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PUZZLIN’
By David Levinson Wilk/Puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
Across
1 What can fall off a shelf
8 Host of MSNBC’s ‘‘PoliticsNa-
tion’’ beginning in 2011
16 Be profane
20 Something never seen at
night
21 Beckoning words
22 For ____ amount of time
23 Nobody but the guy gettin’
married on his feet?
25 Put up with
26 Captures
27 House vote
28 Gettysburg general George
29 Like screwball comedies
33 Pig food
34 Gish ____, novelist of
‘‘The Resisters’’ and ‘‘Typical
American’’
35 Sickly-looking
36 Olympic equipment weigh-
ing less than 770 grams each
38 Winter item you’ll be wearin’
for years?
42 Statistic tracked at census
.gov/popclock
44 ‘‘Mixed Marriage’’ playwright
St. John Greer ____
45 Reduced in rank
46 Receiver of an all-points
bulletin
48 Longtime Yankees fi rst
baseman Mark
50 Simile’s center
51 Row
52 God who becomes a goddess
when an ‘‘r’’ is removed
53 Spam sender
54 James of ‘‘The Godfather’’
58 Danger when walkin’ in a
silo?
61 One who delivers
62 Mansfi eld of old Hollywood
63 ‘‘Er, uh, that is …’’
64 Dada pioneer
65 ____ Paulo
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1 Online exchange, in brief
2 Animal feared by an ailuro-
phobe
3 ‘‘What’s your ____?’’ (ques-
tion to a guest en route)
4 Recycling container
5 Michael who wrote ‘‘The
Neverending Story’’
6 Restricts, with ‘‘in’’
7 Washing machine setting
8 Windshield clearer
9 Certain earring
10 Singer Tori
11 ‘‘What’s the Frequency,
Kenneth?’’ band
12 Call of the wild?
13 One trading dollars for
quarters
14 Paris suburb
15 French marshal in the
Napoleonic Wars
16 Camila with the 2018 No. 1
hit ‘‘Havana’’
17 Employ with regularity
18 Bird also known as a little
auk
19 Scattered (about)
24 Blue Muppet with a pink
nose
28 Obsidian, once
29 Aquarium creature with
black-and-white stripes
30 Capital in the South Pacifi c
31 Teasing words when some-
one starts listing the digits
of pi, say
32 Mythical creature seen on old
Bhutanese stamps
34 Rock’s Joplin
35 Hägar the Horrible’s dog
37 Sure winners
39 Cross-country camping
expedition, maybe
40 Treat as a bed
41 Hit the nail on the head, e.g.
43 Meager
47 Pope Francis’ homeland:
Abbr.
49 Modern library borrowing
52 Bring in
54 Longtime media columnist
David
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56 Basketball Hall-of-Famer
who was the fi rst woman to
sign an N.B.A. contract
57 Single-serving coff ee brand
59 Landlocked Asian country
60 ____ Gorbachev, former
fi rst lady of the Soviet Union
61 His tombstone reads ‘‘Work-
ers of all lands unite’’
62 Moves like Jell-O
65 Told
66 Hiccups
68 Coming-out announcement
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66 Rock singers?
67 Hedge fund titan nicknamed
‘‘The Palindrome’’
68 ‘‘Sorry, am ____ your way?’’
69 Drivin’ around the lot with
pop-pop?
71 Overhead expenses?
72 Private Twitter transmissions,
for short
73 ‘‘Absofruitalicious’’ cereal,
in ads
74 Sponge alternative
75 Slangy possessive
76 What a pro bono lawyer
provides
78 Very observant person
80 Shoulder blade
84 Pickup truck capacity, maybe
86 Detects
87 Sayin’ ‘‘Look, here’s the thing
about dry land …’’?
90 To-dos
91 Batting ninth
92 The Children’s Defense Fund,
e.g., in brief
93 Medical breakthrough
95 ‘‘Ish’’
96 Boiling mad
97 West Bank grp.
98 Realize
101 Kind
102 What was causin’ the doctor
to check for joint pain?
108 Very consequential
109 The North Pole vis-à-vis the
South Pole, e.g.
110 Go as low as
111 French/Belgian river
112 Apollo and others
113 ‘‘Understood’’
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pottery
73 Dramatic ballroom dance
76 Two-time Best Actress
winner Rainer
77 Eva of ‘‘Desperate House-
wives’’
78 Ho-hum feelings
79 Opposite of exo-
80 Soft and wet
81 ____ oxide (red compound)
82 Egg-carton spec
83 Special dinner order
85 Boo-boos
88 Home past curfew
89 Like the Met Gala
94 Online notice for a party
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97 Phnom ____, Cambodia
98 ‘‘____ to tyrants, and my
country’s friend’’ (words of
Cato in ‘‘Julius Caesar’’)
99 Naval offi cer: Abbr.
100 Grandson of Eve
102 Budgetary excess
103 Make a decision
104 ‘‘There but for the grace of
God ____’’
105 Intel missions
106 Western native
107 About one inch of a foot
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