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2014-01

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Puzzle #1
Across
1. Pickling herb
5. Anatomical passage
9. Effervescent beverages
14. Feverish chill
15. Yarborough high card
16. Jong or Kane
17. Famous forest denizen
19. Compound in fireworks
20. Bard's preposition
21. Colonel's insignia
22. One more than tri-
23. Start of a carol's refrain
24. Long oar
26. Venerate
29. One might be chronic
30. Historic period
33. Navy and coffee
34. Loose, as jeans
35. Dandy lead-in
36. It has a low pH
37. Plum puckered out?
38. Puppy follower?
39. Little shaver
40. Bullets
41. ''Laughing Out Loud'' Down
storyteller Myron 1. Draw a line in the 18. Becomes imminent 41. Provide food,
42. Terrorized street of film sand, perhaps 23. Discovery uptown
43. Word on a button, 2. Assistant with a 25. Pet store purchase 44. Bother continually
sometimes hunch? 46. Make baskets, e.g.
26. Diminish in
44. Frequent hangouts 3. Auto service job intensity 47. Nasal complaint
45. Inundated 4. Muumuu accessory 27. Graphic transfer 48. It may need
47. Coiner of the term 5. Doctor's request 28. Love of 17-Across stitches
''horsepower'' 6. Texas hometown of 49. Norwegian Nobel
29. Gag reflex?
48. Bridge maven Charles Gene Autry Institute locale
31. Steel fastener
50. Fall color (Var.) 7. Hydroxyl compound 51. Hudson Bay tribe
32. Endorsements in
52. Place name with Claro or 8. Does an interior church 52. Rich man in ''Rich
Cuarto decorator's job Man, Poor Man''
34. Disdainful
55. From Tibet or Taiwan 9. Tenth of a rejections 53. One found on a
56. Compatriot of 17-Across millennium 37. Desirable addition computer screen or
58. ''Amistad'' extra 10. Corbeled bay 38. Vulgarian movie screen
59. Swampy bogs window 40. Traversed 54. Creole cuisine
60. Polecat's trademark 11. Compatriot of staple
61. Refined, as skills 17-Across 57. The piper's son
62. Bishoprics 12. Super server
63. Starling family mimic 13. Teasdale of poetry

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Puzzle #2
Across
1. Take great pleasure (in)
5. Longtime Southern senator
9. Diplomat
14. Newsman Colmes
15. "Dies __"
16. "Common Sense" author
17. Refine
18. Retreat
19. Brown and others
20. Start of a quip
23. They're not straight up
24. Delighted cry
25. They travel a long way to
get here
26. Quip, part 2
31. Congo, formerly
34. Notched, as a leaf
35. Hosp. areas
36. "The Lord of the Rings"
creatures
37. Quip, part 3
38. Actress Swenson
39. Supporting cheer
40. Oil source
42. One who peeps, perhaps Down
43. Quip, part 4
1. Mideast religion that 21. Marriage, for one 41. Basic music system
45. Calendar abbr. preaches equality 22. Does yard work 42. Avoid
46. Phone sequence 2. On the wing 26. Sandwich order 44. Corsair and Pacer
47. Attacks suddenly 3. One with a pole words 45. Arm-raising events
51. End of the quip position? 27. Observe 47. Period
55. IM user 4. Church accessories 28. Taboo 48. Cringe
56. Some nest eggs 5. Spring bloomers 29. It may lead to a 49. __ Gay
57. Unaccounted for, in a way 6. Some degree conclusion 50. Three-time French
58. Quartet part requirements 30. Pronto Open champ
59. Sleeveless garment 7. Follow 31. Speed (by) 51. Seethe
60. Graphic starter 8. Actress Polo 32. 1968 self-titled folk 52. Weena's race, in a
61. Elite group 9. Serial part album Wells novel
62. Stretches (out) 10. Arizona native 33. Bakery worker 53. Jackknife, for one
63. Historic times 11. Grandfather clock 34. Airline since 1948 54. Long haul
number 38. Swamp 55. Actress Gardner
12. Linear 40. Curse
13. Unambiguous
response

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Puzzle #3
Across
1. Touch of acrimony
5. Shakespearean ''Bummer!''
9. Move powerlessly
14. Prepare for an exam
15. Monologist after the news
16. Kukla and Fran's pal
17. A POUND here . . .
20. Admits customers
21. Beetle Bailey's pal
22. Big bang letters
23. They get rolled
26. Play the part
27. Kind of burglar
30. . . . and a POUND here . . .
36. ''Baby Baby'' singer, 1991
38. Light weapon?
39. Bound along
40. Team racing event
43. Huge amount
44. Half the integers
46. Artwork overlays
48. . . . and a POUND here . . .
51. AARP members
52. Logger's tool
53. Right-angled shapes Down
55. Supplement 1. Off-the-wall answer? 24. Big shot of industry 49. WWII power
58. Goats' progeny 2. Release 25. Coastal flyer 50. More than popular
60. Little cases 3. Ready and willing 27. Spy in Canaan 54. Bed or home
64. . . . and a POUND here 4. Make changes 28. ''Don't make ___!'' attachment
68. Lake rental, often 5. Sitcom alien (''Freeze!'') 55. Basics
69. Move like molasses 6. Bandleader Brown 29. Competitive and 56. ''Phooey!''
70. Loads 7. 1998 animated film intense 57. Eat in style
71. Beef source 8. Not happy with 31. Ayn Rand shrugger 59. Rectangular boat
72. Chang, to Eng 9. Prairie dwellers 32. Biggest bear, of 61. ''Do ___ others . .
73. Finished 10. Like something three .''
from the Jurassic 33. Brief final remarks? 62. Desktop image
period 34. Moray trapper 63. Last word of the
11. Zillions 35. Lock that cannot year?
12. Apply one's John be opened 65. Digit
Hancock 37. Squire 66. Israeli machine gun
13. Microphone word 41. Tooth woe 67. Toon Chihuahua
18. Willow for wicker 42. Sidelines cheer
19. St. Louis landmark 45. Less sound
47. 10th U.S. president

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Puzzle #4
Across
1. Some pub patrons
6. Bean town?
10. Room online
14. Doctor-turned-wordsmith
15. River through Opole
16. Quasimodo's creator
17. Public persona
18. ''Be happy!'' front
20. Happened upon
21. Projectionist's unit
23. City on the Trinity River
24. Anti or semi, e.g.
26. Turtle cover
28. Came down to earth
30. Daughter of Tethys, in myth
34. ''Spoil the child'' front
38. Mine piece
39. Glossary entry
40. Genetic letters
41. State with conviction
42. Catchall abbr.
43. ''Three's a crowd'' front
47. Capital near the Caspian
49. Chronological brinks
50. Honey badger Down
52. It arrives before midnight 1. Pinch into folds 22. One way out 45. No longer in love
56. Confront boldly 2. Dinger or tater 25. Place in an Orwell with
59. Beginning for dynamic or 3. Colored marble title 46. Lilting
space 4. Cribbage marker 27. Roman lyric poet 48. Ate away
61. Hail from the past 5. Clinically clean 29. Seat of kings 51. Souper-upper?
62. ''Warm heart'' front 6. Mother ___ 31. Unstable star 53. Weathercocks
64. Jutlanders, e.g. 7. Sacred cows? 32. Hemoglobin 54. Tennis Hall of
66. Grimace 8. What boys will be component Famer
67. ''Atlas Shrugged'' hero 9. Popular design style 33. Moist, as grass in 55. Puts one within
68. Lethargic of the 1920s the morning another
69. Scratched (out) 10. Spiny, treelike 34. Proofer's 56. Vertex
70. It's pointless in the Olympics cactus ''nevermind'' 57. Kenai Peninsula
71. Selects the dramatis 11. Make one's pitch? 35. Name used in inlet
personnae 12. Uttar Pradesh city exclamations 58. Crossword puzzle?
13. Kiddie litter? 36. Place for a 60. Italy's Villa d'___
keystone 63. Count a few sheep
19. Beat on
37. The two for none 65. Santa ___ winds
41. Church recess
43. Vandalize
44. Power supply

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Puzzle #5
Across
1. Char on the grill
5. Indian princes (Var.)
10. Neatnik's nightmare
14. Dance at the luau
15. Skip the big wedding
16. Prefix with dynamic
17. Take ___ (acknowledge
applause)
18. Humble
19. Environmentalist's concern
20. Techie's lament, Part I
23. ''Unhand me!''
24. Like composition paper
27. End to be attained
30. Skyline feature, perhaps
32. Warbucks cohort
35. More of the lament, Part II
37. Oft-told tales
39. It has arms and waves
40. Part of TVA
41. Part III of the lament
43. Cheer start
44. Gives up, as an office
45. Make an impression?
48. Blow up Down
49. Oktoberfest dance 1. ''We ___ Overcome'' 21. Wine and dine 42. Miss Kett
53. End of the lament 2. James Hubert 22. Zeno's home 46. Bean counter, for
59. Red giant now broken up Blake's nickname 25. Kate Nelligan film short
61. Kitchen draw 3. Drifting above 26. Bruce and Laura 47. Lincolnesque
62. Grayish yellow 4. Nog ingredient 28. Love, Italian style adjective
63. Chase off 5. Move, in realtor's 29. Van Pelt and 50. Saint ___ (isle S of
64. Send money lingo Ricardo Martinique)
65. Famous twins' birthplace 6. Moises of baseball 30. Classic 1953 51. Gold standard
66. Rightfully deserve 7. Nixon facial feature Western 52. Reunion folks
67. Some are deciduous 8. Impersonated 31. Palindromist's 54. Sewer's tuck
68. Makes lacework, in a way 9. Kosovo native dogma 55. Llano rarity
10. Cheeky, to the max 32. Full of life? 56. Visitor's opponent
11. Some baked 33. To date 57. Give off
goodies 34. Forerunner 58. Calculating subject
12. Oaxaca gold 36. Executive letters 59. Employ
13. Quagmire 38. Former first lady, 60. ''___ Na Na'' ('70s
somewhere musical series)

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Puzzle #6
Across
1. Not fancy at all
5. Flora's partner
10. "The Te of Piglet" author
14. Where billions are
15. Loathe
16. Singing brothers
17. Assures, in slang
18. Cyberspace biggie
19. Place
20. Just to have a good time
23. Lost
24. Group with lots of hits
25. Pi follower
27. Museum piece
31. "Twister" event
38. Penn, for one
39. Eat away
40. Newcomer's subj.
41. Feature of the simplest path
46. Tedium
47. Make lace
48. Catches
53. Advisory group
57. One is hidden in 20-, 31-
and 41-Across Down
59. Pennsylvania's fourth largest 1. Israeli port 22. Nina of "Spartacus" 44. Popular cologne
city
2. Race place 26. River to the Baltic 45. Reduce to fine
61. Disputed subject particles
3. Parts of some cakes 28. It means nothing
62. Data to René 49. Jung's inner
4. Onetime American
63. Rash treatment competitor 29. Etched: Abbr. personality
64. Hot dogs and hamburgers 5. Oldtime actress Alice 30. Flirt with obviously 50. Slopes
65. Puzzle pair 6. Toward the stern 31. Four-point H, e.g. 51. Common college
66. Druid, for one 7. "Sure" 32. Hot spot admission requirement
67. Up to now 8. Nary a soul 33. "Sleepless in 52. "On the Beach"
68. Messes up 9. "__ with a View" Seattle" costar author
10. Flounder kin 34. Hematite, e.g. 54. Baseball's
35. Main message? Doubleday
11. Exclude
36. Mean Amin 55. Allude (to)
12. Charge
37. Daring exploit 56. Refuse
13. The Seminoles'
sch. 42. Questionable 57. Window part
21. Sounds of mirth 43. Ike's ex 58. Robin's digs
59. And so on: Abbr.
60. Scottish explorer
John

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Puzzle #7
Across
1. Locked, maybe
5. R&B family name
10. Noted garden denizen
14. South-of-the-border dough
15. Disembarking sites
16. Knucklehead
17. Start of a quip
20. Plastic indulgence?
21. Fury
22. Dating word
23. Deity worshiped by
Canaanites
25. Mob figures
26. Quip, part 2
31. Overbearing sort
32. H.S. proficiency test
33. Bronze mil. medals
37. Air density symbol
38. Nervous ones
41. Debtor's letters
42. Only player with three
60-homer seasons
44. At birth
45. Squawking group
47. Quip, part 3 Down
50. Relaxed
1. 1974 19. It's activated by 46. Goon
53. Hipparchus, e.g.: Abbr. Gould/Sutherland film clicking 48. One logging in
54. "Beauty and the Beast" 2. Friend of Micawber, 24. Ristorante order 49. Conniption
heroine in "David Copperfield" 25. Barrio stores 50. "The Name of the
55. Write 3. Soyuz launcher 26. Mtg. halls Rose" role
57. Some political hirees 4. Satchel relative 27. Sunshine cracker 51. Hard to see, maybe
61. End of the quip 5. Wall St. news 28. Slaughter of 52. Mischievous
64. "Come __!" 6. Where Syracuse is baseball 55. Zoologist Goodall
65. "Delta of Venus" author Nin 7. Father of Regan 29. Place for a lace 56. "The Good Earth"
66. Yahoo 8. Fish-eating flier 30. Twice tre heroine
67. North Sea feeder 9. Fashion monogram 34. A coach might flash 58. Screen __
68. Bedouin homes 10. Gave notice (of) one 59. Adequate, slangily
69. Canine communication 11. Active sorts 35. Vassar, e.g.: Abbr. 60. York and Preston:
12. Rapidly 36. Chop __ Abbr.
13. Arizona landscape 39. Natural necklace 62. Magician's prop
features 40. Some mall temps 63. Moron
18. Dueler's choice 43. Algae eater

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Puzzle #8
Across
1. Vanderbilt and Carter
5. Mink relative
10. Judge Bean's decision,
reputedly
14. Milne bear
15. Verify
16. ___ about (prosecutor's
phrase)
17. Strong reaction
18. Persian fairies
19. Spaniard's other
20. 1962 Burt Lancaster film?
23. Warner ___
24. Remove from the crate
25. Eugene O'Neill play?
30. Start of Ed McMahon's
famous intro
31. Fancy Japanese porcelain
32. Shore avian
35. Lets it be known
36. Flexible Flyers
37. Dundee dagger
38. Org. that sticks to its guns?
39. TV's Jock
40. Top reason for traffic jams
Down
41. Carpenters hit?
1. What 4 may mean 21. Medicos 40. Foot curve
43. It follows sex
(Abbr.) 22. Side in a debate 41. Topped out
46. Linen color, perhaps
2. Ancient Dead Sea 25. Word used in 42. Nerve
47. "Ramblin' Man" singers? kingdom comparisons 43. Chance for a hit
52. Strike on the head, in 3. He said "It ain't over 26. Apparent relative? 44. Conversation
cartoons till it's over" 27. Eyelashes piece?
53. "___ my case" 4. Some fortified wines 28. Future signs 45. Pasta variety
54. Some is third class 5. Side against 29. Sinclair in "Coming 48. Hillside in the
56. Frank, diarist of 1944 6. Unclean, by Jewish To America" Highlands
57. Referring to birth law 32. VIP's following 49. Nerve network
58. Breakfast staple 7. Said three times, a 33. Vintage vehicles 50. Mama bears, in
59. Prepared to drive? 1970 movie Mexico
34. Word with love or
60. They travel in formation 8. Blackhearted empty 51. Highway sight
61. Thrill, slangily 9. Firemen, often 36. Sign of an injury 55. Dropped drug
10. Hot booze (Var.) 37. Noted Motown trio
11. Bone cavities 39. Carrier to the Holy
12. Dunn and Ephron Land
13. Eat like a heifer

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Puzzle #9
Across
1. Word with French or English
5. ''You ___ Beautiful'' (Cocker
hit)
10. Cathedral protuberance
14. Little pat on your buns?
15. Hub of India
16. Gift line
17. Sight from a fjord
18. Poet Nash
19. T-Men, e.g.
20. Insincere ladies' men
23. Indeterminate number
24. Change course suddenly
25. Cowardly flees the scene
28. Sibilant summons
29. ''A Raisin in the Sun'' actress
31. $10 gold piece
34. Give-go links
35. Golf's Baker-Finch
36. Pickup line deliverers,
perhaps
41. Parson bird
42. Hullabaloo
43. Word with charlotte or Ballet
44. Actress Getty Down
47. Dent slightly
1. Foofaraw 22. Flow partner 45. Eats away at, as
49. Breeds, as livestock support
2. Acting twins 26. Norman and
50. Sacred Hindu writings Edward 46. Shaq's college
3. Pass along
51. Vigor partner 27. It's good when 47. Computer
4. Jordanian queen
54. Some social parasites common command
5. Sun-dried bricks
58. Frame of mind 28. Middle Eastern org. 48. Cry of
6. Lament
60. In captivity, in a way 29. Rd. map line, accomplishment
7. Kind of statesman
61. Type of test perhaps 50. Where the hits are
8. NL park
62. Jim-dandy 30. Middle Eastern counted
9. Babe's greeting?
63. Violinmaker Nicolo org., once 51. Sound heard at
10. Free-for-all
64. Salmon variety 31. Fragrant organic Indy
11. Spanish forts
65. Fawning females? compound 52. Potato variety
12. Nursery offering
66. It's a plus 32. Tell good jokes, 53. What we opened
13. Abbr. on an
67. Med. care providers e.g. before we had
ambulance
33. Refuse help Windows
21. Couch potato's
34. Wall St. offering 55. Some ESPN
focus
37. Holbrook or Prince coverage
38. Poem of devotion 56. Grable's trademark
39. Classic TV's 57. Part of a foot
Ricardo 58. Like King George
40. Kind of boat III
59. Tic-tac-toe winner

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Puzzle #10
Across
1. Alley score
6. Organization's symbol
10. ''Get on it!''
14. Battle lineup
15. Humorous Bombeck
16. ''Queen of Country''
McEntire
17. Farmer's windfall
19. Niger neighbor
20. One counterpart
21. Soft-shell clam
23. ''Cover ___ Face'' (P.D.
James mystery)
24. Separable snack
26. Up there, say
27. Reliable teammate
32. Insect repellent?
35. Heavenly bear
36. English I reading
37. Word with garden or power
38. Kaline and Gore
39. ''Zounds!''
40. Would-be chicks
41. Mongolian desert
43. Hightails it Down
45. Cyclist's slacks
1. Region of Malaysia 22. Noted first name in 43. Certain ceremonial
48. Wharf pest in northeastern Borneo jazz occasion
49. ''Here I am!'' 2. Trim limbs 25. Visionary? 44. Studied hard and
50. Cry partner 3. Knight's wear 27. Cartoon frame fast
53. Fabled djinni master 4. Like a fan during 28. ''48 ___'' (Nolte- 46. Deeply devoted
57. Leftover amount overtime Murphy film) 47. ''Over the
59. Inviting word 5. Feature of some 29. Meditative Rainbow'' composer
60. Nonstop talker doors discipline Arlen
62. Needing more time? 6. Kind of agent or 30. Cheese type 50. Visit frequently
63. Indigo source ballot 31. Rhode Island fowls 51. Solve a knotty
64. ''Sesame Street'' character 7. Show fallibility 32. Cry from a tickled problem?
65. E-mailed, e.g. 8. Half of an old radio person 52. Outer space
66. It's what's on one's mind duo 33. Shoreline 53. They may be split
sometimes 9. They're off during irregularity in Vegas
67. Library stamp takeoff 34. It has shoulders 54. All-conquering
10. Naval force but no head thing
11. Coal line 38. ___ Dhabi 55. ''My feelings
12. Up to the challenge 39. Triage sites, briefly exactly!''
13. Two of a kind 41. Pleased as punch 56. Verboten thing
18. Second or third 42. Most favorable 58. ''Saturday Night
showing, e.g. Live'' alum Dunn
61. Oaxaca aunt

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Puzzle #11
Across
1. Imitative sort
6. Shoulder, as a burden
10. Swedish speedster
14. Expo site, 1970
15. First name from ''Laugh-In''
16. Boxer's fare, perhaps
17. Take in
18. Fish to fiddle with?
20. It separates seeds
21. C.S.A. Gen. Robert
23. Flowers in a Poitier film title
24. Quad antecedents
26. Point at the table?
27. Word with onion or
friendship
28. Surety
32. You may get these in the
long run?
34. ''Seinfeld'' character
35. Man-mouse link
36. Calm and relaxed
37. Men of learning, e.g.
38. Irritated condition
39. Bark up the wrong tree
40. Measure of dignity Down
41. Pertaining to birth
1. Plaintive sounds 19. Varieties 40. Fire engine feature
42. Endowed with feeling
2. Land in the sea 22. Birler's base 41. Round-the-clock
44. Trouble-making Norse god
3. Bugler's high point? 25. Capital of 43. Jams or links
45. Cholers Cambodia?
4. Likable candidate of 44. Part of a jack-in-
46. Subcompact's smaller kin the past 26. Fit and trim the-box
49. Maintenance costs 5. Drives recklessly 28. Sire, biblically 46. Their actions speak
52. Auction necessities 6. Ones in the woods? speaking for them
53. Before, before now 7. Perry's penman 29. Jefferson's home 47. ''Stormy Weather''
54. Riddle you may beat? 8. One-time connection 30. Part of a libretto, songwriter
56. Some car payments 9. Takes it easy, in a perhaps 48. Some bar signs
58. Bow part way 31. Pt. of NASCAR 49. Bill Walton's alma
59. Treater's term 10. Mink relatives 32. They are not mater
60. Forest fledgling 11. Jai ___ (fast-paced returned properly 50. Word with mouth
61. Word with fine or graphic court game) 33. Prepare apples for or excuse
62. Adjusts, as a spark plug 12. Vault location baking 51. Group of toads
63. Drudges 13. One seeking results 34. Stock holders 52. Speed deterrent
37. Four-legged herder 55. Genetic stuff
38. H.H. Munro's 57. Have chits out
pseudonym

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Puzzle #12
Across
1. Drops out of contention
6. Elephant baby
10. Close-mouthed one
14. Moon of Uranus
15. Sunburn soother
16. Circle of light
17. Unit of flux
18. Agree, in a way
20. Pouchlike structure
21. Restaurant bill
23. Steep in brine
24. Like an old bucket of song
26. Disembogue
28. Agree, in a way
33. Small and sprightly
34. 1953 Pulitzer winner for
drama
35. Large tub
37. Share holder?
38. Peninsula in northeastern
Egypt
40. Natalie Wood's sister
41. So-so score for the course
42. Vehicle for the course
43. Diametrically opposed Down
44. Agree, in a way
1. Some greasy 22. Yon lady 43. Computer adjunct
48. Roman poet substances 25. Obote's successor 45. Rat or beaver, e.g.
49. From another planet 2. Region 26. Burial place for 46. Fir tree
50. Goteborg resident 3. Pain, e.g. Enceladus 47. Words with mode
53. Distinctive and stylish 4. It may be smoked 27. Bethlehem trio or francaise
elegance
5. Subside 28. Beatles album 50. Airport hazard
54. First name among ironmen
6. Where the chips are 29. Rap sheet name, 51. Whitecap
57. Agree, in a way down? perhaps 52. Just gets by (with
60. Resort lake 7. Hit the runway softly 30. Kings Peak range ''out'')
62. Tandoor, for one 8. Birling surface 31. Skiers' cover-alls? 53. 1993 Oscar winner
63. Peruvian capital 9. Low, swampy marsh 32. Hawaiian isle Thompson
64. Happening 10. Holly Golightly 36. Cascades lake 55. Top-notch
65. Notable exploit creator 38. Hector Hugh Munro 56. Riga denizen
66. Good earth 11. Waikiki wingding 39. Made angry 58. Corner letter?
67. Stopwatch button 12. Pendulum paths 40. Theater box 59. ''Blame It on ___''
13. Word with ship or 42. Musky cat 61. Old greeting
soul
19. Stage whisper

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Puzzle #13
Across
1. Boxing champ Willard
5. Seed used in cooking
11. TV powerhouse
14. Chimney shaft
15. Mary-Kate's twin
16. Flamenco exclamation
17. JUMPER
19. Rogue
20. Whale or herring follower
21. Zodiac constellation
22. Cymbal relative
23. Crumpet cousin
25. RUNNER
27. Rummy game
29. Crossword fan, presumably
30. Container with a spigot
31. Rascally tots
34. Check one's figures
38. WALKER
42. Texas teammate
43. Tenor's higher-up
44. Words with roll or tear
45. Likeable president
47. Decamp
50. HOPPER Down
55. Styx locale 1. NY destination 22. Viscous 46. Performance extra
56. Part of a billiards table 2. Actor Wallach 23. Snorkeling upgrade 48. Scour for bargains
57. Jack Ryan's employer 3. Protective head gear 24. Gives a hoot 49. Box made of
(Abbr.) 4. Red rock town near 25. Lively ballroom cardboard
58. Shape Flagstaff dance 50. Border between
59. Wood-trimming tool 5. Hotel convenience 26. Evoke yawns Europe and Asia
60. SKIPPER 6. Corner key 28. Tic-tac-toe 51. "Sexy" lady of
64. Hurley of "Serving Sara" 7. Traditional will? outcome, often Beatles song
65. Cop's collar 8. "The Sandbox" 32. Crony 52. Popular delivery
66. Yesteryear playwright 33. Long-necked 53. Crowning touch?
67. Something fishy 9. Air instrument 54. Peter, pumpkinwise
68. Artichoke delicacy 10. Ophthalmologist's 35. Quite a few 58. Minnesota of
69. Kremlin veto study 36. "I Remember billiards
11. Campfire drink Mama" star 60. "That's ridiculous!"
12. Lackluster 37. Twosomes 61. Illinois clock setting
13. Papyrus, e.g. 39. Type of period 62. Sculptor's medium
18. Word in a Poitier 40. Mischievous Norse 63. Basketball
film title god champions' "trophy"
41. Tennis shot

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Puzzle #14
Across
1. Mosey
6. Stitched line
10. Makes clothes
14. Artifact
15. Opera solo
16. Hosiery hue
17. Playground snitch
19. English bloke
20. Urban roads: Abbr.
21. Greek war god
22. __ it up (celebrates noisily)
24. Nest builder
25. Lima or kidney
26. Constellation components
28. Stage whispers
31. Knee-ankle connectors
32. Nostalgic time
34. Tiny mistake
36. Drench
37. Sandwich bread
38. Lean slightly
39. ''Gone With the Wind''
plantation
40. Planter's purchase
41. Chills Down
42. Get ready to ice-skate 1. __ and crafts 18. Makes a mistake 41. Above-the-knee
44. Harms 2. Butcher-shop buy 23. ''Bali __'' jeans
45. Roller-coaster units 3. Layered sandwiches, 24. Depositor's holding 43. Have breakfast
46. Obligation for short 25. Stationed 44. ''Les Misérables''
47. Author Truman 4. Ignited 26. Sand bar author
50. __ dancer ('60s performer) 5. Custard-filled 27. Jeweled crown 46. Barbie and Ken
51. Possesses deserts 29. Author T.S. 47. Applaud
54. Hawaiian party 6. Filled completely 30. Soprano Beverly 48. Coupe or
55. Knitter's sphere 7. Historical times 31. Retired airplane: convertible
58. Envelope abbr. 8. Feel poorly Abbr. 49. Butter portions
59. Wicked 9. ''Come up and see 32. Gets ready, for 50. Smooth-talking
60. Gal's guy me'' actress short 51. Heavenly headgear
61. Fence part 10. Agile thief's target 33. Sailor's assent 52. Folk singer Guthrie
62. Bar bills 11. Canyon sound 35. Scoreboard 53. Ginger cookie
63. Small porch 12. Prepare a gift postings: Abbr. 56. Actress Gardner
13. Dines 40. Absolute certainty 57. ''Are we there __?''

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Puzzle #15
Across
1. ___ Harbour, Fla.
4. Runs while sitting
9. Jockey's persuader
13. Lindros or Roberts
15. Gallows' loop
16. Symbol of servitude
17. Prie-___ (prayer bench)
18. Fruit container
19. Moonshine ingredient
20. Popular summer squash
22. Italian sports cars, briefly
23. Component used as fertilizer
24. Dark plain on the moon
26. Considered
29. Wise person
30. Dog lovers' org.
33. Ishmael's people
34. Type of pilot
35. La ___ Tar Pits
36. Place to demonstrate a
green thumb
39. Cake decorator
40. With a chrome dome
41. Blackmore's ''Lorna ___''
42. Bering or Formosa (Abbr.) Down
43. Binding obligation 1. Board partner 21. Avian tuft 38. Firefighter Red
44. Holy 2. Nev. neighbor 22. 100 square meters 43. Faint
45. Construction area 3. Stead 25. Highly excited 44. Geometric figure
46. ''King Kong,'' e.g. 4. Emulated a worm 26. Lincoln's 45. He has a small
47. Perpendicular to the keel 5. Ill-fated vessel Confederate work force
50. Grow and spread quickly Andrea ___ counterpart 46. Ruhr Valley hub
54. Coffee or vanilla 6. Kind of shark 27. Upright, as posture 47. Pop vocalist Lane
55. Hard to penetrate 7. Approximated 28. Gung ho 48. Redness typified
56. Secret retreat 8. Envision 29. Besmirch 49. Garner
58. Ernie's partner 9. Washing machine 30. Fervidness 51. ''Do ___ others ...''
59. Prefix with state or act phase 31. Nancy Drew author 52. Propellers of a sort
60. Lemmon film, ''___ la 10. It's over your head Carolyn 53. Silent performer
Douce'' 11. Southern dish 32. Switch-hit? 55. Insult, nowadays
61. Active European volcano 12. Authors 34. Suppression 57. Not yet processed
62. Fourteen pounds 14. Pickle, once 35. It has florets
63. Stitch 37. Border on

16
Puzzle #16
Across
1. Shore dinner order
9. Lunchroom staple, briefly
15. Wartime warning
16. Gully
17. Big name in publishing
18. Series shower
19. Water holder
20. Affected the opinion of
22. Dreyer's partner in ice
cream
23. Controversial rap producer
Gotti
24. Clears
25. Ran together
26. Former capital of South
Yemen
28. Major leagues, in baseball
slang
29. Swell
30. Quite competent
32. Refraction consequence,
perhaps
33. It's sunk at the end of the
game
35. Met works
38. Some links Down
42. Bridge declaration 1. World's largest 13. Easter basket item 37. Run riot
43. Some profs inland body of water 14. Pop singer with the 39. Biblical land
44. Faint 2. Sitcom family name Starlighters 40. In
45. CPA's output 3. Blows in, so to speak 21. NFL stat 41. Epicure's
46. Reserve 4. Take off 25. Gunny condiment
47. Field 5. Barrister's deg. 27. Marlins' div. 43. __ favor
48. Snappy dresser 6. Dusky times, in 28. Prepares for 46. Memory units
verse eavesdropping 49. Smack
49. Way in the boondocks
7. Prospered 29. Cartoonist Keane 50. Clammy
51. Sets (on)
8. Honest sort and others 51. Jayvee athlete,
52. Sulking
9. Puréed spreads 31. Met works perhaps
54. "Swordfish" actor
10. Reared 32. Porsche-designed 53. Tour for drivers?:
56. Go back and forth
11. It may come after monster tank of WWII Abbr.
57. Early Diana Rigg role
you 34. The downside of 55. Zoological duct
58. Gym get-up "what goes around
12. "Billy Budd," for
59. List of priors comes around"
one
35. Losers
36. So far

17
Puzzle #17
Across
1. Kitty
5. Built-in weapons for 1-Across
10. Standing on the summit of
14. Ratio phrase
15. Eaglet nursery
16. Became a donor
17. Any moment during Sir
Galahad's journey?
19. Supplements, with "out"
20. Abu Dhabi's fed.
21. Watermelon discards
22. Danger signal
23. "Mama" Cass ___
25. Biblical fratricide victim
26. Where duck calls are
displayed?
32. That is, in Latin
35. Arizona tribesman
36. Not nuts
37. ___ Tin Tin
38. Fathered
39. Coq au ___ (chicken dish)
40. Dynamic prefix
42. ___ instant (immediately)
43. Borscht veggies Down
45. Every silicon-based mineral?
1. Annoyed state 22. "Aladdin" monkey 44. Links legend Ernie
48. Expressway
2. Regular customer's 24. Mensa stats 46. WBA bout ender
49. Sandy land order, with "the" 25. At the center of 47. Mentally mixed up
53. ___ Detoo ("Star Wars" 3. Pittsburgh product 27. Ceramic 50. 1999 Super Bowl
android)
4. Message from the dinnerware MVP John
55. Garbo or Bergman, e.g. Titanic 28. Islam's sacred text 51. Angel portrayer
58. Poet's meadow 5. Per ___ income Della
29. Go on a certain
59. Transport by truck 6. Spinks or Trotsky spree 52. Nursery rhyme
60. Trait of many historic 7. Like a 49-Across 30. Part of BTU knave's loot
writings? 53. Melville whaler
8. Season record 31. ___ wear (clothing
62. Zoning unit column store section) 54. Triple Crown
63. Quitter's cry 9. Stage scenery 32. Jordan adjoiner "jewel"
64. Endure 10. Eternal 33. God, in Grenoble 55. Tries for a tan
65. Busy buzzers 11. Depart 34. Hold spellbound 56. Candle cord
66. Served as an interviewer 12. More than 38. Magnitude 57. "Vogue" rival
67. Henna and indigo, for two 13. Exterminator's 41. Maryland songbirds 60. Sine ___ non
target 43. Censor 61. Word with hand or
18. Rainbow or hat
speckled fish

18
Puzzle #18
Across
1. Persian Wars emperor
8. Over
15. Fund-raiser's target
16. Easter Island statues, e.g.
17. Start of a quip
19. Rodeo assistant
20. Container weight
21. Every relative
22. Carrere of "Wayne's World"
24. Second installment
26. Quip, part 2
30. Magician James
34. Ted Williams, in most
seasons
35. Leisurely movements
37. Urchin's home, perhaps
38. Colorado NHLers, on the
sports page
39. Not behind
40. Postgrad degrees
41. Secondary wager
43. Like some earrings
45. Center of Miami?
46. Quip, part 3
47. Conserve Down
50. __ Marino
1. Child measure 18. Split 46. Mass name
51. Sea into which the Syr
2. Seltzer opener 23. Tequila source 48. Like some suspects
Darya empties
3. Pablo __ y Picasso 25. Not fooling anyone 49. Chicken
54. Enthusiastic overseas assent
4. What a springboard 26. Liszt symphonic 51. Turkish titles
56. __ Oro: Western Sahara
supplies poem 52. Do another stint
60. End of the quip
5. Too sensitive to 27. Vegetable oil 53. Abruzzi bell town
63. Sky lights publicize, maybe compound 55. Ways of looking at
64. Peck's role in "The Boys 6. __ generis 28. Gay man? things
From Brazil"
7. "__ that cute?" 29. While opening 57. Ancient theaters
65. Thin and frail
8. Capital of Ghana 31. Rain clouds 58. Where heros are
66. Embark
9. Chan portrayer 32. Factotum made
10. It's near Miss. 33. Basketball Hall of 59. Pulitzer-winning
11. Nag feeder Famer Dan biographer Leon
12. She, in Salerno 35. Scopes trial org. 61. Law: Abbr.
13. Tiny time pd. 36. Predestines 62. Carolina's __ Dee
14. Course 42. Near the beginning River
44. Storefront
accessories

19
Puzzle #19
Across
1. Anjou alternative
5. Girl in a Beatles title
11. WWII figure
14. Prefix with mate or graph
15. Uncaring about right or
wrong
16. Australia's big bird
17. Definition you won't hear in
English class (Part 1)
19. ''Ah, Wilderness!'' character
20. Cruiser's rear
21. Romance enhancer,
proverbially
23. Chile's 1973 coup victim
27. Louise or Victoria
28. Part 2 of the definition
32. ''I knew it!''
33. Rainbow feature
34. Bangs, clacks, e.g.
38. Cap
41. Like Mother Hubbard
43. Join forces
44. Head honcho
46. Its make-up is many years
48. Indian lentil dish
Down
49. Part 3 of the definition
1. Calls from the flock 24. Mauna --- 50. Walk-on roles
53. Get off one's chest
2. Unseat (Hawaiian volcano) 51. Envelope encl.
56. Dillon's job
3. Eyelid annoyance 25. Recent change in 52. ''People'' or
57. Acceptance of the way change
4. ''Lord Jim'' novelist ''Animals''
things are
5. Board game piece 26. Kind of power plant 53. Rubbish
59. Horse-drawn carriage
6. Singer Grant 28. First name in 54. Unearthly
63. Jackie's partner entertainment
7. Letters after CD 55. Church members
64. End of the definition 29. State on Lake Erie
8. Simple chords 58. Measly problem?
68. Watch the kids 30. Highway access
9. One who's seen 60. Traditional
69. Kids' game that might bug 31. Letters of note?
better times teaching
you
10. Word of woe 35. Word with order or 61. Where the femur
70. Zone line
11. Brownish dye and tibia meet
71. ''You, there!'' 36. List ender
12. Kiss loudly 62. Time for a
72. Hawthorne's Prynne 37. Hawk revolution?
13. Recipient of
73. Ogler's look 39. Pastoral poem 65. Slugger Mel of the
one-on-one teaching
18. Kind of child 40. In addition old Giants
22. Mischievous 42. Juan and Quixote 66. If broken, some
45. Private eye people are happy,
47. Certain degree some sad
67. ''Hannah and ---
Sisters''

20
Puzzle #20
Across
1. Refuel
6. Godzilla's stomping grounds
11. Curative waters
14. Siege site of 1836
15. Potpourri emanation
16. Scammed
17. Ice cream treat
19. Scandalous suffix
20. His job is on the line
21. Sound from a frog
22. Seraglio
24. Pull up to the bar?
25. Origami need
26. Newsman Charles
29. Carbolic acid
31. Throat clearers
32. Tight as a drum
33. Have the look
36. Bigot's emotion
37. Wishy-washy answer
38. Push record
39. ''Nope''
40. Spring blossom
41. Hip swinger of note
42. Census unit Down
44. Presidential delivery 1. TV teacher Kotter 18. Bone-dry 41. Names derived
45. Stable occupants 2. Heisman winner 23. Last Supper from people
46. New Mexico art colony Ameche attendees 43. In great demand
47. Sharpened 3. Kind of flea or dollar 24. Parental command 44. ''Roseanne''
48. Squirrel treat 4. Hollywood's 25. Red Rose alumna Gilbert
50. Balaam's rebuker Thurman 26. Hawaiian island 45. Runway figure
53. Like an unmatched sock 5. Rain slickers 27. Ex-Iranian VIP 46. Whistle stops
54. Off ramp 6. First name in horror 28. Vim and vigor 47. Place for an ace
57. Relay segment films 29. ___ full (satisfy a 48. Years on end
58. Indian, for one 7. Angelo's instrument debt) 49. Cyberspace
59. Mediterranean republic 8. The one between 30. Centers of activity conversation
60. ''Eldorado'' rock group Tyler and Taylor 32. Poi-making tuber 50. Car bar
61. Things often passed 9. ''What ___, chopped 34. Kind of proportions 51. Something to build
62. They may sport a popular liver?'' 35. Screen material on
brand 10. Lane of ''The 37. Be nostalgic for 52. Marquee performer
Birdcage'' 55. Cap material?
11. Tar's time off 56. Be corrosive
12. More ashen
13. The #1 guy?

