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THINK TWICE
By Aimee Lucido and Ella Dershowitz/puzzles edited by Will Shortz
Answers on Page 14
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1 Confound
6 Sarcastic internet laughter
10 Most Times Square signage
13 Performance check
17 Dark hair and a warm smile,
for two
19 Samoan capital
20 To’s opposite
21 Full-length
23 Something that bugs
criminals?
25 Blabberer
27 Duplicitous
28 Musicianship
30 ____ dress
31 Pasture
32 Signed off on
33 Ukr. or Lith., formerly
34 Places for development
36 Corn kernel, e.g.
38 Actress Merrill
40 Genre for BTS or Blackpink
43 Added to the staff ?
45 Alerts
48 ____ of lies
49 Aquafi na : PepsiCo :: ____ :
Coca-Cola
52 #$%& and @%¢!
55 Practice whose name means,
literally, ‘‘union’’
57 Words before ‘‘before’’
58 ‘‘Deck the Halls’’ contraction
59 Symbol on the Connecticut
state quarter
60 Stop along the highway
61 Quite
64 Finished brushing one’s
teeth, say
66 Racial-justice movement
since 2013, in brief
67 ‘‘Really, though?’’
68 Word in many font names
69 Betray ... or a hint to four
answers in this puzzle
73 ____ the Cat (fi ctional
feline of children’s books)
2 Absorb the beauty of, as a
scene
3 Lacked the gumption to
4 Gladly, old-style
5 Jazzy James and Jones
6 First law-enforcement org.
in the U.S. to hire a female
offi cer (1910)
7 Nail-polish brand
8 List of performers
9 Star man?
10 Half of a ’55 union merger
11 ‘‘That’s enough arguing out
of you!’’
12 Lip-puckering
13 Things that may be rubbed
after din-din
14 Playwright Will who was a
2005 Pulitzer fi nalist
15 Crew implement
16 One getting special instruc-
tion
18 Ink holders in pens and
squid
22 ‘‘Just like ____!’’
24 Like morning people
vis-à-vis night owls, around
dawn
26 Response to ‘‘How bad was
it?’’
29 Extends, in a way
35 Lead-in to call
37 Cause for an onslaught of
yearly txts
39 ‘‘If the pessimists are right
... ’’
41 Stroke
42 East: Ger.
44 Wednesday, but not Friday
46 Accelerator particles
47 Overwhelm
48 Some tax breaks
50 Boos and cheers
51 Light
53 Latin list ender
54 Some Hershey candies
56 Bought in
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61 Time-consuming assignment
to grade
62 Xanax alternative
63 Monthly publication of the
National Puzzlers’ League,
with ‘‘The’’
64 More convinced
65 ‘‘The Magic School Bus’’ was
its fi rst fully animated series
66 Sound at the end of Decem-
ber, appropriately?
67 Beach with a girl who
‘‘swings so cool’’
70 Part of many a corsage
71 Bite site
72 Job to do
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74 Thin incision
75 Some $200 Monopoly prop-
erties, in brief
76 Set of 50 on the Argo, in
myth
77 Coaxed (out of)
79 Insurance giant bailed out
in 2008
80 Word before cap or pop
81 Awesomest bud
82 Spirit in Arabian myth
83 Arizona county or its seat
85 Pushing up daisies
90 Neighbor of Mozambique
92 Nonwriting credentials for
Conan Doyle and Chekhov,
informally
93 Seller’s need
95 Artifi cial habitat
97 Abolitionist Lucretia
98 The avant-garde ‘‘artists’’
Congo and Pierre Brassau
100 Hedy of the 2017 documen-
tary ‘‘Bombshell’’
103 Kind of chip
105 Question of perplexion
108 ‘‘The Raven’’ writer’s inits.
109 Like
110 Big believer in the freedom
of assembly?
112 Press ____
113 What the beleaguered are
behind
115 Classic folk story that teach-
es a lesson of sharing
118 Be up for some biking?
120 Fast runners
121 Advanced math degree?
122 Ninny
123 Sternutation
124 Real cutup
125 Landscaper’s supply
126 In the past
127 ‘‘As You Like It’’ forest
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78 High-quality cannabis, in slang
80 ‘‘Success!’’
81 Decorate
82 ‘‘I. Can’t. Even.’’
84 Spain’s Duchess of ____
86 Classic novel with the line
‘‘You must be the best judge
of your own happiness’’
87 Environmental opening
88 When repeated, a reproof
89 Overturned
91 Most chiff on-like
94 Figure out
96 Not thinking
97 The Supremes’ record label
99 Bad temper
100 Makeup target
101 Where a ‘‘Married at First
Sight’’ contestant meets his
or her mate
102 Language in which ‘‘kia ora’’
is a greeting
104 Up on
106 Confused responses
107 Fight site
111 Long runs?
113 ‘‘A man’s character is his
____’’: Heraclitus
114 ‘‘Suds’’
116 Prefi x with classical
117 Prof’s degree
119 Post on Insta
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