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JIGSAW PUZZLE
By Christina Iverson and Jeff Chen/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 15
Note: When this puzzle is
done, insert the fi ve shaded
jigsaw pieces into the box at
the bottom to get a three-
word phrase, reading across,
for what jigsaw puzzles
provide.
Across
1 Part of a pie or the Earth
6 Style that makes waves
10 Doe in a court case
14 Flubs
19 Keister
20 China holder?
21 Axe target
22 Some Madison Avenue
workers
23 End of many a sports
broadcast
24 Freestyles, perhaps
25 Barfl ies
26 Botch
27 ‘‘First, you’re going to want
to dump out the box and
____’’
31 Francis of old game shows
34 Bounded
35 Capital on a 126-mile-long
canal that’s used as a skat-
ing rink in the winter
39 English breakfast, e.g.
40 ‘‘What’s most useful next is
to ____’’
45 College-app component
46 Role for “Ronny” Howard
48 Joshes
49 State fl ower of Utah
50 One of the B’s in BB&B
51 Field work of note in 1979
54 Rifl e, in frontier lingo
57 ‘‘To connect things up you’ll
have to ____”
63 Ones getting the crumbs?
66 Bonnie with fi ve Top 40 hits
in the 1990s
67 Euphoric feeling
71 Love to bits
72 More like a dive bar or
certain bread
74 Beehives, but not hornets’
nests
75 Daredevil’s hashtag
76 Very in
78 One of the B’s in BB&B
79 Good name for an investor?
82 High-end Italian auto,
informally
83 ‘‘As you go, make sure you
exercise your ____’’
88 At peace
89 Little bouquets
90 ‘‘ka-POW!’’
93 ‘‘With patience and
perseverance you’re sure to
____’’
97 Course goal
100 Songs that can be trilling?
102 Castigates
103 Fairy-tale fi gure
105 Confer, as credibility
106 Gets wild and crazy
108 Legendary
109 Leave skid marks, maybe
111 N.F.L. standout
113 Homes for high fl iers
114 Instruction to drivers
leaving cars at a garage
115 ‘‘C’mon, slowpoke!’’
116 Ends, as a mission
117 Mary Poppins, for one
118 Pick up on
Down
1 O-line anchor
2 Feel regret
3 Trojans’ sch.
4 Distinctive part of a cookie
cutter
5 ‘‘Tap tap tap .?.?. ‘‘ activity
6 Get into a lot
7 Jacob’s brother, in the Bible
8 Moved like waves or
muscles
9 A certain degree
10 St. ____ University
(Philadelphia school)
11 Rescue dog, for one
12 Response to the Little Red
Hen
13 Language related to Manx
14 Egg, e.g.
15 Keats, for one
16 Sounds in a yoga studio
17 Government economic
org., at any rate?
18 ____-Cat
28 Big suit
29 Derby, e.g.
30 Menial laborer, meta-
phorically
31 Loads
32 Take back, for short
33 Retreat
36 ‘‘Was it ____ I saw?’’
(classic palindrome)
37 Mists, e.g.
38 Feeling it after a marathon,
say
41 Approves
42 Perspective
43 Achievement for Whoopi
Goldberg, in brief
44 Like cioccolato or torta
47 Titus and Tiberius
50 Bosom buddies
52 Staple of skin care
53 Sought offi ce
55 U.P.S. competitor
56 Steady, maybe
58 Wrath
59 Exercise program since the
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60 Sharp, on a TV, informally
61 Peak sacred to the goddess
Rhea
62 Noshed on
63 ‘‘You’ll ____ for this!’’
64 Words with a ring to them?
65 Letter between foxtrot and
hotel in the NATO alphabet
68 How people often scroll
through social media
69 ‘‘That’s gotta hurt!’’
70 ‘‘The Puzzle Palace’’ org.
72 More straight-faced
73 Creamy Italian dish
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76 Word that becomes its own
opposite by putting a ‘‘T’’ at
the front
77 Singer whom M.L.K. Jr.
called the ‘‘queen of American
folk music’’
80 Play again, as a TV special
81 Companion in Brittany
84 Brain diagnostics, for short
85 Used as a rendezvous point
86 Devote
87 Name suffi x meaning
‘‘mountain’’
90 Fir tree
91 ‘‘Is it still a date?’’
92 Roman goddess of wisdom
94 Prefi x with color or state
95 Sugar ending
96 W.W.II fi ghters
97 Apps made with jalapeños
and cheese
98 ‘‘You agree?’’ (*nudge,
nudge*)
99 Gathers some intel
101 Actor Brody
104 Singer Willie
106 Annoying
107 Grannies
110 Blood line
112 Temporal ____
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