21
Puzzle #21
Across
1. It may be found in runes
6. Inbox clogger
10. Fitness facilities
14. Political sphere
15. Sheltered bay
16. Saintly sign
17. Typesetting units
18. Space
19. Words that pass bills
20. Start of some advice to
chew over
23. Fed. agency renamed in
2003
24. Works on a wall?
25. End to Taiwan?
26. Heel
29. FAA ally
31. Tie tightly
33. ''Groovy!''
35. Second-largest land animal,
briefly
37. Retreat from the heat
38. Part 2 of the advice
42. Concern of 23-Across
43. Rattle the rafters
Down
44. Purpose of many vacations
1. Mealtime face-saver 21. Path of Discovery? 45. Recently
45. Late-night TV name
2. Prepare, as incoming 22. ''The Bathers'' 47. Imminent
46. Totally absorbed
students painter 48. Longtime tenor,
50. Plastic piping
3. Judge's break 27. Has one's nose to Jan
51. ''I approve the motion!'' the grindstone
4. Jiffy 49. Pounded down
53. Pharmaceutical pioneer Lilly 28. Spanish couple? firmly
5. Student's safety net
55. Word with spoon or cup 30. Distinct variety of a 52. Uncanny
6. Close examination
56. End of the advice species 54. Knocker's reply,
7. Deficient
60. Summit 32. Slipknot formation perhaps
8. Professed
62. Foxx of TV and film 34. Not merely ready 57. Vehicle's
9. Office missives
63. Like some wits or cheeses 36. English king who connecting rod
10. Marine fish prized
64. Wall Street signal for its roe won at Agincourt 58. Patsy created by
65. Tennis champ Nastase 11. Gets without 38. Certain Eastern Jim Davis
66. Cut into bits charge? European 59. Flimsy
67. Holiday happening 12. Heady brew 39. Gossipy newsman 60. Pecs neighbors
68. Took in visually 13. Help wanted on early radio 61. Common legume
69. Discontinued notice? 40. Like some advice
41. Greenbacks
42. Leading Dada
painter

22
Puzzle #22
Across
1. Bitter
6. Indonesian island
10. Kind of division
14. False identity
15. Shah's former domain
16. Object of worship
17. Corpulent Crosby?
19. Coffee center
20. Junior
21. Gulf or Canal
22. Ogled
24. Word with jump or goggles
25. New England college town
27. Kind of curl
30. ''Jose Jimenez'' comedian
32. Doughnut, perhaps
36. Hard or soft attachment
37. Red-coated cheese
38. Serviceable
39. The Confessor and G.
Robinson
41. Intrude
43. Kind of rate or suspect
44. Seat of King Olaf's rule
46. Split Down
47. Doctrine 1. New Testament 18. Led 45. Name in a Stephen
48. Contents of a Paris grid chronicle 23. Follow Foster song title
49. Very much a fan of 2. Silver salmon 24. Hotbed? 51. Take the top off, in
50. Thrashes 3. Neck and neck 26. Wander a way
52. Fuss 4. CSA soldier 27. Searched for bugs 53. Penalizes through
54. Atlantan that may go out of 5. Lively 28. Minister in the pay
bounds 6. Sailing technique military 54. Domino preceder
57. Dynamic introduction 7. Painted Desert locale 29. Novelist Shaw or Minnesota follower
59. Shoshonean language 8. Creative, innovative 31. Accumulate gases 55. Admit openly
62. State group on the surface 56. Georg Buchner's
63. Crawford cudgels? 9. Saxon starter 33. ''American Idol'' ''Leonce and ___''
66. Author Morrison 10. Think Toronto's runner-up 58. River near Siegen,
67. Problem that breaks out terrific? 34. Dirty Harry Germany
68. Santa's first name 11. Sulfur attribute portrayer 59. College credit
69. Do tar work 12. Questionnaire box, 35. Japanese martial 60. Kind of pattern
70. Bottom-heavy shape perhaps art 61. Exxon predecessor
71. Heated conflict 13. Word with hand or 40. Grade beginning 64. Gems, slangily
rags 42. Prayer beads 65. It could come after
you

23
Puzzle #23
Across
1. One-time Winter Palace
dwellers
6. Agrippa's wrap
10. Drink without a pause
14. Open, as a bottle
15. Graven image
16. Sprinter's assignment
17. Alternative to a towelette
19. Word with catch or hang
20. Chest thumper
21. Terrier type
22. Reversed an action
23. Lollobrigida of ''Hotel
Paradiso''
24. Increase threefold
25. Bordeaux wine
28. Kampala is its capital
30. Pervasive emanations
31. Practices on the canvas
32. Greenskeeper's supply
35. Exemplar of innocence
36. Geographic depression
37. Stew pod
38. Deal prerequisite
39. Backing for an exhibit Down
40. Like Alexander
1. Porous limestone 22. Upscale coffee pots 40. Brief vacation
41. Scale's reading
2. Salon sound 23. Type of bag 42. With little effort
43. Bug on the road
3. Teenager's bane 24. Mountain pool 43. Misshapen
44. Pipe types
4. Newspaper, 25. Advanced math 44. Finishing nails
46. Presidential power derogatorily course 45. Accumulate, as a
47. Word with charlotte or Ballet 5. Biological subdivision 26. Island feast debt
48. Field of endeavor 6. Fibula neighbor 27. Supplier of 46. Bulletproof apparel
50. Cul-de-___ 7. Fragrance pressure? 48. Saharan
53. Climax beginning 8. Surgeon's work 28. Sports surprise 49. Natural coat
54. Where to find time on one's attire 29. Olympic medalist 50. Place in a hold
hand? 9. Word with thumbs Devers 51. Feel pain
56. Point of honor settler, once or ears 31. Window frame 52. African republic
57. Suggestion 10. Replicated, in a 33. Verbalized 54. Reporter's question
58. See ya in Hawaii? way 34. Dinner and a 55. In the style of
59. Agile 11. Certain woven movie, perhaps
60. Equalizing allowance container 36. They may be
61. Went off course 12. Up to such time as checked
13. Crystal-lined stone 37. Nabisco cookie
18. Bombastic speech 39. Leprechaun land

24
Puzzle #24
Across
1. Painter Chagall
5. January 2 event
9. Bureau
14. Toast-topper, perhaps
15. Product mention
16. Star-crossed lover
17. First mate?
18. Indian tourist mecca
19. Allow inside
20. Star of 38-Across
23. Benz ending
24. Cost to be dealt in
25. Fitted within one another
27. Nova follower
30. Brief contact
32. Tin Man's desire
33. Transmission part
34. Electrifying swimmers?
38. Hit show starring 20-Across
41. Plateau relative
42. London Magazine essayist
43. Born yesterday
44. Not the final copy
46. School notebook
47. Bedtime recitation Down
50. Interstate hauler 1. Lot's land 21. Rita in ''West Side 40. Opposite of
51. Female octopus 2. Pierce portrayer Story'' persona
52. Co-star of 20-Across 3. Nurture 22. Get used (to) 45. Cry uncle
58. Isolated 4. Prepared for battle (Var.) 46. Blow the foam off
60. 26 of 32 counties of Ireland 5. Rival of Athens 26. Deceitful tricks a brew?
61. Highly rated 6. Pond growth 27. Wooden gap-filler 47. Distinct stage
62. Beauty parlor 7. Fly on a hook 28. Relinquish 48. Hang loose
63. Where most humans reside 8. Yipes! 29. They row, row, row 49. American
64. Social blunder for Nanette? 9. Large waders your boat chameleon
65. Put forth effort 10. Mortar tray 30. Suit 50. It's over Jordan, on
66. Fermented honey beverage 31. Indian prince a map
11. Irish patriot Robert
67. Laurel in ''The Music Box'' 33. It's played in 53. Twenty quires
12. Parisian waterway
rounds 54. Ascend
13. Packed a gun
35. Camelot character 55. Like some points
36. Like early television 56. ''___ and the King
37. Tarot reader of Siam''
39. Stiller's partner 57. Type of big city
light
59. Here-there link

25
Puzzle #25
Across
1. Homemade single-shot pistol
7. Saw eye to eye
12. Commentator Clift
14. Provided the entertainment
for
16. In a specific order
18. Gloomy
19. Scotsman's topper
20. Item pressed in a bad
situation
22. Reason for purchasing
tickets
24. When etoiles come out
25. Peyton Manning's bro
26. Note on some failed tests
27. Congressional assistant
29. "Sabre Dance" composer
Khachaturian
30. Fast food sandwich that
debuted in 1981
32. Ends
34. Song with the line "Oh,
baby, that's what I like!"
37. Everett of "Citizen Kane"
38. Titan, formerly
39. Meaney in "The Road to Down
Wellville" 1. Lemon tool 17. Too cool to fathom 40. Sch. home to the
40. Affectedly dainty 2. Phrase used in wills 21. It gets chalked Horned Frogs
41. Measuring cup marks, for 3. Made really curly 23. Polite refusal 42. Best Actress winner
short 4. Moo goo ___ pan 27. Commedia dell'___ at age 21
45. Kind of tour Robin Williams 5. Hardly suitable 28. Jr.'s jr. 43. Heavy emotional
did in Iraq in 2003: abbr. 6. "Sorry, ___ winner" 29. Al ___ (city in Iraq baggage
46. Letters in an early 1990s 7. "Pee-wee's war news) 44. Carrey's "Lemony
financial scandal Playhouse" character 31. Anderson Cooper's Snicket" costar
48. Word after pie or eye 8. Folding phrase employer 46. Play real loud
49. Yield 9. Reynolds who 32. Erik Menendez's 47. Labor leader
53. Cigarette pack word renamed himself "Turd brother Chavez
54. 1970s rock concert sites Ferguson" on SNL's 33. Island: Fr. 48. Go to bed
55. "The answer's right in front "Celebrity Jeopardy!" 34. Crawl info during 50. Have the 411
of you!" 10. Odd, as a range of winter weather 51. Agnus ___
57. Mazatlan miss knowledge 35. Epic epoch 52. Suffix for palm or
58. "Let's do this thing" 11. Like ghost towns 36. Detector detection amor
59. Ninja Turtle's hangout 13. ___ Tin Tin 37. Cancun tanks 56. Dollar divs.
60. "No you didn't!" 15. Bib overalls
materials

26
Puzzle #26
Across
1. Sonic boomerang
5. It'll hold water
9. Style is important here
14. ''___ she blows!''
15. Lexicographer Webster
16. ''Fantasy Island'' sighting
17. Honey of a spot
18. Granny Smith throwaway
19. Start of a famous
Schwarzenegger quote
20. Common contraction
21. What a film director does?
23. Decennial count
25. Like many a contrast
26. Fable monsters
28. Shrimp habitat
32. Some artists' studios
34. Chief Norse god
37. Painting type
38. Zoo attraction
39. Exertions
42. Chinese cosmic principle
43. It's drawn with a rifle?
45. It's fit to be tied
46. Duke of drama Down
48. Manuscript copyist 1. Rule of conduct 21. Invoke misfortune 44. Heterogeneous
50. Mormon founder 2. Baked potato topper 22. Lacks, in brief 47. Sprint alternative
52. Third word of 19-Across 3. What superheroes 24. York or Pepper 49. Tongue-burning
55. Lets down, maybe do? (Abbr.) 51. Soda fountain
58. What a skydiver does? 4. Miner's quest 27. Postprandial seat, offering
62. Emolument 5. Sheathe perhaps 53. Goes public
63. Conspicuous 6. Word with steel or 29. What a 54. ''___ and his
64. Steal money or the money virgin sharecropper may do? money ...''
stolen 7. British peers 30. Cut features 56. Condensed
65. Wear a hole in the rug 8. Mitchell's Butler 31. Abnegate wrap-up
66. Dentist's direction 9. Area of influence 32. Science class 57. ''___ like old times''
67. Kind of wolf 10. Like a malamute adjuncts 58. Part of a WWII
68. Way around London 11. Corporal 33. Trade org. since exclamation
69. Michaelmas daisy punishment unit 1960 59. Nero's bird
70. Runners support it 12. Clued-in regarding 35. A dwarf 60. County on the
71. They travel with the band 13. Carefully written 36. Hot tempers Strait of Dover
40. Type of wound 61. First-class
41. Restaurant faux 65. Harper Valley org.
pas

27
Puzzle #27
Across
1. Burn
5. Sought, with "for"
10. Get into a spot
14. Theater area
15. Added to an already tight
schedule
17. "Rag Mop" brothers
18. Unleashes
19. Bologna, for one
21. Stone bracket
22. Run out on
23. Like a good waiter
24. Show interest
25. Country's Tucker
26. It uses a larger scale
27. Shocks
28. Slide area
31. Word from a hammer
wielder
32. Some dice rolls
33. Held up, maybe
34. "__ takers?"
35. Fervent
36. Dispatch
37. Best Actor of 1958 Down
38. Biblical place of plenty
1. Decked out 13. Showed reverence, 35. Oater sights
39. Happens to maybe
2. Was heading right 36. Enticement
42. No neatnik for 16. Pole vault units? 37. Most
43. Social welfare org. since 3. For all time 20. Comply with well-mannered
1946
4. Exercised 23. Lost color 38. Photo finish
44. Emotional self-control 24. Homer's daughter 39. Cake type
46. Parts of fractions 5. Not forward 25. Botulin, e.g. 40. Toughen
48. End 6. Hunker down 27. Concurs 41. "Life is ticking"
49. Some golf course 7. Writer Vonnegut company
28. Was harshly critical
restrictions
8. Lyrical period 29. Thin out 42. First film to win an
50. Jam component? Oscar for Best
9. Harmonizing 30. Existed
51. School handout melodies Animated Feature
32. Retain some
52. Exalt 10. Illinois River port 44. Some UPS
dignity
53. Crock-Pot concoction 11. Clayey soil deliveries
33. City that doubled in
12. Out of bed population from 1970 45. Deere product
to 1990 47. Huge amount

28
Puzzle #28
Across
1. Unsure one's question,
perhaps
5. Some shoes
10. Stalk of bananas, e.g.
14. Old Testament place
15. ''Cosmicomics'' writer
Calvino
16. Sky bear
17. Bringing up the rear
18. University of Florida mascot
19. Ready to pick
20. Classic Lee film
23. Herzegovina partner
24. ''___ Mio''
25. Mix with a spoon
27. Like the scent of pines,
perhaps
31. Classic film comedy
36. Maternal
37. New or old follower
38. Small earrings
40. Souvenir from the beach?
41. Word in a Rick James song
title
44. Schwarzenegger film
Down
47. Nonviolent arcade game
1. Famous person, 21. Lady in a Beatles 43. Chicken style
49. Indian garment
informally song 45. Monks
50. Cons' quarters
2. Hersey locale 22. Very useful plant 46. Type of hands
53. Capital of the Bahamas
3. Rookery structures 26. Learning method 48. Grabs some
57. Stephen King novel turned
4. Hardly mild 28. They're often raw shuteye
film
5. They might be 29. Prefer not to get 51. Groucho's tattooed
60. Sometimes it's not taken
dipped in inkwells? hit lady
61. Borders
6. State with a Green 30. Strong desires 52. ''Cosmos'' author
62. Lively, like a shampoo?
River 31. Weapon handle 54. Prolonged attack
63. Lock or knock attachment
7. San ___, Calif. 32. Mythical meanie 55. ''It's ___ country!''
64. Bench site
8. Walks heavily 33. Deal with, as a 56. Out-and-out
65. Writer James
9. Down feeling challenge 57. Neither here nor
66. Flat-topped elevation
10. Walter Reed, e.g. 34. Sally Field role there
67. Vegas casino razed in 1996
11. Quartet with one 35. Byrnes and Roush 58. ''Ben'' extras
68. ___-do-well out sick 39. Scoundrels 59. Tear apart
12. Place to catch 42. Place of peace and 60. Southdown male
many highlights quiet
13. West of Tinseltown

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Puzzle #29
Across
1. "Terrible" tsar
5. Tiny power source
9. Like the "waves of grain"
14. Bach's "__, Joy of Man's
Desiring"
15. H.H. Munro's pseudonym
16. Room, in Rouen
17. Whatnot display area
20. Twisted thread
21. Lamb-in-pita sandwich
22. Is in debt
23. Word after Big Band or
Reagan
25. 10 C-notes
27. Rec room item
33. Hurricane center
35. Flower support
36. 2002 financial scandal
company
37. Corker
39. Thrown weapon
42. Football field measure
43. Dancing Castle
45. Alum
47. Parts of psyches
Down
48. Design on Charlie Brown's
1. H-M connection 24. FBI employees 49. Aim
shirt
2. Caesar's "I came" 26. When the French 50. Opine indiscreetly
52. "Am __ early?"
3. Sale warning fry? 51. Steering aid
53. Outback runner
4. Cell centers 27. "Moby Dick" ship 54. GE and GM
54. Car sticker abbr.
5. Question co-owner 55. Reduce the speed
57. Vaulted church area
6. Orange-flavored 28. Energy of
60. More strange
instant drink 29. Last Greek letter 56. Carousel or ferris
64. Beach wear
7. "You bet" 30. Gray matter wheel
67. Cowboy contest
8. Millionth of a meter 31. Prayer start 58. Mast
68. Religious abstention
9. Balaam's rebuker 32. Comes to a stop 59. Cato's being
69. Mtn. stat
10. Furniture wood 33. Mother of Chas. 61. Cowboy Roy's
70. Stockholm native partner
11. Overloaded, as a 34. Doctor Zhivago
71. Ridge on a guitar neck 62. Zeno's home
fuse 38. Expanded, as a
72. Harvest compressed computer 63. "Let us know," on
12. Model MacPherson
13. Football officials file an invitation
18. Composer Jerome 40. Museum collection 65. Nemesis
and others 41. $.37 for the first 66. ABA member
19. King of filmdom ounce, e.g.
44. Chow down
46. Sinister spirit

30
Puzzle #30
Across
1. Tone down
5. Lacking required skills
10. J. Child's measure
14. Watering at the mouth
15. Active start
16. Agatha's contemporary
17. ''Fiddler on the Roof'' star,
combined form
19. Past participle of lie
20. Wrath
21. Dealer's request
22. Puts in office
24. Some till fillers
25. Comes about
26. Used a hook and line
29. Public square
30. Mantle teammate
31. Brining need
32. Abominable
36. Prudish one
37. ''--- Coins in the Fountain''
38. ''--- at the Races'' (Marx
Bros.)
39. Bring into harmony
40. Pretentious Down
41. In solitary
1. Word in a DeNiro 18. Prides of lions 41. Wedding way
42. Ram sign title 23. Ms. Taylor 43. Deteriorate
44. Used a rotary phone 2. Teen follower? 24. Famous designer, 44. A way to be sure
45. Auctioned again 3. ''Encore!'' combined form? 45. Oscar de la ---
47. Write-off 4. Psyche part 25. One place to find 46. ''Purple People ---''
48. Lions and tigers and bears, 5. Pressed cats (Sheb Wooley hit)
e.g. 26. Fuse
6. They may be out on 47. Faithful
49. Malodorous a limb measurements 48. Sport fisherman's
50. Kimono sash 7. Cigar ending 27. Not one catch
53. Matter or body start 8. Prior to 28. Cheshire cat's 49. Rode the wind
54. ''Cape Fear'' actress, 9. Put up with feature 50. Ornamental arch
combined form 29. Segments
10. Bald actor, 51. Get the better of
57. British gun combined form? 31. Destroy 52. Highway stopovers
58. Utopian 11. Prop up documents, in a way 55. Keat's work
59. Hymn to Apollo 12. Narrow cuts 33. Punk rocker Billy 56. Tach reading
60. Wear for Indira Gandhi 13. Jots down 34. Space between the
61. Front for wed or married dotted lines
62. Shea denizens 35. Watched carefully
37. Sudden collapse
into failure

31
Puzzle #31
Across
1. Parsley piece
6. Something to gather around
10. ''The Whales of August''
co-star
14. Belly to the ground
15. Agate variety
16. Clarinet cousin
17. Unreal tender
20. Inclined
21. Pat on the buns?
22. Thistlelike plant
23. Tousle
24. Copied
25. Wear away through erosion
28. Purloin
29. Brylcreem unit?
32. Bingo relative
33. One sheet to the wind?
34. Theater level
35. It has unreal chambers
38. Kind of market or circus
39. Reduces friction, in a way
40. Makes eyes at
41. Ritter or Avery
42. Feed to surfeit Down
43. Happy emoticon 1. Stray advocate, 19. Abound 42. Irene of ''Fame''
44. Member of ''The Godfather'' briefly 23. Suffix with Wrestle 43. Slip through the
cast 2. Theatrical object cracks
24. Unreal name
45. Make the acquaintance of 3. Sports broadcaster's 44. Good-looker (Var.)
25. Toward the stern
46. Part of a round trip dread 45. ''___ Cane'' (1962
26. Comic legend
49. One with rhythm 4. Quaint quarters film)
27. Like some gloves
50. Halloween word 5. Escape from 46. Girl in a Beatles
28. Merrily
53. Unreal formal items 6. Drivers' warnings tune
29. Handy sort
56. Bit of mosaic 7. Reference material 47. Abu Dhabi honcho
30. Coincide
57. Where the boyz are 8. Kind of flour 48. Pinball
31. ''Heavens to''
58. Be of use to 9. Election day woman transgression
59. Affectedly cultured benchmark 33. Descendant 49. Like Franklin's
60. Foreign currency 10. Spoil Richard
34. Aboveboard,
61. Words of agreement 11. Egyptian bird slangily 50. Obnoxious
12. Seafood serving young'un
36. Gilbert & Sullivan
13. Alternative to high operetta 51. Stew or miscellany
water 37. They are always 52. Capital on a fjord
18. Contrariwise the host 54. Debt
acknowledgement
55. ''___ Maria''

32
Puzzle #32
Across
1. ___ Romeo
5. Apple center
9. Reagan's daughter
14. Farmer's place
15. Famous last word
16. Ladybug's lunch, perhaps
17. Important office
18. Season of penitence
19. Bacteria
20. Song that could carry you
away
23. Printer's dashes
24. West of Hollywood
25. Tract ending
26. Young feller
29. Song that could carry you
away
32. Ranis' garments
35. Grazing land
36. Arcade patron, perhaps
37. Have a bias
38. Out of joint
40. Make even
41. Garden beauty
42. Wipe lightly Down
43. Fine rains
1. Sun-dried brick 21. Aussie flock, 45. Longhorns, etc.
44. Song that could carry you perhaps
2. ''Rosemary's Baby'' 46. Mystery author ___
away
author 22. Senatorial wraps Jackson Braun
48. Dry, as in wine
3. Tires 27. Northern inhabitant 47. Scottish
49. Intention landowners
4. ''___ McBeal'' 28. Acceleration forces
50. First name in spy novels 51. Fuss
5. Opera's Maria 29. Belarus capital
51. Is down with 52. Wedding site
6. Egg dish 30. Excuse
54. Song that could carry you 53. Aquarium
7. Place to do more 31. Room at the top
away scavenger
than separate? 32. Freudian mistakes,
58. On the ball 55. October birthstone
8. Twists together e.g.
60. Word with cafe or film 56. Former Venetian
9. Heathens 33. Condor nest, e.g.
61. Wee bit magistrate
10. High point 34. Insurance for a
62. Union term rained-out game 57. Quote
11. Mystery novels,
63. Knight's oath e.g. 38. Firefighter Red 58. ___ mode
64. Baht spender 12. Tiny of literature 39. Emergency cash 59. Godfather
65. Place for a bracelet 13. Personality parts 43. ''The Magic
66. Cravings Mountain'' author
67. Peerage member

33
Puzzle #33
Across
1. Bestial hideaway
5. Letter before epsilon
10. Frank's daughter
14. Lot of rows to hoe?
15. Lunchbox cookies
16. Mild expletive
17. Chinese restaurant offering
19. ___ mater
20. Range of vision
21. Secret store
22. Preamble
23. Heroic narrative
24. Baseball league
25. Basic commodity
28. Northwestern U.S. capital
30. Kind of premiere
31. Well-defined prevailing wind
35. Start for lock or knock
36. Earthenware jars
37. Smuggler's weight, perhaps
38. Surpassing everything
40. Spanish title of respect
41. Some siblings
42. Show for critics
43. Union of old Down
46. Long stoles 1. Be without 22. Tense choice? 40. Disney dog
47. Films with casts of 2. Need liniment 23. Type of ballot 42. Taken to the
thousands 3. Word with Age or 24. Pageant contestant cleaners
48. One of the world's religions cross 25. Absorbent stick 43. Enclosed
50. Gift for a malihini 4. Business solicitor, 26. Musical sound automobile
53. Computer insert for short 27. They may be fine 44. State one's belief
54. Tense tennis situation 5. Senility 28. Ducks and most 45. Western scene,
56. Charge for a hand delivery? 6. Susan's soap role people have them e.g.
57. Blow away 7. Poland's Walesa 29. Viva voce 46. Five-alarmer, e.g.
58. Tuftlike mass 8. Strong puff 31. Comic King 48. ''___ La Douce''
59. Orderly and systematic 9. Burro 32. One from Hanover 49. When it's saved it's
60. Condition of many fences 10. Extremely sad films 33. Balm ingredient, taken
61. Porgy and bass 11. Dome-shaped perhaps 50. 1953 Caron role
structure 34. Even opposite 51. He lived for 905
12. Title giver 36. ''Wanna make years
13. Sixth president something ___?'' 52. Yen
18. Heat to the boiling 39. Is indebted 54. Help at the
point checkout counter
55. Switch setting

34
Puzzle #34
Across
1. Indecent companion
5. Debuted
11. Tackle
14. Comic strip dog
15. Copy illegally
16. Dijon drink
17. Ad head
19. Wire measure
20. Boards Amtrak
21. Little wave
23. Melville effort
24. Furnish for free
25. Informs, fink-style
28. Sought help, in a way
31. ''Clash by Night'' playwright
32. Track tipsters
33. Short highway?
34. They may be strained in
young families
35. Comically exaggerated
36. Comic vignette
37. Tree with tough, useful
wood
38. Impressionist Claude
39. Knight or rook, e.g. Down
40. They're cold-blooded
1. Take it on the chin, 18. Greek island 39. Intrinsically
42. Tank stock, perhaps say 22. Group of seals 41. Dickens child
43. Energetic dance of the 2. Utopian place 24. Emulate Dante's 42. Traces of color
1930s
3. NBA legend Peak 44. Canada and snow,
44. Surround Chamberlain 25. ''Three's Company'' e.g.
45. Dumas dueler 4. Does a freezer- landlord 45. Off-course
47. Service awards related chore 26. An Astaire 46. Ostrich look-alike
51. Interview staple 5. Cruise control or CD 27. Ad head 47. Summer's sign?
52. Ad head player, e.g. 28. ''___ a Horseman'' 48. Cookie snack
54. Riddle-me-___ (children's 6. It might be grand 29. New York city 49. Decoy to dealers
book catchword) 7. Plays a wrong note 30. Heads of France 50. Coyote St.
55. Build a fire under, say 8. Rebel slave Turner 32. U.S. chief justice 53. ___ Gatos, Calif.
56. Olympian queen 9. It goes on and on 1836-64
57. Yevtushenko's ''Babi ___'' 10. Mocks 35. Lip woe
58. Complicated situations 11. Ad head 36. ''Don't move!''
59. Clock sound 12. Transportation 38. Lightweight
mode recorder
13. Time to give and
get

35
Puzzle #35
Across
1. Weightlifters count them
5. Pueblo material
10. What you can take from me
14. Did a takeoff on
15. Show to be false
16. Request for permission
17. Flamingo or stork
19. Like a yellow banana
20. Lemon
21. Becomes free of
22. Free-for-all
23. Hint at, with "to"
25. Doctor's org.
27. Wray of "King Kong"
28. New drivers, often
29. Cajun side
32. Blade name
33. Dry, in a wine cellar
34. Gradually withdrawn
35. "The Singing Cowboy"
38. Magician's hiding place
41. British WWII fliers
42. Picket fence features
46. Source of lemons,
sometimes Down
48. Welcome sound, to one's 1. Unanalyzed 18. Dozes off 43. In the main
ears information 22. Part of MGM 44. Stolen at sea
49. Hadrian's "hello" 2. Shoulder piece 24. Like new wine 45. Grim Reaper
50. Cereal box letters 3. Street vendor accessories
26. Calendar letter
51. Bright yellow 4. Star Wars initials sequence 47. Creature's home, in
52. Fork over 5. Have words 29. Wallace of "E.T." film
54. Succeed in life 6. Young socialites 30. Words of empathy 48. Old-time
57. Lab animal 7. Memorial notice 31. Heater of the schoolteacher
58. Guitarist Clapton 8. Tuition check taker future 51. Seize, in a saying
59. Constant talker 9. LAX posting 33. Links legend Sam 53. Desktop symbol
61. Golden rule preposition 10. Land unit 36. Frequent foe of 55. "Beetle Bailey" dog
62. Crawled out of bed 11. Rear end feature Navratilova 56. Fab number, in
63. Make tracks 12. How to go from 37. Egypt and Syr., rock-'n'-roll
64. Hammerhead part church once 59. Classic two-seaters
65. Sleep sound 13. Under the table 38. Manage to find 60. "Scram!"
66. "The Untouchables," e.g. 39. Shirley's roomie
40. Solitary one

36
Puzzle #36
Across
1. Fan-club favorite
5. Do damage to
9. Fringe benefit
13. Calf-length skirt
14. Lotion ingredient
15. Spooky
16. ''No Trespassing'' sign
phrase
19. High-spirited horse
20. Lunar or solar event
21. Maple product
24. ''Of course!''
25. General MacArthur, to
friends
29. ''That's amazing!''
31. California wine region
36. ''That's terrible!''
37. Cajun vegetable
39. Took a risk
40. Pro baseball event
43. Clean the chalkboard
44. Practice for a bout
45. On the peak of
46. Humiliate
48. Health resort Down
49. Examination
1. Little brats 22. Army offense: 51. Triangular Greek
50. Mom's mate Abbr. letter
2. Garden soil
52. Santa's assistant 23. Nudges 53. Justice Department
3. ''Garfield'' dog
54. Predict 25. Like some stadiums org.
4. Not prerecorded
58. Pesto herb 26. Chicago airport 54. Dread
5. Tam or beret
63. Post-office service 27. Fix, as a printer 55. Aware of
6. Pub beverage
66. Singers Hall and __ paper problem 56. Oboe insert
7. Strong cord
67. Folk story 28. Golden-egg layer 57. Dutch cheese
8. ''Heavens to Betsy!''
68. Actor Sharif 30. Prepares a present 59. State openly
9. Chick's sound
69. Stepped heavily 32. Constantly find 60. Highway hauler
10. Slips up
70. Bullets, briefly fault with 61. Teheran's country
11. Religious ceremony
71. Dinner drink 33. Deliver a speech 62. Ancient stringed
12. Lock opener
15. Soap-opera 34. Office notes instrument
segment 35. Skilled 63. Obtained
17. Magazine fillers 38. Open-mouthed 64. ''Nightmare'' street
18. Spanish cheers 41. Book lovers of film
42. River of Russia 65. Summer zodiac
47. Canaveral org. sign

