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A SHOT IN THE DARK
By Joe DiPietro/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
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1 Dude, slangily
5 Toaster Swirlz brand
9 Country singer Haggard
14 Lhasa ____ (dog breed)
18 Metallic fabric
19 ‘‘____: Legacy’’ (sci-fi
sequel)
20 Hymn of joy
21 Loud thudding sound
23 Shot in the dark
26 Get to the point?
27 Steps up?
28 Court plea, in brief
29 Winner’s sign
30 Alternative to a blitz
31 False start?
33 Improved version of an
existing product
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38 Skipping syllables?
40 Reward for a big hit, say
41 Two-legged stand
43 Fix for a bald spot
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48 Shock
51 Oscar-winning Hanks role of
1994
54 Tiny bits
56 Byway connection
58 Voice-mail prompt
59 Hasbro game requiring
increasingly quick refl exes
60 Tiny bit
61 Mensch
63 Meals with Haggadah
readings
64 Award to wear
65 Real deal
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68 Like cabernet sauvignon
69 Go over
71 Start of many Portuguese
place names
73 Be angry
75 Suffi x with age
5 ‘‘You get the idea’’: Abbr.
6 Food found in some bars
7 Most-often-used
8 Net wt. of many pasta
packages
9 Sticker stat
10 It’s water under le pont
11 Teller of the third tale in
‘‘The Canterbury Tales’’
12 Surgical tool
13 Like some casts
14 Makes a scene
15 ‘‘Hallelujah!’’
16 Marvelous
17 ____-3
22 Slice and dice, say
24 Takes over (from)
25 More than just a talker
32 Indian lentil dish
34 ‘‘No info yet,’’ on a schedule
35 Carefully avoid
36 Heating option
39 Composer Bruckner
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43 Unlikely Oscar winners
44 Fighting
45 Tiny bit
47 G
49 Opening for a computer
technician?
50 Pro fi ghter?
52 Swampy stretch
53 V.A. concern, for short
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57 Phenomenon by which
electrons radiate from a
heated fi lament, so named
for a famous observer
59 ‘‘You can’t be a real country
unless you have a ____ and
an airline’’: Frank Zappa
61 Mil. leader
62 Catch
63 Arc on a music score
65 Investment goal
67 Trucker on a radio
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74 When the fi rst ‘‘Peanuts’’
comic appeared
75 Apple on the teacher’s desk?
76 Literature Nobelist Bellow
77 Innovation in push-ups
79 It can represent a folder
80 First off er?
82 ‘‘I touched your nose!’’ sound
83 Coffi n frames
85 Squarish
86 A jokester might say ‘‘And the
pot thickens’’ after one
87 One of the friends on
‘‘Friends’’
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84 Skyscraper support
88 Like some ballots
90 Breakfast drink sans creamer
92 Ill-advised move
93 Intangible qualities
94 Do
95 Anonymous surname
96 Causes of pocket buzzes
97 Loud, sharp sound
98 Like Golden Raspberry-‘‘win-
ning’’ fi lms
100 Detectives
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104 Whispered sweet nothings
106 It’s a sign
108 Unsmiling
110 Like some roller chains and
ball bearings
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116 Leaves zip for a tip
119 One given orders around
the house
121 Tract of land
122 Nickname for the Wildcats
of the Pac-12
124 Smut
126 Collection on Facebook
127 Shot in the dark
131 Three-time American
League M.V.P. of the 1950s
132 Varsity
133 Hurt badly
134 Disneyland transport
135 Bill blockers
136 Ta-tas
137 Polishes off
138 Fore-and-aft-rigged sail-
boat with two masts
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1 Photo mishap
2 Amassed
3 Congregational chorus
4 Tools for landscapers
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89 Very easy living
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94 French explorer who founded
Detroit
96 Duty
98 According to
99 Bad P.R. for a celeb, maybe
101 Baseball announcer’s cry
102 One doing a Spot check?
105 Whom the Secret Service
dubbed Renegade and
Renaissance
107 Mike who served as a
Wyoming senator from 1997
to 2021
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110 Longtime Swedish auto-
maker
111 ____ Johnson Sirleaf,
Africa’s fi rst elected female
head of state
113 Mammal found in the
Andean cloud forest
114 Utterly lost
115 ‘‘I’m baffl ed’’
117 Botanist’s study
118 A sucker for milkshakes, say
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123 ESPNU covers its games
125 Web fi le format, for short
128 The natural order of the
universe
129 Chats over Twitter, briefl y
130 Grp. mobilized by a 911 call
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