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PLAYING WITH FOOD
By Alex Eaton-Salners/Puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
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1 Partly open
5 Drug also known as angel dust
8 ‘‘Maybe,’’ informally
14 Window dressing
19 Tyr, in Norse mythology
21 Org. with both left- and
right-wingers
22 ____ arteries (what carry
blood to the kidneys)
23 ‘‘Hmm … hard to say’’
24 South American fi nancial
institution since 1965
26 Reversed
27 Warm up
29 King of Troy in the ‘‘Iliad’’
30 Currency of Laos
31 1985 thriller with the tagline
‘‘A federal agent is dead. A
killer is loose. And the City of
Angels is about to explode.’’
35 Firmly establishes: Var.
37 Part of a return address?
38 Experienced network conges-
tion
39 Used to be
41 ‘‘I Love You, ____’’ (book by
Nancy Reagan)
42 Twilled fabrics
43 Subject of two squares on a
Monopoly board
44 Hip-centric dance
45 It keeps a top up
48 ‘‘Good ____!’’ (shout to a
batter)
49 Collectible item with stats
54 Bacchanalias
56 Huge fi nancial loss, so to speak
57 First lady
58 Memo opener
59 Elements of neighborhood
watch programs
62 Brewed beverage
63 Single historical record
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1 Central American rodent that
resembles a guinea pig
2 TV host with two Peabodys
3 Sports brand with a three-
stripe logo
4 Sculptor who said, ‘‘I invent
nothing, I rediscover’’
5 Completely defeat, as a noob
6 Deep-six
7 Kirsten Gillibrand, to Hillary
Clinton, once
8 Connective tissue that runs
along the outer thigh,
familiarly
9 Prayer garment
10 Farm enclosure
11 Doing some menial duty, in
old army lingo
12 Reinforces, with ‘‘up’’
13 Puckish
14 Dramatic intro
15 Jedi trained by Luke
16 Jedi related to Luke
17 Grilled sandwich
18 Go by
20 State of drunken confusion
25 Media restriction
28 Goes quickly
32 Venture to state
33 Azalea with the 2014 No. 1
hit ‘‘Fancy’’
34 Up to one’s ears
36 Caff einated aspirin brand
40 A tool or a spray
42 Fit of pique
43 Parlor pics
44 Invite to one’s home
45 To the extent that
46 Black Lives Matter gathering,
e.g.
47 ‘‘Let me pay for that’’
49 Bundle of hay
50 ‘‘Twilight’’ protagonist
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51 Silver-screen actress known
as the British Bombshell
52 TV-MA’s fi lm equivalent
53 Has away with words?
55 Stand-up comedian Mike
56 Spam spewers
60 Many musical chords
61 Classic laundry brand
62 First-class
63 Church recess
66 Feeling amenable (found
hidden in this clue!)
67 Bony projection found just
behind the ear
70 Cause’s partner
72 Gaggle
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64 QB stat: Abbr.
65 Fool’s gold
66 Lose stiff ness
68 Fueled up, in a way
69 California’s Point ____
Peninsula
71 Helpful contacts
72 Food depicted cryptically at
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74 From
75 Notes after sols
76 Consuming Tide Pods, once,
inexplicably
77 At peace
78 Food depicted cryptically at
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81 On, in a way
83 Brain tests, in brief
84 Signifi cant periods
85 ____ Sherman-Palladino,
creator of ‘‘Gilmore Girls’’ and
‘‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’’
86 Overhauls
88 Item creating separation
91 Nail polish brand
92 Viagra competitor
93 Bit of swearing in church?
96 ‘‘Pay attention!’’
98 Food depicted cryptically at
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101 Refuge from a fl ood
102 Youngest Marx brother
104 Skin-care brand
105 Love, in Lucca
106 Food depicted cryptically at
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109 Romps
112 Riverbank romper
113 Book after Nehemiah
114 Places to collect prints
115 Garish signs
116 Adds more lubricant to
117 Good name, informally
118 Jedi who trained Luke
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73 V.I.P. above veep
75 Knowledgeable
76 Parody, say
79 Cold storage facilities
80 Where crumbs might accu-
mulate during a meal
81 Summer Olympics usually
take place in one
82 Thumb-twiddling
86 Kelly on the Hollywood Walk
of Fame
87 Op-eds, e.g.
88 Hit hard, as brakes
89 Hook, for one
90 Sends an invitation for
91 Be against
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92 Sorted laundry load
93 Philippine port with a redu-
plicative name
94 Euphemistic ‘‘extremely’’
95 The so-called ‘‘Pearl of the
Black Sea’’
97 Word before hand or jaw
99 Quarters costing dollars?
100 ____ Center, home of the
Orlando Magic
103 Father of Anne Frank
107 Layer of farmland?
108 What yellowfi n is marketed
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110 ‘‘People ____ talking’’
111 Indy inits.
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