37
Puzzle #37
Across
1. Abacus unit
5. Completely unfamiliar
10. Smog
14. Wheel rod
15. Russian furbearer
16. Desktop image
17. Gas-saving car option
19. Watch carefully
20. Good Feelings, for one
21. Eggheady sort
22. Talks back to
24. Cupid companion
26. Hold out
27. Gathered together
28. Ship or plane partition
32. Chasm
35. One and only
36. ''Bells Are Ringing'' heroine
37. Barnstorming feat
38. Scottish cattle breed
39. Short parody
40. Three gift bearers
41. Cartoon Bunny
42. Sew loosely
43. Waits in readiness Down
45. Rocket trajectory 1. Headquartered 18. Pants parts 42. Higher-ups
46. Passing comments? 2. Theater walk-on 23. Drill 44. Gray-hair banisher
47. Dapper 3. Crook's cover 25. Musical that 45. Spark
51. Stun with noise 4. Yr. ender debuted in 1878 48. Become frosty
54. New Mexico home of Kit 5. State 26. Corkers 49. Water-penetrating
Carson 6. Garland co-star 28. Soft and device
56. Soft murmur 7. ''The same'' in waterlogged 50. In a heated
57. Fuzzy red monster footnotes 29. Big game manner
58. Spot for rings 8. 2003 Christmas film 30. Landed 51. ''Edward
61. Jetty 9. Retailer's concern 31. Time line inclusion Scissorhands'' star
62. Pandora's escapees 10. Calls it a day, really 32. Help for the poor 52. Literary pen name
63. Twofold 11. Court winners 33. It's not to be 53. Word said with
64. Window insert 12. Sector missed closed eyes, often
65. Continue without a break 13. ''... in the two ___ 34. Meditative exercise 54. Alg. follower
66. Nimble of the mercy seat'' (Ex. 35. Rebuffs 55. Scopes trial org.
25:18) 38. Report card 59. ''___ Got Sixpence''
notation 60. WR's scores

38
Puzzle #38
Across
1. Muslim holy city
6. Snatch
10. Sign of spring
14. Name on seasonal mail
15. Stop snoozing
16. Harvard rival
17. Start too soon
19. Latvia's capital
20. ''How Sleep the Brave,'' for
one
21. Polish
22. Hot
24. Hotel employee
26. Rectangle's four
27. Canal site
28. Corbin's ''L.A. Law'' role
29. Word that follows 17-A,
61-A, 10-D and 25-D
32. ''Cannery Row'' character
34. Silas Marner's child
38. Gridlock components
40. When Thanksgiving is
celebrated in Can.
41. Flies high
42. Not the final copy
Down
43. Snores, comics-style
1. Low-pay position, in 18. Stockpile 44. Brief period
45. ''___ in Cincinnati''
slang 23. Takes a stab at 47. Pot, in the past
46. Made out
2. Get away from 25. Celebrate, in a way 49. How to confirm a
48. Nuptial or natal starter
3. Sahara animal 26. Wholesale password
50. Pulverized
4. Stanley or Ryder quantity, often 50. Celestial bodies
53. Duke, marquis, earl, etc.
5. Breathing problem 28. Rainbowlike 51. Papier-___ (art
57. Divulge a secret material)
6. Edmund of ''Miracle 29. Like Leroy Brown
58. Indianapolis athlete on 34th Street'' 52. ''___ Grows in
30. Lord's Prayer
59. Tennis shot 7. Infuriation opener Brooklyn''
60. Lot of land 8. Half a Heyerdahl title 31. One-time bridge 53. Grace under
61. Magazine for parents 9. Robert Guillaume 33. Seeped pressure
64. Ostrich relative sitcom 35. Se Ri of the LPGA 54. Similar
65. Wraps up 10. ''The Razor's Edge'' 36. Discount tag 55. Office errand-boy
66. Maverick's game star abbreviation 56. Movie critic Roger
67. ''... not always what they 11. Selassie of Ethopia 37. Clairvoyant's claim 58. USN officer
___'' 12. Rags-to-riches 39. Lesley of ''60 62. Collection of stories
68. Out of the ordinary author Minutes'' 63. Brine-cured salmon
69. Wield, as influence 13. Withdraws
gradually

39
Puzzle #39
Across
1. Top four
5. Great expectations
10. Cover in the woods
14. Its business is picking up
15. Rugged mountain crest
16. Lust for life
17. Dinner discards
18. Ranch in ''Giant''
19. Abate
20. Spray graffiti on, e.g.
21. Panhandler's request
23. Like some decks
25. Galley propeller
26. Modest hand
27. Inert medications
32. Show disdain for
34. Drinker's vessel
35. Kimono closer
36. Touched down
37. Harass
38. Author Bagnold
39. Sports buff
40. It's similar to a rush
41. Savage
42. Ennobles Down
44. Turns bronze 1. Molecule 21. Word with deep or 40. Box office draw
45. ''Norma ___'' (Sally Field constituents dive 41. Put up a fuss
role) 2. Unit equal to 200 22. Disdained writer 43. Cara and Dunne
46. Perplexing situation milligrams 24. Apple carrier 44. Yule decoration
49. Need for those running on 3. Kicker's easiest score 27. Tune-up needs 46. Trip the light
empty 4. Cheer start 28. Scene of many fantastic
54. Ca++ or Cl-, e.g. 5. ''To Kill a strikes 47. Salesman's stop,
55. Thor's father Mockingbird'' novelist 29. Airline's offering, sometimes
56. Niblick and mashie Lee sometimes 48. ''+'' site
57. Choir voice 6. Nymph of myth 30. Sad news, in brief 49. It might have the
58. Bugbear 7. Lute shape 31. Start for bar or car shakes
59. As of 8. Sermon ending 32. Container that can 50. Add fringe
60. Kind of money 9. Popular settings for be cracked 51. Part of an equine
61. Doctor's take paintings 33. The Kennedys, e.g. pedigree
62. MTM's pal Georgia 10. Watch your step! 34. Do poorly in the 52. ''Joanie Loves
63. Tropical getaway 11. Arkin or Ladd stretch Chachi'' co-star Moran
12. Emulated 37. Air 53. Chinese political
Quasimodo 38. Piscivorous bird party
13. Child seat, 57. ''___ was saying . .
sometimes .''

40
Puzzle #40
Across
1. Grind to a halt
5. Ready for a fight
9. Aired ''I Love Lucy''
14. Legal prefix
15. Oceanic threat
16. Opposite of pencil in
17. ''Abdul Abulbul ___'' (old
tune)
18. Word with Lambeau or
quantum
19. Useless
20. Horse racing
23. Bruce Wayne's home, e.g.
24. Gave false hopes
25. Word with down, up or back
28. Actress Garr
30. Bloodsucking fly
32. It's fit for a pig
35. Strip searcher's paradise?
38. ''Good-bye, old chap!''
39. Wendy Wasserstein play
(with ''The'')
43. Certain field workers
44. Raconteur's inventory
45. Trevino of the links
Down
46. ''Finally!''
1. Sudden convulsion 22. Part of a famous 47. Seismograph part
49. Bioelectric swimmers
2. NFL city soliloquy 48. Day-care visitor
51. Hallucination cause
3. Giant hunter, in 25. Stable part 50. Turned on the
52. Carved pole emblem
mythology 26. Compact first tears
55. Major blood vessel name?
4. Mimic 53. A small Tom
59. Routinely 27. Taunt
5. Fledgling flier's goal 54. Start of a counting
61. Dromedary 29. Button on a rhyme
6. Before takeoff
64. Hospital division camcorder 56. Baton-passing race
7. Pat-___
65. Rorschach mark 31. And so on, for 57. Treasure-___
8. Quick
66. Toodle-oo short 58. Late-blooming
9. Rules
67. 1940s slugger Johnny 32. Place to run flower
10. Some sea birds
68. It hangs around the roof aground 59. Swiss chard, e.g.
11. ''Diff'rent Strokes''
69. Hardware purchases actress Charlotte 33. College student's 60. Shoshonean people
70. Quilting events armload 61. Truck's passenger
12. Krait kin
71. One whose work is 34. Ramp sign area
13. Cyberhead's place
constantly changing? 36. Parseghian of 62. Without further
21. Italian fountain
coaching ___
37. Observe with 63. 1/1000 inch
dignity
40. Gene's ID
41. Word in the society
pages
42. It has five pillars

41
Puzzle #41
Across
1. College Park student, briefly
5. Sand containers
10. Role for Shirley
14. Not to the wind
15. Circle around
16. Afternoon parties
17. Where a Dell may go
19. It's in the Bible
20. Leachman of ''The Last
Picture Show''
21. Treat, as in therapy
23. Middle name of Lenin or
Tchaikovsky
26. Swimsuit material, perhaps
27. Carpaccio base
30. Cheep joint?
32. Maglie or Mineo
33. A deadly sin
34. Doozy
35. Low bridge bid, informally
38. Yeoman's yes
39. ''Silent Movie'' actor Marty
41. Loudness unit
42. ''Inferno'' poet
44. Reps' rivals Down
45. Million add-on
1. Powder base 18. Standard product? 45. Masters locale
46. The Lord, as introduced to
2. Lod Airport carrier 22. Heated crime? 49. Material of no
Moses
3. Defaulter's auto, 24. Woulda partner consequence
47. War deity
often 25. Theme of this 50. Correo ___
48. Take apart (Spanish airmail)
4. Scare and then puzzle
49. Disperse some 51. Words with go or
27. Sweat unit
52. Colorful talk 5. Frozen treat brand off
28. ''A Day Without
54. Heavy metal band? 6. Bow shape Rain'' singer 53. ''___ gloom of
56. Words with ''my sunshine'' 7. Famous roundball 29. Where mascara night ...''
60. Metropolitan areas, for short coach Hank may go 55. Tiny Archibald
61. Where an Oriole may go 8. One of the Presleys 31. Thrash 57. Second son
64. Achievement 9. Surgeon's insert, 36. Eggheady sort 58. Cakewalk
65. Old operating room perhaps 37. Cooking staple 59. National before
substance 10. Bellini or Fellini, 39. Leg bone 2005
66. Fill-in at the office, briefly e.g. 40. Lode analysts 62. Across-board link
67. Obscures 11. Where deletions 43. Wu-wei adherents 63. Rocker Nugent
68. Title documents may go
69. Dog dish filler, perhaps 12. Passover staple
13. Beauty, brawn or
brains, e.g.

42
Puzzle #42
Across
1. Dare into doing
5. Flightless bird
9. Backup strategy
14. ''To Sir With Love'' singer
15. Sandwich notable?
16. Country singer Tucker
17. ''Come ---! The water's fine''
18. Plumbing problem
19. Sat tight
20. University thug?
23. Mother of Calcutta
24. Partied down
28. Jock TV
30. Shea and Arthur Ashe
31. The Buckeyes, for short
34. Disney's middle name
37. ''Let's get crackin'!''
38. Storage of angling gear?
42. ''Dedicated to the --- Love''
43. Remove the stubble
44. Half an African fly
45. More puffed up
48. Eliot's ''Adam ---''
50. Cloths by the sink
53. Supplies with more Down
munitions 1. Rub it in 21. Ruhr valley city 41. Hands over
57. Case against a firm? 2. Pound part 22. ''--- bodkins!'' 46. Spews lava
59. Censoring sound 3. ''Are you calling me 25. Word on a ticket 47. --- Tafari (Haile
62. Clueless ---?'' 26. Pride members Selassie, originally)
63. Sting operation 4. Crocodile of 27. Jessica of ''Tootsie'' 49. California section
64. Get a bead on Australia? 29. Louse eggs 51. Comedienne
65. The skinny 5. Rhode Island's state 31. From way back Radner
66. Priest of the East tree 32. Moses' mountain 52. Do detective work
67. Grads 6. Mata --- 33. Internet surfers 54. Part of RFD
68. Per 7. Segal or Fromm 35. Flame proof? 55. Home of the Heat
69. Settled down 8. Omega's opposite 36. Wild try 56. March 17 honoree,
9. JFK's vessel 39. Nighttime driver's briefly
10. Easygoing selection 58. The NHL's Phil,
11. In addition 40. Go beyond familiarly
12. ''Bill ---, the 59. Ewe said it
Science Guy'' 60. Like Abner
13. Michael Jackson hit 61. Flightless bird

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Puzzle #43
Across
1. Work hard
5. Nautical pole
10. Something to make at night
and break in the morning
14. Green Gables girl
15. Terse verse
16. ___ about (roughly)
17. Adhere to formalities
20. Metered ride
21. "I'm ___ here!"
22. Must
23. "Either you do it, ___ will!"
24. Mr. Hyde's creator, initially
25. Smoke, for short
26. Talk foolishly
27. Like many windshields
29. Outlaws
30. Richmond-to-D.C. dir.
31. Sin city
32. "Sesame Street" resident
33. Rice VIP
34. Be indifferent to, as an
insult
37. Sibilant "Hey!"
40. Itar-___ Down
41. "___ my place" (reader's
1. San Diego Chicken 13. Use a crowbar on 39. Beethoven's
lament)
et al. 18. Musical scale "Appassionata" et al.
45. NYSE event
2. City east of Los sequence 42. "Probably..."
46. Porn Angeles 19. Lines of thought? 43. Temporary
47. Familiar with 3. Trapped substitute
25. Atkins dieter's
48. Bert Bobbsey's twin 4. Actor Cariou concern 44. Deluge
49. Levy 5. Word of obligation 28. Civil wrong 46. Dance move
50. Speed meas. 6. Bottoms 29. Beauty lover 47. Was revolting
51. Côte-___ (French 7. Costa ___ 32. Boyfriends 50. Hajji's destination
department)
8. Likable prez? 33. Remove from the 53. Fall bloomers
52. Seinfeld's goofy pal manuscript
9. Enter, as one's 54. Wally's little
54. Swiss capital driveway 35. West Indies island brother, for short
55. May time (abbr.) 10. Arrive belonging mostly to Fr. 57. Med. care plan
56. Summon one's nerve 11. Painkiller Guadeloupe 58. Use the oars
59. Muslim priest 12. Butte locale 36. Hindu god
60. Colorful Apples incarnated as Krishna
61. Algerian seaport 37. Cocktail with
62. Promontory bitters and no ice
63. Super stars 38. "No details,
64. Sobbed please!"

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Puzzle #44
Across
1. Bandleader Shaw
6. Presidential campaign subject
10. Video snippet
14. Outdoor cookery (Var.)
15. Partner of aid
16. Word with strike or school
17. SeaWorld attraction
18. Force-ful teacher?
19. Film canine
20. TRAIN film
23. Hinny's kin
26. ''The Gold Bug'' writer
27. Palindromic exclamation
28. White House nickname
29. Plenty of bread
31. Word with T or dry
33. Made a choice
35. Archimedes' cry
37. Gratify
39. PLANE film (with ''The'')
44. Native Alaskan
45. Muppets creator
46. Pin the blame on
49. Daly of ''Judging Amy''
51. Korean border river Down
52. ''___ Not Unusual'' (Tom 1. They look better 21. Track down 43. Cold-shoulder
Jones hit) after crunching 22. Flute sound 46. More qualified
53. Denouement 2. Stadium sound 23. Pub potables 47. Where charity
55. ''Double Fantasy'' artist 3. Singing syllable 24. Beginning course, begins?
57. ''When We Was ___'' 4. Many are cloned often 48. Log-on name
(Harrison tune) 5. Outfit 25. Indira's dress 50. Bates of ''Psycho''
58. AUTOMOBILE film 6. Lower level team 30. Wild 54. ''Swell!''
62. Ran like heck 7. One of the reeds 32. Koufax, notably 56. Take place
63. Democritus' unit 8. Cowpunchers' gear 34. Indiana's state 59. Understands
64. Chocolate-yielding tree 9. Squirrel away flower 60. Moldings at the
68. Send forth 10. Industrial mogul 36. Out of ___ (awry) bases of columns
69. More than mega- 11. Go ballistic 38. Goddess of wisdom 61. Lighten, as a
70. Loan shark's offense 12. Consumption 40. Not in vogue burden
71. Pirates rivals 13. Somewhat ill 41. Letters on a jet 65. Novice reporter
72. Valkyries' master 42. Thelma Harper's 66. What may follow
73. Union foe neighbor you
67. Olive with a little
salt?

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Puzzle #45
Across
1. Teen's lifeline
6. DDE predecessor
9. Locked
13. Vice President Burr
14. Matadors' motivation
16. Meager
17. Abyss
18. Medieval defense feature
19. Persian Gulf leader
20. Start of a coming-of-age
scenario
23. Fuss
25. Entirety
26. Geller of psychic fame
27. Contrary start
28. Scenario, part 2
32. Madison Avenue honor
33. Campus URL completer
34. Underhanded
35. Mush
36. Augusta player
38. Lahr of ''The Wizard of Oz''
42. Young mischief-maker
45. Sushi choice
47. Borodin's ''Prince ___'' Down
48. Scenario, part 3 1. Org. with capital 21. Like Michelangelo's 46. In ___ of
53. ''___ the ramparts . . .'' assets? David 48. Cherry, for one
54. ''___ don't say!'' 2. ''So there!'' 22. Cambodian 49. Utter delight
55. Sheltered side 3. ''Messiah,'' for one currency 50. White-furred
56. Nickname uttered in the 4. Ruin one's appetite 23. ''Sesame Street'' weasel
Lone Star State 5. Catch, as in a net subject 51. ''Arthur'' star Moore
57. End of the scenario 6. Made from scratch 24. It gets in a pickle 52. Take off
61. Enthusiastic 7. Highway advisory 29. Cause for 58. Inserts
62. Quiet valley 8. Oolong container discussion 59. Dijon dad
63. Hasta luego 9. Disgorge 30. Wassailers' times 60. Carmela portrayer
66. Be given 10. Compassionate 31. Title role for Sally 64. Odd man's place
67. Moistureless Field
11. Harmony 65. Intelligence
68. Make confetti of 37. Shipping routes purveyor
12. Despot
69. Right-hand column, typically 39. Self-indulgent
15. Bart and Brenda
70. It's positive excursions?
71. Peevish 40. Meander
41. ''Jurassic Park''
menace
43. Chichén Itzá
builders
44. Pointy projections

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Puzzle #46
Across
1. List of choices
5. Capri, for one
9. Ultimate winner
14. Rising locale?
15. Kadett maker
16. ''The Magnificent Seven,''
e.g.
17. Like an unwelcome diplomat
20. Close with
21. Manilow song site
22. WWII turning pt.
23. Pear-shaped instrument
25. Actor Jannings
27. Attractive New Jersey
skater?
32. Start of a Vladimir Nabokov
novel
33. Certain pro hoopster, for
short
34. Freeway trouble
37. Speech impediment
39. Shortens with scissors
42. Focus group?
43. Hokkaido city
45. It's put before the carte?
Down
46. Genteel affair
1. Brood 19. Reputation 48. Boss of Hazzard
47. Captain Marvel symbol
2. All knotted up 24. ___ River, N.J. County
52. It may pound the pavement
3. Computer geek, e.g. 26. ICU hookups 49. Ribbed
53. Repast
4. Not convinced 27. Saintly symbol 50. Big bash
54. Diplomacy
5. Confess at the end? 28. Mine entrance 51. Protects the
57. Breathtaking action?
6. Buzz Lightyear, for 29. Twangy quarterback
59. Word with lips or change
one 30. Perrier competitor 54. Recipe amts.
63. Added conditions
7. Late-night host 31. Stop a ship in open 55. If two silkworms
66. Kind of bar or wire raced they'd end in ___
8. Departed without water
67. Harrow rival 56. Sticking point
ceremony? 35. Film spool
68. Fixture at a pottery 58. Glut
9. Gear tooth 36. Future atty.'s exam
69. Hemmed without hawing? 60. Home to Columbus
10. Uncompromising 38. In immaculate
70. Minimal progress, so to position 61. Egotist's concern
condition
speak
11. Somewhat 40. ''Out of My 62. ''Show Boat''
71. Family room piece author Ferber
12. Physical starter League'' author
13. Entreat 41. All there 64. Show approval
18. Burden of proof 44. ''That's gross!'' 65. Atlanta-based cable
channel

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Puzzle #47
Across
1. Round peg in a round hole
6. Delhi streetwear
10. Goes to pot
14. Poet's inspiration
15. ''I agree!''
16. Euclid's lake
17. Subliminal
20. Impresario Hurok
21. Time frames
22. Parser's parts
23. Word with sea or way
25. Fateful March date
26. Jack Benny catchword
28. An F.D.R./Stalin meeting
place
30. Land of Esau's descendants
34. In full voice
36. Play opener
38. See red?
39. Stretched out on the mat
43. Honshu shrine center
44. Cartoon expletive
45. Hearth bit
46. Transfusion liquids
48. Like Clouseau Down
51. Prime Minister Moro 1. Early Socialist 19. School builder? 47. Incarcerate
52. Kind of organ presidential candidate 24. President Chester 49. Turned the field
54. Greene of ''Bonanza'' Eugene Arthur's middle name 50. Burned rubber
56. Sacred text of Islam 2. Popular cookie 25. Reason for 53. Cochlea locale
58. Oliver Twist's request 3. Nondancer at the head-scratching 55. Royal kingdom
59. Greek letter dance 26. Sinai streambeds 56. Capped joint
62. Indisposed 4. Ike's WWII domain 27. Notched irregularly 57. Tote board data
65. Auerbach and Buttons 5. More humble in 29. Strong, frothy 58. Like a bagatelle?
66. Sovereign state begun in status espresso 60. Daughter of Cronus
1937 6. Libyan hot spot 31. Dieter's bane 61. Ruffled one's
67. Longest river in France 7. ''Rag Mop'' brothers 32. Held title feathers
68. Robin's residence 8. Matter for the courts 33. Way around 62. Grecian object
69. Paper for the house 9. Flood downtown, perhaps 63. Giddyup!
70. Single-celled microorganism 10. Stuff destined for 35. ''Mayberry ___'' 64. ''Me ___ !''
the dump 37. Vanilla of rap
11. Port on the 40. Got one's bearings
Mediterranean 41. Big name in
12. Facial twitches cartography
13. Come to 42. Sultanate on the
understand Gulf
18. Deuce topper

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Puzzle #48
Across
1. Part of the pkg.
5. Goggle
9. Jefferson, for one
14. "Still Life with Old Shoe"
artist
15. Galba's successor
16. Lassitude
17. Duke, e.g.: Abbr.
18. __ League
19. Minute
20. Wave recipients
23. Old Testament prophet
24. Casa cookware
25. Grow into
27. Epitome of Americanism?
31. Rod Stewart's ex
32. Toot
33. "Star Trek" sequel, briefly
34. Poirot was one: Abbr.
35. Tasty
36. "A Raisin in the Sun"
heroine
37. Singer Sumac
38. Microwave-safe material
39. Spent Down
40. Big name in automotive
1. Stern rival 12. Unerring 36. Ball of energy
products
2. Noted 15th-century 13. Spanish kin 38. Pelts (with)
42. Fins
sailer 21. Buddhist monk 39. Kind of box
43. Creator of the Shmoos
3. Good reviews 22. Figured (out), in 41. Supporter of Isaac
44. Pivot
4. "Old-fashioned" item slang Newton
46. They may be camouflaged in a 1971 hit 25. Child in a 1987 42. Belongs
51. Allan-__ 5. Network expert? landmark surrogate- 45. It may be driven
52. Composer Rorem et al. 6. Bright courts parent case between factions
53. British theater immortal 7. "And now?" 26. Perfume resin 46. Got in
Novello 28. Grand __
8. Honshu seaport 47. Netherlands cheese
54. Gold medalist skier Hermann 29. Hidden
9. "Carousel" 48. SSS category
55. Vet choreographer 30. "Zounds!" 49. Blooming
56. Staff symbol 10. Strand, in a way 32. Indian wrap 50. Span. title
57. Ventriloquist Shirley 11. Like Macy's during 35. Spirit in the sky
Dinsdale won the first of them in the early '90s
1949
58. Amenhotep IV's only god
59. "A Day Without Rain" singer

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Puzzle #49
Across
1. Like a clear path
5. Clears out
11. Amount of money
14. Skywalker mentor
15. Former Mideast leader born
in Jerusalem
16. Lao-__
17. ''Ape'' man's study
19. Middle muscles
20. Bombshell
21. Jim Jordan radio role
23. Daisy starter
24. Internet access points
25. Button stuff
28. Some tourist destinations
30. Prefix with skeleton
31. Sputnik stat
34. Former CBS anchor
38. ''The Ape Man''
41. Bed board
42. ''West Side Story'' Oscar
winner
43. And the rest
44. ''Good grief!''
46. Urban open space Down
48. Heathens
1. Word with blood or 22. Seinfeld friend 45. Fairy-tale figures
51. Capital of Samoa bold Kramer 47. Soup kitchen
53. Calliope's sister 2. ''Gilmore Girls'' girl 24. Big name in volunteer
54. Total 3. Comics-page dog fashion 48. Insignificant
59. __-headed (blond) 4. ''Chanson __'' (song 25. Bills 49. Sprang up
60. Ape man, maybe of '58) 26. Rink maneuver 50. Stares densely
62. Sound of disapproval 5. More than fills 27. Fountain order 51. Not on the level
63. Art-class objects 6. Cohort 28. Sikorsky and 52. Johnny-jump-up
64. This, in Tijuana 7. Breathing sound Stravinsky 54. Greek peak
65. ''All right'' 8. Get an __ effort 29. Zaire's Mobutu __ 55. Manipulative sort
66. Grandstander 9. ''O'', e.g. Seko 56. Seine tributary
67. Vintage cars 10. Block 32. Big cats 57. Biblical preposition
11. Wapiti fighters 33. Start of many 58. Boxing stats
12. Turkic language hymns
61. ''__ the Walrus''
13. Sources of 35. Pupil's locale
inspiration 36. Airhead
18. Idol's attribute 37. Geometry prefix
39. Wore away
40. Downcast

50
Puzzle #50
Across
1. Scatters
7. Raw information
11. Double-platinum Steely Dan
album
14. Civil War site
15. Unhappy exclamation
16. Standard introduction?
17. Cause of boredom, perhaps
19. Ending for 28-Across
20. Parlor item, perhaps
21. Hot pants kin
22. TV alien
25. 1990 World Series champs
26. Display disgust
28. Famous French king
30. Cork propellers
31. Artist Chagall
32. Helen of Troy's husband
35. Tahiti sweetie
36. Speak bombastically
37. Docket entry
40. Receptivity
42. Antagonize
43. Corresponds
45. Comic superhero Down
46. Oman's capital 1. New craft of '68 21. "Sincerely" sisters 43. Sovereign's
47. "Will be," to Doris Day 2. Everyday article 22. ___ mater concern
50. It's sometimes bitter 3. Disencumber 23. Good earth 44. Starlike celestial
51. Place on a Monopoly board 4. Some Ivy Leaguers 24. Cause of wild object
52. Principal ore of lead 5. Matrimonial hopefuls anger, perhaps 45. Horse-drawn cab
54. Rose-rose linkup 6. "On the Beach" 26. Romeo and Juliet, 47. Goes by water
55. Cause of somberness, author Nevil for two 48. "Don't Bring Me
perhaps 7. Coolidge's veep 27. Clean-air gp. Down" rockers,
60. Unprestigious publication 8. Skin-cream additive 29. Injury application, familiarly
61. Mean business? 9. Smoke residue sometimes 49. Be economical
62. African republic inhabitant 10. What it doesn't 30. Dogs and cats 52. Exude elation
63. Poetic preposition hurt to do 32. French 53. Cartridge fill
64. Change for a Jackson 11. Cause of mental impressionist 55. It begins love-love
65. Chewed the scenery distress, perhaps 33. They have eagle 56. The night before
12. Take part eyes 57. Horse's bit
13. Smithy implements 34. Highlander's 58. Shout of support,
18. Pt. of PST negative somewhere
38. Pizzazz 59. Performed
39. Fix, as socks
41. La Guardia info

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Puzzle #51
Across
1. Beseech
4. Foil
10. It's surrounded
14. Nobel Peace Prize winner of
1969
15. One with good tidings
16. Shadow
17. Horned African
18. Start of a jest about aging
20. Coating of gold
22. Negotiator with Yitzhak
23. Comfy retreat
24. Full of misgivings
27. Spiffy
29. Part 2 of the jest
35. Peak
36. Stony
37. Word before noon?
41. Where the Reuss River
originates
42. Blue gemstone
43. Actress Gilbert of
''Roseanne''
44. Word with free or travel
46. Part 3 of the jest
Down
52. Asset
1. Heavy-hitter 25. Former stitch 47. Heavyweight
53. Engaged
2. Weather-changing location wrestler
54. Hole creator
current 26. Slangy assent 48. Sound of distaste
56. Cattlemen of Kenya
3. ''Camelot'' star 28. Turkish title (Var.) 49. Professional
60. Where all the workers are companion
4. TV Guide 30. Moola
female
abbreviation 31. Jibe 50. Wear
61. End of the jest
5. Au courant 32. Boxer's ploy 51. War ender
65. Dead body?
6. On one's guard 33. Uris hero 54. ''Warts and all''
66. Teensy amount
7. La Scala highlight 34. NFL advances 55. Impressed
67. Salad bar servers exclamation
8. Dream phenomena 37. Shade of blond
68. Sizzling 57. Many an Eastern
9. Apprentice 38. JFK overseer
69. Bratty outburst European
10. Nagano Olympics 39. Unusual delivery
70. Boob tubes flame lighter 58. Makes a
40. British aristocrat
71. Word with how or where 11. Course obstacle contribution
42. French city once
12. Hard-to-swallow known for silk 59. Unfounded, as
verbiage rumors
44. Charge that comes
13. Get-up-and-go with battery 62. Historic verb?
19. Selected, as straws 45. ''Sweetheart of 63. Still
21. Mai ___ Sigma ___'' 64. Half of 8?

