment 4. J.P. Morgan co. 24. Fry cook's need
6. California's based in Pittsburgh 25. Sign up in July?
Costa ___ 5. Director Besson 27. Argon or krypton
8. ¿Cómo está 7. Formal address 28. Embarrass
____? 9. Some batters, for 29. Supersonic carrier
10. Word on a short 32. 1940s jazz style
penny 11. Like one in a mil.
12. Used a scull 12. Ingredient in
14. Green egg some fat-free food
producers
15. Slow down
17. Small, as a
highway
19. Put two and
two together
20. Some USMA
grads
21. Truck nut?
22. Josh
25. If Roast Beef
Could Fly writer
26. High-yield
biodiesel source
28. Tots' basics
30. Black-and-
white cookie
31. The Super
Station
33. In one
package

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 36
2. Stirring about
6. A long time
___ in a galaxy
far, far away ...
9. Keats's "___
on Indolence"
10. No gentleman
11. Breads served
with hummus
12. Pulver's nav.
rank
13. Mayberry ___
15. Men's style
magazine
focusing on
"classic elegance"
named after a
term for a
womanizer
17. Man of old
Rome
18. Grass in a loft
19. Ugandan *** DOWN *** 16. Satie and Estrada
dictator Amin 1. Gets back to 17. End of Caesar's claim
20. __ double business? 20. Twice-as-good Defense
take 2. Bank no. Department?
24. Dodgers 3. It often follows 21. Haute ___
25. Observation, "Crash!" 22. The "D" of N.D.P. (abbr.)
part 3 4. Measure of a rock 23. Vatican figure
28. Rolls business band's power instrumental in saving Rome
partner 5. FBI leader? from Attila
30. Polit. label 6. It's a fine thing 26. Egyptian goddess of
32. ___ you see 7. La Scala fare nature
that?! 8. Possible reply to 27. Met tune
33. Hydrotherapy "Take out the 28. Gernreich who designed a
facility garbage, please" shocking bathing suit
34. Suffix with 14. Physical therapy, 29. Raise the roof
different or briefly 31. Silent Spring toxin
15. Ask away
deferent
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** ACROSS ** Crossword 37
1. Concert locale
3. Mannequin 3. Drives up the wall lolcats eating noise
part 4. Like Daedalus and 22. Russian-made
5. Fathometer's Icarus fighter
measure 5. Bob, who played 24. PTA center?
8. Brit. reference Gilligan 25. Rajiv's predecessor
work 6. Queue of hair as prime minister
10. Mr. Saturday 7. Breakfast dish 27. Bureau of
___ (Billy Crystal served with fresh Prohibition agent
film) fruit, often 28. Superior, the French
11. Third-Sunday- 9. Pops way
in-June honoree 14. Literary leftovers 29. ___a hand
12. Rural outing 16. Women and Love 31. Initials seen at a
13. Shoulder sexologist checkout counter
service org. 18. Wrecks 32. Most popular dog
15. Accrued amt. 19. Hot time in breed in America,
16. Stable staple France familiarly
17. On the __ 21. When repeated,
(escaping)
20. Carried item's
weight, it
sometimes feels
23. Octa- divided
by two
26. Ends
30. A in German
32. Gehrig
33. Sir Walter
Scott masterwork
34. Second- or
third-stringer
35. Dispersed
*** DOWN ***
1. Way to read
2. One like the
first

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4. Like bluegrass
singing 2. Doer's suffix 18. Pac-10 school,
5. Jeweler Lalique 3. The Two Towers briefly
6. Flying nuisance creature 19. ___ Adventures in
9. Kind of 4. Bright signs Wonderland
pathway or 6. Comestibles 20. Mo. or Miss.
network 7. Limerick's land, 22. Birds on Canadian
11. Conciliate literarily dollars
13. One making a 8. Equalities 26. Prima donnas'
bundle on the 10. Slimmer swimmer problems
farm? 12. Doonesbury 28. Addition to a
14. Closet character building
collection 15. ___ tree falls in 30. Monopoly quartet:
18. Holder of the forest ... Abbr.
groceries 16. Suffix in 31. ___ your head!
21. Ma that says chemistry 32. Electric guitar
"Maa!" 17. Saragossa sir pioneer Paul
22. Emit coherent
light
23. Et ____
24. Bluto bugged
her

25.

Actor/director
Davis
27. Desert-like
29. Burning
sensation
31. Modern
addresses, for
short
33. Ornate jug
34. Ticking status
symbol

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1. Mother Teresa,
e.g.

