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Across
1. Suction pump
10. Shred (2 wds)
15. Replacement for a flat
(2 wds; var. spell.)
16. Cosmic energy from
the sun
17. Apronlike overdresses
18. Bison features
19. Victorian, for one
20. Walt Kelly’s cartoon
possum
21. Handle of a joiner’s
plane
22. Words with identical
end sounds
25. PC linkup
26. Curt
27. Begins
29. “The Turtle” poet
31. Balloon filler
32. Destroy the interior of
33. “___ bitten, twice shy”
34. Checkers, e.g.
35. Owl
38. Crusty deposit on
teeth
40. Vitality
41. Mouth, in slang
43. Grassland
44. “... ___ he drove out of
sight”
45. “Men always hate
most what they ___ most”:
Mencken
46. Deeds, actions or
events
50. Andrea Bocelli, for one
52. Branch
54. “La Traviata” mezzo
55. Male sheep (British)
56. “Well done!”
58. What “it” plays
59. Dental filling
61. Sweetbrier
64. Oater transport
65. Influences past events
66. Fine-tunes
67. Most arrogant
Down
1. Former Turkish silver
coins
2. Apparition
3. Canal site
4. Bank offering, for short
5. Call, as a game
6. Above
7. Austrian province
whose capital is Innsbruck
8. Mint family member
9. Strong and deep in tone
10. Engine speed, for
short
11. About to explode
12. Wide view of landscape
13. More anxious
14. Part between the fetlock
and hoof
23. “Cogito ___ sum”
24. Speech disorder
26. Because of that (law)
28. Back
30. Almost boil
35. Regarding this point
(law)
36. Having no or few
dividing walls between
areas (hyph.)
37. Those who cause
extensive damage
39. Detective, at times
40. Easily irritated
42. Substance that produces
fever
47. Printed announcement
48. Consents to perform
or fulfill
49. Having extreme wisdom
and calm judgment
51. ___ orange
53. Very (music)
57. Blowgun ammo
60. “Absolutely!”
62. “___ a chance”
63. Clavell’s “___-Pan”
HOW TO SOLVE
Each row must contain
the numbers 1 to 9; each
column must contain the
numbers 1 to 9; and each
set of 3 by 3 boxes must
contain the numbers 1 to 9
Answers to Last Week’s Crossword
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