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Saturday, February 22, 2020

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Yields Manila hemp 6. A type of gin 10. Japanese ankle sock 14. Swiss city 15. Applied to 17. Achievements 19. Japanese title 20. Possesses 21. Belgian city 22. Child 23. Great delight 24. Petty quarrel 26. Gathered 29. Zoroastrian concept of holy fire 31. Path 32. Legendary hoops coach Riley 34. A citizen of Denmark 35. Flat 37. Upper-class young women 38. Payment (abbr.)

39. Distort 40. Affirmative! (slang) 41. One who has a child 43. Without 45. Workplace safety agency 46. Political action committee

47. Period of plant and animal life 49. Swiss river 50. Sino-Soviet block (abbr.)

53. State of being kept secret 57. Hobbies 58. One-time Korean ruler 59. Sudden attack 60. Born of 61. Assists CLUES DOWN 1. Ancient Greek sophist 2. Famed composer 3. Spore-bearing fungi cells 4. Chief executive officer 5. Defunct Syrian political party 6. Thin wood 7. Polynesian garlands 8. Fluid replacement (abbr.)

9. Flammable hydrocarbon gas 10. Multi-leveled 11. Influential diarist 12. Gambles 13. Many subconsciousnesses 16. Current unit 18. Illumination unit 22. Tantalum

23. Steps leading down to a river 24. Kids love him 25. Before 27. Fencing swords 28. Mountain range in China 29. Payroll company 30. A way to pack together 31. Business designation 33. Thyroid-stimulating hormone (abbr.)

35. Forage fish 36. Greek temple pillars 37. Internet mgmt. company 39. Rouse oneself 42. In a way, covered 43. Elaborate silk garment 44. Cooling unit 46. Riley and O’Brien are two 47. __ fide: genuine 48. Ancient Incan sun god 49. Poker stake 50. Trigonometric function 51. Interesting tidbit 52. Adieus 53. U.S. Treasury position 54. Midway between east and southeast 55. Doctors’ group 56. Women’s __ movement

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CLUES ACROSS 1. A team’s best pitcher 4. Designer Jacobs 8. Hip joint 10. A dialect of English 11. Portrays 12. Panic 13. The head of a team 15. High priest 16. League of Legends locale 17. Protective folds 18. Treats allergies 21. Voodoo spirits 22. Single unit 23. Unit of measurement 24. Brew 25. Burundian franc 26. Self 27. Bengals great 34. Making letters overlap

35. Piece of pizza 36. Illegal drug 37. Card game 38. The highest point in the development 39. Oh, God! 40. Wives (law) 41. Monetary unit of Samoa 42. Supplements with difficulty 43. Valentine’s Day color CLUES DOWN 1. Warm climate tree or shrub 2. Silky case spun by larvae 3. Still in existence 4. Light, two-stranded rope 5. Wear away 6. Beginnings 7. Essence 9. American Standard Code for Information Interchange

10. Path 12. Repeated tones 14. Expresses surprise 15. Monetary unit of Burma 17. When you hope to get there 19. Brighten 20. Fifth note of a major scale 23. Dark brown timbers of tropical trees 24. We all do it 25. Scrounges 26. Unit of energy 27. Begin to be 28. Midway between northeast and east 29. Distinctive practice 30. Succulent plants 31. Performer 32. Gas station term 33. Required 34. Soviet monetary unit 36. Eating house

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Currency of Guinea 5. Avert something bad 10. Sounds 12. Immediate dangers 14. Legendary Tar Heels coach 16. Californium 18. Work standards government dept. (abbr.)

19. Coastal Scottish town 20. Triangular lower back bones 22. Trouble 23. A way to smile 25. Something that is not what it seems 26. Of she 27. Temporary living quarters 28. Bag-like structure in a plant or animal 30. Indicates near 31. Spiritual leader 33. Soup dish 35. Philippine island 37. No longer fashionable 38. Peaks 40. Alabama football team 41. __ King Cole 42. Digital audiotape 44. Open trough 45. The woman

48. Cools down 50. Turkic language 52. Body part 53. Pulse steadily 55. Embedded computer hardware company 56. Indicates shape 57. Thou (plural) 58. Odd and remarkable 63. An evening party 65. National capital of Zambia 66. Tantalizes 67. Dark brown or black CLUES DOWN 1. Not naturally outgoing 2. Exclamation of pain 3. Polynesian garland of flowers 4. Surrounded by water 5. Church towers 6. Hot beverage 7. Body parts 8. Travel documents 9. Railway 10. Gradually wear away 11. Measuring instrument 13. Minor dust-ups 15. Strongly alkaline solution

17. Extreme scarcity of food 18. Dash 21. Philly culinary specialty 23. Popular lager __ Adams 24. Snitch 27. Trimmed 29. Greek god of desire 32. Take to the limit 34. Cool!