52
Puzzle #52
Across
1. Lowdown
5. Word form for ''skin''
9. Unruffled
14. ''October Sky'' actress
15. Part of QED
16. Pipsqueak
17. Small band
18. Where reception is iffy
20. Disinclination
22. School in Troy, NY
23. __-X
24. Red hue
26. Canadian prov.
30. Turned red, maybe
32. Jazz singer James
34. Deli selection
35. Game-show announcer
Johnny
37. Chinese dish
39. It's an outrage
41. ''Night Before Christmas''
noise
42. Will Scarlet comrade
44. Parcels, with ''out''
45. Summer hrs. in RI Down
46. ''The Ballad of John and __''
1. Luggage attachment 19. Grimm youngster 43. Ranch hand
47. Still-life subject
2. Gall 21. Broadway 47. Electronic music
48. Govt. watchdog background pioneer
3. Close to
50. ''Seinfeld'' character 25. Carrot alternative 49. ''Shucks!''
4. __ about
52. New Deal agcy. 27. Squander 51. ''Water Lilies''
5. Stood up to
55. Lilliputian 28. French public painter
6. Blunder
57. Acts as school 53. Ones staring
7. Cascades peak
59. Yukon's locale 29. Elk relatives 54. Something of value
8. Peak: Abbr.
63. Is in the red 31. Jedi master 56. One, in Weimar
9. Part of a process
64. Safe place 33. Not budging 58. Helps oneself to
10. General Grant's
65. Turner et al. publisher 35. Monteverdi opera 59. Govt. loan
66. Uncover 11. Anthem preposition 36. Embellishes guaranteer
67. ''__, I remember it well'' 12. Eng. neighbor 37. Quirk of fate 60. Stadium shout
68. ''Our Gang'' dog 13. Tax pro 38. Hwys. 61. Wall climber
69. Part of SSS 40. Performed 62. Go quickly
expiation

53
Puzzle #53
Across
1. Led Zeppelin member
5. Addis ___, Ethiopia
10. Get ready for the move
14. Role for Julia
15. UCLA teammate
16. "Am ___ bad guy here?"
17. Look over a Clinton pet?
19. Word after opera or church
20. Olive stolen by Bluto
21. He once borrowed Bert's
nose for a sculpture
22. Mike's unfortunately-
nicknamed friend on "Growing
Pains"
23. Suffix for portrait or Satan
25. Retrieves a Reagan pet?
27. Language family including
Bulgarian and Czech
30. Can't stand
31. Swimmer's assignment
32. Supplements the recipe
36. Nixon pet he took to
Beijing?
42. Consoles recalled in 2005
because of faulty power cords
43. The yoke's on them Down
44. Shinbone 1. Chihuahua currency 22. Sauvignon ___ 44. Rupert Boneham's
47. Non ___ (moderately, in 2. Bohemian 24. Ren's dim cousin distinctive "Survivor"
music) 3. Politician who's done 26. Most likely to wear
49. Finally kill off an LBJ pet? cameos on "Seinfeld" retreat 45. On-the-job learner
53. Green around the gills and "Law & Order" 27. "___ Punk!" (1998 46. Like partisan critics
54. Allow to attack 4. Terminus comedy set in Utah) 48. They may be
5. Shortened, like this 28. ___-di-dah tricked out
55. Strong loathing
answer? 29. The Clash rocked it 49. Suddenly goes nuts
57. Payback without the
payback 6. Carried along, to the 33. Handel's "Gloria in 50. "___ I look?"
Clampetts Excelsis ___" 51. Best-case scenario
60. Mid-month time
7. WWII hero Murphy 34. 610, to Cicero 52. Mazda model
61. Worry about a Clinton pet?
8. Post-dump cleanser 35. "___ Stoops to introduced in 1989
63. Combustible heap
9. Some amount Conquer" 56. Tribe with a state
64. Set ___ (schedule)
10. Go for thirds, 37. Live and breathe named after them
65. Put on the payroll
maybe 38. Gang leader? 58. Gumbo item
66. Put a text message through
11. Quickly 39. Like lyrics that got 59. Pothead, e.g.
67. Vending machine options
12. Dizzy Gillespie's Tipper Gore riled up 61. Spider's pouch
68. Tabloid near "OK!" and "The
were huge 40. Good name 62. Surprised cries
Enquirer"
13. Candidate attacked 41. ___-cone
in the movie "Stolen
Honor"
18. Him a Himalayan

54
Puzzle #54
Across
1. It might be square
5. Just one of those things?
9. Is afraid of
14. Suspicious of
15. Hebrides island
16. Individual of a clone
17. Pitfall!
19. Oranjestad's island
20. Thread holders
21. Horton's worry
23. Verne's lunch?
24. "Disco Duck" songwriter
26. Rosie's hardware
28. Afflicts with a heavy blow
32. Sheer fabric
34. Czech writer and president
35. Pitfall!
39. Jelly for germs
40. Bering Sea ice cubes
41. Fill to the gills
42. Pitfall!
44. Mortise's partner
45. Moses' mount
46. Burning with desire
47. Merciful Down
50. Oyster color 1. Teeming group 22. Crisscrossed 44. Convoy member
52. Compass dir. 2. Seth's boy frameworks 46. Betel nut palms
53. Time frame 3. Cherry placement 25. Rat fink 47. Becomes well
55. "Eye of newt" may be a part 4. Timber wolf 27. Proficient 48. Like a film before
of it 5. Dust jacket headings 28. Spurious imitation editing
59. Lots and lots? 6. It may be taken for 29. They made a star 49. Highway sign
61. Pitfall! a ride trek? 51. Like new dollar bills
64. Olympic sleds 7. Literary miscellany 30. Terrible czar 54. Water color
65. Bear up there? 8. Cassette contents, 31. Noted Mother 56. Wight or Avalon
66. Italian resort perhaps 33. Was behind, in a 57. Vessel for Jack and
67. Inscribed tablet 9. Word on a crate way Jill
68. Mont Blanc's range 10. Mr. Potato Head 35. One is often 58. They may be loose
69. "If all ___ fails ..." attachment copped or split
11. Entertain 36. Batman's creator 60. Sea creature
12. Offer refutation 37. British prep school 62. Internet address
13. Guesstimates 38. Swell fop 63. Legalese surname
18. Alpine song 40. Of higher quality
43. Diplomacy

55
Puzzle #55
Across
1. One of the three bears
5. Black Sea retreat
10. Beer, slangily
14. Lab culture
15. Fitzgerald and Grasso
16. About, formally speaking
17. Campus grp.
18. Got off the fence
19. Anastasia's father
20. What John Glenn had
23. Kind of clam
25. Indirect suggestions
26. Hit record, 1976
30. Penny metal
31. Asian redhead
32. The two for tennis?
33. Knotty craft
36. Uneven?
39. Antiquated
40. One fifth of DXXXV
41. Noted pioneers
46. Singles player, briefly
47. Discover, in a way
48. It's part of growing up
52. Norwegian royal name Down
53. Semilunar valve neighbor 1. Duffer's goal 21. Certain 911 39. Hanker after
54. Edward Jones Dome team 2. Gettysburg Address respondent, briefly 40. Vexation
57. Nix, in the Oval Office word 22. Excelled 41. Frittered (away)
58. Proficiency 3. Dressmaker's 23. Fitting decision 42. Work in shifts
59. Author Dinesen collection 24. Word with bed or 43. Engage in an Old
60. German river 4. Like erst or zounds bill West no-no
61. Conical shelter 5. Mandate 27. Biblical peak 44. Marked down
62. It precedes 10017 6. ''Java'' musician 28. Slice of history 45. Social event
7. Sabot 29. ''Spider-Man'' 46. Establish the truth
8. Greasy spoon fare director Raimi by argument
9. ''I hate to break up 33. Myopic Mister 49. Like some
___!'' (collector's 34. Grate stuff inaccurate watches
lament) 35. Winter hrs. in 50. Pig's place?
10. Portrait session Wichita 51. Give it ___ (swing
11. Not celebrated 36. Scrambled hard)
12. Preliminary outlines alternative 55. Staff
13. Medieval figures 37. Gossip 56. Contrail milieu
38. It fled with the
spoon

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Puzzle #56
Across
1. U2 lead singer
5. Post-marathon feeling
9. Really bothered
14. Shake ___ (hurry)
15. Branch headquarters
16. ''It's done!''
17. In great shape
20. Carrier
21. ___ ballerina
22. Beatty in ''Network''
23. Gift basket contents
25. Best-selling author Umberto
27. Only perfect World Series
pitcher
29. Lobsterlike crustacean
33. Poem of praise
34. Ending for sea
37. Zero, in tennis
38. Certain high-net-worth
individual
42. Fraternal fellows
43. Really bother
44. Baker's need
45. Second-hand store
transactions
Down
48. Tattered state
1. Thai money 19. Part of U.S.A. 46. Got a big lead, in a
50. Center X
2. Grocery stick 24. Move gradually way
51. Uncorked, as champagne
3. Orderlies? 26. Fly-by-night critters 47. Off-the-wall
53. Mariah Carey's label, once response
4. Cousins of Peeping 27. Berth choice
56. Moon stage 49. Extremely popular
Toms? 28. Dancer Astaire
58. Runs in place? 51. Honshu port
5. B-ball player, e.g. 29. Minimal change
61. Vending machine choice 52. Kind of jury
6. Subterranean 30. John Hancock
64. Type style chamber 53. Still life subject
place
65. Analogous 7. Picks up some 54. Track event not in
31. Debar
66. ___ about (circa) waves? the Olympics
32. Bruce and Laura
67. Lay down new turf 8. ''___ Can'' (Sammy 55. Egyptian goddess
35. Pro side
68. Appointment Davis Jr. 57. Hardly any
36. ___ mater (brain
69. Hardy character autobiography) covering) 59. Grand verses
9. Cornell's locale 39. Future DA's exam 60. Lat. and Ukr., once
10. Density symbol 40. Ming treasure 62. D.D.E.'s command
11. Change 41. Food category 63. Hydrogen's atomic
letterspacing number
12. Gael's language
13. Safe deposit box
item
18. Most faithful

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Puzzle #57
Across
1. Googol follower
5. 1968 hit "In-A-___-Da-Vida"
10. Bad thing to hear during
surgery
14. Petting zoo critter
15. Brand name used in potato
chips
16. Soccer star with his name
on a video game title
17. Name at the gas pump
18. Tasteless, but not crude
19. Use a kiddie pool
20. Ad slogan that suggests the
little ones can play with huge
dinosaurs?
23. Look over
24. Bounty Hunter Duane
Chapman's nickname
25. One, in Oberammergau
26. Ad slogan that's Valleyspeak
to egg someone on?
31. Stubbing target
34. Walk-___ (clients without
appointments)
35. Suffix for nod
36. Fine-grained soil deposit Down
37. Item with outtakes 1. Buffet handful 21. Opposite of 41. Golfer's problem
38. It's neither now nor never 2. "Curb Your 62-across with nerves when
40. ___ standstill Enthusiasm" star David 22. Box set? putting
41. Swinger's stand 3. Pageant host 26. Nav. officers 42. Odometer marking
42. She battled Godzilla 4. "Project Gotham 27. Talks deceptively 44. Geena, in a 1991
43. Ad slogan that explains why Racing 2" platform 28. Sturm ___ Drang movie
a Simpson kid is missing part of 5. Lose it completely? 29. Robert who plays 45. Put in stitches
his candy bar? 6. Accuse without proof Tony's son on "The 46. Lucille's owner
47. "This ride is great!" 7. Like many Gallaudet Sopranos" 49. Perform an
48. Simple sandwich selection U. students 30. One step more already-famous song
49. Show whose 2004-5 season 8. "Hawaii Five-O" than giga- 50. Get past third base
finale was directed by Quentin nickname 31. Spill the beans 51. It may follow
Tarantino 9. Ursula who played 32. Letter after theta "Yeah, yeah"
52. Ad slogan for some sort of one of the first 33. Ten-speed bike 52. Pacific salmon
Gummi boulders? on-screen Bond Girls component variety
56. Early host of "Mystery 10. Bad place to be 37. Narc's org. 53. Petty of "Tank Girl"
Science Theater 3000" near a sewage plant 38. Led Zeppelin's 54. Privy to
57. Ancient region on the 11. Migrate for the "Whole ___ Love" 55. McNally's
Aegean winter, maybe 39. Took in mapmaking partner
58. Shakespearean flower? 12. Early automaker 56. God, to a
59. "Can I cut in?" noise Ransom Rastafarian
60. Plug part 13. Little laugh
61. Emperor who committed
suicide in 68 AD
62. Opposite of 21-down

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63. Burn a bit
64. Barrymore who shows up in
"Donnie Darko"

59
Puzzle #58
Across
1. Countries in special alliance
5. Unprocessed
10. Elevator inventor
14. Iranian currency
15. Highway construction crew's
supplies
16. Deep cut
17. It's between the South
Frigid Zone and South
Temperate Zone
20. India's first prime minister
21. Set, as a goal
22. Aardvark snacks
25. ''Embraceable ___''
26. Some dosage units (Abbr.)
29. Drink too much
31. King Edward's love
36. Ammonia compound
38. Certain movie role
40. Zero of the population
41. Atlantic shipping nemesis
44. ''Abdulla Bulbul ___'' (1877
song)
45. Harvest
46. Walton portrayer
Down
47. Formulator of the third law
of thermodynamics 1. Muffin type 23. Gave away verbally 50. Baghdad's country
49. Not yet final, in law 2. Come-on 24. Primitive weapon 53. Fort Knox slab
51. Some NYC block separators 3. Pledge 26. Desi Arnaz, for one 55. Caribbean resort
52. Alleged conjurer Geller 4. American Red Cross 27. ___ de la ... 56. Make art on glass,
organizer Barton 28. West African in a way
54. Asta's mistress
5. Three hundred, in language closely 57. Ontario native
56. Command levels
Roman numerals related to Fula 58. Brinker of ''The
61. Ann ___, Mich.
6. Decompose 30. Polished off Silver Skates''
65. London landmark
7. Part of BTU 32. Like some odds 59. Immature newts
68. Penny
8. Decompose 33. Theater areas 60. Pudding ingredient,
69. Sayings of Jesus, e.g.
9. Money held by a 34. Narrow water perhaps
70. Small, slender nail
third party passage 62. Farm building
71. Pianist Dame Myra
10. Horrible boss 35. Prognosticators 63. Major Algerian port
72. Cheap cigar
11. Knowing when to 37. Prayer ending word 64. Make over
73. Part of AD be silent, e.g. 39. Place for a snake 66. Manipulate
12. Wight for one 42. Actress Andress fraudulently
13. Place for a mower 43. ___ facto 67. Articulate
18. Litter member 48. Fishes, in a way
19. Tropical American
lizard

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Puzzle #59
Across
1. Syrupy
8. Took tiffin
15. Psych up
16. Do over
17. Spectator, often
18. From Washington
19. Hair care
20. Check for accuracy
22. Bulrush
23. Important decades
24. Keep engaged
26. Japanese legislature
27. Derrick
28. Got out
30. Before
31. Places for bells
33. Laughed heartily
35. Heavy metal
36. Flower holders
37. Cowboy gear
40. Dali or Picasso
44. Zoologists' mouths
45. Copy
47. 65 or so
48. Tsp. and oz. Down
50. Unmanned plane 1. Evensong 13. Knickknack stand 39. Daily grind
51. It means ''huge'' 2. Be left 14. Expunged 40. Work hard
52. Rock's frequent costar 3. Computer memory 21. Party nights 41. Quartet song
54. Arab leader 4. They're close to you 24. Like sisters subject
55. Less tanned 5. Scoreboard data 25. High-rise amenity 42. Substitute rulers
56. Betraying bile 6. Profit from 28. Primitive weapon 43. Honey
58. Everyday 7. Maintained 29. Richie Valens tune 46. Beseeched
60. Business wear 8. Brought up 32. Ivy leaguer 49. Alaska's first capital
61. Short times 9. Navajo foe 34. Faulkner title start 51. Livy's parent
62. Worked on axles 10. Beatty et al. 36. Peeved 53. Mounts gemstones
63. Most frugal 11. Postmen have one 37. Dock work 55. Night prowler
12. More robust 38. Gunsmith 57. Sprawl
59. Alley follower

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Puzzle #60
Across
1. Make-up specialist
5. Said further
10. Shed door device
14. An embarrassing problem to
face?
15. Turn the air blue
16. ''Diana'' singer
17. Not all there
20. Very much involved
21. Pressing
22. Puts the finger on
23. ''Go away!''
25. Slender stingers
28. Brazilian resort
29. Begin counterpart
33. Gone
36. Great-great-grandson of
Augustus
37. Poetic tribute
38. Once known as
39. Lord's Prayer opener
41. Before now
42. Hold on property
44. Completely crazy
47. Dog bottoms? Down
49. Coffeemaker
1. Slender 19. Slices of history 46. By hook or by
50. They might have kinks crook
2. Mouse's target 24. Pupal protection
51. Some like it hot 48. Misses
3. Actress Heche 25. Cashmere and
53. Spade of fiction angora 52. Where you may
4. There's no returning
54. Put into words without it 26. Video partner use ID to get mail
57. Zip 5. Tippy-tops 27. Drum material 53. Projecting
62. Screwy 6. Cat's-paw 28. Despondent foundation piece
64. Muslim prince 7. Stops over 30. Type of list 54. European
65. Temporary housing 8. Start to sob? 31. Make a case for merganser
66. Out of round 9. Refuse to agree 32. Trumpet sounds 55. Busted
67. Volstead's opponents 10. Guessing game 34. Regulus' 56. Colliers' entry
68. Like sumo wrestlers 11. Pony up constellation 58. Cinnabar, taconite,
69. Signs of disuse 35. Horde member etc.
12. It's got you
covered 40. Discuss tiresomely 59. Water drainer
13. It's behind you 43. Mythical drinks of 60. Swoop up
18. Most likely to the gods 61. Some toothpastes
succeed 45. Naval escort 63. Wild bunch
member

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Puzzle #61
Across
1. Stay to the finish
5. ''Candy is dandy ...'' writer
10. Secure, as a contract
14. West Indies citrus fruit
15. Persons, places and things
16. Leigh Hunt's ''___ Ben
Adhem''
17. Some potatoes
20. Nog ingredient
21. One way to take it
22. Boxer's quest
23. ''Comus'' composer Thomas
24. Football referee's need
26. More potatoes
33. Conglomerate
34. London park name
35. ''The Facts of Life'' actress
36. Tijuana lad
37. Out of whack
39. Not yet final, in law
40. Fish story suffix
41. Nutmeg feature
42. Apple and pear, e.g.
43. Still more potatoes
47. Hebrides island Down
48. Snakeless isle 1. A head of Time 23. Mr. Moto's 44. Fragrant chemical
49. Pressing 2. In a state of eager rejoinder compounds
52. Smile from ear to ear anticipation 24. Coral reef border 45. Speedometer part
53. 21st Greek letter 3. Belt islands 46. Reach for rudely
56. And still more potatoes 4. First ''O'' of O-O-O 25. Alero or Intrigue, 49. Bump up against
60. Computer operator 5. Conveniently for short 50. Sherlock's
61. St. Teresa of ___ available 26. Beasts' crowning undertaking
62. Jail unit 6. Prods to action glories 51. Luau music
63. Polanski film 7. Military obligation 27. Electricity- makers, for short
64. British surgeon Sir James 8. The two for tennis? eschewing sect 52. Naval lockup
65. Harvard rival 9. Hush-hush govt. 28. ___ Domingo 53. ''Not guilty,'' e.g.
grp. 29. Hot dog spread 54. High water's
10. Hispanic American 30. Word with donna alternative
11. Assist in illegality or ballerina 55. Type of chatter
12. Christmas season 31. Softens 57. Chance occurrence
13. Surfer's sobriquet, 32. Certain believer 58. Gardner of the
stereotypically 37. Full of pretensions screen
18. ''___ Johnny!'' 38. Grind to a halt 59. Hardly gregarious
19. Of some benefit 39. Tiffin time
41. Propositioned
42. First-class, in slang

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Puzzle #62
Across
1. Othello game piece
5. Postfixes
9. Humidifier output
14. Comeback of a sort
15. Clear a hurdle
16. It may be airtight
17. Ill-mannered one
18. Verdi heroine
19. ''Blondie'' or ''Cathy''
20. POOR
23. Deep black
24. Toupee
25. Afternoon retreat
28. Swan
30. Joule fraction
33. Poem's final stanza
34. Teamster's rig
35. Pelvic bones
36. POUR
39. Enough, for some
40. Property claim
41. Boxer's refuge, perhaps
42. In need of changing
43. Dixieland Al
44. Unfrequented Down
45. Earmark 1. Society rookie 21. Shenanigan 38. Something for your
46. Turned on the waterworks 2. Sacred image 22. Bride follower? eyes only
47. PORE 3. ''Begone!'' 25. Goat antelope 43. Acclaimed
54. Most suitable 4. Shot for an ailing 26. Cockamamie 44. Minify
55. Lemons pitcher 27. Send packing 45. Taunt
56. Coward of note 5. Seward's Folly 28. Button on a 46. Cheese chunk
58. Car wash step 6. Exalt extremely disposal 47. Put on the payroll
59. Beat by a whisker 7. Carpenter's joint 29. Sultanate 48. Norse god of art
60. ''Beetle Bailey'' pooch 8. Mix it up, in a way controlled by the and culture
61. Came to a conclusion? 9. There's nothing in Portuguese 1508-1659 49. Impart
62. Spotted here 30. Take the honey 50. Celebratory poems
63. Velvet ant, for one 10. Word with sing or and run 51. Revealing work of
string 31. Orion's left foot art?
11. Fine cotton 32. Much too talkative 52. Tittle
12. Passing notice 34. Culinary direction 53. Lets touch them
13. Shanghai staple 35. What a shrug 57. One way to make a
might mean bough break
37. Set straight

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Puzzle #63
Across
1. Bee of old TV
5. Discussion group
10. Curved molding
14. Recognize
15. "The Downeaster ___" (Billy
Joel song)
16. Lone Ranger's cry
17. "My Friend" at the movies
18. "___ to Be You"
19. Color shades
20. Has the best intentions
23. Sheriff's emblem
24. Weather center?
25. Hotel addition?
27. "___ bodkins!"
28. Alaskan king?
32. "Well done!"
34. Silo's purpose
37. Nash's "___ lama"
38. Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu,
e.g.
42. Soft drink nut
43. "Mr. Apollinax" writer
44. "No thanks!"
46. Corset hardware Down
47. "___ little teapot ..."
1. Hands on hips 21. Factions 41. True blue
50. W-2 ID
2. Like junk mail, 22. Tarantula's trap 45. Petal-plucker's
51. Pinafore's letters perhaps word
26. Bread basket
54. Equines that bray 3. Migratory sorts choice 47. Introspective query
56. "Relax!" 4. Steel guitar sound 29. Horseradish source 48. Rows
61. It's credited 5. Percocet's target 30. Greetings from 49. On a tilt
62. Unit of energy 6. Voice above tenor Fido 52. Collegian's choice
63. Virginia willow 7. Pop's name? 31. Hardens, as clay 53. Step on the plate
64. "Das Rheingold" role 8. Praise 33. Gen. Lee 55. Olympic gold
65. Electron's path 9. Little dipper 34. Saragossa women, medalist Mark
66. IRS agents 10. "I wasn't expecting briefly 57. New Jersey
67. Printer's color you ..." 35. Coating of gold university
68. Pedometer button 11. Ex-mayor, author 36. Oscar winner 58. City centers
69. Piquancy of "Leadership" Kazan 59. Nastase of tennis
12. Natural viewing 38. Picabo Street's 60. Riga resident
height gear 61. VCR function
13. Aurora's 39. Front page item (Abbr.)
counterpart 40. "Same Time, Next
Year" co-star

65
Puzzle #64
Across
1. Simple form of payment
5. Come to light
10. Certain protest
14. As soon as
15. Philanthropist
16. Mayberry resident
17. Silenced
20. It takes a licking and keeps
on ticking
21. Period of many years
22. Canted
23. Paper contents
25. Baseball's Steve
26. Sophisticated
29. Fusillade
31. Surfacing gunk
32. Silenced
37. Turkish dignitaries
40. ''Is that so!''
41. Hold another hearing
42. Silenced
45. Fabulize
46. Buttinsky
47. They don't compare with
oranges Down
50. Kostof and Agnew
1. It can be checked 24. Allowing alcohol 48. Some intelligent
53. Prepare the paint animals
2. Not in favor of 25. Kind of shot
54. Yuletide song 49. Square-up ahead
3. Cozenage 26. Colorado natives
55. Conciliatory offering of time
4. Capital of Montana 27. Incline
57. Tropical lizard 50. Diving gear
5. Radio plugs 28. Camembert relative
61. Silenced 51. Hysterical mood
6. Valentine favorite 29. Dirty look
64. Take the bait 52. At pique's peak?
7. Insider dirt 30. Grows wiser, e.g.
65. Lollygags 53. Shopping frenzy
8. Before long 33. Eye cheesecake,
66. Natural emollient e.g. 55. Oliver's Laurel
9. Slip or trip, e.g.
67. Served up a winner 34. ''___ have to do'' 56. Sludge
10. Print below the text
68. Elbow counterparts 35. Canal of song 58. Popular soft drink
11. Month of showers
69. Deflects from a course 36. Isn't a natural 59. Have no doubts
12. Walk like a crab
13. Easily irritated blonde 60. Keats feats
18. The yoke's on 38. Looked into again, 62. It's game
them as a criminal case 63. Man of Steel
19. Written exemption 39. Move down a Web monogram
site page
43. How-do-you-dos
44. Took a load off

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Puzzle #65
Across
1. Time for matzo
6. Incise with acid
10. Film on water
14. Disintegrate
15. Ration
16. Leg enhancers
17. "The Pink Panther" star
18. Most elegant
20. Diorama
21. Always, versified
22. Entertainer who is not really
a physician
23. Stirrup's site
24. Easily duped
27. Workers all abuzz
29. Complete failure
32. Pan pursuer
34. Give out
37. Diamond stat
39. Domain
41. Weekly weeder?
42. Often-pulled muscle
44. Big game org.?
45. Light a fire under
48. Bowls over Down
49. Hartford skater 1. Have a funny feeling 19. Canadian Grammy 46. ___ up (accelerate)
51. Time for a wake-up call, 2. "Fear of Fifty" author winner for country and 47. Part of a prof's
perhaps Jong pop address
53. Ready to eat a horse 3. Matthew Arnold 25. Dos Passos trilogy 50. Military band?
56. Smart remark poem 26. Colossal 52. Alley-oop toss, e.g.
59. Sordid 4. Garden of delights 28. Sargasso Sea 54. Hardly everybody
62. Meadow murmur 5. Go back on your breeder 55. Kept
63. Collander word 30. Most prized asset 57. Be of profit to
65. Copying of a role model 6. Ford named for a 31. Village Voice award 58. Postage stamp
67. Hawkeye booster Ford 32. ___ Lanka comedian
68. Mention 7. Low-tech hair dryer 33. Cry from the 59. Religious order
69. Rice or Sexton 8. Sheds light on doorsill 60. Abu Dhabi ruler
70. Oktoberfest sight 9. Bantam, sometimes 35. Harbor feature 61. Compact, e.g.
71. Workout gait 10. English counties 36. Pittance 64. Minute amount
72. Condition of misfortune 11. Sorority inductee 38. Members of the 66. It adds color
73. Add up 12. NATO target elite
13. Apportion 40. Southeast Asian
peninsula
43. Inexperienced

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Puzzle #66
Across
1. Some architectural add-ons
5. ''___ Zapata!''
9. Antler-bearers
14. Gondola, e.g.
15. All tied up
16. Vietnam capital
17. Short break
20. Skeleton in the closet, e.g.
21. Marksman of Swiss legend
22. Peg of Woods
23. Fancy jug
25. Bears the expenses of
27. Saintly circle
30. Malevolent
32. Stout cousin
33. Silver Gavel Award org.
34. Buttinsky
36. Opening words
40. Clean break
43. Pupil of Socrates
44. Soothing substance
45. Allen or Blanc
46. Key on a keyboard
48. Palter
49. Start from scratch Down
50. Drawing rooms 1. Falls back 19. Emotional request 47. Singer plus two,
54. Yggdrasil, e.g. 2. Tales and such 24. Spring events e.g.
56. ''The Soul of a Butterfly'' 3. Not clergical 26. It's overhead 49. A man of the cloth
memoirist 4. Binaural 27. It's a lock when 50. Cut counterpart
57. Not naughty 5. Bone in a column pinned 51. See ya in Hawaii?
59. Record-holder 6. Suffix with correct 28. Member of the first 52. ''Blue'' singer
63. Lucky break 7. Part of Maverick's family 53. Reporter's goal
66. The ones right here attire 29. Molten spew 55. Toreador's trophy
67. Word of exclusivity 8. Made a larger pot? 31. Burglar-alarm 58. Buchanan or
68. Balder's father 9. Product's freshness warning Ferber
69. Lowered the pressure period 34. Drawn-out 60. Accolade
70. Remunerates 10. Old seaman 35. Kindled again 61. Camelot character
71. Dim-light sensors 11. ''West Side Story'' 37. Word with study or 62. Teller's stack
character bomb 64. Chin attachment?
12. Overly sentimental 38. Swamp thing 65. Succeed, as a
13. Contesting teams 39. Holmenkollen proposal
18. Oligarchical group overlooks it
41. Plus others, briefly
42. Fills with happiness

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Puzzle #67
Across
1. React to an act
5. Pains partner
10. Second Israeli ambassador
to U.S.
14. Decorative fabric
15. Scold
16. Somewhat blue
17. Peru Indian
18. Party line?
19. Toward shelter
20. Air makes it work
22. Lush
23. Jarreau and Hirt
24. Court demand
25. Joint part
27. Kind of seating
29. Unflappable
30. Cut short
31. Gulf city in the Sunshine
State
34. English longbow wood
35. Certain football position
38. Go astray
41. Got one's feet wet
42. Little bits Down
46. Memorized
1. Environmental 21. Community dance 43. Kermit as a youth
48. Pitch tents condition parties 44. Soap-opera plot
49. Farm areas 2. Wool fat 25. Attack violently device
50. Bod wetter? 3. Defendant 26. Not used 45. Michigan State
53. ID factor 4. Soil enricher 28. Cartoon canine athlete
54. Mischief maker 5. Harmony 29. Masseuse employer 47. Does a florist's
55. Pipette kin 6. Group of pitches 31. Late Knight chore
57. Nabisco nosh 7. Door part 32. Allow to ripen 48. Like a farm smell
58. Characteristic 8. He spoke for 33. Kind of pie 50. Asian country
59. Took the count Mortimer 36. Posed for 51. Disengages
60. Traveled 9. Penn name? 37. Dwarf with glasses 52. King's order
61. Something easy 10. Counterpart of a 38. Suspended 55. Write on glass
62. Director Kazan delete key transports 56. Common man
63. Butterfly snares 11. ''Horsefeathers!'' 39. AARP member 57. ''My ___ Private
64. Excessively quick 12. Common solvent 40. Attire Idaho''
65. Noggin 13. PBS ''Science Guy''

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Puzzle #68
Across
1. Pub missile
5. Tent show
11. Derby
14. Dairy case choice
15. Stir to action
16. Piece of corn
17. Everywhere
19. Bush spokesman Fleischer
20. Work like a prima ballerina
21. Certain finger
23. Scrawny
24. Uttered with contempt
25. Setting for much of "The
English Patient"
28. Always
32. Bluenoses
33. Aristotle's teacher
34. In shape
35. Cuts trees
36. Millionaire's intro?
37. Milne bear
38. "That feels g-o-o-o-d!"
39. Controls
40. Electron tube
41. Recycling bin's counterpart Down
43. Easy gallop 1. Internet address 18. Smells 39. In one end and out
44. ___ a one component 22. '60s war zone the other
45. Sheltered bay 2. "Thanks ___!" 24. Org. seeking "life 40. Actor ___ Hyde
46. Supplement 3. "___ Man" (Estevez out there" Pierce
48. Hall of Fame shortstop Luis film) 25. Water balloon 42. Coll. hopeful's
52. ___-Mart 4. PBS fund-raiser sound hurdle
53. Twists of fortune thank-yous 26. Cheering 43. Police line
56. From ___ Z 5. Bathhouse 27. Everywhere 45. Part of a Pound
57. Explore 6. Wry twist 28. Controversial poem
58. "Aida" backdrop 7. Campus mil. org. 1990s sitcom 46. First to putt,
59. Fishtail 8. Adorable 29. Fermenting tanks usually
60. Epics star Charlton 9. Org. for which Bob 30. ___ Janeiro 47. Floppy filler
61. New Age singer Hope did many shows 31. Airwaves, so to 48. Garage sale caveat
10. Weekend warrior speak 49. Have dog breath?
11. Cap-a-pie range 33. Mountain lion 50. Victor's shout
12. Swiss river 36. William H. ___ of 51. No more than
13. "___ are for kids!" "Fargo" 54. "The Cask of
(cereal slogan) 37. Douglas fir feature Amontillado" author
55. Mermaid's milieu

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Puzzle #69
Across
1. Active sort
5. Gandhi's land
10. "Blast it!"
14. Willy, notably
15. Overawe
16. At cross-purposes with,
country-style
17. Long-eared hare
19. Requiem word
20. Stan's pal
21. Pop's Christina
23. Broadcast interruption
26. Oklahoma's first state
capital
29. Job listing initials
30. One or more
31. 1300 hrs., in the military
34. Utility knife brand
38. Whistling rabbitlike mammal
40. Word that can precede the
start of 17-, 23-, 52- and
63-Across
42. "Harvey" hero Elwood P. __
43. Put forth, as effort
45. Diet-conscious nursery
Down
rhyme fellow
47. Offer 1. Judo school 22. Goat with recurved 46. Rome's Fontana di
2. Spoken horns __
48. __ Kan dog food
3. O.T. book 24. Aborigine of Japan 49. Go for eagerly, as
50. Takes into custody
4. Dashing 25. Babysitters, often an opportunity
52. Hoedown participant
5. Journalist Tarbell 26. Gawk 51. Puts up
57. Take flight
6. Slap the cuffs on 27. Computer 52. Flair
58. Non-meat-eater
7. Persian Gulf emirate operating system 53. "The Caine Mutiny"
62. Ayes
8. Architect Jones 28. Wee one captain
63. Far East countries,
9. Bring into harmony 32. Domino dot 54. Heavens: Prefix
collectively
10. Brakeman's 33. Capone rival 55. Actress Keaton
66. Grammy winner Horne
employer 35. Corn cores 56. Foil maker
67. Positive terminal
11. Side (with) 36. Pinhead 59. Moxie
68. Wear out
12. Jeweled headdress 37. Cross-purposes 60. Light and breezy
69. Prima donna problems
13. Tiptoe 39. Only US state with 61. Roswell's st.
70. Coquette
18. Fashionably a diamond mine 64. Passports, e.g.
71. River of Hades
old-fashioned 41. Catcher of pushers 65. Charge
44. Small pie

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Puzzle #70
Across
1. Matched pieces
5. Archaeological treasure
10. Ensures victory
14. Sanction in wrongdoing
15. Ancient marketplace
16. Genesis mariner
17. Restyled Dr. Seuss title?
19. Seasoned advisor?
20. Main course
21. Patron of Columbus
23. Word with bed or head
25. Kind of printer
26. One way to think
29. Hindu retreat
33. Something to pitch
34. Director's call
35. It's right under your nose
38. Restyled job-hunters ploy?
41. Item for confession
42. Most docile
43. Is under the weather
44. Mexican shawl
45. Liability offset
46. Send spirits soaring
49. Exhale wistfully Down
51. Hanukkah candelabras 1. Opposite of out 22. Mel of cartoon 44. Baby birds?
55. Braved the rapids 2. Black, poetically voices 45. Seaweed product
59. ''Your turn,'' in 3. School book 24. Washington city 46. Overplay
communications 4. Saddle features 26. New Testament 47. Simple machine
60. Restyled Rex Harrison 5. Respiratory noises book 48. Something to lend?
classic? 27. 100th part of a
6. Type of trip 50. Coffee type
62. Wood for decking rupee
7. Central spots 52. In the center of
63. False gods 28. Seer's sign
8. Ruffles feathers 53. London park name
64. Dustbowl victim 30. Throat malady
9. Home for la familia 54. Scour for bargains
65. Goes astray 31. Greets the villain
10. Pants measure 56. Money in the till
66. Downward measurement 32. Defeat soundly
11. Barbecue materials 57. Make the final cut?
67. Prohibitionists' foes 34. Way over there
12. 2 on a par 4 58. They may provide
13. Pilot's wind 35. Grass skirt highlights
problem accessories 61. Computer key
18. Basic requirement 36. Speck of land
37. Attention getter
39. Provide guidance
40. Business owner's
concern

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Puzzle #71
Across
1. Says goodbye without saying
it
6. Passion Sunday period
10. Some PCs
14. The Little Mermaid
15. New York canal
16. ''Say, Say, Say'' say
17. Street-sweeper's bane
19. Online auction site
20. Gen. Lee's gp.
21. Port side if sailing south
22. Maintaining equilibrium
24. That WNBA player
25. UPS delivery
26. Con artist's accomplice
27. Require a designated driver
29. Comic Philips
32. Worst case of burning
desire?
35. It's usually not covered
37. QB Flutie
38. Certain speed units
40. Act the siren
41. Variety store
43. Cupolas Down
44. Formerly called
1. Ascertain 18. Profligate 42. Mr. Descartes
45. Finishing
2. Questions do it 23. Baseball's Martinez 43. Household tool
48. Singer's asset
3. ''The --- of 26. Religious splinter 46. Tidy
50. Goddess of the morning Wakefield'' group 47. Gee's kin
51. Pick, pick, pick 4. ''A mouse!'' 27. For takeout 49. Qui vive
54. ''Taps'' necessities 5. Turn off the alarm 28. Ruth's mother- 51. Private reply,
56. Dramatis personae 6. ''What are we in-law maybe
57. Kin of bravo waiting for?'' 30. What a hog wants 52. Some choir
58. Be all leers 7. The ''E'' in QED 31. Keats creations members
59. Dentifrice 8. Tuck's partner 32. Mideast's Gulf of 53. They travel in
62. Speak like a tosspot 9. Drives --- formation
63. Twice halved 10. Just right 33. Site of the 1960 54. Petty officer, for
64. Parting word, somewhere 11. Penny purchase, Olympics short
65. No, somewhere once 34. Powerful adhesive 55. Far from fair
66. Time many chose to draw? 12. Lunch or brunch 36. Big failure 56. Designer Chanel
67. Odin's mythology 13. Eye sore 38. Jamaica's capital 60. Lennon's widow
39. Hosiery shade 61. Fuss

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Puzzle #72
Across
1. Platter spinner
5. Stomach complaint
10. __Vista: Internet search
engine
14. Mediterranean seaport
15. Nouveau __
16. Markers
17. Dramatic game enders
20. Not suitable
21. When doubled, la-di-da
22. Weighed down
23. Workmanship
25. Cooks' gadgets
27. Formal meals
32. Oklahoma city
33. Skyrocket
34. Exec's perk
35. Paper mates
37. Tibet's capital
39. Stadium grounds crew's
burden
43. Historic period
45. Knit one, __ two
47. Laura's husband in '60s TV
48. Problems in grammar class Down
52. Most likely winner
1. "__ Spent My 19. "Maria __": Jimmy 46. Smallest
53. Jump-starting org. Summer Vacation": Dorsey hit 48. Like many
54. Role first played on 1997 film 24. Like many local vacationers' autos
Broadway by 13-year-old Andrea 2. Persian Gulf land roads 49. Victorious WWII
McArdle
3. Onetime White 26. Microsoft reference force at Midway
55. Cooperstown's Mel House dog 27. Weaken 50. Like city traffic,
58. Kettle's place 4. Rubber stamp often
28. Ox tail?
62. Comedy club acts companion 51. One with a flag
29. Brown shade
65. Golf's Ballesteros 5. '70s pres. 52. Low men
30. Slangy refusal
66. Percentage taker monogram 56. Natural hist.
31. Hang loosely
67. Mayberry lush 6. Split museum attraction
36. Guard
68. Pastoral poem 7. Cinco y tres 57. Singer Tennille
38. Light source
69. Roker of ''The Jeffersons'' 8. Self-titled 2003 59. Informed of
40. Bow shape
70. Agnew's plea, briefly sitcom 60. Bridal wear
41. Caviar
9. Apollo vehicle, 61. It's a gas
42. "This Old House"
briefly 63. Former Mideast
airer
10. Pre-sortie signal alliance: Abbr.
44. Like judges
11. Frustrated shout 64. Sporty truck,
from the audience briefly
12. Stereo components
13. Leagues: Abbr.
18. Others, in Oaxaca

