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STRETCHING EXERCISES
By Jeremy Newton/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
Across
1 Muhammad Ali’s ‘‘Me! Whee!,’’
e.g.
5 ‘‘S.N.L.’’ alum Hartman
9 Start off on the wrong foot,
maybe?
13 Contaminate
19 What may be in a star’s orbit
21 Throw with power
22 Alleviate
23 Sheep’s milk product that’s
often grated
25 Classic name for the land
north of England
26 Course taken in shorts, often
27 ‘‘Ya don’t say!’’
28 765-foot-long ‘‘water coast-
er’’ on Disney cruises
30 Countertenor
31 SWAT team or Navy SEAL
group, e.g.
34 Name that sounds like two
letters of the alphabet
37 Epitome of smoothness
39 ‘‘Roots’’ author Haley
40 Shocker, at times
41 & 44 It goes around every
hour
46 Gaming novice, slangily
48 Secured skates, with ‘‘up’’
50 Float component
51 Act as a blueprint for, as DNA
for proteins
53 Brawled, in the backwoods
55 ‘‘Howdy, everybody!’’
57 Withstand
58 Fly off the shelves
59 Like bread made from
almond fl our
61 ‘‘Oh, hell yes!’’
64 Turn red, say
65 Certain formal duds
66 Nice round number?
67 Bollywood megastar Aish-
warya ____
3 ‘‘That kinda stuff ’’: Abbr.
4 Buckaroos
5 Mint
6 Fictional pilot with the line
‘‘You like me because I’m a
scoundrel’’
7 ‘‘Here ____ again’’
8 Milk for un café
9 Onetime MTV reality series
fi lmed near Hollywood
10 Recall regretfully
11 Auditing org.
12 Courtroom statements
13 Bone to pick
14 Lighter than lite
15 Word after soul or solid
16 ‘‘You, too?!’’ playfully
17 Smart
18 Wood that’s resistant to
warping
20 Mountain chain that
stretches from Kazakhstan
to the Arctic
24 Do a waving motion by the
ocean, say
29 ‘‘That proves it’’
32 Shade similar to verdigris
33 Distinguish oneself
34 Positioned to win
35 Shared with for quick feed-
back
36 Cut into
38 Region with a Unifi cation
Flag for sporting events
41 Pen pa?
42 Just hanging out
43 It really blows
45 Knucklehead
47 Flinch (at)
49 Ending for a dean’s address
50 Cable network with movies
like ‘‘Sharktopus’’ and ‘‘Man-
squito’’
52 Least klutzy
54 Made a boo-boo
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55 ‘‘I won’t ____ it!’’
56 Pending
58 Risqué communiqué
60 Ancient home to Priam’s
Treasure
62 Out of practice
63 Quick refresher
68 Visibly scornful
69 Cold that just won’t go away?
70 Superpopular
71 Gooey spread
72 Where gymnast Simone Biles
won four golds
73 One-celled organism
74 Enter unannounced, in a way
75 Photog’s setting
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68 ‘‘My dear man’’
71 Grammy category won
multiple times by Kendrick
Lamar
77 Racy selfi e posted for likes
on social media, in modern
lingo
80 Not a problem
81 Kennel club category
82 Makeup table
83 ‘‘Dead serious!’’
85 ‘‘And, uh, that about covers
it’’
86 Supporting role
87 New students at Princeton or
Yale in 1969
88 There’s a famous ‘‘half’’ one in
Yosemite National Park
90 Vessel protected by Hera
91 Uninteresting
92 Encouraging cry
94 Bottom
96 Saves, with ‘‘away’’
98 ‘‘Ain’t dead ____!’’
99 They often come to profes-
sors with excuses
102 Hoodwink
104 Get snake eyes, say
107 Lacking experience
108 Aligns, in a wood shop
112 Set straight
113 Oscar winner for his role as
a Mexican narc in ‘‘Traffi c’’
117 Price to pay, informally
118 Major piece
119 Miniature for a World War
II buff
120 Were running mates?
121 Quite a jerk
122 Make an appearance
123 Recess for prayer
Down
1 Verve
2 It’s 50/50
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76 Name of the girl on ‘‘Game of
Thrones’’ who said ‘‘A girl has
no name’’
77 Spot between programs, e.g.
78 Beehive material
79 Annual May race, informally
84 One of three characters in
‘‘M*A*S*H’’
85 Ones behind the scenes
87 Consider, with ‘‘on’’
89 High-priority item
92 Vocalist’s asset
93 Directly criticized on Twitter
with an ‘‘@’’
95 Gillette razor name
97 Literature Nobelist Bellow
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99 Bit of faulty logic
100 Sandwich supposedly
named after low-income
New Orleans workers
101 Begins a triathlon
103 Like the clue for 103-Down?
104 Teased incessantly
105 Kind of cavity
106 Hard vehicle to park
109 Telenovela, e.g.
110 Some drink dispensers
111 Extend (out)
114 Org. with lots of money to
waste?
115 Order member
116 ‘‘Ver-r-ry interesting!’’
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