35. Sound mental health 36. Native American group 39. Test for high schoolers 40. Rocky peak 43. Preferences 44. Bother 46. Call attention to (slang) 47. Snake-like fish 49. Bulgarian capital 51. Don’t know when yet 54. Italian Seaport 59. Brooklyn hoopster 60. Where to bathe 61. Equal, prefix 62. Beverage container 64. Denotes openness

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CLUES ACROSS 1. As soon as possible 5. Gateway (Arabic) 8. Doctors’ group 11. Madder genus of plants 13. A team’s best pitcher 14. Ancient Greek sophist 15. Go up 16. Neither 17. Bolivian river 18. Manila hemp 20. Comedienne Gasteyer 21. British School 22. Human reproductive organs 25. Surrenders 30. Dog with long, silky coat and drooping ears 31. Sun up in New York 32. Lead alloy 33. Eastern Asian plant 38. Rapid deployment force (abbr.)

41. Japanese warrior 43. Festivity 45. Interruptions 47. Nonsense (slang) 49. Data mining methodology (abbr.)

50. Calvary sword 55. French river 56. Global business conference (abbr.)

57. Afflicted 59. Con man’s game 60. No (Scottish) 61. Jewish spiritual leader 62. Fish 63. Camera term (abbr.)

64. Impudence CLUES DOWN 1. A continuous portion of a circle 2. Genus of seabirds 3. Infant’s dining accessory 4. Native Americans from Arizona 5. Popular fruit 6. Poisonous plant 7. Scolded 8. Assists 9. Hand (Spanish) 10. Amazon product identifying system (abbr.)

12. Basics 14. Cain and __ 19. Malaria

23. Indicates particular shape 24. Respiratory disease 25. Central Standard Time 26. Imitate 27. Golf score 28. A place to lay your head 29. Three cards of the same suit 34. Not in 35. Human gene 36. Ancient Chinese philosophic concept 37. French river 39. Thinks up 40. Type of geological deposit 41. Helps little firms 42. Area units 44. A device to remove 45. Secret political clique 46. Polite interruption sound 47. Foundation 48. Clare Boothe __, American writer 51. Swiss river 52. Prejudice 53. Actor Idris 54. Resistance fighters 58. Speak disrespectfully of

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Expression of disgust 4. A place to unwind 7. A type of cooking range 8. Grasp tightly 10. Sea eagles 12. Carb dish 13. Late-night host 14. Revolutions per minute 16. Indicates odd or erroneous 17. FDR’s military chief of staff 19. Swiss river 20. Norwegian district and river 21. A form of motivation 25. Car mechanics group 26. Once a must-have home theater accessory 27. Broken branch 29. Apple and pumpkin are two 30. Skeletal muscle 31. Small Eurasian deer 32. Tight-lipped fellow 39. Comes after a cut 41. A place one lives

42. Cognizant of 43. Albanian monetary unit 44. Carrot’s partner 45. Famed garden 46. Chilean seaport 48. Days (Spanish) 49. Sudden anxiety 50. 100 square meters 51. A type of beer 52. French/Belgian river CLUES DOWN 1. Spanish dish 2. Concurs 3. __and her sisters 4. Patti Hearst’s captors 5. Used to refer to cited works 6. A state of excited movement 8. Advertising term (abbr.)

9. Nocturnal S. American rodent 11. New York art district 14. Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!

15. Pre-release viewing

18. Northwestern Canadian territory (abbr.)

19. Consumed 20. Falters 22. Radioactive form of an element 23. Catch a wrongdoer 24. Breeze through 27. Thick piece of something 28. Yellowish-brown color 29. “The Raven” poet 31. Rural free delivery (abbr.)

32. Creating 33. Supervises flying 34. Northwestern state 35. Was obligated to repay 36. Diverging in lines from a common center 37. Bleak 38. We all have them 39. Hit with the palm of one’s hand 40. Sea that’s part of the western Pacific 44. Political action committee 47. Famed Spanish soldier El __

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Stain one’s hands 7. Subdivision 10. A passage to be performed slow 12. Invests in little enterprises 13. Medians 14. Member of the giraffe family 15. Makes official 16. Choose in an election 17. Hill or rocky peak 18. Member of an ancient Iranian people 19. Crest of a hill 21. Small, faint constellation 22. Cultivated from crops that yield oil 27. The ancient Egyptian sun god 28. Hollywood tough guy 33. Chinese drums 34. Merits 36. Indicates center 37. Increases motor speed 38. Mentally fit 39. BBQ favorite 40. Wings