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Puzzle #73
Across
1. TV puppet of old
6. GWTW plantation
10. Picket line crosser
14. Legendary frontiersman
15. Served a winner
16. Verdi's ''Caro nome,'' e.g.
17. Hidden enemy
20. Sea bird
21. Available for retail
22. Enmities
25. Tennis period
26. It's made daily
27. Collection of stories
28. Kind of treat
30. Simon's verb
32. Cut
34. Bud's old pal
35. Pull, as ropes
36. Avocado
41. It's better than none
42. Big bird
43. Instruction at many a corner
45. Small amphibian
47. Formal affairs, usually
49. Sigma follower Down
50. Word with ''overboard'' 1. Broadcasting org. 18. Enjoy to excess 44. Place
51. ''So that's it!'' 2. Indefinite period 19. Arises 45. Tightly defined
53. On easy street 3. Part of a formal suit 22. Possesses 46. Register formally
55. Vex 4. Printing press part 23. Role for Jodie 47. Philter
58. Black 5. Ogled 24. Greek portico 48. Residential locale
59. Paul Hogan's 63-Across 6. ''The Hundred Secret 29. More baby-faced 50. Prefix with
63. Part Senses'' author 31. ''...for children of management
64. Oscar winner Crawford 7. Deeds all ---!'' 52. Muslim pilgrim
65. Walks like a tosspot 8. Go over again 33. Farm implement 54. Individualist
66. Birds of prey 9. Fred Astaire's sister 35. Took the trick 56. Chills
67. Hostelries 10. Warshawski creator 37. Completely 57. Vivacity
68. NW French port Paretsky 38. Melville novel 60. Print distances
11. Testy 39. Participant 61. Hollow center?
12. Nuptial paths 40. Horse color 62. Time zone
13. Headquartered

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Puzzle #74
Across
1. Ruler of Qatar
5. Divan
9. Cousins of the elites
14. Fancy fabric
15. OT book
16. Apple variety?
17. Prominent periods
18. String instrument
19. Bottled spirit
20. Ocean racers
23. Dogged
24. "Now do you believe me?"
25. H, in Greece
27. First appearance
28. Fantastic but vain hope
31. Southdown male
32. Engraved stamp
33. Chic
34. End of a hammerhead
36. State of constant change
37. Stands by for
40. Fixed cost
41. Way or wife beginning
44. Golf scoring format
46. Like an old bagel Down
48. Works in the Prado 1. College member 21. Soak thoroughly 40. Motley mix
49. "___ the ramparts . . ." who votes for president 22. Bailey of the 41. A feeling of
50. Blanche's sister 2. Islands explored by comics discomfort
51. Like a blimp Magellan in 1521 26. Ms. Vanderbilt 42. Not permitted
55. Tropical eel or Scottish 3. Early 20th century 28. Word with bobby 43. Most precious
county poetry movement or clothes 45. Looked askance
56. ___ avis 4. Used car deal 29. R&B's ___ Hill 46. B&O stop
57. Heading on Santa's list 5. Hoarded 30. Much-studied T. 47. Court sport
58. Lineage 6. Skip 32. Totalitarian ruler 50. What some trees
59. Antiquated oath 7. It's played under the 34. Photo provide
60. Mythical fertility goddess table 35. Ordinal number 52. Dumbarton denizen
61. Bewilder 8. In dreamland suffix 53. Robert Louis
62. Feature of St. Peter's 9. When doubled, a 36. Whimsical Stevenson villain
63. Stone paving block Pacific capital 37. M.D.'s org. 54. Airport conveyance
10. Start of an 38. Would-be dictator 55. Corp. exec's
invention 39. Dressed degree
11. Soldier's flask
12. 1997 Spielberg
movie
13. NNW's antithesis

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Puzzle #75
Across
1. City near Brigham City
6. Central idea
11. Driver's helper
14. Distress signal
15. Blood line
16. Dead-end job
17. Instant message between
you and 3 friends?
19. Coffee server
20. Abate
21. Great time or great noise
22. Winter warmer
24. Oppressors
26. Kind of top
27. Pendulum direction?
28. Some crime lab jobs
32. Lane associate
35. Big gulp
36. Iridescent stone
37. When repeated, a food fish
38. Some mall rats
39. Writer Ephron
40. Beginning on
41. Revolutionary with a regret
42. Alluded to Down
43. Toy for indoor play 1. Did in, mob-style 18. Sax type 42. Surprise blessing
45. Ball chaser? 2. Schoolroom spinner 23. Mano a mano 44. Use the Web
46. Actress Hatcher 3. Paints amateurishly 25. Michelle of "I Am 45. Kind of surgery
47. Trials 4. "To ___ is human Sam" 47. Chamber work
51. Animated pet dog ..." 26. Readies for sale 48. Squirrel's treat
53. "Star Wars" director 5. Recent arrival 28. Reside 49. "___ Entertain
55. Bus. bigwig 6. Yucatan natives 29. Number of Muses You"
56. Court 7. Klutz's cry 30. Skater Lipinski 50. 1960 Everly
57. Tea kettles, perhaps 8. Bouncy gait 31. Narrow strip Brothers hit
60. Chalet backdrop 9. Where-at link 32. Arabian Sea 51. Not home, on a
61. Intuition 10. Moneybags sultanate sports schedule
62. Bellini opera 11. Interstate diner, 33. Perform high-tech 52. Dover export
63. "Indubitably" perhaps surgery 53. Word before dance
64. Wield, as force 12. Continental cash 34. Halters, e.g. or drive
65. Made it through crunch 13. Italian volcano 35. Notary's tool 54. Cold War rival
time? 38. Bangkok resident (Abbr.)
58. Spell
59. Luau dish

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Puzzle #76
Across
1. Potatoes alternative
6. Delhi prince
10. Subject to a library fine
14. Parting word
15. "American __"
16. Representative symbol
17. Body of principles
18. Position of prominence
20. Whine
22. Kind of price
23. Before, of yore
25. Position of prominence
29. Deplorable
31. Was introduced to
32. Convert to leather, as hide
33. Granada's region
36. Source of moos or baas
37. Position of prominence
40. China landmark
43. Acid rain component
47. Galoot
48. "Let's call __ day!"
50. Under consideration
51. Position of prominence
55. Sit-up beneficiaries Down
56. __-sea 1. D.C. lobbying gp. 23. Notable time 45. Take into custody
57. River rompers 2. Wash. neighbor 24. Flow like water 46. Cobb and
59. Position of prominence 3. Paint oil source 26. It may have Pennington
62. Freed of leaves 4. Long time attachments 48. "What a crock!"
65. Turkish coin 5. Title word in a song 27. Toothy fish 49. Pope's silk scarf
66. Proctor's purlieu that begins, "Some 28. Finale 52. Of the kidneys
67. Clear the tape think the world is made 30. Trip follower 53. Boston airport
68. Wiesbaden wheels for fun and frolic" 34. Flower leaf 54. Agenda details
69. Pins on the far right 6. Come to fruition 35. UN workers agcy. 58. Like valued old
70. Body shop concerns 7. Former minor 36. URL initials books
8. Heist, say 38. Flash of light 59. "Alice" spin-off
9. Seductive quality 39. Yearned (for) 60. Hurtle
10. Legal 40. Is no longer 61. Dismiss from the
11. Overlay material 41. Right-on staff
12. Trifle (with) 42. Galena, for one 63. Pa. hours
13. Benz- finish 44. Like malamutes 64. __ Plaines
19. Sci. society
21. Whence the uvula
dangles

78
Puzzle #77
Across
1. Cairo's river
5. Wooded recess
10. Cantata composer
14. Actor Jannings
15. "Swell!"
16. Golfer Aoki
17. Vacation postcard sentiment
#1
20. Like beer from the tap
21. Gave lip to
22. Suffix with ox- or sulf-
23. Nabisco cracker
25. "The Teflon Don" John __
28. What an MC wears
29. Did some sniggling
34. Avail oneself of
35. Cold symptoms
38. Not on time
39. Vacation postcard sentiment
#2
42. Brother of Abel
43. Campaign fund feeder
44. Sea dog
45. Online giant whose name is
shouted in ads
Down
47. "__War": Shatner novel
1. Radar's quaff, on 23. Restored to its 49. Fungus-alga union
48. "Family Ties" mother
"M*A*S*H" original position, as a 51. Like fudge
50. Matured fallen lamp
2. Colorful computer 52. Hex
52. Inflation stat. 24. Online bill-paying
3. Not on tape 53. Skater Michelle
53. Sticky-fingered type method
4. Evoke 54. Low-cal
57. Hostess product 25. Courageous
5. Viewpoint 55. Villa d'__
61. Vacation postcard sentiment 26. "Ulysses" (1967)
6. Try for a part 56. "Cool," updated
#3 star Milo
7. Tea container 57. Coin with Lincoln's
64. "__ boy!" 27. Gears and gums
8. Oklahoma native profile
65. Waist-length jackets have them
9. Perch 58. Aviator's prefix
66. Emerald Isle 28. Change in form
10. Tiny amounts 59. Kristofferson of
67. Depilatory brand 30. North Pole denizen
11. Yard sale caveat "Blade" films
68. "Fiddler on the Roof" 31. Nonclergy
12. Made the trip 60. Start of a counting
meddler 32. Lab burners
13. Weeded, in a way rhyme
69. Like 68-Across 33. Big name in farm
18. "Not gonna 62. Sport __: off-road
equipment transport
happen!"
36. Hardly the graceful 63. Carried the day
19. Stupefied state
type
37. Lady of Sp.
40. Reporter's query
41. Eurasian treeless
plain
46. Like some cereals

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Puzzle #78
Across
1. Planets, e.g.
5. Prefix meaning ''straight''
10. Divination practitioner
14. Cheese concoction
15. Revolutionary patriot Allen
16. Like a Tussaud figure
17. Lady Remington rival
18. Get the ball rolling
19. One of the Great Lakes
20. NEWS
23. August zodiac sign
24. Med school subj.
25. MONEY
33. Sphere or system starter
34. Prepare for cooking, as
potatoes
35. Saw wood, so to speak
36. Blockheads
38. Police leader, once
41. Gill opening
42. Fibber's admission
44. Takes a turn
46. Climber of small hills
47. SPORTS
51. Plane section Down
52. Variety of whale 1. Old Dodge model 21. Cradle grain 43. Pass out hands
53. LIFE 2. 500, to a stationer 22. Car cleaning aids, 45. Start a lawn
61. Substitute in the kitchen 3. Plane on a radar briefly 48. Qatari currencies
62. Home in the mountains screen 25. They may be full of 49. Even though
63. Get wind of 4. Walk in the park baloney 50. Dark times
64. Mideast gulf or port 5. Brings back 26. Eye, in 53. Shaving facilitator
65. First name among the 6. Blues singer James combinations 54. Last name in
''Dynasty'' cast 7. Jackie of action films 27. Mr. Spock's forte classic TV sitcoms
66. Barbershop request 8. Kilt pattern 28. ''Quiet on the ___!'' 55. Competition
67. ''Welcome'' sites 9. Mean 29. Correct a tire pull 56. D-Day river
68. Product of Bethlehem 10. Adds, as to the pot 30. Strikeout king Ryan 57. White House
69. Lab reagent 11. Merit 31. Singer Lopez staffer
12. Noteworthy hotel 32. Paving stones 58. Start for ballistic or
sign 37. 20, 25, 47 and dynamic
13. Bread and whisky 53-Across, e.g. 59. Alice, on ''The
39. Unspoken assent Brady Bunch''
40. Heeds Dr. Phil 60. Funny Bombeck

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Puzzle #79
Across
1. Knuckleheads
6. Taps with a sword
10. Clicker's picture
14. Dead to the world
15. Pale brown
16. Puppy pickup point
17. Davis of "Commander in
Chief"
18. Take laborious steps
19. Hardware item
20. Distributing rabbit's-foot
charms?
22. Pianist Myra
23. React to pollen, perhaps
24. Data storage units
26. Licorice flavoring
29. Perceptive
32. Follower of 'N or lip
36. Machu Picchu builder
37. Nike's swoosh, et al.
38. Get the lions working
together?
41. Do-___ situation
42. Geometry calculation
43. 1962 James Bond film
Down
44. Swarms
1. Actor Taye of "Rent" 13. Is left with 40. Keep an ___ the
45. Full of good cheer
2. "There's ___ every 21. Guardian spirits ground
47. Black tea from Sri Lanka
crowd!" 25. Baby's dusting 46. Nosy Parkers
49. Blue book filler
3. Source of irritation 27. Not really 48. Poseidon's place
54. Kitty's comment
4. Journalist Pyle 28. Period of panic 50. What the nose
56. The sound of ordinary knows
5. Part in a song 30. Minor municipality
crows?
6. "Ed Wood" star 31. Gas brand in 51. Ballroom dance
59. Rick's "Casablanca" love
Johnny Canada 52. "The Seven Year
60. Oklahoma city on the Itch" costar Tom
7. The Bruins of the 32. Dundee denizen
Cherokee Strip
NCAA 33. Times past 53. Rival of Helena
61. Group belief
8. Bully 34. Bottle type 54. Piggy's title
62. Hood's blade
9. Like a bubble bath 35. Outburst of outlaw 55. Pertaining to most
63. "___ fair in love ..." students
10. One way to be left activity
64. Try for trout out 57. Wire diameter units
39. Newspaper
65. Web spot 11. Sweetener that 58. Retailer's gds.
department
66. NASDAQ counterpart can't be beet?
67. Purloined 12. Magnum follower

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Puzzle #80
Across
1. Show __
4. Cruise stopovers
9. Klutzy
14. Debt to be paid
15. Trigger's greeting
16. "When pigs fly!"
17. Wise bird
18. Tact
20. Spa rooms with heated
stones
22. Snick-or-__
23. Average grade
24. "National Velvet" writer
Bagnold
26. Plumed waders
28. Hardly diner grub
32. Hwy. mishap respondent
33. "Jeopardy!" millionaire
Jennings
34. Vaughan of jazz
37. Friars Club event
40. Kids' running game
42. Place
44. Wool source
46. Actress Vardalos
Down
48. "Spring ahead" hrs.
1. Book jacket briefs 21. New Jersey cager 47. Unsuccessful
49. Full discretionary power
2. Corn Belt state 25. Steve and Eydie contender
53. One of two evils
3. Bantu language number 50. Swaps
55. Exxon predecessor
speaker 27. Architect Saarinen 51. Quakers in the
56. Snaky swimmer forest?
4. Wacko 28. "And I Love __":
57. Stew veggies Beatles hit 52. Ready alternative
5. Suffering from mal
59. Science of light and vision de mer 29. Hebrew prophet 53. Clues, to a
63. Life purpose 6. Actress Tyler 30. 67-Across neighbor dectective
66. Flyspeck 7. Self-images 31. Like poppycock 54. Inventor Howe
67. Oregon neighbor 8. Gleams 35. Elec. letters 56. Buffalo's lake
68. Fictional Frome 9. Hellish 36. "Be quiet!" 58. Adam's third son
69. Historical segment 10. PBS funder 38. Jiffs 60. Brainstorm
70. German industrial city 11. Throw out 39. Measured dose 61. Groan-evoking
71. Abstains from 12. French fathers 41. Taunt humor
72. Whatever 13. Birch or alder 43. Fr. holy woman 62. Remain
19. First name in talk 45. Fuss over one's 64. Any ship
shows feathers 65. Wed. follower

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Puzzle #81
Across
1. Little whirler
10. Glacial erosion result: Var.
15. Behind closed doors
16. Longtime Moore costar
17. Material prone to
meltdowns?
18. Brisk
19. With reverence
20. Where to get a good deal
22. Avis, formerly?
23. Costa del __
24. Spring (for)
25. Shankar, notably
29. For each one
32. Level borders?
33. A fan of
34. Kept away
35. Prepared
37. Elmore Leonard's "Get __"
40. California's __ Valley
41. MPG monitor
44. "Get a bang out of life"
product
45. Dock-destroying rodent
47. Had one's cake Down
48. "__ questions?"
1. Get rid (of) 14. Unmoved 41. Religious recluse
50. Prefix with ballistic
2. Rude 21. Joe Namath's alma 42. Balcony barrier
51. Simpson attorney Robert mater
3. Develops quickly 43. Make-up artists?
54. Sailor 23. Pays a visit
4. Major shock 46. They follow iotas
57. Gave an edge to 26. Noosed rope
5. Market fluctuations 49. Impossible
58. Hookah, e.g. 27. 2005 17-race series
6. Good opponent 52. Skin
60. Ezio's "South Pacific" role 28. Montreal map abbr.
7. Change 53. Ominous time in
61. One working on camels 30. Kind of button old literature
8. Nagano Olympic
62. Accommodates, in a way cauldron lighter 31. Return letters 54. Marginal note
63. Accounting figure 9. Slow, to Salieri 35. "I pity the fool" 55. "__ Rebel": 1962
10. Canine speaker hit
11. Horned goddess 36. Short, in short 56. Annoys
12. In theory 37. Hoards 59. It can't be returned
13. Succeed 38. Struck a chord
39. "1984" setting

83
Puzzle #82
Across
1. Make casseroles
5. Coral formations
10. Caffeine's effect
14. Postmortem bio
15. Maker of silver linings?
16. Hungarian politico Nagy
17. Andrew's nickname
19. Type of miss
20. Able to bounce back
21. Once more
22. Desktop image
23. Unisex skirts
25. Lbs. and ozs.
27. Gown designer Wang
30. ''I want a doggy biscuit!''
31. Card player's cry
33. Love, Spanish-style
35. Influence
39. River near Kassel, Germany
40. Henry's nickname
41. Andy's TV son
42. Fledgling
43. Eight states touch it (Abbr.)
44. Church areas
45. Wine label word Down
47. Fight for breath 1. Party pooper 18. ''___ Lucy'' 44. Speed skater Ohno
49. Super Bowl stats 2. Up to the job 21. Airport monitor info 46. Took off
50. Muscle mag cover story, 3. Serena, to Venus 24. Seniors org. 48. California peak
perhaps 4. Value system 25. Sharpen 50. Tale with a point
54. Monk's head cover 5. City near Milwaukee 26. Neaten 51. Harry Hamlin
56. Man Bonds is chasing 6. Sommer of film 28. ''Seabiscuit'' vehicle
57. Swell event? 7. Wharton School nail-biter 52. Cropped up
62. Amorphous form subj. 29. In the company of 53. Part of a barrel
63. Like the people in today's 8. Garrisons 32. Reggie's nickname 55. Possessed
theme 9. Put into words 34. The last Mrs. 58. ''___ See Clearly
64. Emit coherent light 10. Michael's nickname Chaplin Now''
65. ___-garde 11. ''Y'know what 36. Words to a baby 59. Designer label
66. Old station identification ___?'' on the rise? letters
67. Still life object 12. Jenny with the diet 37. Emulated Pinocchio 60. Still life object
68. Lotte of ''From Russia With program 38. It's said to be more 61. Seth's boy
Love'' 13. Typeface 40. Ticket's end 63. Carrier to Tokyo
69. Yarn colorings extensions

84
Puzzle #83
Across
1. Uncovered
5. College subj.
10. Tough time for Caesar
14. NASCAR track
15. Actress Maureen
16. Knotty swelling
17. Fourth of July dessert
19. City slicker
20. CEO, e.g.
21. Wee bit
22. ''Ditto,'' in footnotes
23. Italian autos, familiarly
26. Where you might see
Brownies with brownies
28. Like a famous falcon
30. Checkout nuisance
31. Orchestra member
32. Take in
35. Bulletin board necessities
38. This instant!
39. Subject of this puzzle
41. Dogg tracks
42. Avian diver
44. Truck stop sight
45. Yellow Brick Road follower Down
46. 1990 pennant winner 1. Present decoration 18. Shine's partner 43. Scolds
48. Give Mom some time off 2. Frank's second 23. In the middle of 45. Pacific threat
50. Powell or Rumsfeld 3. Gnawing problem? 24. Blood, sweat and 47. Rubbernecked
54. Church areas 4. Lift tears 49. Gala gathering
55. ''I told you so!'' 5. Display of grandeur 25. Hippie 50. Ignominy
56. Fish and chips follower, 6. That vessel 26. Wampum units 51. Cancel the
sometimes 27. Venue reservations
7. Site of 1945 Big
57. Result of burnout? Three meeting 29. Bishop's bailiwick 52. One way to look
58. Squabbling 8. Speak hoarsely 33. 66, e.g. (Abbr.) 53. Make merry
59. Hippo 9. ''Hallelujah'' chorus 34. ''Anywhere else!'' 57. Bohemian
64. Unit of distance composer acronym 60. Historical period
65. Champion with a 10. Role for Harrison 36. Couric of the news 61. Possible result of a
two-handed backhand 11. Betray 37. Some are blind sacrifice
66. Toe the line 12. WWI ace 39. Eliot's Adam 62. Not sweet, as wine
67. Means' justifiers Rickenbacker 40. Woody's ex 63. Peeper
68. Rain result, on some fields 13. Does a farm job
69. Charming

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Puzzle #84
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1. Like some heads
5. "___ silly question ..."
9. Uncomfortable neckwear
14. "I cannot tell ___"
15. Fireside event
16. Plied the oars
17. Come to terms, with
considerable effort
19. Arcade pioneer
20. Emigre's purchase?
22. Pluck
25. "God ___ our side"
26. Slow start?
27. Puzzled comments
28. [Link].'s inferior
31. Type of tin
33. Solidifies
35. Flavorful dish
41. Craft symbolizing a long
wait
43. Horses bred by the Nez
Perce
44. "Chestnuts roasting ___
open fire"
45. Word between here and
Down
there
46. Telecom giant 1. "Fat chance!" 21. Highest of all 47. Just beat
48. Greek vowel 2. In the manner of 22. "The Gondoliers" 49. Thickheaded
3. Goblet part girl 50. Change
49. Brief party label
4. Possessive spirit 23. Sassy youth requirement,
52. Fool
5. God's ___ 24. Put ___ to (halt) sometimes
55. Beginnings of some pranks
(churchyard) 29. "Burn rubber!" 51. Extremely tiny
57. Preplanned funeral?
6. Tell partner 30. "Later" 53. "Live and Let Die"
61. Chip type
7. The "Garden Isle" 32. Reverberation villain
62. Covered expenses
8. Firm parts, briefly 34. Stately swimmer 54. "Je ___ francais"
66. "Skedaddle"
9. Comic book villain 36. WWII boats 56. Mayle's "___ in
67. "Nasty" netman Provence"
10. Campus mil. group 37. Dateless
68. General helper 58. Comparative
11. No longer out 38. Legendary Pirates
69. Some collars connector
12. Roman goddess of slugger Ralph
70. Fathoms 59. "There's nothing
agriculture 39. Growing outward
71. Squiggly music symbol ___!"
13. Rewrites 40. ___ an
independent 60. Achieves with
18. MIT grads
(campaigned, in a way) effort (with "out")
42. Comes into one's 63. Contend
own 64. The Begleys
65. The puck stops
here

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Puzzle #85
Across
1. Certain house of worship
5. Neeson of ''Nell''
9. Gov. division
13. Artist Bonheur
14. Tart role for Shirley
15. Spreads on bread
17. Cooler cousin
19. Magus gift
20. Sufficiently cooked
21. Alpha's follow-up
23. 1992 skating medalist
24. Just when expected
26. Building protrusion
28. All the worse for shouting
30. No matter who
31. Bobby of the Bruins
32. Steep rocks
35. Tend to the batter
36. Lopsided court count
39. Sol's beginning?
42. Black suit component
43. Commencement wear
46. Mint order?
49. Unfortunate bottom line
51. Fresh from the oven Down
54. Tot's truck, perhaps 1. ___ Lanka 22. Former U.S. carrier 43. Take in
55. Addams family cousin 2. Ad ___ committee 24. ''So that's your 44. Quiz
56. Sticky gunk 3. Classified item, often game!'' 45. Largest book of the
57. Does a dog trick 4. Tony Blair's party 25. Here / there OT
58. Reprove 5. Cause of some head separator 47. Take in
60. Event for Jesse Owens scratching 26. Young fussbudgets 48. Prima donna's
64. She raises a racket 6. Bug 27. Wall St. landmark problem
65. Gear for a trireme 7. Jellylike blob 29. Mess up 50. Bottleneck
66. Girlfriend, in French 101 8. Tony Blair's chum 33. Rook 52. Vagrants
67. It'll make you pull up stakes 9. Field of influence 34. Partiality 53. Sethe portrayer in
68. Ayatollah's predecessor 10. TV's Tarzan 36. Centers of ''Beloved''
69. Heart and soul 11. Green gem attention 57. Shindig
12. Ice cream 37. Beethoven's ''___ 59. Lion's locale
confection to Joy'' 61. ''... a man ___
16. Surprise for the 38. Examined carefully mouse?''
bride 39. Jelled juices 62. Hamm of soccer
18. World org. based in 40. Disparaging fame
Paris nickname 63. Four-footed friend
41. T. Rex, for one

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Puzzle #86
Across
1. Chronicles
6. Puzzle type
12. Progress
14. Showed displeasure
16. Barge helper
17. Onetime Elton John
collaborator
18. Long Island university
19. Godzilla creator
20. Batter's aid
21. They're often early risers
22. Athletic reward
23. High-pressure venue
24. Shogun stronghold
25. Imp
27. Excite
28. Member of the 1983 NBA
champs
30. Put under
34. Chest material
36. Intricate pattern
39. 1950s Screen Actors Guild
president
41. Constellation formerly part
of Argo
Down
43. Adds to the staff
1. Scrutinized 12. Clip alternative 35. Dump
44. Measures of discrimination
2. Silver: Prefix 13. Commotion 36. Stable visitors
45. Used a shuttle
3. Traditional gravy 15. American 37. Beg
46. __ Mill
ingredient revolutionary who 38. Dog named for its
47. Not at all consistent
4. Assumed recruited Lafayette low stature
49. "Carmen" author
5. Sluglike mollusks 21. In bundles 39. Bouzouki and
50. New venture
6. It was Idlewild until 23. Rigs mandola
51. Ogle
12/24/63 26. Shortcomings 40. Third digit
52. Most artful
7. Eye inflammation 29. Court game 42. Stop working
53. Lost one's balance?
8. Open racers 30. Hits the road 44. Beliefs
9. Trick 31. Pulpitlike 48. Cmdr.'s superior
10. Bay of Bengal's __ 32. Indivisible
Islands 33. Montreal daily
11. Time for a getaway

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Puzzle #87
Across
1. Site of the Taj Mahal
5. Faux --- (blunder)
8. "Edward Scissorhands" star
12. Tries for the prize
13. Exhorts
15. Malarial fever
16. Start of a Yogi Berra quip
19. Disco guy on "The
Simpsons"
20. Hooded snake
21. Weigh heavily on
22. Jr.'s son
23. Poison ivy problem
25. Darling
26. U.S. visitor since 1976
27. Part 2 of the quip
31. Once again
32. Highway bailout
33. Society newsmaker
34. Low point
36. Choose
38. Lacquer ingredient
42. --- cit. (where cited)
44. "___-la-la!"
46. Puerto --- Down
47. Part 3 of the quip 1. Ovid's bird 17. Manhattan border 43. Officers in training
52. Time of note 2. Kind of wrap river 45. Souped-up wheels
53. Nice notion? 3. Came full circle 18. City in SW England 47. Short-legged
54. Musical Tommy 4. Grate stuff 24. Freely hound
55. Irving or Grant 5. Make ready 25. Ranch hand 48. "Knight Without
56. Circus safeguard 6. Long trailer 27. Pallid ---" (1937 Marlene
57. Blow it 7. Nasal partition 28. Santa --- wind Dietrich film)
58. Good place to get in hot 8. '50s sitcom staple 29. Soft murmur 49. Hen's work
water 30. King of the fairies, 50. Upgrade the
9. Snob
61. End of the quip in folklore machinery
10. Discipline
65. Debussy's "Clair de ---" 35. Rodeo feat 51. Baby's output
11. Fashionably small
66. Silence breaker 37. Truck scale unit 57. Sicilian landmark
13. End result
67. Became frayed 39. Supplement to the 59. A Dumas
14. On the agenda
68. Cartesian conjunction main event 60. Revival cry
69. Grassy expanse 40. Hostile, as a 62. Prefix with classic
70. Apt name for a guy in debt? reception 63. "A Boy Named ---"
41. Turn-downs 64. Afternoon hour

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Puzzle #88
Across
1. Prepare to wash, perhaps
5. Erases a debt
9. Old hat
14. Remorseful soul
15. Supplier in many cartoons
16. Ignore in pronunciation
17. Couch potato's workout
result
18. Bad habit
19. Burdened
20. What a mishandled debate
can lead to
23. Microscopic bit
24. One of a personal trio
25. Good host's offering
30. Kept secret
33. Or --- (bully's words)
34. Christmas card greeting
35. Low, marshy land
37. The Fed's Greenspan
38. Henry VIII family name
40. European connection?
41. Upper --- (now Burkina
Faso)
43. Judicious
Down
44. ''Take ---!''
1. Mex. mama 21. Haul out to the 47. End of an accord?
45. Some Trekkie costumes
2. Hard-hitting garage 48. Faux follower
46. Rabble-rouser's trademark
response? 22. Lapidary item 49. Hunter's set-up
49. Box office warning
3. Practice sessions 25. Interlace 51. Take the bait
50. Old salts
4. Doctor's specialty 26. Mete out 52. Functions
51. Zealot's motivation
5. It's right off Main 27. It might make you 53. Phooey!
58. Stern with a bow Street, really a nit-picker 54. Tickled pink
59. Pirates' pelf 6. Battery fluid 28. Iowa river with a 55. Scrutinize (with
60. Barrymore's ''--- After'' 7. Community org. rapids ''over'')
62. Colorful aquarium fish since 1844 29. Method conclusion? 56. Superior
63. Ponte Vecchio river 8. Carson's Carnac, for 30. Discusses in detail 57. Nautilus captain
64. Trucker's wheels one 31. Pelvis-related 61. Disembarrass
65. German city on the Ruhr 9. Downpours 32. Fate of Miller's
66. Profound 10. Memorable mission salesman
67. Walked on 11. Surfer's concern 36. Most diluted
12. London hero 39. Break for the driver
13. Bad impression? 42. Nelson Mandela,
e.g.

