NOVEMBER 10, 2016 // 17
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CROSSWORD
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IT’S ALL AN ELISION
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Where many connections are made
Huge quantities
Surgical tube
Common New England street name
Lyft offering
Groove-making needles
With 96-Across, bit of Chinese cuisine
Many, after “a”
“Not interested”
Like some tales or details
Broadcast
Hall of Fame quarterback Dan
Trendy jeans feature
Extract used in brewing
Foreign: Prefix
Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and that’s
probably it?
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97 Memo abbr.
98 Cab stopper?
99 Up against it
101 Genesis of an idea
103 Amaze
104 Deadly nerve gas
106 Artist who awards a biennial Grant for
Peace
107 Real sport
111 Adjust, as a currency
113 Slogan for wine geeks?
116 Field of vision
117 Nipple rings
118 Set free
119 “Noble” thing
120 Mack of early slapstick
121 ____ Muggs, girl in “Archie”
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Harper’s Weekly cartoonist Thomas
Kind of clef
Prettify
Blow up
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Do more repairs on
“The Princess Bride” theme
Put groceries away
It blows things up, in brief
Some wedding figures
Small semicircular grooves on a column
Port. is part of it
Left in a hurry
Radioactive form of hydrogen
Pennsylvania city
“SOS,” e.g.
Middle-earth inhabitant
Mystery ingredient in SweeTarts?
Comes later
Insect that folds its wings
Nearly throws a perfect game against,
maybe
Uses WhatsApp, say
Snap
River to the Ligurian Sea
Communication devices for commuters,
once
Best Picture between “Rocky” and “The
Deer Hunter”
Always putting up my entry fees?
1960s TV show whose star weighed 650
pounds
With 60-Across, player of Tony Soprano’s
son
Engine sound
Pressure, so to speak
Fraternity and sorority leaders, usually:
Abbr.
Follow closely
Rough choice?
“Mad About You” co-star
Begin to tongue-lash
February 14th figure
Divorced
London lavs
Bit of jewelry
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Point of greatest despair
Terms of service
Laid out for printing
Unchallenged
Lift
Sure things
“Do your taxidermy on the patio
instead!”?
“You can’t make me”
Of the highest quality
Republican, on an election map
“Da Coach”
Place to get stuck
“Double” or “triple” feat
Discipline for paper tigers?
Newcastle Brown and others
Thrown
Harley, in slang
A foot on the ground in Phoenix?
It’s just for openers
“Venus in Fur” playwright David
“Today” rival, for short
Get on one’s high horse?
Kind of replication
Miasma
“____, captain!”
Some Campbell’s offerings
Skinflints
It makes tracks
See 41-Down
“____ it go”
Ones who have it coming to them?
“Silence is the ____ that nourishes
wisdom”: Bacon
Classical pianist Levit
Composer Bartók
Reaction of dismay
Comfort food causing oral discomfort?
Selfish sort
Harpies
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Opposite of outflux
Ram
Hard to pin down
Giant among Giants
Punk rocker Vicious
Gravy thickener
They might need guards
Drops to the ground?
Herman who wrote “This Is My God”
Home of Walmart
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87 Formal wingdings
89 What an overstuffed suitcase might do
91 Unknown quantity
92 Bogeyman
93 Informal words of thanks
94 Athlete’s wear, informally
95 Soup dumpling
100 John Kennedy ____, author of “A
Confederacy of Dunces”
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hard-surfaced court
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Register now for New Year’s Eve ball Free piano recital open to the public
CLATSKANIE —The second
annual New Year’s Eve Ball
in the Clatskanie Cultural
Center is set for 6 p.m. Dec.
31 in the elegant ballroom
of the restored Independent
Order of Odd Fellows Hall,
located at 95 S. Nehalem St.
All interested persons, 21
years of age and older, are
invited to attend the event,
which is being held on the
90th anniversary of the origi-
nal grand opening of the his-
toric I.O.O.F. building. The
building was designed by
prominent Oregon architect
Ernst Kroner and was added
to the National Registry of
Historic Places in 2012.
The celebratory evening
will include a full-course din-
ner with a choice of entrée —
prime rib, stuffed pork chop
or vegetarian fettuccine.
Dancing to live music
provided by the Bob Nelson
Band will be featured from 7
to 10 p.m. New York City’s
celebration will be live-
streamed on the ballroom’s
large screen, and as the ball
drops in Time Square, a
complimentary champagne
toast will be served at 9 p.m.
Pacific Standard Time.
Attendance is limited to
100 people. Cost is $50 per
person. Reservations are
required and may be made by
calling Elsa at 503-728-3403.
The Clatskanie River Inn
is offering a special rate for
overnight accommodations
for those attending the New
Year’s Eve Ball. Call 503-
728-9000 to make reserva-
tions.
CANNON BEACH — A free
piano recital performed by
Portland composer, enthno-
musicologist, and concert
pianist Aszemar Glenn will
be offered to the public at 4
p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17 at
the Cannon Beach Commu-
nity Church, located at 132
E. Washington St.
The program includes
a mix of classical and jazz
compositions.
Ragtime music will be
represented by “Elite Synco-
pations,” a 1902 piece by the
“King of Ragtime Writers”
Scott Joplin, who is also
known for writing and per-
forming the archetypal rag-
time tunes “The Entertainer”
and “Maple Leaf Rag.”
Glenn will also perform
an original piece, “Tippin’
My Hat,” that he wrote and
dedicated to Joplin.
Preludes by Gershwin,
Rachmaninoff and Bach will
showcase the piano form the
20th, 19th and 18th centuries.
Also on the program
is the jazz standard “Blue
Rondo A La Turk” by the
Dave Brubeck Quartet with
its Turkish aksak-inspired
rhythms; explorations of
portraying a scene with
sound with “The Snow
is Dancing” by Debussy
and “Allegro Barbaro” by
Bartok; and the well-known
“Sonata Pathétique” by
Beethoven.
Glenn will also perform
the original piece “First Ara-
besque,” which he wrote for
and dedicated to his friend
Jan Wahrmund.