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PI R SQUARED
By Gary Larson/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
Across
1 Examples of attention to
detail
9 Yearbook-award word
13 Lift weights
19 Gingerbread man, often
20 British pop singer Lily
22 In the Caribbean it’s
known as ‘‘the chicken of
the trees’’
23 ‘‘The government has
discovered aliens but
isn’t telling us,’’ e.g.
25 Port on the Loire
26 Missouri site of the Scott
Joplin Ragtime Festival
27 Applications
29 Actress Ward
30 Acronym for a North
American quintet
33 Intertwine
35 Pains in the neck
38 Spanish article
39 Power of a square
42 Mrs. Addams, to Gomez
43 Nocturnal bloodsucker
46 Steal
48 Stuff
49 It requires no oxygen for
growth
50 Pants with baggy legs
52 Task
54 Noodles often eaten cold
in the summer
55 Square things
56 Cause of joint pain
59 Relatively new relative,
maybe
61 Small songbird
62 Cornmeal bread
63 Wood for violin-making
66 Brian who co-founded
Roxy Music
67 ‘‘You rang?’’
68 Means of breathing
74 Calming retreat
77 Subject of 199 silk-
3 Old country-music
channel
4 French for ‘‘cup’’
5 Locale of Kings County
and Queens County,
fittingly
6 Like some batteries and
parties
7 Sapa ____ (title for
Atahualpa)
8 Not merely cut
9 Gospel singer Jackson
10 Fútbol cheer
11 Doesn’t sit right?
12 Snippy, in a way
13 Spare part?
14 Sch. for Bulldogs
15 ’60s sitcom family
16 What ‘‘X’’ marks on a
treasure map
17 First-year law student
18 Mission-driven org.
21 ‘‘Science Guy’’ Bill
24 Shades
28 Glittery glue-ons
30 Wheel cover
31 Acting mindlessly
32 ‘‘____ Brando: Larger
Than Life’’ (1994 biog-
raphy)
34 Dog in classic films
36 Flowing forth
37 Steeple feature
40 Cleverness
41 Universal donor’s blood
type, for short
43 Peacockish
44 Activist Hoffman
45 Milk dispensers
47 Lost cause
51 Only player with three
60+ home run seasons
53 Rest of the afternoon?
57 Slant skyward
58 2010 sci-fi film subtitled
‘‘Legacy’’
60 Trouble
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64 Catering container
65 Color for the right eye of
a pair of 3-D glasses
69 Only bird with calf
muscles
70 Talking back
71 Graceful spins
72 Informal assents
73 Country singer Price
74 #
75 When doubled, 1934
Cole Porter comedy
short
76 Absolutely dazzling
80 Book that’s rarely read
cover-to-cover
81 Right, as a wrong
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screen paintings by
Warhol
78 Present from birth
79 Activist ____ Alamud-
din Clooney
83 Hesitating sound
84 Unremarkable
86 Goes out for a bit?
88 Valorous
89 Specialty
91 The continents, e.g.
94 His resignation triggered
the first invocation of
the 25th Amendment
96 Start up again
98 Wacky
101 Like some flights
102 Triangular flags
103 Aerial maneuver
104 Kiddy litter?
105 Mature
106 Power issue
107 Computer image
format
109 More up to it
111 South American mam-
mals with trunks
113 Introductory course?
115 Brand of allergy spray
118 Lime and rust
121 It was known by the
Algonquin as the ‘‘Father
of Waters’’
126 Extends
127 Similar
128 Castle in ‘‘Hamlet’’
129 More out there
130 ‘‘May God bless and
keep the ____ … far
away from us!’’ (line
from ‘‘Fiddler on the
Roof ’’)
131 Return to the fray
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82 More N.S.F.W., maybe
85 Mimics
87 Vodka or gin
88 Low-dose pain reliever
90 Mass recitation
92 Symbol meaning ‘‘still
typing’’
93 Tugboat sound
95 Dedicatee of the 1980
song ‘‘Woman’’
97 Opposite of wide: Abbr.
99 Like slippers versus
dress shoes
100 Milky gems
107 Muscly
108 Stumper question
110 Life form
111 Went like the dickens
112 Got rid of
114 German granny
116 Where the infant Moses
was found
117 Cathedral recess
119 Maa, in 1995’s ‘‘Babe’’
120 Ukr., e.g., once
122 Genre pioneered in
1950s-’60s Jamaica
123 U.S. overseas broad-
caster
124 Unit of work
125 Food writer/TV person-
ality ____ Drummond
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