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TAKE TWO
By Celeste Watts and Jeff Chen/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 27
Across
1 After the fact, as a justifi cation
8 Co-star of ‘‘The Golden Girls’’
17 Knock over, so to speak
20 Quaker fare
21 Go poof
22 Drop the ball
23 ILLUS__RA__ORS
25 What a third wheel might
see, in brief
26 Setting for most of ‘‘Life of Pi’’
27 Tests the weight of
28 One of the Greats?
30 Oscars of the sporting world
33 Good sign for an angel
34 Intl. org. headquartered in
Geneva
37 Some bad sentences
39 ACC__L__RATOR
44 Grapple, in dialect
47 Exercise too much, say
48 A as in Arles
49 LUXUR__ __ACHT
54 ‘‘____ Agnus Dei’’ (Mass
phrase)
55 Peak in Turkey mentioned
in both the ‘‘Iliad’’ and the
‘‘Aeneid’’
56 Runner Sebastian who once
held the world record for
the mile
57 What you might get from a
trailer
59 Sport played at British
boarding schools
60 Post production?
64 ____ mater, membrane
surrounding the brain
65 Popular 90-min. show
66 ENDANGER__EN__
70 Man’s name that coinciden-
tally is Latin for ‘‘honey’’
73 Word with small or fi sh
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1 Entourage
2 Hall’s partner in pop
3 Part of a thong
4 ‘‘OK, you can stop the story
right there’’
5 Old-fashioned ‘‘cool’’
6 One might speak under it
7 Co-star of Kline in ‘‘A Fish
Called Wanda’’
8 Start of a compilation heading
9 Times for some vigils
10 Letters on many towers
11 Busy mo. for C.P.A.s
12 Go bad
13 Three-sport event, for short
14 A chest often has a large
one
15 States
16 Recharge
17 Photocopy, e.g.
18 It’s the law!
19 Item said to have been
burned in protest, once
24 Musical prefi x with beat
29 Memphis-to-Nashville dir.
31 Emphatic assent
32 Lively dance genre
34 Hone
35 Contract details
36 Beehive State city
38 Aerodynamic
40 Bishop’s jurisdiction
41 Antagonist
42 Hotel-room staples
43 Top-notch
44 Booties
45 Playwright Chekhov
46 Garbage
50 Drink similar to a slushie
51 About 460 inches of rain
per year, on Kauai’s Mt.
Waialeale
52 HBO satire starring Julia
Louis-Dreyfus
53 ____ bar
54 Org. that takes the lead on
lead?
58 Baby fox
60 How a fl irt may act
61 Football stat: Abbr.
62 NaOH
63 Radio broadcaster: Abbr.
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66 Legislation that was part of
F.D.R.’s New Deal
67 Ethnic group of Rwanda and
Burundi
68 Two, for four
69 Coin with 12 stars
70 ‘‘Zoom-Zoom’’ sloganeer
71 Hollywood composer Bern-
stein with 14 Oscar nomi-
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72 Guarded
73 Like pets and parking meters
75 ____ Slam (tennis feat)
76 Julius Caesar’s fi rst name
77 Words of hopelessness
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74 Weak
75 What may result in a hand-
shake
76 Help to one’s destination
82 The Blue Jays, on scoreboards
83 Comeback to a challenge of
authority
84 Bitter
85 CONFIG__ __ATION
90 Actor Somerhalder
91 Most in the style of comedi-
an Steven Wright
92 Unfocused
93 POI__T OF __IEW
100 Go all out
101 French fashion inits.
102 ‘‘Kinda sorta’’
103 Pan-cook, in a way
107 Supermodel Bündchen
109 Pepé ____ (cartoon
skunk)
111 Drop off
112 Admit (to)
113 __OTIC__
120 Hit the weed?
121 Have guests over
122 Guest, e.g.
123 Place full of guests
124 Start of a seasonal request
125 Some kitchen utensils
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78 Mature naturally, in a way
79 ____ Writers’ Workshop
80 Electronic Hasbro toy
81 One side of the coin
83 Arias, typically
86 Scottish folk dance
87 Alternative explanation for a
lucky guess, in brief
88 Ear: Prefi x
89 Letters on some badges
94 ‘‘Stillmatic’’ rapper
95 Seen
96 Kind of skate
97 Brown shade
98 Kids’ observation game
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City Sequence’’
104 Yoke
105 HP product
106 Narrowly beats (out)
108 Singer James
109 Drink for un bébé
110 A full moon will do this
112 Life force, in China
114 ____ Majesty
115 Hosp. areas
116 The Jazz, on scoreboards
117 Brown shade
118 Things for happy campers?
119 Picky person’s pick?
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