41. Female parents 44. Marks left from wounds 45. Soften by soaking in liquid 48. They resist authority (slang) 49. Formats 50. Many subconsciousnesses 51. Vogues CLUES DOWN 1. Mental object 2. Blackbird 3. Undergarments 4. Old cloth 5. One from Utah 6. Greek goddess of the dawn 7. Become less intense 8. Developed to readiness 9. Defunct phone company 10. About Freemason 11. Taking everything into account 12. Famed Czech engineer 14. Impress into silence 17. Boxing term

18. Marketplaces 20. Pounds per square inch 23. Locomotives 24. Short musical composition 25. Football position (abbr.)

26. Heavyhearted 29. Denotes particular region 30. Famed NHLer 31. Ingested too much 32. Formulates 35. Sino-Soviet block (abbr.)

36. Broad, shallow craters 38. Thick cuts 40. Breezed through 41. Breakfast is one 42. “Rule, Britannia” composer 43. Periodicals (slang) 44. Indian title of respect 45. More (Spanish) 46. Creation 47. A loud utterance

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Beer ingredient 5. Popular FOX TV show 11. Recurring from time to time 14. Criticized severely 15. Musician 18. German urban center 19. Quenched 21. Human gene 23. Indian music 24. Accumulate 28. One who graduated 29. Atomic #109 30. Semitic fertility god 32. Sportscaster Patrick 33. Child’s dining accessory 35. Payment (abbr.)

36. Guitarist’s tool 39. Dabbling ducks 41. Commercial 42. Style someone’s hair 44. Biu-Mandara language 46. Actress Spelling 47. Large hole in the ground

49. One-masted sailboats 52. Tropical Asian plant 56. Concurs 58. Latin term for charity 60. The number below the line in a fraction 62. Reddish browns 63. This (Spanish) CLUES DOWN 1. Belong to he 2. One time only 3. Parent-teacher groups 4. Puts in place 5. Editing 6. In the course of 7. Helps injured people (abbr.)

8. OJ trial judge 9. Resist authority (slang) 10. Formerly alkenols 12. “Cheers” actress Perlman 13. Jewelled headdress 16. Viking Age poet 17. Vanuatu island 20. Wish harm upon

22. Unit of length 25. Blood type 26. Drain 27. Do-gooders 29. Advanced degree 31. Business designation 34. Chinese-American actress Ling 36. Performs on stage 37. Slang for money 38. Large Russian pie 40. The Mount Rushmore State 43. Narrow inlet 45. News organization (abbr.)

48. Scarlett’s home 50. Micturates 51. Monetary unit 53. Any customary observance or practice 54. Sons of Poseidon 55. Facilitates grocery shopping 57. Standard operating procedure 58. Former OSS 59. Midway between south and southeast 61. The Wolverine State

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CLUES ACROSS 1. Public broadcaster 4. Hit lightly 7. Keyboard key 10. Grain 11. Make a mistake 12. To the __ degree 13. Endure without complaint 15. Chinese-American actress Ling 16. Edible stomach lining 19. Sunrooms 21. Feared 23. Most eager 24. Excessive chatting session 25. MLB ace 26. Major Central European river 27. Muscular weaknesses 30. Where seedlings germinate 34. Former monetary unit of the EU 35. Personal ads abbreviation 36. Mythical animal 41. Members of Orthodox Jewish sect 45. German city 46. Algerian coastal city 47. Military men 50. Salt of sulfuric acid

54. Rhododendrons 55. Mixture 56. Recommended quantities 57. 007’s creator 59. Men 60. Kids need it 61. Midway between east and east-northeast 62. OJ trial judge 63. Yes vote 64. USDA branch that manages the FCIC 65. Create with cloth CLUES DOWN 1. English seaport 2. What’s owed 3. Sound systems 4. Elections feature them 5. Southern constellation 6. London and Brooklyn are two 7. One-time Ugandan capital 8. Attacked with bombs 9. Rebuke 13. Expression of disappointment 14. A way to work the soil 17. The human foot 18. Sun up in New York

20. A small island 22. Abnormal rattling sound 27. Make lively 28. A team’s best pitcher 29. It goes on the floor 31. Not good 32. Peyton’s little brother 33. Barrier that holds back water 37. Move quickly 38. Deteriorate with age 39. Colorless crystalline compound 40. Cheekier 41. Expresses praise or joy 42. Famed boxing promoter 43. Cured sausages 44. Fill with air or gas 47. Angry 48. Chemistry prefix 49. Practitioner of Jamaican religion 51. Softly bright or radiant 52. Buffer solution used to separate nucleic acids 53. First responder group 58. Defensive nuclear weapon

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can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes.

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