THE REC ROOM Crossword
“THE EVIDENCE”
By Brendan Emmett Quigley
Pearl’s Puzzle
Difficulty Level
★★★★
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Fill in every row, column, and 3x3 box with each of the letters exactly once.
H E L P S
C O N K
The highlighted letters read left to right and top to bottom will complete the quote:
“It’s that’s special time of year when your whole family gathers together in one place to _______ at their ______. —Jimmy Kimmel
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES
ACROSS
DOWN
1. Wi-Fi provider
1. Minor setback
8. New York state prison
2. Common soccer draw score
14. Pig’s location, idiomatically
3. City on Puget Sound
15. Athlete with stones
4. Volleyball slam
16. 1970 hit with the lyric “I’m begging you please to come home”
5. In a refined manner
17. Some government securities
7. Japanese turntable manufacturer
18. “I wake up to THIS mess? I mean ... couldn’t he have used the plate I gave him?!”
8. Throw a scene
20. Like goals not achieved 21. Beer with a high ABV 22. It’s sometimes bent or lent 25. Green sphere in a curry 26. Biblical Elysium 29. Caroline Biden, to Joe 31. Heavy hitter 33. Covered up the gray, say 34. “Is it too much to ask him to bring dishes back to the kitchen?”
6. Dust Bowl drifter
9. Underground Railroad conductor 10. Chicago broadsheet, for short, with “the” 11. “Until next time!” 12. Scar picture, e.g. 13. Pair in a razor? 19. Corkscrew-shaped lock 23. Big diamonds 24. Some wines 27. Blue crew, for short 28. Post production? 30. Running but not moving
38. Women’s college basketball coach VanDerveer
31. Take center stage
39. Name on a controversial dossier
34. Site with a “Craft Supplies” section
40. Outfit for some lady drivers
35. With 42-Across, Picard’s catchphrase
42. See 35-Down
36. Big name in acne medicine
43. “That feels very nice”
37. Including the whole world
46. “I approve!”
41. Country legend Yearwood
47. Owl and Rabbit’s friend
43. “Sucks, for sure”
49. Iraq’s main port city
44. Betel nut trees
51. “It’s going to take hours getting this grit out of the living room carpet!”
45. Chops into pieces
55. Relative of the frug or the twist
50. Lion from Narnia
57. He played “the Ugly” in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
52. “___ if true”
58. Burning
54. Everybody, in the sticks
59. Simmons who was the United States’ first Black female immunologist 60. Command under the File menu 61. Guile
32. Squeezes (by)
48. Leaves off
53. Cote females 55. Used to be 56. Copying, in the kitchen
“You can’t fool me—there ain’t no Sanity Clause!” —Chico Marx
35 VOLUME 25 ISSUE 51 / DECEMBER 23, 2021 / THE SOURCE WEEKLY
©2021 Brendan Emmett Quigley (www.brendanemmettquigley.com)
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