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MAY 19, 2016 // 17 THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CROSSWORD 1 2 3 4 19 EXHIBIT A 84 Down-illed garment 85 Adversary who shows up at romantic dinners? 87 “Finally, I can buy that house!” 90 Cut (of) 91 Scoing reply 92 Company that sold Spirographs 93 “Santa Baby” singer 96 “____ Body?” (irst Peter Wimsey novel) 98 Its symbol is a star and crescent 102 Quarters 104 Hand makeup 107 What Carrie needed after the prom? 112 1980s-’90s Olympian Jackie Joyner-____ 113 Maker of Caplio cameras 114 “Major shopping centers aren’t among the prizes!” 116 Wild and woolly? 117 Ligurian Sea feeder 118 Stun with sound 119 GameCube successor 120 Signed over 121 Lacking excess 122 Divines 123 Lose rigidity DOWN 1 Land line? 2 Trig term 3 Substitute anchor during Walter Cronkite’s tenure at CBS 4 ____ Island (home of Wagner College) 5 Cleveland team, informally 6 “Ex Machina” robot 7 Evocative of yesteryear 8 Belief systems 9 Finishes with 10 Predicament 11 Poet who wrote, “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am” 12 Kate’s partner of old TV 13 Hartford-based Fortune 100 company 14 Layer 15 Head locks 16 Good at one’s job 17 Reasons to despair 18 In need of a steer 24 Shrink or enlarge 25 Target 29 Highly regarded 31 Glide efortlessly 34 Act 36 “That was sure close!” 38 Contributes to a GoFundMe campaign 39 Stumper? 40 Food sometimes sold with a lavor packet 41 Those in favor 42 Predator to be 43 Codon carrier 45 “Lord of the Flies” protagonist 47 Hoppy drink 48 Actress Carrere 49 Kevin who played Hercules on TV 51 Exchange cyclically 52 Body, metaphorically 53 Author of the 1984 memoir “Mayor” 59 Owner of Fisher-Price 60 Lacking creature comforts 62 Party purchase 64 It often contains “lies” 65 Ireland : Erin :: Britain : ____ 66 Dalmatian, e.g. 67 Kedrova of “Torn Curtain” 68 ____ Novello Award (songwriter’s honor) 69 Rhodes of Rhodes scholar fame 70 Move through a crowd, maybe river, plume and nearshore ocean. The estuary conference is an excellent opportunity to meet researchers and natural resource managers working in the Lower Columbia River area and hear results from research and species recovery efforts. Sessions run from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day, and there is also a poster session during an evening social on Tuesday, May 24. The biennial conference, the ninth since 1999, is sponsored by Bonneville Power Administration, 9 12 13 43 50 51 56 57 46 53 61 47 48 66 83 75 76 77 88 68 80 81 82 105 106 69 78 93 110 41 72 79 86 89 92 109 40 64 85 99 39 59 63 67 84 98 38 55 71 74 18 49 54 62 70 108 37 58 73 17 22 36 45 52 65 16 29 35 44 15 32 34 87 14 26 31 60 73 75 76 77 79 80 81 82 84 86 11 25 33 107 10 28 100 101 90 94 95 102 91 96 97 103 104 111 112 113 114 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 Ceiling stain’s cause Browser-bar text Jamaican genre Undertaking Airms Tools used for cutting curves Put away Even so Break down Take heat from? Estuary conference tackles ‘The Blob’ at the Liberty ASTORIA — The Columbia River Estuary Conference will address “The Blob” and Climate Change May 24-26 at the Liberty Theater. Regional scientists will present new indings on species recovery, restoration, research, and moni- toring from the Lower Columbia River and estuary. This year, the conference will focus speciically on climate change, the warm blob off the Paciic Coast, and other recent anomalous conditions, and their effects on ecosystems of the lower 8 24 30 42 7 21 27 Answers on Page 22 ACROSS 1 Tired runner? 4 Hard to ind 10 Production Code org. 14 Prayer ____ 19 Singer with a palindromic name 20 Taphouse 21 Magazine with a palindromic name 22 Out of bounds 23 Repeatedly cried, “Land ho!” with no land in sight, maybe? 26 Inlames 27 Rains pellets 28 Fighting of drowsiness? 30 Like tweets 31 One of the “cities of the plain” 32 Internal pump 33 Belarussian capital 35 Lose it 37 “Peanuts” girl 42 2016 campaigner 44 Jack ____ (member of the Royal Navy) 46 “Conger eel? Au contraire!” 50 Stuck to the corkboard? 54 “Not with a bang but a whimper” poet 55 Tag line? 56 Inedible 57 La Scala premiere of 1887 58 Show signs of age 59 Associates 60 Erwin of 1950s TV 61 Bring along 63 Pound 65 Whirlybird whose paint job is laking of? 70 Christian in Hollywood 71 Supply 72 “____ All Too Much” (Beatles song) 73 Cuba ____ 74 Dethrone 78 Track down 80 “Something just occurred to me … ” 83 Correct copy 6 20 23 By Patrick Berry / Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz 5 Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce, Northwest Power and Conservation Council, Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, National Park Service, Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board, Society of Wetland Scientists Paciic Northwest Chapter, Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development and Liberty Theater. The Columbia River Estuary Conference registration is $125 for all three days of the conference, or $70 for a single conference day. To register, visit http://bit.ly/1T2CSxi 115 88 Spoke horsely? 89 Something it for a queen 94 Fashion editor’s predictions 95 Experiment subject 97 Continental divides? 99 Unswerving 100 Ere 101 Start of several Hawaiian place names 103 City near Lake Nasser 105 Screenwriter Ephron 106 Baseball commissioner after Giamatti and Vincent 107 Shoe with holes 108 Colonial home, you might say 109 Stomach stuf 110 Lowest possible turnout 111 Rodent-control brand 112 Housemaid’s ____ (bursitis) 115 Hypotheticals Lez Stand Up takes he Voodoo Room stage ASTORIA — Portland’s Lez Stand Up, a sketch and standup show is coming to The Voodoo Room, Saturday, May 21, for a 21 and over show starting at 9:30 p.m. Lez Stand Up is comedy show that is lesbian, feminist and fun- ny. Tickets are $10. Hosted by Kirsten Kuppen- bender, Lez Stand Up features troupe members: Caitlin Wei- erhauser, Laura Anne Whitley, Diane Gasperin, Bobby Wolf and Mel Heywood and a rotating roster of “guest-bians,” according to a press release. Lez Stand Up started with the magical idea in Kirsten Kuppen- bender’s brain and has turned into a magical reality for Port- land! (And select cities) Feminist, Lesbian, Funny, and Terribly Good-Looking; Lez Stand Up is the only Troupe of its kind!!! Featuring regular LSUppers: Laura Anne Whitley, Diane Gas- perin, Mel Heywood, & Caitlin Weierhauser. Come join the comedy party at Curious Comedy Theater and check the Shows page to see us around town!