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Puzzle #89
Across
1. Toaster style
6. Party type
10. Peaked
14. Animal with striped legs
15. Head of France
16. Rodriguez behind the plate
17. U.S. coin word
18. Suspicious of
19. Wither
20. Gal of song
21. Hollywood investment
24. Transforms cod into bacalao
25. 747 kitchen
26. Ms. Lansbury
29. Be revolting?
30. Collector's ultimatum
33. Dallas inst.
36. Lawyer Dershowitz
37. Be under the weather
38. Famous septet
39. Soak
40. Impersonal mail
44. Treats hides
45. More cruel
46. Attack Down
49. Oriental 1. Kitchenware 23. Relaxation 42. Ludwig or Jannings
51. Gridiron goof 2. Gumbo 24. Leo's son, the actor 43. Shredded and
53. Russian fighter 3. ''Apostle to the 26. Distant bagged item
56. Sweet sandwich Gentiles'' 27. Battle of the ___, 44. Small drums
57. Bedouin 4. FedEx rival 1798 46. In advance
58. Gray's churchyard poem 5. Trap 28. Punkie 47. More certain
60. Bring up 6. Ermine 29. Lunar valley 48. Apply lipstick
61. Urn 7. Big tops 31. Skiff propellers poorly
62. Fabulist 8. Aleutian isle 32. Young Cratchit 49. Humiliate
63. Slips up 9. Virgil work 33. Observed 50. It has a duel
64. Pitcher 10. Nonsense 34. Stable mom purpose
65. They may be allayed 11. Do the trick 35. Cold War concern 52. Tie
12. Big dipper? 38. Getz on the sax 53. New Mexico
13. One on a Nixon list 40. Pass alternative silhouette
22. Gung-ho spirit 41. Vacationing 54. Inventor Sikorsky
55. Shortchanges
59. Lighthorse Harry

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Puzzle #90
Across
1. Unload, as stock
5. After-bath powders
10. Planted listening devices
14. Cream-filled cookie
15. Henri's school
16. Slender woodwind
17. Milk-Bone product
19. State of mind
20. State positively
21. All wet
23. Sharp weapon
26. Egg hunt holiday
27. Bring to a halt
30. Main church section
31. Letters for lawyers
32. Not imaginary
34. Columbia launch gp.
36. Personal instructor
40. Gives four stars to, say
42. Synonym for the first words
of 17- and 65-Across and 10-
and 33-Down
43. Noncom nickname
44. Snail mail need
45. Outback birds Down
47. "Doggone it!"
1. Teetotaler's order 18. Afghanistan 46. Cat breed
48. Stable tidbit neighbor
2. Greek god of love 49. Seafood sauce
50. Whitney and Wallach 22. Doesn't have a
3. Baby grand supports 51. Linger
52. Parakeet, perhaps thing
4. Pierced places 53. Put to shame
53. Plan for the meeting 24. Give the slip
5. Anti-nuke pact 54. WWII enlistee
56. Utter 25. Job application
6. UNC's conference 55. Rub out
58. Audubon Society members attachments
7. Comic Costello 57. What a pass
60. Hall of Famer Mickey 27. Goes astray provides
8. Muse of history
64. Not quite closed 28. Without ice 59. "Without a doubt"
9. Prearranged price
65. Ragtime dance 29. Facts and figures 61. The Stooges, for
10. Police unit with
68. Run-of-the-mill canines 33. Slightly sour candy one
69. Sign after Pisces 11. WWII attacker 35. Chaperone, usually 62. "Get a load of
70. Mob scene 12. V-formation flier 37. Golfer's hazard that!"
71. Dickens's Uriah 13. Passover 38. Cruel character 63. Kitchen add-on
72. Try another shade celebration 39. Use U-Haul, e.g. 66. Disencumber
73. Oxen's harness 41. Garden tool 67. Door opener

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Puzzle #91
Across
1. Engaged in battle
6. Tiny tiff
10. Bloke
14. Egypt's capital
15. La Scala solo
16. Was a passenger
17. Spicy condiment
19. Leak slowly
20. Double curve
21. Word before spirit or sport
22. Subdued shade
24. Demeanor
25. Dairy animals
26. Hawaii component
29. Dresses to the nines
32. Forest clearing
33. Fortune's partner
34. Turkey __: dance
36. Amazed expressions
37. Stepford women
38. Allergic reaction
39. Univ. recruiter
40. Came down
41. Prove false
42. Oceangoing thieves Down
44. Takes care of 1. Flu symptom 18. Gardener's buy 41. Hotel helper
45. Connive with, as a crook 2. Southwestern art 23. Hole-punching tool 43. 1860s nickname
46. Chamberlain of the NBA center 24. Frantic situation 44. River residue
47. Hot season 3. Clever people 25. Cleanser brand 46. Cries
50. Spill the beans 4. Lever on a casino 26. Composer 47. Fishtail on ice
51. Air gun pellets "bandit" Stravinsky 48. Remove, as a knot
54. Radio dial 5. Everyday procedure 27. "__ John B": Beach 49. Caster of nocturnal
55. Strep symptom 6. Beelzebub Boys hit beams
58. Worshiped celeb 7. Bristol baby buggy 28. Christine of 50. Difficult journey
59. "__ your chin up!" 8. Beach ball filler "Chicago Hope" 51. Wild hog
60. Fictional plantation family 9. Future frogs 29. CSA president 52. Sound from a
name 10. Intersecting Jefferson __ hound
61. Finished roadway 30. Europe/Asia divider 53. Hang around
62. Annoys 11. Yowl from an owl 31. Take as a given 56. Above, in poetry
63. Petunia's boyfriend 12. Axe relative 33. Boneless cut 57. Pi follower
13. Shed a sunburn 35. Lieutenant Kojak,
to friends
37. Enjoy the lake, in a
way

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Puzzle #92
Across
1. Some boxes
6. Tupperware sound
10. Turnpike concern
14. Tons
15. Grandson of Abraham
16. Turkish dough
17. Stroke in a parlor, maybe
18. 1928 Oscar winner Jannings
19. Newsman Colmes
20. Satan?
23. Japanese honorific
24. They're highly
recommended
25. Stutz contemporary
26. Go down
28. Had the lead
32. Jolly rejoinder
34. Decorated, on a French
menu
35. Hoop edge
37. Java?
41. Eastern closer
42. Makes big strides
43. Super-duper
44. Sullied Down
46. Hung on to
1. Gentle ones 21. Alley in a cave 40. Rest
48. Meteor's tail?
2. "Butterfield 8" 22. Creepy 45. "Mail Order Bride"
49. Green target author actor
27. Rhubarb
50. Letters at sea 3. Common blessing 46. Reunion group
28. Divided in the
53. Lament at a second-rate 4. Bridge seat forest? 47. Calls the whole
horse farm? thing off
5. Apparel company 29. Singer's syllables
58. Betting group with the Axcelerate 49. Not in at all
30. Colonizer of
59. Mythical archer brand Greenland 51. Kind of circus
60. Big Apple restaurateur 6. Bellyaches 31. Break bread 52. Like a porcupine
61. Tough test 7. DDE's alma mater 32. "Carniv
" airer 53. Yawn inducer
62. Hebrew prophet 8. Commuter's option 54. Horse hue
33. Peepers, poetically
63. Strand at the chalet, maybe 9. Exercise one's 55. Humorist Bombeck
34. Rubberneck
64. Night star authority 56. Apollo 11
36. Brit. sports cars
65. Passing __ 10. Taste destination
38. Type type
66. NBC debut of 1/14/52 11. 1953 Leslie Caron 57. Home of Baylor
39. Successful
title role University
negotiation
12. Shrinking sea 58. Seat seeker, briefly
13. Neutral color

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Puzzle #93
Across
1. Black fly
5. Model wood
10. Russian despot
14. Starlet's quest
15. Gives off
16. Make a lasting impression?
17. Long narrative poem
18. Aluminum silicate minerals
19. Designate
20. City frequently in the news,
2003
23. Beverage choice
24. Banks of baseball
25. Being three in one
27. Flows out
30. More relaxed
33. The Greatest
36. They're made for walking
39. Belgium/France river
40. Behave!
44. Where Napoleon was exiled
45. Brings up
46. ''C'___ la vie!''
47. Extended family members
50. Mil. training Down
52. Bank worker 1. Diving bird 22. Status ___ 48. Building addition
55. ''Bellefleur'' author 2. Sort of stock 26. Twelve o'clock in 49. Lillehammer event
59. Talk at length 3. Finish a tire job the day 51. One of the three
61. West Coast center 4. He's into gadgets 28. Halloween haunted wise men
64. Peter Fonda role 5. Synagogue platform house sound 53. Steal away with
66. Slow-moving lemur 6. Surrounded by 29. Type of grapes? one's intended
67. Lima's land 7. On the up and up 31. Lawyers' abbr. 54. More scarce
68. At two-two, for one 8. Hall-of-Famer Bart 32. It's left (with ''the'') 56. ''___ Eyes'' (1969
69. Admits the first customers 9. Beset 33. Prayer ender hit)
70. Lost 10. Perfect score, for 34. Dietrich's Marlene 57. Sort of seal
71. Without some 35. Neither right nor 58. Part of a platoon
72. Combine 11. In the continental wrong 59. Protrudes
73. Funnyman Foxx U.S. 37. Uno e due 60. Inter ___
12. Summit 38. Box without 62. Kind of snake or
13. Flightless bird from harmful intentions crab
South America 41. Carp cousin 63. Latin being
21. Pat Boone's 42. Hit sign 65. They're handed
musical daughter 43. John Jacob sentences (Abbr.)

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Puzzle #94
Across
1. Butte relative
5. Game of chance
10. Alliance est. in 1949
14. Without any warranty
15. Shaq's surname
16. Table spread
17. On the pathway of
enticement
20. Caustic substance
21. Stuffed carnival prize,
perhaps
22. Relieves
23. What this gun's for?
24. Churlish one
26. Distinct feature
29. Word with bank or student
30. ___ canto
33. Barton or Bow
34. Boorish sort
35. Trunk of a tree
36. Pathway of the politically
moderate
39. They can be made to meet
40. Party favorites
41. Reach in amount
Down
42. It's the limit for some
1. Heavy hammer 19. Tube gas 43. It's home to Castro
43. Buffalo Bill
2. See at a distance 23. Range rovers 44. Use the clothesline,
44. Ascended
3. Planned setting 25. It may be taken e.g.
45. Major component of
4. Hearth bit with a Bible 45. Wound-up
soapstone
5. ''The Big Sleep'' star 26. Highest stages 46. Star in Cygnus
46. ''Gorillas in the Mist'' author
6. Nonsensical 27. Move like Morticia 47. Prepare for
Fossey
7. Uncool fellow 28. Type of wagon publication
47. Advances gradually
8. Movers, not shakers 29. Elevated 48. Blockhead
50. Out in the open
9. Flamenco 30. Timely blessings 49. ''Alice'' actress
52. Word in the Three
exclamation 31. Opposite of deject Verdon
Musketeers' motto
10. Stock designation 32. Teased, in a way 51. Start of a cheer
55. On the pathway of futility
11. ''Poor me'' 34. Hot pink, e.g. 52. Romeo lead-in
58. Day of March madness?
12. The head of Henri 35. You'll find one on 53. Mean partner
59. Generic dog name
13. Aahs' companion ice in Boston 54. Northern
60. From a considerable
18. Grand in scope 37. Hydroxyl-carbon constellation
distance
compound 56. Lifting device?
61. ''Don't use that ___ with
38. Book slips? 57. Rapid escape
me!''
62. ''The Sheik of ___''
63. ''Give that ___ cigar!''

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Puzzle #95
Across
1. Top of the line
5. Ghana's capital
10. Box office sign
13. Small suffix?
14. Electrician, at times
15. Portico
16. Merit
17. Important happening
18. Steam engine designer
James
19. Three possibilities for
40-across
22. It can be quite uplifting
23. Captain's record
24. Current measure
25. Gold medal skier Tommy
27. Tabby talk
29. Thick dictionary section
31. Toronto-to-Montreal dir.
34. Joy Adamson subject
36. Tourist's aid
38. ''Imagine'' songwriter
40. Proclamation from above
43. Type of baby in the news
44. Prefix with test Down
45. Weak poker hand
1. Complaint 20. Flood controller 48. Peak
46. African cobra
2. Plus everyone else 21. Canvas holder 50. Retiring
47. Shag rug made in Sweden
3. Three possibilities 25. Toast type 53. Homecoming
49. FedEx competitor for 40-across attendee
26. Butter alternatives
51. Porker's place 4. Andrea Bocelli, for 55. Flight component?
28. Scratchy board
52. Writing tablet one 57. Gladden
30. Insomniac's lack
54. Chi follower 5. Amazes 58. Bugler's call
32. Like seven Nolan
56. Cooped-up brooder 6. Ken Burns' subject Ryan games 59. Surveyor's measure
58. Four possibilities for 7. Statement of belief 33. Contest submission 60. Make the grade
40-across 8. Change one's tune 35. Spot for a money 61. Jerky joint
64. Bill of Rights defender 9. --- and sciences order? 62. Contemptible
65. For the second time 10. Four possibilities 37. Liveliness 63. Novelist Ferber
66. Like good wine and cheese for 40-across 39. Bit of a bite
67. Certain domain of a king 11. Grp. for a future 41. Targets of cattle
and queen general calls
68. Creator of banks in Paris? 12. Inauguration 42. Emotionally hurtful
69. Better safe --- sorry recitation
70. Put in rollers 15. Went for a dip
71. Suit fabric
72. Landmark that blew its top

97
Puzzle #96
Across
1. Shoots the breeze
5. Ocean catches
10. Remote stop?
13. In ___ (consecutively)
14. Tara family name
15. Critic's swipe
16. Mob's payment
18. Fir feature
19. '60s guru Timothy
20. Hairdo crushers
21. Coarse
22. Respect
24. Waited and wanted
26. Hindu creator
29. Provides with
32. Plagiarize
35. Pep rally cry
36. Psycho
37. Peyton Manning's brother
38. Sleep inducer
40. 2003 MVP Duncan's turf
41. Prods
43. Swell
44. Pain in the neck
45. Wise people Down
46. Hamper 1. Best actor for ''It 17. Batik artist 42. Do a slow burn
48. Long Happened One Night'' 23. Palenque dweller 44. Result of an
50. Jimmy's defeater 2. Van Gogh town 25. Schedule infraction
54. Consumer pitfall 3. Show displeasure, as 27. Cooped-up female 46. Turn upside down
56. Planetary path to a performer 28. Start of a famous 47. Small fishing boat
59. Comparatively crude 4. Had faith in palindrome 49. Cavorts
60. Bryce Canyon site 5. Thumb, for one 30. Dollops 51. Apprised
61. Nostalgic destination 6. Bad thing to hear at 31. Sing nonsense 52. Bolshevik hero
63. Marathoner's concern a checkup syllables 53. Bottom-of-the-
64. One of the deadly sins 7. Neverland outsider 32. Elementary grades barrel stuff
65. Where you might get a tan? 8. ''Queen of Soul'' 33. Gymnast Korbut 54. Chump
66. White-rumped westerner Franklin 34. One way to ride 55. Relative of etc.
67. Don Quixote's Rosinante, 9. Authority 36. Supreme Being 57. Fontainebleau
e.g. 10. Euphoric state 38. He smacked 66 in friend
68. Hankerings 11. Cigar collectible '98 58. Metallic deposit
12. Neverland bad guy 39. Cleaning 62. Checkers side
15. Sun or smoke implement
follower

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Puzzle #97
Across
1. "___ lively!"
5. It's a blast
9. Kent, York, or Edinburgh
14. Shepherd
15. Ancient mariner?
16. Come after
17. Play by play
20. Legless lizards, e.g.
21. Short-order order, for short
22. Play by play by play
30. "Don't move!"
31. Takes an evening course?
32. Sound upstairs
33. Downwind
34. Yalta's peninsula
36. Play by play by play
41. Put or call
42. "Star Trek II: The Wrath of
___"
43. Laser light
44. Guiding light?
45. High-hat
49. Play by play by play
53. Sky lion
54. Poi party porch Down
55. Play by play 1. Soda sippers' 23. "80's Ladies" singer 44. "Exactly!"
62. Stag film? suckers K.T. 45. Makes fresh
63. Hodgepodge 2. Setting for "The 24. She's sorry now salmon?
64. Mushers' March mecca Tempest"? 25. Address 46. Inuit star of a 1922
65. Word before needle or 3. "Bewitched" witch 26. "Like that would documentary
probe 4. Sean Combs, by ever happen!" 47. Outfit for G.I. Joe
66. Word to a waiter another name 27. Lady of Spain 48. They backed
67. "The ___ the limit!" 5. Blasted stuff 28. "The ___ Gave My almost all hit singles
6. "I'm impressed!" Heart To" (1997 hit for 50. Nostalgic number
7. Crew's control? Aaliyah) 51. ___ États-Unis
8. Site of King Tut's 29. Put on 52. "Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
tomb 33. "Yo te ___" (Avila Hyde" monogram
9. The third dimension avowal) 55. "Major Barbara"
10. Primero numero 34. County north of monogram
11. Vegas show with Limerick and west of 56. Bum ___
Miami and NY spin-offs Tipperary 57. "I ___ Dancer"
12. Barbarian 35. "You eediot!" (1973 Rudolf Nureyev
13. "Is it soup ___?" utterer documentary)
18. ___Kosh B'Gosh 36. Palms (off) 58. "Medium" network
19. Kays' followers 37. "Well"-financed gp. 59. Tapped tipple
38. Where the Golden 60. "No dice!"
Spike was driven 61. One of Fiji's three
39. Star car
40. Mouthful of
tobacco

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100
Puzzle #98
Across
1. Rappeler's hangout
6. Was in the hole
10. Apprehends
14. Hearing-related
15. Hole up
16. Sit in traffic
17. Audience's enthusiastic
response
18. Fraternal order member,
perhaps
20. Men of La Mancha
22. Pipe opening?
23. Jack's predecessor
24. Cattleman's spread
26. Supple
28. Old Testament temptress
31. Kind of power
32. Throw off
33. Legal prefix
35. Lira replacements
39. Common transport
40. Apiarist's woe
42. Love points
43. Part of a chignon
45. Travail Down
46. Arbiter's quality
1. They may be called 19. Cream of the crop 44. Impassive protest
47. Like brilliantine on account of rain 21. Loses one's cool 48. Supercilious
49. Street and seeds 2. Carrot on a stick, 25. Talkative 50. They may need a
51. Crude structure e.g. lift
27. One in the frontier,
54. Military shade 3. Today's Persia perhaps 51. Shallot relatives
55. Dinosaur's start 4. Home state nominee 28. It's outstanding 52. Plumed wader
56. Mineral supplement 5. Type of arrangement 29. Middle Eastern title 53. Consort
58. Did a cook's job 6. ''What have we 30. Simile word 54. Hummock
62. Office gofer, e.g. here!'' 31. What a magician 57. Reed section
65. Atlanta university 7. Side-to-side extent may do instrument
66. Intellectually acute 8. Icelandic epic 34. Maracana Stadium 59. Word with on,
67. Entertainer Falana 9. Sully locale along or about
68. Sweater material, perhaps 10. Not a whit 36. Gad about 60. Canal of song
69. Proofreader's notation 11. Extemporize 37. Almost never? 61. Unnatural blonde,
70. High-pitched cry 12. Sheffield chap 38. Matchmakers? e.g.
71. Smile of contempt 13. Ed Norton's 41. Lambency 63. Formicary resident
workplace 64. Peke's bark

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Puzzle #99
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1. Some architectural add-ons
5. ''___ Zapata!''
9. Antler-bearers
14. Gondola, e.g.
15. All tied up
16. Vietnam capital
17. Short break
20. Skeleton in the closet, e.g.
21. Marksman of Swiss legend
22. Peg of Woods
23. Fancy jug
25. Bears the expenses of
27. Saintly circle
30. Malevolent
32. Stout cousin
33. Silver Gavel Award org.
34. Buttinsky
36. Opening words
40. Clean break
43. Pupil of Socrates
44. Soothing substance
45. Allen or Blanc
46. Key on a keyboard
48. Palter
49. Start from scratch Down
50. Drawing rooms 1. Falls back 19. Emotional request 47. Singer plus two,
54. Yggdrasil, e.g. 2. Tales and such 24. Spring events e.g.
56. ''The Soul of a Butterfly'' 3. Not clergical 26. It's overhead 49. A man of the cloth
memoirist 4. Binaural 27. It's a lock when 50. Cut counterpart
57. Not naughty 5. Bone in a column pinned 51. See ya in Hawaii?
59. Record-holder 6. Suffix with correct 28. Member of the first 52. ''Blue'' singer
63. Lucky break 7. Part of Maverick's family 53. Reporter's goal
66. The ones right here attire 29. Molten spew 55. Toreador's trophy
67. Word of exclusivity 8. Made a larger pot? 31. Burglar-alarm 58. Buchanan or
68. Balder's father 9. Product's freshness warning Ferber
69. Lowered the pressure period 34. Drawn-out 60. Accolade
70. Remunerates 10. Old seaman 35. Kindled again 61. Camelot character
71. Dim-light sensors 11. ''West Side Story'' 37. Word with study or 62. Teller's stack
character bomb 64. Chin attachment?
12. Overly sentimental 38. Swamp thing 65. Succeed, as a
13. Contesting teams 39. Holmenkollen proposal
18. Oligarchical group overlooks it
41. Plus others, briefly
42. Fills with happiness

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Puzzle #100
Across
1. Large crowd
4. God with a temple at Delphi
10. Snappy
14. Honest log cabin fellow
15. Junction point
16. Woodstock's Guthrie
17. Jeanette MacDonald's
partner
19. Cayuse controller
20. Parachute material
21. Peer
23. On the open water
24. Spoil
27. Building add-on
28. Christmas card sentiment
34. ''So there!''
37. Georgia nut
38. Little garden guy
39. Ankle bones
41. Techie's address
42. Lazy bum
43. First Mexican pyramid-
builders
44. Some are tender
46. Expire Down
47. Bite protection, of a sort
1. Divine sustenance 22. Thomas Gray, 48. Writes indelibly
50. Party brewer notably
2. Follows the leader 49. Starch used as a
51. Cat call 24. ''Norma ___'' food thickener
3. Debutante
52. USA Patriot Act opponent (1979) 53. Unrefined
4. English waterway
56. Yells 25. Black magic 54. French cubist
5. Put on paper
60. Dungeons & Dragons 26. London pub painter Fernand
6. Vein contents
characters alternative 55. Wedding
7. UK company
61. Emulate Pisa's tower 29. Discriminating participant
8. ''___ and the Swan''
62. In time diner 56. Disparaging remark
(Yeats)
66. Impulse 30. Connected, in a 57. Companion of now
9. Most abundant
67. Actress Sanford of ''The element in the earth's way 58. Go ballistic
Jeffersons'' crust 31. Hollywood handout 59. Middling
68. Emmy winner Ruby 10. Rich turf 32. Capone's 60. ''For Your Eyes
69. Clarinet part 11. Tiler's adversaries ___''
70. Frequent witness measurement 33. Drover's charge 63. Cereal grain
71. Miss the mark 12. Skirt feature 34. Smasher input 64. Org. for Bucks and
13. Instrument quality 35. Floating ring Bulls
18. Detergent 36. Venus de Milo 65. Always, poetically
deficiency
40. Like fancy gowns
45. Cutting-edge

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Puzzle #101
Across
1. Strange sightings
5. Exodus plague
10. Litmus-paper reactant
14. Needing liniment
15. It's noble and a gas!
16. County in the Sunshine
State
17. Toward the sheltered side
18. Gymnastically inclined
19. Egyptian deity
20. Aptly named evangelist
23. Trains on high
24. Rodeo necessity
25. Rap sheet letters
26. Ka ___ (southernmost
Hawaiian point)
27. Palindrome center
28. Stamp on steak
32. Runs a refinery
34. Samantha's mother
36. Scuttlebutt
37. Russell-Grant comedy
41. Confined (with "up")
42. Is worthy of
43. Word of preference Down
46. Does lawn work
1. Suited for the 21. Juvenescent 44. Slip up
47. Seasonal mall employee purpose 22. Edible tuber 45. Woodshop tool
50. Plaint for "Billie Joe" 2. Pertaining to leaves 29. Star Wars abbr. 47. Salad plant
51. Pal of Pooh 3. Threatening option 30. Coed's digs 48. Tilted
53. Dean's 1955 co-star 4. Sews up the eyelids 31. City northwest of 49. Anterooms
55. Prohibit of falcons Marseilles 52. Past plump
56. Rolling Stones classic 5. Titles for monks 33. Byrnes and Roush 54. Tiny land mass
60. Part of a breakout 6. Prego competitor 34. Bk. before Job 57. Legend of the
62. Swarms 7. Husband of Frigg 35. Cornrows Himalayas
63. Conga formation 8. First name among alternative 58. IRS agents
64. Comparison word Israeli PMs 37. Cephalalgia 59. Applications
65. First name in cosmetics 9. Goes furtively 38. Like some organs 61. Print widths
66. At all 10. Byron's daughter 39. Free (of)
67. Sushi choices 11. Roselike flower 40. Self-identifying
68. Bridle straps 12. Worship of graven response
69. Spreads hay images 41. Court where last
13. Most compact words are heard

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Puzzle #102
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1. Cash stashes
5. Beach bag item
10. One working on a good
figure?
13. Hajj destination
15. Quickly
16. Gear for a galley
17. Make a show of wealth
19. Figure in Italy
20. Old saloon receptacle
21. Tony-winning tap dancer
23. Easy gait
24. Laugh gleefully
26. Infidels
29. Teeny particles in physics
30. Form of sarcasm, e.g.
31. Add later, as sound
32. Virginia specialty
35. Salacious
36. Less restricted
37. Scorer of 12 World Cup
goals
38. ___-di-dah
39. Orally
40. Common refrigerant Down
41. C to C
1. Mischief-makers 18. Does better than 39. Wasting away
43. Felt one's way in the dark
2. Sign up for another 22. Peeve 40. Cavort
44. Spend extravagantly tour 24. More than doubled 42. Cow's chew
46. White-billed marsh bird 3. Plot introducer 25. Show with 43. Teutonic invader of
47. Guiding principle 4. Robert Burns' ''Aquarius'' Rome
48. Release birthplace 26. Grumpy person 44. Hot news item
52. Gasp of delight 5. California-Nevada 27. Sector 45. Liable
53. Make a show of bravery border lake 28. Spare nothing 46. Rhodes of
56. ''Imagine'' album 6. Candid 29. Line Rhodesia
co-producer 7. Clump 48. Ancient harp
31. Chauffeured
57. Painter Rousseau 8. System starter 49. Pods used in stew
33. Medicinal plant
58. Took the heart out of 9. Small chicken 50. Leak through
34. Heal
59. Hi-Q piece 10. Advice to an 51. What a ring lacks
36. Checkered
60. Sing Alpine-style insomniac race-ender 54. Hall of Famer
61. Baby seats 11. Jury 37. Code of correct Durocher
12. Resulted (from) conduct 55. Also
14. Shakespeare title
hero

105
Puzzle #103
Across
1. 1970s hitmakers
5. Some places that pamper
9. Bestow upon
14. Beginning course, perhaps
15. 2.2 lbs.
16. Ham carrier
17. Just what the doctor
ordered, e.g.
20. ''Lazy ___ Molly'' (Chubby
Checker hit)
21. It may be in a box in the
corner
22. Woman in cheap detective
novels
24. Trinity member
25. It's big on Leno
28. Wife of Abraham
30. Hayes of Westerns
35. Corrections agent?
37. Part of a famous soliloquy
39. Professor Plum's game
40. Really does the trick
43. Oscar's cousin
44. Winner's take
45. Capital of South Dakota
Down
46. Kind of beam
1. Courtly Arthur? 19. ''Don't Bring Me 47. Public esteem
48. Archimedean world-mover
2. Spaghetti recipe Down'' grp. 49. More extensive
50. Longish span
word 23. Gibbs or Maples 52. It's right under
51. Pixie
3. Pesters 25. It may be mounted your nose
53. Foot part
4. Lacewing's munchie 26. Free bakery 54. Command to the
55. Stage performers
5. Wild blue yonder advertisement band
60. Butter beans
6. Textile joiner 27. Follows a recipe 55. ''Jabberwocky''
64. Quite capable direction start
7. Romeo lead-in
66. Parcel out 29. Sprain site 56. Desperate cry
8. Tap dancing sans
67. Foil's duller relative 31. Tummy trouble 57. Melodious
taps
68. Words of comprehension 32. Strident sound Fitzgerald
9. Moving in a curved
69. Sudden outpouring path 33. Grand Canyon 58. ATM feature
70. ''Jurassic Park'' actress 10. Unit of power worker 59. Slangy negative
71. Spring event 11. Mine entrance 34. Sheba, today 61. Ground animal
12. Tear apart 36. Scottish terrier feed
13. Proactive person 38. Bring to a point 62. Between ports
18. Flat contracts 41. Doomed 63. Slant, as survey
42. Geometric shape results
65. She may feel
cooped up

106
Puzzle #104
Across
1. Small star?
6. Bathroom powder
10. Headed for foreign ports
14. Hersey's bell site
15. It's found in sticks
16. Chip flavoring
17. Chayefsky's Black Maria
19. Subdivision of land
20. Type widths
21. Sonata finale, often
22. Louise's friend
24. New England fisherman's
boat
25. Old pal
26. On the ball
29. Euphoric
32. Ready to drop
33. Pool table material
34. It's for the money
35. Spare change?
36. Moon stage
37. Ever so proper
38. Make muffs
39. Some feud participants
40. Pre-Xerox copy Down
41. ''Hee Haw'' co-host 1. Attire for the 18. Became threadbare 39. Decent
43. Certain punctuation mark Headless Horseman 23. Place for a run 40. Hereditary rulers
44. Highly skilled 2. Cheese on a cracker, 24. Windswept hill 42. Friend of Friday
45. Love points sometimes 25. Word with upper or 43. Pious
46. Lead on 3. Striplings lower 45. Baronial
48. Cuba libre ingredient 4. It may be bitter 26. Fall bloomer 46. She can carry a
49. Freud subject 5. Consumers' ploy 27. Veep Agnew tune
52. NYSE newcomers 6. Apple polisher 28. Manly fabric? 47. Colossal,
53. Adolescent girl of the '40s 7. Microscopic 29. Type of expression moviewise
56. The head Corleone, once organism 30. Marx's exhortation 48. Radio-active driver
57. First name in pitching 8. Singer Sayer 31. Globetrotters' 49. Type of poll
58. Baler's need 9. Repentant Meadowlark 50. Squire
59. Workout aftermath 10. They tremble in the 33. Remora's ride 51. Lunchbox treat
60. Dry as dust breeze 36. Certain test 54. Smithsonite, e.g.
61. Brief tussle 11. Set out suddenly controls 55. IOU verb
12. Jack of old oaters 37. Meerschaum or
13. Start of an brier
encouraging cry

107
Puzzle #105
Across
1. Comics' place
6. One of the Lesser Sundas
10. In a skillful manner
14. Kind of hole or layer
15. Middle Eastern
muck-a-muck (Var.)
16. Professor Plum's game
17. Zoologist's study
18. Seneca's student
19. Bamboozles
20. Life imitator
21. World Series precursor
24. Achy
25. Word after big, motor and
bad
26. The 75th meridian in the
East
31. Bindlestiffs
32. Mighty trees
33. ___ volente
36. All over again
37. ''Uncle!''
39. Globe production
40. Happened upon
41. ___ all-time high
Down
42. Bluffer's ploy
1. ''Nude Lying on a 23. Some turkeys 42. Tykes TV show or
43. ''Mister Roberts'' role
___'' 24. April or November movie
46. Where many changes take
2. Former Winter surprise 43. Philadelphia squad
place
Palace resident 26. Bedding item 44. Ambrosia
49. Units of energy
3. Trounce 27. Timbre accompaniment
50. Captain's superior
4. Motor lodge 28. Assist in 45. Prior to
53. Any ship at sea
5. Some legumes malfeasance 46. Key of B
56. Lounge about
6. Streamer 29. ''Nothing ___!'' 47. Wahine's welcome
57. What little things mean?
7. Supplicant's 30. 23rd letter of the 48. Soothing rub-ons
58. Bee-fitting description? conclusion Hebrew alphabet 51. Love handles,
60. Quaint sigh 8. One-time change in 33. 554, in stone essentially
61. Where water became wine Rome 34. Natural 52. Island close to Mull
62. Dither 9. Tyson's moniker effortlessness 53. S or XL, e.g.
63. Former news agency 10. Build up, as 35. ___ and terminer 54. Partially obscured
64. Type of lift interest 37. Phrase of 55. ''Watermark''
65. ''So long!'' 11. Puff up affirmation chanteuse
12. Type of counter 38. Moo goo ___ pan 59. Chart type
13. Acquiescent 39. They hang
answers together
22. Memorable time 41. Part of A.D.

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Puzzle #106
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1. Not so new
6. Runaway hit
11. It may be a crock
14. Pinkish
15. Silent show biz brother
16. Arles pal
17. Little. . .
19. Letters for a Letterman
20. Luxury hotel feature
21. Pocket money
22. Laugh shrilly
24. Little. . .
26. "Suzanne" songwriter
27. Bonds' payoffs?
30. Lake Erie port
32. Acid type
33. British invader of old
34. Barrel into
37. Determination
39. Move forward
42. London has two
43. Panache
45. Agenda entries
46. You may have a hand in it
49. Is obviously asleep Down
50. Needle point 1. New Testament 23. Fish sticks fish 47. Medalist Midori
52. Little. . . book 24. City where you 48. Violent pangs
54. Destination for Rhodes 2. Sticky stuff might get a good deal? 49. Actor Connery
scholars 3. Title role for Shirley 25. Hall of Famer Ryan 50. Parcheesi spin-off
56. Highchair feature 4. Post for a sixties GI 27. Snowshoe, for one 51. Roadside daisy
57. European skyline sight 5. Syrupy alcohol used 28. Broken mirror, to 53. Halloween
60. Ump's colleague as a sweetener some foolishness
61. Little. . . 6. "Pipe down!" 29. Little. . . 55. "Oh, rats!"
64. Ham holder 7. Cane cutter's knife 31. UK business 57. "Diana" crooner
65. Scarfed down 8. Tablet holder 33. Paparazzo's subject 58. Norse explorer
66. TV weatherman 9. Builder's 35. High point Eriksson
67. Thus far enumeration 36. Clean-up target 59. Saucy
68. Type of naked 10. "Go West" writer 38. Spot checker? 62. K-12 group
69. Pre-publishing effort Greeley 40. Muscat or 63. Here-there link
11. Little. . . muscadine locale
12. Walk leisurely 41. Upon
13. Ascended, as from 44. One more
the grave
18. Tiny amounts

109
Puzzle #107
Across
1. British surgeon Sir James
6. Nursery fixture
10. Step down
14. University of Maine locale
15. Succotash bean
16. Drive, say
17. Crow
20. Capt's. heading, perhaps
21. Classic TV captain
22. Scabbard
23. Texas tea tower
25. ER command
26. Publicity, so to speak
27. Short life story
28. Piece of cake
32. Hovering
35. Buffoons
37. Frehley of Kiss
38. Show off
41. Picador's cheer
42. Brown-baggers?
43. Barn baby
44. Percussion instrument
46. Morgan of the comics page
47. Coaching great Parseghian Down
48. Guns it 1. Presented, as a 19. Inventor's cry 45. Tough and
50. Organic catalysts problem 24. Ubiquitous courageous
54. South of the Sahara 2. Come into being 25. S, M, L and XL 47. De novo
57. Square measure 3. Hopeless case 27. Fenway's nine, 49. Author Umberto
58. Seam material 4. Chang's Siamese familiarly 50. Eat away at
59. Crow twin 29. Item often filed 51. Archie and
62. Give the boot 5. Conveyed 30. Part of a plot, Jughead's buddy
63. Dry as dust 6. Bob Cratchit's perhaps 52. Committed a faux
64. Administered medicine occupation 31. Troublesome insect pas
65. Predator's dinner 7. Peril 32. Highly excited 53. Transmits
66. Not nuts or crackers 8. Mischief maker 33. "___ and Stitch" 54. Lying on
67. Some newspaper essays 9. Lush berth 34. Tandoor, for one 55. Word with square
10. Quells 35. "Seinfeld" or star
11. Heavenly bear character 56. Kennedy family
12. "___ Around" 36. With force, matron
(Beach Boys hit) musically 57. Speller's phrase
13. New Age composer 39. Elysian fields 60. Timeline section
John 40. Kind of baseball 61. Bygone school
18. Superficial wound game event

110
Puzzle #108
Across
1. Show approval, in a way
5. Like this ans.
11. Spate of tears
14. "Lilo and Stitch" dance
15. Good thing to keep up
16. Scratch (out)
17. When Hamlet meets his
father's ghost
18. Dentist's concern
19. "The ___ of Pooh"
20. Swap meet locales?
23. Medieval menials
24. CIA predecessor
25. Coral units
28. Alley-___
30. Word in a 1980s scandal
31. Scary component?
37. Feather's partner
38. Mare's tidbit
39. "America the Beautiful"
adjective
41. "Bambi" doe
42. Short noncom?
43. Astronomer's job?
45. Mexican wrap Down
48. Remain unused
1. Uses ICQ, perhaps 21. Departs 44. Reduce to mist
49. Sister of Terpsichore
2. "Filthy" stuff 22. Velvet finish 46. Put the food away
50. Sunflower seed product
3. The rite place? 26. Former European 47. Constabulary
53. Barbecue chef's implement capital?
4. Not COD 50. Overly overweight
57. Famous digger? 27. Jazzy Vaughan
5. Word of agreement 51. More than miffed
60. Rat-a-___ 29. Analyze a sentence
6. Drum played without 52. Soda measure
62. What an adman might do sticks 30. Salad fodder 54. "___ your life!"
63. Sloping type (Abbr.) 7. Material for many a 31. "Chicago" 55. Endocrine or
64. Be in another form light fixture choreographer pituitary
65. Brahmins and Kshatriyas, for 8. Highway approaches 32. Can't wait 56. Tennis star born in
example 9. Zeno's home 33. Word in a pickup Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
66. Basketball defense 10. Fastener for a line, often 58. Red-coated cheese
67. Over the edge preschooler 34. Stylist's job 59. Ms. Trueheart
68. Mideast bigwigs (Var.) 11. One racking up the 35. ___ Maria (coffee 60. Highlands cap
69. Prow and stern frequent-flier miles liqueur) 61. Coach Parseghian
12. Rap sheet abbr. 36. Transportation via
13. Erstwhile highway (Abbr.)
automaker 40. Receiver of prayers

