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GRAVITY’S RAINBOW
By Ross Trudeau and Lindsey Hobbs/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
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1 Rackets
6 Spruce or fi r
15 Japanese city that shares
its name with a dog breed
20 Home to the Ho Chi Minh
Mausoleum
21 Homemade headgear for
pretend pirates
22 Conducted, as a campaign
23 Undo, legally
24 Highly specialized knowl-
edge
25 Color whose name is de-
rived from ‘‘lapis lazuli’’
26 Frequent comics collabo-
rator with Jack Kirby
28 Belief
29 Hubbubs
31 ‘‘See? I knew what I was
talking about!’’
32 Gives an edge
33 Indignant denial
34 Bozo
35 ‘‘I 30-Down the fool!’’
speaker
37 GPS suggestion: Abbr.
38 What might follow you
39 1966 Donovan hit
43 Sinatra, to fans
47 Band whose ‘‘Gold: Great-
est Hits’’ has sold over 30
million copies
50 Raised a false alarm
52 Tennis’s Nadal, informally
56 Fruit with crimson-colored
fl esh
59 Guest feature?
60 Popular folk-rock duo
62 Place for a canal or a
kernel
63 1968 self-titled folk album
65 A.L. West team, on score-
boards
66 Rubik with a cube
68 Ice cream holder
69 Cal’s game-winning kick-
off return against Stanford
in 1982, familiarly
71 World’s deepest river
73 Little tasks that crop up
75 Wood-shop item
77 Investigate, à la Sherlock
Holmes
79 Wunderkinder
82 Implement for an Amish
driver
86 Features of classic cars
87 It’s covered in paint in the
Sherwin-Williams logo
89 Oscar-winning song from
‘‘Slumdog Millionaire’’
90 ‘‘Likewise’’
91 Media watchdog agcy.
92 ‘‘Strange Magic’’ band, for
short
93 Medium for Kehinde
Wiley’s ‘‘President Barack
Obama’’
94 Took a load off
95 Mars
100 Harmful bits of sunlight
105 Remove calcium deposits
from
106 Sharp shooter, for short?
108 Harder to grasp
109 Changes by degrees
111 Whole bunch
112 You might cry if you slice
it
115 Word rhymed with ‘‘ami’’
by Lafayette in ‘‘Hamilton’’
116 Like Merriam-Webster’s
inclusion of the word ‘‘irre-
gardless,’’ originally
119 College admissions fi g.
120 Delta hub, on luggage
tags
121 Birth-control option,
briefl y
122 In the blink of ____
123 Deli or bar order
124 Stags or bucks
125 Biblical possessive
126 Alcoholic’s affl iction,
briefl y
127 Complicated, as a rela-
tionship
128 Retired fl ier, for short
129 Explosive stuff
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55 Vipers with upturned
snouts
57 Part of a religious title that
means ‘‘ocean’’
58 Southern California county
60 ‘‘Mood ____’’ (Duke Elling-
ton classic)
61 Quit drinking
64 Golf’s ____ Ko, youngest
golfer to be ranked No. 1
67 In draft form
70 High degrees, for short
71 Setting for many a Super
Mario Bros. level
72 Temporarily out
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1 California-based soft-
drink company
2 Divisions of long poems
3 Historical records
4 Place for a pitcher
5 ‘‘I’m such a dummy!’’
6 Olympic poker?
7 Military hospitals, briefl y
8 Period of history
9 Back in
10 Fresh, in a sense
11 A one and a two
12 Bursts in on
13 And the rest, for short
14 Twin in Genesis
15 Prizewinner
16 Instrument often played
for comedic eff ect
17 Tennessee Williams’s
‘‘The Night of the ____’’
18 Babysitter’s handful
19 ‘‘____ Fideles’’
27 ____ Simmons, real
name of the late rapper
DMX
30 See 35-Across
36 Aff ectionate attention,
briefl y
37 One enforcing traveling
rules
39 Kind of jacket
40 ‘‘Ish’’
41 Xbox 360 competitor
42 Chicken
43 Total domination, in gam-
er-speak
44 Whole bunch
45 Racy
46 Polite form of address
similar to ‘‘Mr.’’ or ‘‘Ms.’’
47 Criminally aid
48 Yawn-inducing
49 Make yawn
51 Campus leader
53 With the bow, musically
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76 Most peaceful
78 Groups of bees?
79 ‘‘You can’t expect me to
believe that!’’
80 Laughable
81 Typical way to take a mul-
tivitamin
83 Is legally entitled
84 ‘‘It’s a possibility for me’’
85 Family members that get
talked down to?
88 Kind of massage
89 Travels
96 ____ River, part of the
Texas/Oklahoma border
97 Even-tempered
98 Skedaddled
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99 They might be made after
a fi ght
101 Runs again
102 Without fail
103 State fl ower of Illinois or
New Jersey
104 ____ Faire (event with
jousting, for short)
107 Is mad about
109 Source of the milk for
chèvre cheese
110 The ‘‘R’’ of R.B.G.
113 Ready for business
114 Condé ____
117 What might make a ewe
turn
118 Spanish monarch
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