Leisure
The Putnam Standard Across 1. Short, horse-riding whips 6. Coffee break snack 11. Resolve (2 wds) 13. Genus of tropical plants with ornamental, brightly colored leaves 15. Do museum work 16. A hole drilled in the earth from which petroleum flows 17. “Dig in!” 18. Disturb the order of 20. ___ grecque (in the Greek manner) 21. Barber’s motion 23. First stomach of cattle 24. Jam 25. Break off 27. “Dear” one 28. Expenditure 29. Having finished one’s active working life 31. Clean 32. Boris Godunov, for one 33. Atomizer output 34. Projecting sharp points 36. Principles and practices of the National Socialist Workers’ party 39. Part of a simple bouquet 40. Anita Brookner’s “Hotel du ___” 41. Creeper 43. Carve in stone
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44. Daybreak 46. Expert 47. Dracula, at times 48. Mosaic piece 50. Decline 51. Not common 53. Adolescent 55. Tallest land animal 56. Steams up 57. Prehistoric axelike tools 58. Force units
Down 1. Janitor 2. Impatient under delay 3. ___ grass 4. Egg on 5. More likely 6. Condescend 7. Eye 8. “___ what?” 9. Discover 10. Cultivation of land 11. Salad green 12. One who reads or examines with great care 13. Blunder 14. “Remember the ___!” 19. During 22. Ill-tempered 24. Sharply penetrating 26. Hazardous 28. Desert sight 30. 2004 film of rhythm and blues musician
31. Show ___ 33. Large, heavy knife with a broad blade 34. Extremely evil 35. Visualize 36. Badgers 37. Link 38. Optical phenomenons
that create the illusion of water 39. Fix, in a way 40. Fine thread 42. Racing sleds for 1 or 2 people 44. Flips (through) 45. Current
48. Cluster of elongated strands attached at the base 49. Ethereal 52. “Do the Right Thing” pizzeria owner 54. Masefield play “The Tragedy of ___”
LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS
WORD SEARCH Action Adapt Also Arrow Bill Breaks Canal Cars Case Cast Crab Dare Desire Door Dots Eleven Error Experimenting Fact Fasten Flap Flock Forms Frog Hero Hers Hooks Icicles
Idle Instant Iron Isn’t Label Lame Lend Lift Lime Loud Loyal Maps Mast Meets Melt Mend Name Nets None Notes Once Onto Pail Pear Peels Peeps Porch Precisely
Pubs Real Report Robs Safest Salmon Scar Sent Sews Sixes Snap Solo Soup Take Team Tease Trick X-ray