111
Puzzle #109
Across
1. Football game intermission
5. Pesky little bug
9. English bloke
13. Outfielder Moreno
14. --- avis
15. Samuel L. Jackson film
16. Negri of Silents
17. Mideast chief
18. Cries of accomplishment
19. ''Masked man'' formerly with
the Indians
22. --- of living
23. Hot baseball mo.
24. ''I --- Rock''
27. All-Century Team ''masked
man''
33. Portuguese capital
35. Replies at sea
36. ''I double --- you!''
37. Spanish snack
38. ''Wide World of Sports''
network
39. Frisco gridder
40. Cole Porter's ''I --- Love''
41. Reason for overtime
Down
42. Flimflammed
1. Infield bounce 20. Martial arts schools 41. Kind of effort
43. Hall-of-Fame ''masked man''
2. Outfielder Otis 21. Legend in center 42. Smashed, a la
46. QB's gain
3. Fa follower field Bonds
47. Narrow creek
4. Coin found in Paris 24. Church feature 44. Pulls the trigger
48. Dog it
fountains 25. Orange Bowl site 45. Twain summer
50. Bronx Bombers ''masked home
5. Dick ---, alias Robin 26. Fish garnish
man''
6. ''Broadway Joe'' 28. U.S. Olympic 49. Camera setting
56. Tag attempt
7. Seed envelope gold-medal swimmer, 50. Kirby Puckett, once
57. Angler's offering John
8. Poi base 51. Tip from Heloise
58. Sound of a solid sack 29. Yankee land,
9. Stormed the gates 52. Eden fatality
60. Milk allotments postally
10. Pilgrimage to 53. Thurmond of NBA
61. Raison d'--- 30. Fran Drescher role fame
Mecca
62. Like a treated mitt, maybe 31. Balboa's ''Rocky'' 54. Jacobs Field's state
11. ''--- Off Place''
63. Picnic raiders (1993) opponent 55. Void's partner
64. Be atop the standings 12. 6 for a TD, e.g. 32. Livestock groups 56. Whirlpool
65. Thing down the foul line 15. Baseball's Rusty 34. Ruins financially whereabouts
38. --- ball (total miss 59. Outfielder Jermaine
on a jumper)
39. Flamethrower Ryan

112
Puzzle #110
Across
1. Hunting target
5. Gold or silver
10. Wall St. newbies
14. PBS science series
15. On top of
16. Yield, as property
17. Tiny bit
18. Pushed through a sieve
19. New York county
20. 1936 Margaret Mitchell
novel
23. Up to, informally
24. Mock fanfare
25. Leader of the first global
circumnavigation
30. Kinship symbols
34. Put into play
35. Word with floor or fashion
37. Nobelist Wiesel
38. 2002 William R. Trotter
novel
42. Camper's temporary home
43. Newspaper article
44. Cooking meas.
45. Escargots
Down
48. Frying pans
1. Hitch 21. Olympic runner 41. Pilot's marker
50. Type of tide
2. Baum canine Rudolph 46. Bloomers around
52. Moo ___ gai pan
3. Shakespeare's river 22. Former name for the neck?
53. 1974 Michael Shaara novel Tokyo
4. Reproductive cell 47. Author Rushdie
61. Something to get over 25. Patrick McDonnell
5. Tower bells 49. Accesses a
62. Angry with comic strip computer
6. Notice in passing,
63. Yacht's mooring site 26. White-faced 51. Wood shaver
briefly
64. It comes in rounds 27. ''Stuart Little'' 53. Better safe ___
7. Ness, for one
65. Rolling Stones classic actress Davis sorry
8. Sebastian Coe rival
66. Edible pod 28. Takes into a count? 54. Cronyn of
9. Cardinal feature
67. Orderly 29. They may be ''Cocoon''
10. Restaurant freebie
68. They may be pressing feathered 55. Diana in ''The
11. Actress Gilpin of
69. Close to ''Frasier'' 31. Top-of-the-line Avengers''
12. Frigg's husband 32. Center 56. Word with cutting
33. Leaks slowly or leading
13. Kind of money
36. Facial expression 57. Sally
39. Despicable person 58. Actress Sommer
40. Mediterranean 59. Old Modena money
vessels 60. Rigging support

113
Puzzle #111
Across
1. It'll give you an edge
6. Flimflam scheme
10. Curve-billed wader
14. Monastic officer
15. Buffalo water
16. It may be hitched
17. Sophie Tucker was the last
19. Curved molding
20. ''Count me in!''
21. Wicker basket
22. ''Arabian Nights'' hero
24. Harmonizing minimums
25. Piano technician
26. Laughable
29. Increase sales potential
32. At large
33. Fists, informally
34. Likewise
35. Stuff to the gills
36. Needed TLC
37. Mythical thunder god
38. The whole enchilada
39. Range measures
40. Emancipates
41. Crucial elements Down
43. First name in fashion 1. Light on one's feet 18. Stomped 39. Princess Margaret's
44. Word with city or workings 2. Branching diagram 23. Loads a brayer niece
45. Divide in two 3. Shakes off 24. Sign of poor 40. Andiron
46. Fishy sign? 4. Aah partner housekeeping 42. ''Again!''
48. Medicinal plant 5. Obtain 25. Confiscates 43. Substandard
49. Above, in an ode 6. Tractor-trailers 26. Pond scum 45. Hooch holder
52. Sax sort 7. Malcontent 27. Where weevils may 46. Orbit, for one
53. Gold digger's mark 8. Zero in be 47. Nastase of tennis
56. Ticket info, maybe 9. Deliberate or 28. Girl's best friend? fame
57. ___ out (barely copes) calculated 29. Equine hybrids 48. Forever and a day
58. Blast from the past 10. Used a mangle 30. Beau 49. Pari-mutuel listing
59. Present 11. Intrusive 31. Scandinavian 50. Fix a draft
60. Roll-top, e.g. government 33. More appalling 51. Some whiskeys
61. Main points 12. Comic lightbulb 36. Gained entrance 54. Small guitar
13. Create a lawn 37. Hard hike 55. He ''stung like a
bee''

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1. "I've ___ Be Me"
6. Anchor position
11. Rolled dough?
14. Israel's Sharon
15. Popeye's rival
16. "That's ___-brainer"
17. Long Island UN
headquarters from 1946-51
19. Home of the NFL's Rams
20. Loafers and pumps
21. Decide on a dollar amount,
in court
23. "___ tu" (Verdi aria)
24. Café au ___
25. Whitman volume published
in 1855
31. Spring resort
33. Kind of academy
34. Razzle-dazzle
35. Vittles
37. Criticize
39. Where many a strike is
called
40. Inuit relative
42. Hindu gods
Down
44. Stitch
1. Guys' partners 18. Pioneer mainframe 43. Shpoken thish way
45. Hugo classic
2. Vocally expressed 22. Type of beer 46. Unruffled
48. Get under control
3. Kon-___ 25. Bulletin contents 47. Keep, as a pet bird
49. Compete in a meet
4. Cone on the plains 26. Circumvent 50. Beer, slangily
50. Real
5. Loser 27. Last relief pitcher, 51. Home furnishings
53. Dries completely
6. Basics often chain
57. Strummed instrument
7. Pampering, briefly 28. Three-time A.L. 52. Square
58. Dockers maker
8. Regrets batting champ Tony 53. Jr.'s test
60. Drops on the grass
9. What history often 29. Identical 54. Partner of kisses
61. End of ___
repeats? 30. Brood 55. Morales of "The
62. Samantha of "The Collector"
10. Mail fee 31. Close tightly Real Thing"
63. Airline to Oslo
11. Couldn't fathom 32. Faint 56. Georgia et al., once
64. "The Maids" playwright Jean (abbr.)
12. Opposed 36. Poison plant
65. Arnaz, Sr. and Jr. 59. High dudgeon
13. Raggedy Ann, e.g. 38. Maze runner
41. Period between
related events

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Puzzle #113
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1. Comic Carvey
5. Peke's double speak?
11. Jamaican music that gave
rise to reggae
14. Regrets
15. Lodge builder
16. Plague or curse
17. "Yes!"
19. Strings of islands?
20. Small, globular, and
glistening
21. Faux follower
22. "My Wicked, Wicked Ways"
author Flynn
24. "Yes!"
27. "Ignorance ___ excuse"
28. Sham locks
29. Sci-fi sighting
31. "Yes!"
38. Whoville creator
41. Teamwork deterrent
42. 1961 Charlton Heston role
43. "Yes!"
46. Cost-of-living stat
47. Broken-down horse
Down
48. Soy-based Japanese soup
1. Olive ___ (Army 23. Orion's left foot 45. Five-octave singer
51. "Yes!"
uniforms) 25. Blubber Sumac of Peru
57. Reserved or preserved
2. Pot-___ (French dish 26. A real fly-by-night 49. "___ Anything"
59. Mr. Nahasapeemapetilon of of boiled meat and ("Oliver!" song)
29. The Beach Boys'
"The Simpsons" vegetables) "Surfin' ___" 50. French sisters
60. Dissuade 3. Extremely wicked 30. March lead-in 51. Amusingly clever
61. Private bed? 4. Back-of-the-hand (abbr.) 52. "They Died With
62. "Yes!" remarks Their Boots On," for
32. "Is it soup ___?"
65. Extremely popular 5. Gulf War Patriot, for one
33. What Dorian Gray
66. Media ___ (press short didn't do 53. Ahead, but just
conferences, e.g.) 6. Cuts the crop barely
34. Chat room chuckle
67. Roger of "Robin Hood: Men 7. Al ___ (PLO faction) 54. Clumps of grass
35. Provides with gear,
in Tights" 8. Dispatch boat 55. Attack from all
in Gloucester
68. Heavens 9. Prepare to drag sides
36. Chill
69. "___ Thou Now O Soul" 10. Leisure hours 56. Head lock
37. Reagan R&D
(Whitman poem) 57. "I Ain't Marching
11. Rudely reject program
70. Once-grounded fliers Anymore" singer Phil
12. "Shimmy, Shimmy, 39. Kind of boom
___-Bop" (1960 Little 40. Pool table 58. Cubbyhole
Anthony and the foundation 63. Sch. founded by
Imperials hit) 44. "Blecch!" Thomas Jefferson
13. Eddie in "Beverly 64. Tenn. hours
Hills Cop"
18. Tom Clancy's Jack

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1. Partners of zigs
5. Some eastern Europeans
10. CODs, e.g.
14. Earthen pot
15. Marisa of "My Cousin Vinny"
16. "The Haj" author Leon
17. Oil of __
18. Without __ in the world
19. Bundle of hay
20. Insomniac's repast
23. Roo's donkey friend
24. One in a contest
27. Cavity filler's title: Abbr.
28. Armory supply
31. Hindu incarnation
32. Catch some Zs
34. Sported
35. "Don't be so hard on the
guy!"
40. Lotion additive
41. Slinks
42. Do business with
45. Scots Gaelic
46. Doctors' org.
49. "I"-minded? Down
51. Like dusk 1. Closed (in on), as for 21. Tehran resident 43. South-of-the-
53. Hit the ceiling a photo 22. Off-road transport, border uncle
56. Trendy cuisine 2. Like friendly nations for short 44. Lake Ontario port
58. "Christ Stopped at __" 3. Knight with Pips 25. Pusher chaser 46. Support group for
59. Cross inscription 4. Refuse to give 26. Taxing trip families of drinkers
60. Spongy ball material permission 29. Rolling stone's lack 47. Millionth of a meter
61. Gamete producer 5. Child actor's 30. Damaged layer 48. Diet maven
62. Shortly chauffeur 32. Product expiration 50. Vagrants
63. Wall St. letters 6. Lomond or Ness date factor 52. Formal response to
64. "__ Mio" 7. Amo, amas, __ 33. The "E" in EMT: "Who's there?"
65. Intimate stopovers 8. Poem part Abbr. 54. It's forbidden
9. "Burnt" color 35. Mama of pop 55. Israeli flier
10. Journeys from bar 36. Peter Fonda role 56. Former "Grand Ole
to bar 37. Turnpike gates Opry Live" network
11. Island west of 38. Manhattan area 57. Attention getter
Java, notwithstanding a 39. Distorts
1969 film title
12. Actor Bellows
13. Opposite of NNW

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Puzzle #115
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1. Rain clouds
6. Gussy up
11. Soap boxes?
14. Deux follower
15. Hawaiian island
16. National nonpro sports org.
17. Animated magpie duo
20. Keep one's __ the ground
21. John __ (Lone Ranger's real
name)
22. Feminist buddy-movie duo
28. Hat holder
29. Diving seabird
30. Super __: video game
console
31. Veep after Hubert
34. Airport shed
37. Husband-and-wife singing
duo
41. Tom Jones portrayer Albert
42. Fancy fur
44. CBS forensic drama
47. Oui's opposite
48. Scratch (out), as a living
49. Fairy tale duo
Down
56. Gymnast Korbut
1. High degree 22. The "Superstation" 44. Selected
57. Support for an artist
2. Hot temper 23. Beer ingredient 45. Kind of solution
58. Magic duo
3. Soft shoe, briefly 24. Program-ending 46. Down, as food
65. Uncanny trio?
4. Theodore of command 50. Yield to gravity
66. Ronstadt of song
Broadway's "The Sound 25. Fop 51. Down-and-out
67. Do salon work of Music" 26. Olympic sled 52. Early infant words
68. Take-home pay 5. Religion of Allah 27. Gives a thumbs-up 53. Fed. property
69. Follows orders 6. Spanish silver 32. Court arbiter overseer
70. Surrealist Max 7. Yakked and yakked 33. Sheepish 54. French income
8. Not Rep. nor Dem. 34. Barbera's 55. Church leader
9. Houlihan's rank, in cartooning partner 59. Mel's Diner
"M*A*S*H" 35. Prop- or pent- waitress
10. Cutie __ ending 60. Beef cut
11. Adopt 36. Nutritional std. 61. Suffix with
12. Skycap's unit 38. Organic compound Benedict
13. Handbag materials 39. "Not bloody likely" 62. Was in charge of
18. Important time 40. Sommer of "A Shot 63. WWII spy gp.
19. French vineyard in the Dark" 64. "Still and all..."
43. That's a moray

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Puzzle #116
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1. Theatre level
5. Cosmetics name
9. Vertices
14. Crazy way to run
15. ''Thank You'' singer
16. Bowling unit
17. Obligations requiring
payment in hay?
19. Museum artifact
20. Yachting dir.
21. More than plump
22. Like neon
23. City of west central France
25. Late-night monologist
26. Way across town, perhaps
27. Plot outline
31. Church niches
34. Place for a witness
35. Com frontrunner
36. Battleship shade
37. Draws nigh
38. Second in a series
39. Sushi bar order, perhaps
40. Description of St. Nick
41. Orderly formation Down
42. Total alternative 1. Check this for size 18. Like a slug 40. Nervous
44. Words before roll or whim 2. Gulf State resident 24. Follow orders 41. Lay ___ (flop)
45. Rubber ducky occasion 3. Robot of Jewish 25. Telescope piece 43. Things to march
46. Certain marital contracts, legend 27. Celery serving for
briefly 4. Just manage (with 44. Mean-tempered
28. First name among
50. Give or take ''out'') Hollywood legends 46. Furnace light
52. Music genre 5. Pueblo homes 29. Greek vowel 47. Up to the time that
54. Bit of whiskey 6. Transports for 30. Buckwheat's assent 48. Jigsaw part
55. A renter may break it Tarzan 31. Iron and Bronze, 49. Shopaholic's binge
56. Pregame storyteller? 7. They may be against for two 50. Cry of dismay
58. Take in or let out you 32. Get ready, for 51. Lugosi of ''The
59. Landfill problem 8. Plane front short Raven''
60. Cinderella's horses, after 12 9. James Taylor song 33. Cut-rate crafts? 52. Organ part
61. With a lot of lip title words 34. Broker's order, 53. Dry riverbed
62. Crying shame 10. Richard of perhaps 57. Grp. with a noted
63. Not aweather ''Rambo'' flicks 37. Ark-eologist? journal
11. How to buy a guy? 38. Fiber source
12. Abu Dhabi honcho
13. Amish, for one

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Puzzle #117
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1. Dentist's suggestion
6. Trac II alternative
10. Isle of exile
14. Should (with ''to'')
15. Grandpa Walton's portrayer
16. Hatcher of ''Lois and Clark''
17. Start of a colorful comment
20. Lecherous look
21. Field yield
22. American range
23. Notre Dame's Fighting ---
25. Foolish fellow
26. More of the comment
29. Big shot
31. They're raised in revelry
32. Babies in blue
33. Second person
35. Temporary jobs
36. More of the comment
38. Small belt
39. Earth or Moon, e.g.
40. Mother of Jesus
41. Rigg or Ross
42. Raises, as a building
44. More of the comment Down
46. Suffix with differ 1. Aluminum sheet 19. Signs of disinterest 41. Banned pesticide
47. Marseille menu 2. Truck treatment 24. Matter for a judge 43. Real poser
48. Kids' song refrain 3. Look up and down 25. Singer Tennille 44. Comedic actor
50. He eulogized Julius 4. TV's Andy Taylor 26. Jason's vessel Lloyd
51. Burglar's deterrent, maybe and others 27. Bête follower 45. Foot curve
55. End of the comment 5. Short stop? 28. One who picks the 47. Furnish food
58. Part of a pipe 6. All shook up pick of the litter, often 48. It may be due
59. Pitcher Hershiser 7. Comb projections 29. Dirt chopper 49. Very much a fan of
60. ''Lemon Tree'' singer Lopez 8. Flick with Beatty and 30. Like Bo Peep's herd 50. Type of
61. 1/3 of a war film title Keaton 32. ''Look, up in the coincidence
62. Socially challenged person 9. Supply with heaters ---!'' 52. Rara ---
63. Plus in the ledgers 10. Kind of cuisine 34. ''Yikes!'' 53. Artist Magritte
11. ''I'm right behind 36. Not in time 54. Heal, like a radius
you!'' 37. Its job is taxing 56. Prefix for profit
12. Camembert 38. Trial conferences 57. Cockpit
alternative 40. Marilyn of the Fifth approximation
13. Snobs put them on Dimension
18. Form spirals

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Puzzle #118
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1. Start for a Moore poem
5. Recording label for Crosby
10. Bait and switch is one
14. What things may grind to
15. Some nobles
16. ''Not so fast!''
17. State positively
18. Container for oil or vinegar
19. Isn't the wrong way
20. Where is Paris?
23. Shake, as a finger
24. Armored vehicle
25. Leaf in many sculptures
28. Indelicately
31. Naja haje
34. Unlearned
36. Mozart's Trojan princess
37. Where is Florence?
41. Doughnut-shaped surfaces
42. Sower's source?
43. Costa del ___
44. Course or route
47. Carbohydrate suffix
48. Prefix for cast
49. St. closest to the Bahamas Down
51. Where is Waterloo? 1. Word with fancy or 22. Word with takers 44. Fairy-tale veggie
58. Ferber or O'Brien imagine or time 45. Winged
59. City of a famed shroud 2. Acknowledge your 25. Authoritative 46. Like a musical note
60. Part of a large plot? fans decrees held to its full time
61. Chow follower 3. First name in game 26. Hemispherical value
62. Recital piece, perhaps show hosts home 48. Nasal accent
63. Backpacker's quarters, 4. Feeding tube? 27. Tree trunk knot 50. Striped stone
perhaps 5. 0.3527 ounce 29. Santa ___, Calif. 51. Brainstorming
64. Told all to an interrogator avoirdupois 30. Hide the booty session result
65. Like covered stadiums 6. Reap 31. Fortress in San 52. Getting ___ years
66. Latin being 7. Grunge Antonio 53. Starr-struck object?
8. Chin indentations 32. Paul's prison mate 54. ___ one's time
9. Emanating from 33. Late golfer Stewart 55. Clinches, as a
stars 35. Shogun's sash victory
10. Posh 36. Start of Mr. Rogers' 56. Large vases
11. Stylish song 57. Dole (with ''out'')
12. Top-drawer 38. Just put on the 58. Abbr. on an
13. Word with door or market ambulance
floor 39. Overwhelmed with
21. Certain vertebrae noise
40. Pastoral poem

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Puzzle #119
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1. Churlish sort
4. ''Taxi'' driver
10. Rain-deprived
14. TV home of ''WWE RAW''
15. Bus-depot rental
16. Smart-alecky
17. Admire greatly
20. Book leaf
21. Pointless fuss
22. Mineralogy suffix
23. Mound master Hershiser
24. Negotiate a swap
27. Negative aspect
28. Checked off
29. Forgetful actor's request
30. Pancake-house freebies
32. It may be held or bitten
34. Gen. Robt. __
35. 2004 award for Sean Penn
38. Sand-hauling boat
40. Hardships
41. Even chance
44. Perform on the road
45. Trucker's ''office''
48. Hosp. sites Down
49. ''Odyssey'' singers 1. Win a battle of wits 18. Without value 39. City of Spain
51. Like a carryout order with 19. ''Gilmore Girls'' girl 42. Secondhand
52. First lady McKinley 2. On the beach 24. Bit of trouble 43. Rotates around a
53. Holiday harbinger 3. Fell short 25. Sorehead's point
54. Hard work, so to speak 4. Nevada town emotion 45. Exact by force
55. Abandon fantasy 5. Parking place 26. Bring together 46. Hercule creator
60. Biblical brother 6. ''Heck!'', in again 47. Petty annoyance
61. Harsh talking-to Heidelberg 29. Chat-room guffaw 50. Get back
62. Señor Guevara 7. Tina Turner ex 31. Civil War soldiers 51. Pan Am rival, once
63. Amusing escapade 8. Not yet skilled in 32. Jobs for tugboats 54. Bird-feeder tidbit
64. Caught with a rope 9. Crumbles away 33. Encourage 56. Antlered animal
65. Corncrib item 10. Hole-punching tool 35. Veil material 57. New Deal agcy.
11. Belittle 36. Rawls and Gehrig 58. Sea dog
12. Uranium 238, e.g. 37. Hockey star Bobby 59. Verse of praise
13. National Guard 38. Far from emotional
concern

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Puzzle #120
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1. In midvoyage
5. Garage relatives
10. Dungeons & Dragons
creatures
14. Criticize trivially
15. Like an empty ship on the
sea at midnight
16. Kind of salmon
17. Cream was one
18. Slap site
19. First son
20. Type of dwelling
23. Jug handle
24. ''Outland'' penguin
25. Suitor's song
30. Cowpoke's tool
34. ''What was ___ think?''
35. Scandal suffix
37. Ionia's I's
38. Insurance provision
42. Diciembre-febrero link
43. TV Actress Thompson
44. West of Hollywood
45. Determine if it's gold
46. Most insolent Down
49. Father's and Mother's
1. Pretenses 21. Linked computers 41. From Colorado to
52. Kind of cup or horn acronym Kansas
2. Draped Indian
53. Preakness, e.g. garment 22. Jewish festival 47. Fall from grace
61. Shiva's spouse 3. Apt name for a 25. It's usually played 48. Encroachment
62. Vacation spot near colleen first 50. Millennium makeup
Venezuela 4. Maximum altitude 26. Some stiff collars 51. Throw out
63. ___ Roberts University 5. It's wasteful to Ed 27. Men on the make 53. Fight stoppers
64. Leave out Norton 28. Lectern platform 54. Motorcycle
65. Echolocation device 6. Protagonist 29. Old lab equipment daredevil's prop
66. Innocence and Aquarius 7. Derek, of Derek and 31. ''___ to Kill'' 55. Kulik on ice
67. Bit of a tiff the Dominos (Grisham) 56. Uncivil
68. Save alternative 8. Type of ball or 32. Suffolk send-offs 57. Scottish seaport
69. Type of deal dancer 33. Till now 58. Jason's command
9. Play matchmaker 36. Scandinavian myth 59. D-Day city target
10. Wedding or 39. ''Spy Game'' star 60. Different
birthday, e.g. 40. Like man's best
11. Reddish-brown friend
12. ''Blondie'' creator
Young
13. Mitsubishi rival

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Puzzle #121
Across
1. Shell, strip or Swiss, e.g.
6. Laundry cycle
10. With 63-Across, event of
20-Across
14. Cote d'Azur menu
15. Result of cogitating
16. Computer operator
17. Skewed
18. Invited a perjury charge
19. Galileo's home
20. Two-day Olympic contest
22. Kind of fit
23. Like the spelling of oyster-
abstaining months
24. Rickey ingredient
25. Ice cream brand (with
"Dazs")
28. Event of 20-Across
32. If not
33. Somme school
35. Verse prefix
36. PC key
37. Event of 20-Across
39. Tricia Nixon's married name
40. Ruin a birdie
Down
41. Commencement
1. Carangid food fish 22. Homes for some 44. Clothing retailer
42. First 007 film
2. Westminster gallery busy workers since 1969
43. Event of 20-Across
3. "Red" Viking 24. Outburst of 45. H. Rider Haggard
45. Drive-in feature laughter novel
4. Loose
47. Anti-fray border 25. Dilapidated cars 46. Some groups of
5. Range whistler
48. Lake resort 26. God of the Koran thirteen
6. Bequeaths
50. "I Know Why the ___ Bird 27. Houston pro 48. Pitch-related
7. Parting word
Sings" 49. It should be
8. Detected 28. Start
53. Event of 20-Across airtight
9. Birthed 29. Filthy stuff?
57. Fashionable Cassini 50. Connecting wd.
10. Wolflike 30. Words with hole or
58. Author Morrison two 51. Name of three
11. Psych suffix
59. Oscar host, e.g. 31. He resigned August baseball brothers
12. Monster's loch
60. Jiggs' daughter 9, 1974 52. Cold cause
13. Ill-defined area
61. Bedouin, for one 33. It once meant once 53. Hole in your head?
21. One to brood
62. Strikeout pitcher Ryan 34. Alphabetical run 54. Pac-10 team
63. See 10-Across 37. Crossed one's 55. Parachute
64. Where heroes come into fingers 56. Perfect scores
existence? 38. E pluribus ___ 58. Drop in the bucket
65. Loses control 42. "Don't you wish!"

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Puzzle #122
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1. Neared maturity
5. Chest muscles
9. Door-frame pieces
14. Paraprofessional, for one
15. Personal energy field
16. Like in nature (to)
17. Stage-beard securer
19. ''Filthy'' funds
20. Registered, as an invention
21. Quenched
22. Flounder's flipper
23. Zodiac predator
24. Carnival dance
28. Traits that may clash
30. Throw out
34. Teem
36. Zeta follower
37. Stench
38. Linger in a person's mind
41. ''__ She Lovely'' (Stevie
Wonder song)
42. Much of ''Deck the Halls''
43. Puts forth, as effort
44. Croupier's collection
45. Uttered untruths Down
47. High point 1. Sound of shock 21. Seed source 46. US territory from
48. ''__ Joey'' 2. Philbin's cohost 23. Auction units 1861-89
49. Latin greeting 3. Mark manuscripts 24. Master, in Madras 48. Prison-related
51. Curiosity-piquing ad 4. Used to be 25. Take down 50. Sun shade
55. Vail outerwear 5. Singer LaBelle 26. Saddle horse 51. Boom-box insert
60. Dog-tired 6. Oregon city 27. Bats gently 52. Contemporary of
61. Silver City, Idaho, e.g. 7. Gunk 29. Gaggle members Bessie and Billie
62. Public square 8. ''Casablanca'' pianist 30. Talented tyro 53. ''Sorry to say . . .''
63. Showroom product 9. Light dessert 31. Regard lovingly 54. Shoe salesman's
64. La Scala solo 10. Pastel shade 32. Varieties query
65. Painter's tripod 11. Slimy mud 33. Romantic 55. Closed up
66. Geppetto wished on one 12. Unembellished rendezvous 56. Not much
67. ''__ Me'' (Roger Miller tune) 13. Coasting toy 35. Melbourne money 57. Director Ephron
18. Buggy passenger 39. Tooth partner 58. Mary-Kate, to
40. With the exclusion Ashley
of 59. Hindrance to
progress
61. Fill-up fluid

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Puzzle #123
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1. Toy glider wood
6. Northern Finn
10. Fancy dance
14. Nom de plume
15. Director Kazan
16. Dairy tubful
17. Nebraska collegian
19. MGM cofounder
20. Use the stove
21. Hush-hush org.
22. Dreaded fly
24. Nastase of tennis
26. __-bitty
27. Deli sandwich order
32. Aunt Millie's competitor
33. Freeway access
34. Furniture wood
35. Worth a C
36. Weather, in verse
38. Trig function
39. Propel, as a shot
40. Pupil controller
41. Bubbly bandleader
42. Shows liveliness
46. Otherwise Down
47. Fourth-down option 1. Baroque composer 23. Go no further 41. Hardly ruddy
48. Shippers' cases 2. Skin soother 25. Baton Rouge sch. 43. College athlete's
51. Yearbook sect. 3. Former Florentine 26. Shi`ite leader award
52. Shopper's guide money 27. Fake jewelry 44. Uses a mister
56. Monthly outlay 4. South American 28. Greet the day 45. Give the boot to
57. Coin last minted in 1958 capital 29. Churns up 48. Study hard
60. Pot starter 5. Volcano spew 30. American, to Brits 49. Actress Russo
61. Well-ventilated 6. Not as significant 31. __ out a living 50. Pro's foe
62. Italian city 7. __-Seltzer 32. Dissolute one 51. Blood fluids
63. Dayan colleague 8. Round food 35. Tanning lotion 53. Crucifix letters
64. Thumbs-ups 9. Working afternoons, letters 54. Peeved mood
65. Ill will say 36. Road intersector 55. Newcastle's river
10. Henry VIII's 37. Place to wait 58. Speed along
second 38. Pay one's debt 59. Qt. halves
11. ''Thanks __!'' 40. Land in the sea
12. Vintner's dregs
13. Actor Rob or Chad
18. ICU part

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1. Indisputable item
5. Underlying theme of "Se7en"
9. Gps. that may be charitable
13. "It's ___ big
misunderstanding!"
14. Working away
15. Created for a specific
purpose, like a committee
16. It's good to hear after a spill
17. Out where the air is salty
18. Bleaching target
19. It's designed to be seen just
above the beltline
22. Movie composer Morricone
23. Muntjac, for one
24. Area of London
25. Deg. involving 18-across
26. Palindromic computer
language
28. Tap lightly, as with a paint
brush
30. Zoroastrianism, e.g.: abbr.
31. The Cranberries' "___ My
Family"
33. Tries to be like
35. It's seen on workers just Down
above the beltline 1. Didn't even come 12. Brown and Rice, 37. Dominatrix duty
38. Be derisive to close to acing for two 38. Team where Matt
39. "The Showbiz Show" host 2. Kiss insertion? 15. ___ loss for words Jones plays wide
David 3. Small-car occupants, 20. It may pose a receiver
40. Bug on a farm at the circus folding problem 42. "You can be my
41. The sticky icky 4. Shatner and Nimoy's 21. Way to access wing man anytime"
castmate mines movie
43. Get prepared for battle
5. Makers of the 90, 27. Oh, they owe 44. Dark and
44. "Don't let the door hit you
900 and 9000 29. Cartoon attorney contemplative
on the way out," but nicer
6. "I'll meet you then!" Harvey 45. Group address
47. Awestruck response
7. Maria Shriver, to 31. Not just my 46. Dinner special,
49. Horse with whitish hairs
John F. Kennedy 32. Where "scalpel" usually
51. Brown of CNN
8. Put up as a bet may be said, for short 48. Certain subatomic
53. They're seen (if you're not
9. "Awake and Sing!" 34. Author Rita ___ particles
careful) just above the beltline
playwright Clifford Brown 50. It's located just
56. "Store in ___, dry place"
10. Subject explored 35. Acts of atonement above the heart
57. Tic-tac-toe board
by Plato 36. "Sure, why not?" 52. "Get ___!"
58. Leonine noise
11. Fall apart, politely 54. Golfer Ernie
59. Coach driver's handful
speaking 55. Mid-month time
60. Magazine founder Eric
61. Like computers with screen
savers running
62. Fast jets, for short
63. Gets on one's case
64. Gomer on the small screen

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Puzzle #125
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1. Device that's sprung
5. Aerobic activity
10. Heats in a microwave
14. Gutter site
15. Bounty's milieu
16. Spot in the 15-Across
17. On
18. Burn but good
19. Half-moon tide
20. PARTY
23. Unaffiliated: Abbr.
24. Show stoppers?
25. Toothpaste tube cover
28. Sri Lanka's capital
32. Mode lead-in
35. Chaotic situation
37. Seed covering
38. Fires
39. PARTY
42. City in Yemen
43. Prefix with physical
44. Spin doctor's concern
45. "Waking __ Devine": 1998
film
46. Rhythmic pattern Down
48. Developer's land unit 1. Relative of a 22. "... and nothing but 46. Porter Goss's org.
49. Have a bug widgeon the truth?" response 47. Chum
50. World Series mo. 2. Pro __ 25. It covers the Hill 49. Broadcast
52. PARTY 3. Declare openly 26. Battery terminal 51. Group in "Survivor"
61. Letting in a little air 4. "It's the cola" 27. Lost color 52. With 64-Across,
62. Iliac opening sloganeer 29. Tightened, as Utah phenomenon
63. Brainstorm 5. Back-to-back move shoes 53. Resort town near
64. See 52-Down at a hoedown 30. Speechify Santa Barbara
65. Typo, e.g. 6. IRA part: Abbr. 31. La Scala site 54. Wedding reception
66. Enjoy an alley 7. "Hud" Best Actress 32. Kind of skeleton piece
67. In knots 8. Cartel city 33. "Release me!" 55. Actress Teri
68. Lott of Mississippi 9. Living room piece 34. Thus far 56. Plower's unit
69. Ultimatum ender 10. Criticizes sharply 36. "Jaws" omen 57. 1982 Disney sci-fi
11. Between ports 38. 24-hr. financial aid film
12. Course of action 40. "Ready when you 58. Object of worship
13. When the US Open are!" 59. Latest
ends 41. Family member 60. Strong wind
21. Not abridged

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Puzzle #126
Across
1. Watch
6. Capital of Manche
10. Range across Europe
14. Meshed citizen
15. Use the maxilla and
mandible
16. Bring exasperation
17. Printing technique
19. Fastening item
20. Sidewinder's shape
21. Balzac's birthplace
22. Place for hope?
23. Demonstration site, 1965
24. Blackball
25. Be agreeable
28. Children's classic
32. Cozenage
33. ___ Raymond Cobb
34. Word in the first sentence of
the Gettysburg Address
35. Meet expectations
38. Lacking zest
40. Hillary or Bill, but not
Chelsea
41. Nixon's undoing
Down
43. Expurgate, editorially
1. It has two jaws 22. Game believed to 45. ''His Master's
44. ''Idylls of the King'' poet
2. Flag in the garden be of Indian origin Voice'' pooch
46. Mushroom cells
3. Western womenfolk 23. Truck stop sight 46. Pudding base
48. Suffer from lack of water
4. Publicity 24. Cause to be 47. In nothing flat
49. Glum drops immobile
5. ''I'm talking to you!'' 50. ''Welcome!''
51. Lightweight fabric 25. Bank account, e.g.
6. Rugby formation 51. Pinocchio's fish
53. Down Under dog 26. Deli counter item
7. Get well regimen 52. Enjoy 44-Across
54. ''Monster-in-Law'' star, 27. Interlacing
8. Bottom-of-the-barrel 53. Former Genoese
briefly technique
stuff magistrate
57. Sudden transition 29. Discordia's
9. Have exclusively 54. Mate of a real
58. White-scutted creature counterpart swinger
10. King in 44-Across
60. Roofer's concern 30. Like a ballerina 55. Statements in a
11. Writing desk
61. Give wolfish looks 31. Bumps on a log pack?
supply, perhaps
62. With improved reception 33. What thsi is 56. Kind of shoppe
12. ''And . . .''
63. Frankfurt's river 36. Editor's concern 58. Picnicker's
13. Paving stone
64. Cold one 37. Religious throwaway
18. Belmont entry
65. Corpulent requirement, 59. It may have claw
sometimes feet
39. Wedding
announcements
42. Make eligible

