DECEMBER 1, 2016 // 17
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE CROSSWORD
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Mixology
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By Matt Ginsberg / Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz
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They often have small tables
Base men?
Jazzes (up)
“Back to the Future” antagonist
Stars-and-stripes land, informally
Some Great Plains residents
Possible destination for un inmigrante,
with “el”
Hero
Infant + straying = noted coach
Less polite + wildly unconventional =
epicenter
Eye part
New pop of 1924
Approached apace
Pro
In Tahitian it means “good”
Urban woe + squirms = pool accessory
Untuned, say
Halters?
Big Ten sch.
Delay + dodos = some compromises
Adorn brilliantly
Birthday girl’s wear
Pandora release
Del ____ (fast-food chain)
Poetic Muse
Spa, e.g.
Nevada gold-mining town
Remain + “Hmm ...” = R&B great
____ season
Moved at a crawl
Saharan
Letter at the end of three other letters
Bill producers + Western wear = info for
events
Lisa, to Bart
Big name in root beer
Overindulged
Sushi go-with
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Adonis
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89 Someone never seen in “Peanuts”
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92 Yarn
94 Feudal lord
95 Mariners’ aids
97 Pasty + vacation expense, maybe =
hospital specialty
100 Court affirmation
101 Radial alternative
102 Was ahead
103 See + umbrella alternative = warm-
ing option
108 Minimal diamond margin
111 Lead-in to maniac
112 Santa ____
113 Area to defend
115 “My Cup Runneth Over” crooner
119 Regarding + undercoat = network
with 303 stations
122 Day of the month + succeed = some
recital pieces
124 Epps of “House”
125 Kind of chair
126 In years past
127 Vertical
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129 Prefix with byte
130 The time of Nick?
131 ____ Chris Steak House
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“Jinx” breakers of 2016
“Hold on ____!”
Stable arrival
Violinist Zimbalist
Negev native
Evasive
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Crooked
Accomplished everything
Green of “The Italian Job”
Director Lee
Cat that epitomizes finickiness
Many a charity tournament
Deeply offended
Hollywood, with “the”
Unimprovable
The “F” in F = ma
Results of icy breakups?
Finally put an end to?
Mrs. Gorbachev
Follower of an Alaskan team
“The doctor ____”
Actress Hatcher
Last part of the country to report
election results
Keeps safe
Pulls (out of)
Resell quickly
“____ not!”
Takes a chance
Saharan
Curses
Recall cause, maybe
Computer hookups
Chain that sells chains
Cheri formerly of “S.N.L.”
“The Highwayman” poet
Some
Do pretty well gradewise
Currently airing
What germs may turn into
Squeal on
Relatives on the father’s side
Classic Icelandic literary works
Time for una siesta
For two
Cabooses
Some needlework, informally?
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Art
Carter/Brezhnev agreement
Absolutely awesome
After Rainier, highest peak in the Pacific
Northwest
Island whose volcanic eruption is
rumored to have destroyed Atlantis
Simple truth
Mend
Nasty sort
Attention, for some
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died
93 Verb from which “suis” and “sommes” are
conjugated
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98 Heavy-metal band with 1980s hits
99 Correo ____ (foreign mail stamp)
101 Carrier
103 Move, as a plant
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October option
Counterpart of “stand”
Milk container
Remote land in the Pacific
Familiar with
Rendezvous
Impress deeply
Bygone boomers, for short
Org. authorized by the 16th Amendment
Spanish she-bear
Maiden-name preceder
Find ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the Liberty
Astor Street Opry Company
presents ‘Scrooged in Astoria’
ASTORIA —This Decem-
ber, the Astor Street Opry
Company will bring to the
stage its 10th annual holiday
production of “Scrooged in
Astoria.”
Presented like a
1960s-style holiday TV
special, this show will take
you through a magical tale
of love, loss and renew-
al, loosely based on “A
Christmas Carol” by Charles
Dickens but with characters
straight out of the ASOC
long-running summer melo-
drama “Shanghaied in As-
toria.” This show even has
singing commercials written
by ChrisLynn Taylor.
“Scrooged in Astoria” is
written by local playwright
Judith Niland and directed
by Bill Carr with musical
direction by Taylor.
Performance dates are 7
p.m. Fridays and Saturday,
Dec. 2, 3, 9, 10, 16 and 17,
and there will be two mati-
nees at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec.
11 and 18. The house opens
30 minutes before each
performance. The ASOC
Playhouse is located at 129
W. Bond St.
For more information
or to purchase tickets, call
503-325-6104, or visit www.
astorstreetoprycompany.com
ASTORIA — The Liber-
ty Theater will present a
Reader’s Theater production
of “A Christmas Carol” this
December.
“A Christmas Carol in
Prose, Being a Ghost-Story
of Christmas,” commonly
known as “A Christmas
Carol,” is a novella by
Charles Dickens and was
first published in London by
Chapman & Hall on Dec.
19, 1843. It tells the story
of a bitter old miser named
Ebenezer Scrooge and his
transformation into a gentler,
kinder man after visitations
by the ghost of his former
business partner Jacob
Marley and the Ghosts of
Christmas Past, Present, and
Yet to Come.
This Reader’s The-
ater play adaptation is by
Seneschal Incavo and will
include early 19th-century
Christmas carols.
The production stars
readers Incavo, Dida
DeAngelis and Mark
Barsekian. They will be ac-
companied by soprano Ann
Bronson, alto Stacey Brown,
tenor Patrick Corjay, Jenni-
fer Crockett on clarinet and
Nathan Crockett on violin.
The show will take place
in the theater’s upstairs
McTavish Room. The Liber-
ty Theater is located at 1203
Commercial St. Performance
dates are 7 p.m. Wednesday
and Thursday, Dec. 7, 8, 14
and 15.
Tickets are $15 and are
available through Tickets-
West.com or at the Liberty
Theater’s box office, open
from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Wednes-
day through Saturday.