Wednesday, November 4, 2009
CROSSWORD
WILL SHORTZ
Note: When the puzzle is done, the circled letters will spell, from top to bottom, the name of the town where all the people in this puzzleʼs theme once lived.
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33 Meditate (on) 35 Subject of a Debussy piece 36 Places to hibernate 39 Noted 19thcentury writer 43 Mushy snowball sound 44 Tre + tre 45 Have influence on 46 1945 Pacific battle site, briefly 47 Solar wind particles 49 “A” in German 101? 50 Little hooter 53 See 24-Across 55 See 70-Across 57 ___ sister 58 Went underground 59 Bull on glue bottles 62 2008 Pixar robot 66 H.S. subj.
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