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Puzzle #127
Across
1. Single computer instruction to
replace many
6. King's area
11. "___ my Party"
14. Dole out
15. Sesame Street resident
16. Opposite of max.
17. Banquet figure
19. "Harper Valley ___"
20. Cal. heading
21. Cain's brother
22. Bathtub sealant
24. Emulates raptors
26. One leaving one country to
settle in another
28. Kneading locale
31. Cincinnati team
32. "___ Town" (Wilder drama)
33. Microbe
34. Le Havre-to-Paris dir.
36. Not docked
38. Weave's go-with
40. Weisbaden, Germany is its
capital
44. La-la preceder
Down
46. One sort of miss
1. Tumbling surfaces 18. Wishy-washy reply 45. Is for more than
48. Nickel in a pocket, perhaps?
2. Lotion ingredient 23. Come to a one
49. Sans pizzazz
3. Percussion consensus 47. Type of acid
52. Street urchin
instruments 25. Ventriloquist 49. Lullaby name
55. Make an old kitchen new, Bergen
4. Orators' platforms 50. One imposing a tax
say
5. Polo Grounds 27. Members of AMA 51. French cathedral
57. One, for one
Hall-of-Famer 28. It gives one a snug city
58. Dispatch boat feeling?
6. Use a sponge twice 53. Assert without
59. Put into a horizontal position 29. The beaten path proof
7. Language spoken in
61. Make for shore Dingwall 30. Honor ___ thieves 54. Kind of policy
64. Shake a leg 8. Buck's feature 35. "Doesn't bother 56. Administered a
65. "It's a snap!" 9. Bald-faced bit me" gesture narcotic
68. "___ in Black" (1997) 10. French thank you 37. Cultural mores 60. They may be one
69. Competitive advantages 11. Unchaste 39. Spangliest or eleven
70. Hank, the home run king 12. Having nobility 41. Programmer's 62. Sacred image
71. Alums to be 13. Hair of Medusa output (Var.)
72. Performs, biblically 42. ___ Lanka 63. Darn socks
73. Produce a uniform mixture 43. Hallow ending? 66. Testifier's phrase
67. ___ Four (Beatles)

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Puzzle #128
Across
1. Texas city
5. Sir __ Guinness
9. Trudge
13. Nuptial vows
14. Courageous
15. Theater section
16. Beatles song subject
18. Small bit of land
19. Invent
20. Pointy-nosed animal
22. Pronoun for a boat
23. Couples
25. Florentine river
26. Part of a hammer head
27. Bring up
30. Exchange
33. New Orleans streetcar
35. Smidgen
36. ''Why?''
38. __ and Bradstreet
39. R2-D2 or C3PO
41. ''. . . man __ mouse?''
42. Cut off, as whiskers
45. Memorial Day race
46. Eventful journey Down
48. Mexican food 1. Hoisting machine 17. Feminine suffix 43. ''The Little Foxes''
50. Author Sheehy 2. Put on a pedestal 21. Made a goof playwright
51. Middle Eastern sandwich 3. Cringe 24. Eventually 44. Evolution theorist
52. Faux __ 4. Workplace safety 26. Second ltr. 47. Fencing swords
55. Columbus' patron org. addenda 49. Trite humor
58. Yuletide door decor 5. ''__ we there yet?'' 27. Four score and ten 51. Sudden inhalations
60. Maggie Smith's title 6. Buddhist priests 28. Sudden attack 52. Name on a check
61. Love-letter words 7. Author Hunter 29. Whirlpool 53. Observe Yom
63. More than 8. Mythical horse/man 30. ''Beat it!'' Kippur
64. Colorado resort 9. Malleable 31. Part of a phrase 54. Closes
65. Bloke 10. Missed, as an 32. Part of a team's 55. Role model
66. Not as much opportunity schedule 56. Put in the bank
67. ''Atlantis'' org. 11. Stare at 34. Soccer mom's 57. Bart Simpson's
68. Witnesses 12. Roebuck, e.g. vehicle sister
14. Made beer 37. Actor Davis 59. Omelet ingredient
40. Bolivian river 62. Ross or Red

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Puzzle #129
Across
1. Slugger's pride
4. Rabbit coop
9. Hammer parts
14. "___ better to have loved . .
."
15. Mindless
16. Copy, for short
17. Poet born in Hailey, Idaho
(1885)
19. Did some sculling
20. 50-and-up grp.
21. Tail-regenerating creatures
23. Legend mourned June 12,
2003
27. NEA ally
29. Folksy Guthrie
30. Listen here!
31. Support, as a ruling
33. Naalehu memento
34. Group of turtles
35. Refreshment sites
36. Former Interior Secretary
39. Like a fine feathered friend
42. ___ doute (certainly)
43. Go downhill willfully
Down
46. Improvise
1. I-95, e.g. 22. Former French coin 43. Disk's function
48. System starter
2. Freaky 23. Guy's mate 44. Relatives
49. Hullabaloo
3. Begin, e.g. 24. Juice 45. Vexation
50. Deep place?
4. Hefty ballerina in 25. Bush alma mater 47. Useful article
51. "Casino" star
"Fantasia" 26. Wrinkle remover 49. Legal delay
54. Crazy Horse foe
5. Part of a Cancún 28. Clio contenders 52. Type of suit
56. Nearly unsolvable count 32. Chef's 53. In a reserved way
57. Ball girl? 6. Sigma-Upsilon accoutrement 55. Horde
58. NOW president elected in connection 34. Railings 57. Univ. degrees
1987 7. Letters for a King? 36. Drinking bout 59. Individual
63. Inflame 8. Waffle 37. Brazos River city 60. Spike, notably
64. Big man in Los Angeles 9. Slow cookers 38. Soon, poetically 61. Bannockburn boy
65. Chevy model, once 10. Surreptitious news 39. Veneration 62. Web address
66. Frets disclosure 40. Price of horror feature
67. Oboe-like, in tone 11. Fitting 41. Mollycoddle
68. Summer time at MIT 12. Engage in a
smackdown
13. Landscaping
material
18. Mythical ship

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Puzzle #130
Across
1. Drug agent
5. Prepares a lunch box
10. Drains
14. Director Kazan
15. Heart chambers
16. Catch in a sting
17. Bunker, for one
18. Nighttime visitor
20. It might wind up on a boat
21. Cell messenger
22. Back talk
23. Like a court witness
26. Spills the beans
30. Yawn-provoking
31. Weapons stash
33. New York island
36. Old hand
37. Cover-up of a sort
38. Carouse
43. Squirt from an octopus
44. Mo. for back-to-school sales
45. Pays attention to
46. Well-known Palace
49. Diesel fuel pollutant
51. Opposing positions Down
52. Winner of eight Tonys for 1. Indian independence 24. Sign of a clunker 47. Placid
2003 leader 25. "Entertainment 48. Marco Polo
57. Copacabana city 2. Earth invader Tonight" anchor destination
59. Old Ford 3. Irritated 27. Tennis rival of 49. TV standard
60. Infrequent 4. Got on a radio talk 69-Across 50. Directives
61. Word to the wise show 28. Howled 53. Shock rocker
65. One on a pedestal 5. Walk a beat 29. Snowmobile Cooper
66. Enduring symbol 6. Unkeyed, as some precursors 54. Doppler device
67. Remodeler's concern compositions 32. Tigger's pal 55. Scent
68. Bivouac 7. Zagreb native 33. Long chronicles 56. Barks excitedly
69. Tennis rival of 27-Down 8. Do-it-yourselfer's aid 34. Veranda 58. Lottery likelihood
70. Checks 9. Comedian Mort 35. Fancied 61. Drink slowly
71. Stretches of time 10. Sugar or flour, e.g. 36. Game board 62. Straight start,
11. "Exodus" hero jumper maybe
12. Conclusion to a 39. Nicotine partner 63. Nabbed
drive, perhaps 40. "Quiet!" 64. WWII fighter
13. Person with 41. Title word of an
intelligence? Abbott and Costello
19. Stretches the truth routine
42. Bottom-line cost

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Puzzle #131
Across
1. Australian region
5. Famed sidekick
10. Turner and Eisenhower
14. Early Andean
15. New York city on the
Allegheny
16. Hide counterpart
17. Reach across
18. ''___ live in a yellow
submarine''
19. Like a squid's squirt
20. Guidelines for a politician
23. Eliminates
24. 180 degrees from SSW
25. Howe'er
28. Cases for EMTs
29. One known for saving
couples
32. Napoleon's kin?
34. First name in women's
tennis
36. Lunchbox snack, perhaps
37. Ex-presidents may go on
them
41. Sterile pack animal
Down
42. Landscapers' needs
43. Tempest site? 1. Informal restaurant 21. Asia Minor region 41. Shasta and
2. Like outstanding 22. Electronics giant Olympus, for short
46. Cuba, to Castro
debts 26. Hurries 44. Sphere
47. Use a straw
3. Burns 27. Spanish gold 45. Small hand drums
50. Pig's place
4. Back-to-back Oscar 30. What George 47. Woody's wife
51. ''A Yank in the ___'' (1941)
winner Washington couldn't 48. Dry cleaner's
53. Corrida performer
5. Village inhabitants tell machine
55. Bucolic sight, perhaps
6. Designer Cassini 31. Indian language 49. Fireplace supplies
59. Some nest eggs, in brief
7. Type of tide 33. Reed and Gehrig 52. Play the coquette
61. Two-thirds of a magnum
8. Branch grabber 34. Beetle's sound? 54. Kilmer classic
62. Feminizing suffix
9. One place to shop 35. Brunch staples 56. Tennis great
63. Dash gauge, briefly
10. ''___ soup yet?'' 37. Winter bird food 57. ''Like ___ not''
64. Wine attribute
11. One-time special 38. Listen to a 58. Skipper of the
65. Voyeur
prosecutor recording Nautilus
66. Bambino
12. ''A mouse!'' 39. Wire 59. Classic TV Cousin
67. 1948 presidential candidate
13. Optimist's limit 40. Big name in 60. Hope unit
Thurmond
toothbrushes
68. Gentlemen

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Puzzle #132
Across
1. Start of a hypothesis
5. Like some adapters
9. Plays the ponies
13. Chief navigator on the
Enterprise
14. Get really high
15. NFL Hall of Famer Matson
16. "I smell __!"
17. Colombian metropolis
18. __ Dame
19. Yew
22. Be relevant to
25. "I wish!"
26. You
30. Farsi speaker
31. Like a loud crowd
32. Weaken
35. Columbia, e.g.: Abbr.
36. Mandates
37. Customary practice
38. Big size
39. __ Blue detergent
40. Gulf state
41. U
43. Reception aid Down
46. Inner city area 1. "This __ stickup" 20. Burt's ex 39. Does a double
47. Ewe 2. Jet set garb 21. Singer Loeb et al. take, e.g.
51. "Stop, sailor!" 3. Patty Hearst's 22. Relatively unknown 40. Big name in
52. Novelist Waugh abductors: Abbr. song, usually nonstick cookware
53. DEA agent 4. In the lead 23. Uncanny 41. Isn't straight with
57. They make a mint 5. Get higher 24. Words after take, 42. Early calculator
58. Prego rival 6. Persuade gently make or break 43. "The Man Without
59. Handle user 7. St. Petersburg, 27. Primer, say __": 1993 film
60. ExxonMobil subsidiary Florida, museum 28. Obliterate 44. Polar crew
61. Eve's grandson honoree 29. Helicopter 45. Brings up
62. Knife handle 8. Rattle site assembly 48. It may be a token
9. Cool, in a way 32. Wachovia Center 49. Pizazz
10. John who toured player 50. "Let __, Lover!":
with Joel 33. Pong maker '50s hit
11. Alpine region of 34. Trattoria topping 54. Lawyers' org.
Austria and Italy 36. In a suitable 55. Ring boss
12. Run-down manner 56. CPU attachment
15. __ the road 37. Cut down

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Puzzle #133
Across
1. Fish with strings attached?
5. Some once-a-year travelers
10. Zebulon's favorite fish?
14. Queens' Arthur court?
15. Piano piece
16. I-80 et al.
17. Putin's putoff?
18. It's a good thing
19. Gaels' Ireland
20. Fool
21. Curs' curers
22. Annapolis monogram
23. Fish that's part bovine?
25. Profitable chickens for Col.
Sanders
28. Many millennia
29. Nimbostratus output
31. Cheese adjective
34. It's paid as you go?
35. Alleviate
36. Chuckle in a chat room
37. Fish that could double as a
center?
40. Vardalos of "My Big Fat
Greek Wedding"
Down
41. Spherical intro
1. Where the inn crowd 22. Decaf dispenser, 45. Salon treatments
43. Prefix meaning "peculiar"
might stay perhaps 47. "Soft & -___"
44. In pursuit
2. "___ Like It" 24. Commuter plane antiperspirant brand
46. Not get hit, in a way trips
3. Hard covering 48. Two nuts hold
48. Traditional basketball 25. Do a clerical job them in place?
4. Colonist, for one
powerhouse
5. Blissful spot 26. Riveter of note 51. City in West
49. Four-baggers Yorkshire
6. Perplexed 27. Long weapon
50. A fish that gets canned? 52. Prefix meaning
7. How to 30. Certain food in a
55. "Just ___ suspected!" bowl "bone"
communicate with any
56. Spread in a tub? of the seven entries in 31. Sweeping cut 53. Sharp spur wheel
57. "His eye ___ the sparrow" this puzzle 32. Too ___ handle 54. ___ nous
58. A Catwoman portrayer 8. July 15th for Julius 33. Grad's school 56. Chocolate treat
60. Disney's little mermaid Caesar 34. Magician's fanfare 58. Col. Sanders' Co.
61. Certain soap, initially 9. Harden 38. Bites like a puppy 59. "Patriot Games"
62. Like speech and the press, 10. Act the chairperson 39. Tabula ___ grp.
ideally 11. Traveling 60. It may put holes in
42. Dance in 2/4 time
63. George who played Norm 12. It's heard before shoes
64. Suggestive look or grin plunk and plop
65. A fish that nags? 13. Linguist's suffix
66. Fertile soil
67. A fish out of school?

136
Puzzle #134
Across
1. Paycheck extra
6. Sudden inhalation
10. Industrial storage containers
14. Like Humpty Dumpty
15. Bestselling cookie
16. Cleveland's lake
17. Not as high
18. Having little fat
19. Carnival attraction
20. __ Moines, IA
21. Gymnastics event
24. Tinkerbell, for one
26. Inconvenience
27. Underground floor
29. Catch sight of
31. Jordanian, e.g.
32. ''Beetle Bailey'' dog
34. Mine passageway
39. Freelancer's encl.
40. Fabrics from sheep
42. Spherical hairdo
43. Hearth residue
45. Italy's shape
46. Recipe direction
47. Frosted Down
49. Bear witness 1. Intrepid 22. Archer's weapon 44. Emphatic Spanish
51. Point a finger at 2. One of the 23. Diner sign affirmative
55. Not cloudy woodwinds 25. Playwright Edward 48. Core
56. ''The West Wing'' star 3. Bulletin 27. Hernando's home 50. Apartment renter
59. Certain MDs 4. __ only as directed 28. Chapters of history 51. Not quite right
62. ''What's __ for me?'' 5. Balkan region 29. Got out of one's 52. Lake craft
63. Pigeon-__ 6. ''Wow!'' chair 53. Felony or
64. God of Islam 7. Field of expertise 30. Game on misdemeanor
66. A few 8. Actor Penn horseback 54. Speak
67. Fashion mag 9. Blanketlike cloak 33. One of Hamlet's 55. Gives up, as
68. Nary a soul 10. Action words choices territory
69. Crystal-ball user 11. Spring zodiac sign 35. ''__ la vista, baby!'' 57. Filet fish
70. Workout iterations 12. Of ocean motion 36. Pleasant 58. Give assistance to
71. Dragged behind 13. ''If they could __ remembrance 60. Window section
now . . .'' 37. TGIF days 61. Lose fur
38. Legal wrong 65. Old card game
41. No longer fresh

137
Puzzle #135
Across
1. Bath powder
5. Couples with a driver
9. Mortify
14. Operatic solo
15. City in Kansas
16. About 1% of the
atmosphere
17. O
20. Kind of guitar
21. Genesis twin
22. B'way postings
23. Martha's Vineyard, for
example (abbr.)
25. Slow down
27. "We're off ___ the Wizard
..."
30. Object in many sports
31. '60s Pontiac muscle car
34. Crave
35. Inlets
37. "___ and the Night Visitors"
39. O
42. Aerobat's maneuvers
43. Bear among the stars
44. Kettle of fish, so to speak
Down
45. Boggy land
1. Pravda news source 19. Fling 47. Shriek
46. Promote, and then some
2. In ___ (stuck) 24. Balkan resident 49. ___ fixe
48. Sam played by Bogart
3. Sprightliness 26. Jai ___ (restaurant charging
50. Laundry appliance option)
4. Coffeehouse 27. California-Nevada
52. Pricing word 51. Disprove
5. Repair border lake
53. Facial tissue additive 52. Juan of Argentina
6. Spur wheel 28. Tower toppers on
55. Unaccompanied Russian Orthodox 53. "Right away!"
7. Some Ivy Leaguers
57. Lacking sense churches 54. Julia Roberts' ex
8. Record collections?
62. O 29. Word on a red sign Lovett
9. Swiss river
65. Native Alaskan 30. Wilkes-___, PA 56. Denier's words
10. Pleasantly zestful
66. Collar type 32. "___ Boots Are 58. Det. Sipowicz's
11. Brought together
67. Jab with an elbow Made for Walkin'" employer
12. District of London
68. Tormentors 33. Chevy's cousin 59. Pearl Mosque city
13. Tolkien's tree
69. "... in the pot, ___ days old" 34. "The Situation 60. Glowing gas
creatures
70. Aykroyd and Fogelberg Room" journalist Blitzer 61. Conclusions
18. Tennis great
Nastase 36. Anti-inflammatory 63. Bonus NFL periods
choice 64. Single
38. Baby's call
40. Colorless
41. Rose bowl?

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Puzzle #136
Across
1. China's ___ of Four
5. Lifting devices
11. Brylcreem amount
14. Natural emollient
15. Play the siren
16. Building projection
17. Court woe
19. Wizards locale
20. Eagerly studying
21. Gives gratuitously
23. Lace end, perhaps
26. Dine
27. Gallop, for one
28. It's cooked up
29. More than perk up
32. Some hot sandwiches
33. How to take adversity
35. Slangy term of address
36. Track woes
39. Beluga output
40. Typical telephone elements
43. Part filler
46. Brown pigment
47. Bemoan
48. Fiber source Down
49. Home of the cubs 1. Piece in a B-movie, 22. Airline employees 43. Lessens
50. Council of ___ (1545-1563) perhaps 23. Comeback maker 44. Old town newsmen
52. Wing part 2. Steak partner of 10/30/74 45. Kind of scout
54. ''Skedaddle!'' 3. Persona-grata link 24. Game-ending 46. Doddering
56. Shirt type 4. Lamp spirit declaration 49. Woodworking
57. Pool woe 5. ''... why ___ thou 25. More, proverbially joiner
62. Fish-catching eagle forsaken me?'' 26. King of horror 51. Content of a derby
63. Soft, velvety material 6. Margarine kin 30. Hard-to-swallow winner's wreath
64. New York canal 7. A way to be at ease verbiage 53. Acknowledge an
65. Mach 1 breaker, briefly 8. Overpower 31. Product pitches invitation
66. Public TV request 9. Boy Scouts' unit 32. Authority giving 54. Overly complacent
67. Menial worker 10. Mended, in a way specific orders 55. Present for the
11. Type of insurance 34. It's fit for a king teacher?
12. Even though 35. Bus or van starter 58. Old TV ''Squad''
13. Some sounds from 37. Race division, 59. Before, to Hamlet
a trumpet perhaps 60. It may be thin, hot
18. Auto section 38. Devoid of moisture or cold
41. Wine cask 61. Man in the ring
42. Part of a musical
gig

139
Puzzle #137
Across
1. Cold capital?
5. Roman statesman
9. Center of power
14. Heavy landing sound
15. Way off
16. To one side
17. 1957 Jimmie Rodgers hit
19. Four farthings, in old
England
20. Sister of Zsa Zsa
21. Oklahoma Indian
22. Hawk
23. Sign up
25. Hopelessly ruined
28. More shrewd
29. Kitchen container
30. The first U.S. one opened in
Boston in 1851
31. Erase a magnetic tape
34. Clay, today
35. Facetious "I see"
38. Bit of tuneful nostalgia
39. __ instant
40. Lock (up)
41. Meeting plans Down
43. Domain
1. They may be 18. "__ fired!" 42. Loathe
45. Up-point link significant 22. Knowledgeable 44. Within reach
46. Cacophony 2. Work in the garden 24. Fix up 47. "Java" trumpeter
50. Kind of stick 3. Extreme behavior 25. Geographical 48. Lodged
52. Command level 4. "__ to Billie Joe" depression 49. Logs
54. For whom the bell tolls 5. Saguaros, e.g. 26. Golden St. campus 51. Like salsa
55. Circle overhead 6. In progress 27. Distress 52. Donovan McNabb,
56. Popular 7. Submissive 29. Disputed Middle for one
57. Half a '60s pop group 8. Heavenly body East region 53. Say with assurance
59. 1957 McGuire Sisters hit 9. Carnation site 32. Sigmund Freud 55. Former Justice
61. Occurrence 10. Without subterfuge feature Black
62. Wrinkly fruit 11. 1972 Sammy Davis 33. Star in Perseus 57. Each
63. __ Rabbit Jr. hit 35. "Pronto!" 58. Map abbr.
64. Prepared 12. Coffee-hour need 36. Munich address 59. Dine
65. Greeting card item 13. Mudhole 37. 1966 Tommy Roe 60. Atlanta Braves TV
66. Norms: Abbr. hit network
39. Sea escape

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Puzzle #138
Across
1. Civil rights concern
5. Classic clown
9. "Green Acres" co-star
14. St. Louis landmark
15. Poker declaration
16. Much the same
17. Actress Merrill
18. Strongest man on The
Planet?
19. Manchester measurement
20. Roll
23. Bobby end
24. Snockered
25. Washington and McKinley
(Abbr.)
28. Serve
32. Word with up or down
35. Do blackboard duty
37. Sound of time
38. Out of kilter
39. Roll
42. "Watch it!"
43. Opera's Gluck
44. "___ a Nightingale"
45. Cambridgeshire cathedral Down
town
1. Good, in street talk 22. Bit of serendipity 46. Word of warning
46. Rolling infield hit
2. Greek messenger of 25. Barroom brawl, for 47. Just get by
48. Its tip may be felt
the gods example 49. Antisocial type
49. Took by the hand
3. Teenager's torment 26. Kafka subject 51. Investment return
50. Second name in cosmetics
4. Not flat 27. Sarah Vaughan's 52. Ergo
52. Roll sobriquet
5. It has two pieces 53. Service break?
60. Risible beast 29. Old hat
6. Presage 54. Country's McEntire
61. Double Delight snack 30. Comment to a
7. Throw barbs at 55. Turn over one's
62. Pizzazz blackjack dealer
8. Aware of hand
64. Brown shade 31. Group of eight
9. Chess opening 56. Kingston group
65. Stead 32. Win every game
10. On one's toes 57. Cad
66. Draw in 33. Mountain ridge
11. Angler's hope 58. Mustard and Plum
67. Part of Ringo's set 34. "Iron Mike" game
12. Some pods
68. Lamebrain 36. Unkempt abode 59. Bring in
13. Stalk by the river
69. Appreciable effect 38. Recipe verb 63. It can be a
21. Part of VCR
40. Nick of the links lifesaver
41. "War Games"
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1. Pisan pronoun
5. Substantive part
9. Dome-shaped do
13. Subject of introspection
14. Top-flight
15. Hardly colorful
16. It often ends with a pun
19. It may be hitched
20. -osis : -oses :: -y : -___
21. Tyrolean refrain
22. John's dance partner in
''Pulp Fiction''
23. It's pressed for cash
24. Based on theory
26. Completely wasted
29. Say one's piece
30. Heroine of ''Last Days of
Pompeii''
31. It's dropped
34. Trevi filler, once
35. Fashionable Geoffrey
37. Sociologist Shere
38. Agent's due
39. Only about 10 percent of it
is visible
Down
40. Whoop it up
1. Frozen snack 18. Mr. Mister song 39. Scopes prosecutor
41. Dawdle
2. Use Western Union, named after a prayer 40. Pretoria's land
44. List for hubby
say 19. Nureyev or Friml (Abbr.)
47. Collector's suffix
3. Type of plum 23. Took in a poor boy 41. Remove, as a
48. Kidnapping org. of 1974 calcium compound
4. Texans' org. 24. The King's middle
49. Seat of Marion County, name 42. Port in the Loire
5. Bully's dare
Florida Valley
6. Geologic divisions 25. You can see right
50. Babylonian god of the sky through it 43. Sufficient, in
7. Year, south of the
51. What Simon does 27. Compass hdg. Dogpatch
border
52. Without a clue 28. San follower 44. Moonshiner's wares
8. Gumshoe
56. Symbol of silence 31. Pretends to be 45. Prefix for ''eye''
9. Append
57. Burns' hillside something one's not 46. Present at birth
10. Ringbearer of film
58. Luke's sister and fiction 32. ''Rikki Don't Lose 50. At some distance
59. Duffer's target 11. Autumn toiler That Number'' group 51. Penetrate slowly
60. Some are jam-packed 12. Old manuscript 33. River formations 53. Pres. with a ranch
61. Dentist's request markings 35. It's drawn with a 54. A strike-out makes
17. Kin kin rifle? it go down
36. ''In conclusion'' 55. U.N. agcy.
37. Playboy Hugh, promoting social justice
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1. We all have one
5. CD player problems
10. Once, once upon a time
14. Palo ___
15. Some Muscle Beach types
16. Move toward
17. Film monster of 1958
18. Filibuster, in a way
19. Third-base coach's sign,
perhaps
20. Beginning of a witty eulogy
23. Pained reactions
24. It merged with Bell Atlantic
25. Insurance figure
26. Leafy shelters
28. Make lean, in a way
32. Skater Baiul
35. Space-age affirmatives
37. High ___ kite
38. Eulogy, Part 2
39. Nemo's creator
41. Eulogy, Part 3
42. Skye cap
43. It's put before Descartes
44. DeCarlo of ''The Munsters'' Down
46. Not being used 1. First name among 21. Designer von 43. Type of home or
48. Chickasaw and Choctaw, legendary artists Furstenberg room
e.g. 2. Islamic deity 22. LAX abbrs. 45. Prez's stand-in
50. Sputnik launcher 3. Shelves 26. Howl at the moon 47. Briefs
52. Kind of hold 4. Unwanted name in 27. More enticing, to a 49. Defeated one's
53. ___-crab soup ''Roots'' philatelist phrase
56. End of the eulogy 5. Kind of radio 29. ''The Marble ___'' 51. Members of a
61. Interjection of dejection 6. Olympian Jackie (Hawthorne) branch of Islam
62. ''... bombs bursting ___'' (with Joyner) 30. Pt. of NAACP 53. Brown tint
63. Literary work or composition 7. Single-named 31. Westminster 54. Frequently visited
64. Niger neighbor supermodel gallery place
65. Did something 8. Beer-guzzling Norm 32. Number after sette 55. Borden cow
66. Type of camp or van 9. 1983 Indy 500 33. Hayworth's royal 56. Kind of duck or
67. No longer one-sided winner Tom hubby brain
68. Places for spades 10. Course for a 34. Next-to-last match 57. Norwegian saint
69. Crown of the head gourmand 36. Home settings 58. Telemarketer's aim
11. One way to 40. Establish firmly 59. ''I can't believe ___
audition 41. Alcott's ''___ Boys'' the whole thing!''
12. ''The Chronicles of 60. Regal showing
Clovis'' writer
13. It has bark but no
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1. Biblical tower town
6. Resorts with hot springs
10. New York Mets' home
14. Fictional Scarlett
15. Informal greeting
16. Low in fat
17. Shipping-box material
20. Author Rand
21. Takes an apartment
22. Mean to say
23. Arctic Ocean floater
24. ''Othello'' bad guy
26. Whiny-sounding
29. Ungentle
31. Toward the rear, at sea
34. Polish an article
35. Touch on the shoulder
36. Slow-moving reptile
38. Just not done
41. Lover boys
42. ''__ the fields we go . . .''
43. Almanac illustrations
44. NATO member
45. Things, grammatically
speaking Down
47. Deputized group 1. __ Raton, FL 19. Affectionate 46. Expends fully
48. Swampy grounds 2. Nautical hello greeting 47. Baker's holder
49. Twosome 3. Hayloft locale 23. Soak in the tub 48. Multiple of eight
51. Knight's protection 4. Go wrong 25. Fall flower 50. Find a sum
54. Wear away 5. Oliver Hardy's 26. Gandhi colleague 51. Pinnacle
56. Lt.'s subordinate partner 27. Goodbye, in 52. Sufficient space
59. Carpenter's purchase 6. China's largest city Guatemala 53. Polite term of
62. Castle surrounder 7. Actor Brad 28. Tau preceder address
63. Floor coverings 8. Sailor's assent 30. Kitchen cover-up 55. Fury
64. Really like 9. Unhappy 31. Mythical world lifter 56. Popular name for
65. Television award 10. Instant-replay 32. Backs of envelopes Dalmatians
66. Fencing weapon technique 33. Pithy 57. Microbe
67. ''I didn't do it!'' 11. Pile 35. Boxer Mike 58. Cherry or chestnut
12. British noble 37. Gossipy tidbit 60. Before, in verse
13. Rooney of ''60 39. They don't socialize 61. Ruckus
Minutes'' 40. Answer
18. From Frankfurt:
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1. Zero hour, e.g.
6. Son of Noah
10. Asian conqueror
14. Like a NASA module
15. One of the Simpsons
16. Appellation
17. Beyond being uninterested?
19. Rudolph storyteller
20. Wife of Odysseus
21. Common periodical name
23. Caustic liquid
24. Clockmaker Thomas
25. Covers
29. Scotch or sugar, e.g.
33. Antler branches
34. Upkeep
35. ''September ___'' (Diamond)
36. Social reformer Baker
37. Participated in a rodeo event
38. In the thick of
39. ''The Loom of Youth'' author
Waugh
40. Country that got its current
name in 1935
41. It's supportive Down
42. Lacking historical validity
1. Token punishment 18. Eton students 41. Robert Blake series
44. Attendant of Dionysus
2. Sock type 22. Graph ending 43. IX square root
45. Life sci.
3. Ever and ___ 24. Storied temptress 44. Go off target
46. Michael Caine's address
4. Underground party 25. Select group 46. Like blue shoes of
47. Subway tunnel art, perhaps song
5. Garden structure 26. Cowboy Hall of
50. Boeing body Famer Bob 47. Caspar, Melchior
6. Schusser's domain
55. Admit frankly 27. Cardigan Bay, e.g. and Balthazar, e.g.
7. Add to the force
56. Sound tempests? 28. Emotional seaside 48. Elliptical shape
8. Legal conclusion?
58. Borden of condensed milk moments? 49. Garden material
9. Drove to drink, say
59. Sir Geraint's wife 29. Concerning the 50. Kickoff preface
10. Gawain's equine?
60. Forum garments Vatican 51. Spoils of war
11. Suffer from
61. Pandora's boxful 30. Type of candle 52. Jason's vessel
12. ''Daniel Boone''
62. Word with electrical or red actor 31. Author Jong 53. FBI guy
63. Make a full apology 13. Nutcracker suite? 32. Broke off 54. In ___ (existing)
34. Key feature? 57. Literary miscellany,
37. Carom off e.g.

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1. "Let us know," initially
5. Inscribed pillar
10. Turkish general
14. Medley
15. Look for
16. Work through the night,
maybe
17. Imposing group?
20. Way or means
21. Checked from all sides
22. Camp sights
23. Full force
25. Savings plan, briefly
28. Series opener or closer?
29. Honking swimmers
30. Persia, today
31. Two-footer
33. Steak order
34. Saying "What?," maybe
38. Small part
39. North Pole crew
40. Over
41. Kind of model
43. Crude meas.
46. Banned insecticide Down
47. Hollow rock 1. Take turns 23. "Where's the __?" 42. Prairie howler
48. Layered rock 2. Grinds 24. Little Orphan 43. Renoir subject
50. Frightening 3. Ill-tempered females Annie, e.g. 44. Runs, as dye
52. In groups 4. "What's your __?" 26. Resounded 45. Flat dweller
53. In the fitting room 5. Saltimbocca 27. Chemical ending 47. Pink lady liquor
57. Bird's destination, at times seasoning 29. Local mail ctr. 48. __-pitch
58. Decorative cases 6. Defunct airline 30. Sacred bird of old 49. Casino request
59. Ancient 30-Across resident 7. Nice water Egypt 51. Islets
60. Makes doilies 8. It turns red in acid 31. Steep 52. Threat ender
61. Horse trait? 9. Fuel gas 32. Words before a 53. You'll have a blast
62. Scots Gaelic 10. Generous lot kiss, maybe with it
11. Place for Titans 33. Three, in Napoli 54. "Guinevere" actor
and Giants 34. It has five digits 55. "Sister Act" extra
12. Bonnet or derby 35. February birthstone 56. USSR successor
13. TV's "Judging __" 36. Vogue rival
18. Followers of mus 37. Old greeting
19. Mel who hit 511 38. Bounder
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1. Sir Guinness
5. Island mementos
9. Garments made of camel's
hair
13. Seasoned rice dish
15. Straddling
16. Coin collector?
17. ''I Still See ___'' (''Paint Your
Wagon'' tune)
18. Hockey term
20. Canon
22. It's not returnable
23. This year's grads
24. Florida citrus center
26. Retained
28. Strongbox
31. Darts term
35. Sternward
36. Controversial Rose
37. Kind of curtain
38. Dream phenom
39. Airport components
40. Wells or Lupino
41. Myanmar locale
43. Tiresome routines Down
44. French impressionist painter
1. Inhabitants of a 19. Projectionist's unit 44. Tomorrow, in a
Claude
certain sci-fi planet 21. Roof covering, Peggy Lee song
46. Squash term
2. Pleasant tune perhaps 45. Fencing term
48. Fabric press
3. Lamb's ''Essays of 25. Assisted in crime 47. Roosevelt Island
49. Fantastic tale ___'' transport
27. Abbreviation on
50. ''Nothing ___!'' 4. Leave the pier tires in Greece? 48. Wire measure
52. Step one to be merry? 5. Jacket part 28. Jeweler's weight 51. Great expanse
54. Verb used in recipes 6. D.D.E.'s WWII 29. Needing to take 52. Where el sol rises
56. North Pole twosome command off? 53. Word with rock,
60. Rugby term 7. 29th state 30. Genealogist's map rain or test
63. Dewy-eyed 8. Trout features 32. Salt Lake City 55. Venture
64. Piece of cake? 9. Nile creature students 57. Rectangle part
65. Section 10. Supporting 33. Sing on 58. Uniform
66. Actress Eve 11. Many miles away Dufourspitze 59. Dispatched
67. Earthly paradise 12. What Simon does 34. Mother's relative 61. Final resting place,
68. ''... ___ and not heard'' 14. Tap 36. ''Bear'' Bryant's first for some
69. Bang-up result? name 62. Haw counterpart
39. Family matriarchs
42. King intro