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 39
1. Leave moist
3. Not carrying "Marines' Hymn“ 18. Michaels and
5. Classic villain *** DOWN *** Hirschfeld
6. Face-to-face 2. Ersatz 23. Range of knowledge
type of exam 3. Dot-com datum 24. Zapping in the
8. Peak in W 4. Sailing ship "steps" microwave
Turkey 5. WWW access 25. 1970s polit. cause
10. Mosquito, to a 7. ___ Grecque 27. Number of birds
bat (made with olive oil) hidden in starred-clue
12. What first- 9. Pre-lunch hrs. answers
stringers do 11. Popular toast 28. Really enjoy, slangily
14. Debtors' 12. Taft's vice 29. Cape north of
notes president Boston
15. Sent by wire 13. Responsible 32. Men of arts and
17. Side by side 16. Science workshop, letters?: Abbr.
19. Driver's place for short
20. PA nuclear
accident site
21. Clichéd cheer
word
22. Kind of mask
or boot
25. Famous dying
words
26. I didn't do it
28. Sicilian
volcano
30. Car company
that makes the
Quattro
31. Shots in a
video game
33. Wickerwork
material
34. Forward and
"Believe in
America"
35. City in

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** ACROSS ** Crossword 40
2. Michael Collins
gp. 2. South Dakota 20. Pile of detritus
6. Biz boss neighbor 21. __ case (major issue)
9. Book jacket 3. Ready and willing 22. ___-jongg
blurb, often partner? 23. Knitted throws
10. Genetic inits. 4. Merry-___ 26. Tropical tree
11. Agape, maybe 5. Ignorant 27. Bumpy, like a potato
12. One of the 5 6. Gotti underling 28. Muscle woe
W's 7. Cyclone location 29. Leg attachment?
13. 2001 Michael 8. Drive to distraction 31. Ivanovic of tennis
Mann film 14. __ ghost (is
15. What this grid spooked)
is shaped like 15. Scout's badge
17. What a 16. Kicking ___ Pass
woodsman wields (Trans-Canada
18. Lux. location Highway section)
19. Bird in 17. Frankfurter cries
"Arabian Nights"
20. Screens
between rounds
of Words With
Friends, e.g.
24. Adolescent
25. Hey
28. Foolishly
imitative
30. % Daily Value
precursor
32. Med. research
org.
33. Rapper ___
Cudi
34. Ten
megacenturies
*** DOWN ***
1. Rifts

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1. Promo items
3. Wds. from the *** DOWN *** 19. What often comes
pulpit 1. Sashimi option after you
5. Super Bowl 2. Many modern-day 21. It borders Fla.
XIV loser pirates 22. Gardner of
8. Fiat model 3. Stiffening stuff "Mogambo"
10. John, Paul, 4. Pullman innovation 24. More muddled
George and 5. Loan shark, e.g. 25. Deny
Ringo, e.g. 6. TV-viewers' needs 27. Thesaurus wds.
11. Constellation 7. Score supporter 28. Bear's advice
next to Scorpius 9. Bradley and Epps 29. Basis for a suit
12. Early French 14. Beverly Hills Cop 31. Teammate of Kobe
pioneer in the ___ 32. It's mostly a
United States 16. Kentucky Derby peninsula: Abbr.
13. Behavioral entrant, usually
quirk 18. Clear plastics
15. Cold stuff, in
Germany
16. Letterman's
employer
17. Use a divan
20. Pastoral
expanse
23. Laugh-In host
26. Easy to
influence
30. Composer
Harburg
32. Mrs. Sprat's
diet
33. Eponym for
our continent
34. One place to
find sweaters
35. Sense
something's amis

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4. Macintosh logo
5. I love him like 3. Capture 18. Georgia, before
___ 4. Gentlemen Prefer 1991 (abbr.)
6. Ambulance Blondes writer Loos 19. Relax, and that's an
pros 6. Blues songstress order!
9. Kevin Costner James 20. Road furrow
golf movie 7. Real estate measure 22. Holiness
11. Tablet 8. Without a leader 26. Famous La Rue
13. Old, 10. Wedding-vow 28. Florence's land
informally words 30. Pussy foot?
14. Blue Bonnet 12. Brief message 31. Group of shrinks
and Chiffon read by one's 32. Their users have
18. Wrapped followers handles
raiment 15. Great guitarist
21. Fair-hiring Paul
initials 16. Many times,
22. You there! poetically
23. Earlobe 17. Hard-___ (tough)
adornment
24. King Minos's
birthplace, in
Greek mythology
25. Flip-chart
support
27. Enjoyed, as a
restaurant
29. Bad-mouth
31. Kind of
criminal
33. Ella
contemporary
34. Orange-
yellowish
*** DOWN ***
1. It retains water
2. Sounds during
a massage

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1. Changed rules
for developing
3. Choice ticket
5. Wendy
Darling's dog
6. Applies hair
color
8. Speck in the
water
10. Okinawa city
12. Create fear
14. Former court
rival of Jimmy
15. Quarter
grooves
17. Highly
respected
19. Texas Rangers
manager
Washington
20. Connection
standard for a PC
21. Jump-starting 33. Guard 12. Clings
org. 34. Accept a 13. Orchestral
22. Prescott-to- humiliating defeat percussion
Phoenix dir. 35. Traveler's rest 16. Suffix with Caesar
25. Slugger *** DOWN *** 18. Begley and Sullivan
Moises 23. Game, ___, match!
26. First- 2. Japanese port city 24. Like Uzbek or
generation 3. Pellets Kyrgyz
Japanese- 4. Legislative 25. Landers of letters
American meetings 27. RBI fly
28. Garden 5. Chaucer's Prioress, 28. Cuts with notches
walkway for one 29. You there?
30. Winning 7. Flightless 32. Don't hesitate!
Australian bird
margin for a 9. Day of the week
pacer 2013 will begin: Abbr.
31. Tim Kaine's 11. Scot's yes
grp.
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2. Org. named on
toothpaste tubes
6. Phi Beta
Kappa concern
(abbr.)
9. Very
interesting...
10. One with a
big head?
11. Deprive of
weapons
12. Money at
stake
13. Season in
Bordeaux
15. Wail
17. Girl of song
18. Post-it note
abbr.
19. Sacred
receptacle
20. Child expert *** DOWN ***
LeShan 16. Correct a mistake
24. 1957 Little 1. Can it! 17. Distort, as survey
Richard hit 2. Scope or range results
25. Bureaucratic 3. Interrupting word 20. Highest Himalaya
stumbling block 4. 1984 Best Picture 21. Truman Cabinet
28. Cheddar 5. Winter transport with member
a sail 22. Deli order
cousin 6. Lady's counterpart 23. A Raisin in the Sun
30. Cos's 7. Diagnosis common actress
reciprocal among bulldogs 26. Schoolroom
32. Fed. trade 8. ___ gland furniture
agency (epinephrine producer) 27. Yankee, e.g.
33. Cassis-and- 14. Hotel lobby 28. Turn up jauntily
wine cocktail furniture 29. Emulate Shylock
34. Put on the 15. Archangel, or a 31. Massenet's "Le ___"
canvas, for short poem by Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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1. Rocky debris
3. Breathalyzers 3. One who commits 22. Food for the
measure it (abbr.) verbal assault toothless
5. Disco 4. Conversing 24. Sporting a halo
nightclub 5. Rocky Mountain 25. VIP in Egypt's
8. Cleo biter sights history
10. Site of many 6. Unable to stray far 27. Arizona river
Goyas from one's master, 28. Big name in high-
11. SAE, e.g. perhaps end headphones
12. Pigged out 7. Alert 29. Tree growth
13. Poetic 9. Ancient Brits 31. Howard's ___
"previously" 14. Notes before mis (Oscar winner of 1992)
15. Loser to 16. Cornfield measure 32. It's either positive or
DDE in '52 18. Pulls back from negative
16. Onager an attack
17. Spring 19. Smartness stats
forward, fall back 21. Golden, to
period (abbr.) Gaston
20. Stop signal
23. Seismology
subject
26. Mad Men
surname
30. '50s politico
32. ___ little
confused ...
33. Christmas
bread
34. Make part of
the mix
35. Vehicle on
Boston's Green
Line
*** DOWN ***
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moccasin
2. Deep green

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4. Rank for "Hot
Lips" *** DOWN *** 16. Actor's aid
5. Result of 1. Keg filler 17. Savory jelly
brainstorming, at 2. Least manic 18. Trojan, for one
times "Dancing With the 19. 1974 Top 10 hit
6. Extremely Stars" judge whose title means "It is
bright 3. Fleur-de-___ you"
9. Project Purple 4. Harry Potter's 20. Peeples of "Walker,
product with a study Texas Ranger"
2007 debut 6. Swedish turnip 22. Search party
11. Lab course? 7. Former Surgeon 26. Collapsible shelter
13. 1/2 of a 60's General C. Everett 28. Writer Jong
quartet 8. Munitions 30. M.Sgt., e.g.
14. Watchdog gr.? collections 31. ___ Money (2008 Lil
18. Radio station 10. Black-eyed ___ Wayne hit)
in a 1990s AMC 12. Refinement 32. Even only one
series 15. Its sequel was
21. Tony Ayesha
Gonzalez and
Jason Witten of
the NFL: Abbr.
22. Townsend of
rock
23. Verdi melody
24. He's ___
nowhere man...
(Beatles)
25. Snap
27. Makes like a
siren
29. Au courant
31. Blame bearer
33. Capt. Hook's
stalker
34. Staircase
(Ital.)

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1. What tongues
detect *** DOWN *** 16. Gorcey or Durocher
3. Canada and 2. Cancels 18. Forrest role
Cameroon 3. End for beat or 23. Music video setting
5. Former soldier peace for Olivia Newton-
6. Weightiness 4. Firestarter John's "Physical"
8. Chou of China 5. Best possible 24. South Park mother
10. Prepares to go ending? of Ike and Kyle
home, with "up" 7. ___-Tzu (Chinese 25. Many a Keats poem
12. Gallows need philosopher) 27. ___ soon! ("Don't
14. Robe for a 9. Taxpayer's shelter, go there")
Roman for short 28. Art photo tint
15. Abelard's love 11. It might flow in 29. Hot tub with jets
17. Silvery metallic bars 32. You're not allowed
rare earth element 12. Annoying little on the couch, Fido!
19. Tigger's pal biter
20. Geno Smith, 13. What heirs split
notably
21. AAU member
22. Car starter:
Abbr.
25. Symphony
performers (abbr.)
26. Tales of the
Titans
28. ___ Club
(Costco
competitor)
30. Iso-
31. Hollywood
Squares victory
33. Dome-shaped
roof structure
34. Leading
35. What the stars
known as Pointers
point to

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