THE REC ROOM Crossword
“ENERGY SHIFT”
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.
K N O W S
H E A T
The highlighted letters read left to right and top to bottom will complete the quote:
“Backpacking is the art of knowing what _________.” —Sheridan Anderson
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES
ACROSS 1. Prefix meaning “both” 5. Hitman played by Reeves 9. Reddish brown horse 13. He killed one quarter of the Earth’s population 14. Fruit also known as a Jamaican tangelo 15. L.A.’s Walt Disney Concert Hall architect Frank 16. Nos. after phone nos. 17. Shaggy, famously 18. Memphis’s location 19. Speculative fiction, e.g. 22. “Saving Fish From Drowning” author 23. Attends, as a party 26. 1965 hit that begins “People try to put us down” 30. Today’s graduates, tomorrow’s CEOs 32. Cancels out 33. Heart of a Dell 34. Sampled part of a song 35. “___ in a sentence” 36. Breaks in the day 37. Maze’s goal 38. Swamp creatures 39. Stretches between ice ages 40. Only NHL player to score 200 points in a season 43. The hots 44. Treater’s phrase 48. Piece of music that includes 8-Down 52. Winter jacket 54. Phillies third baseman Bohm 55. Church period? 56. Curl up one’s lips 57. Half of 50? 58. Radiation units 59. Toy that you can rock the cradle with 60. Bands on the radio 61. Old Gaelic
DOWN 1. Train in the Northeast Corridor 2. “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” for one 3. Smaller than small 4. Alaska setting, often 5. The Genius’s Clan 6. Stereotypical assistant to a mad scientist 7. Oversatisfy 8. “In the Hall of the Mountain ___” 9. Second thoughts 10. [Rolls up sleeves] “Just watch me!” 11. “Scrutant l’horizon” sculptor 12. Newspaper with a Spelling Bee game: Abbr. 15. Some racing yacht sails 20. Blasts from a UFO 21. Wading bird with a S-shaped neck 24. Card company 25. Heavy burden 27. Painter James of the Les XX movement 28. Meena Harris, to Kamala Harris 29. Are 30. R&B auteur Janelle 31. Axe product 34. Kind of blue 35. Pushy person 36. Unthinking comeback 38. Breakfast eaten with a spoon 39. Heart monitoring tests: Abbr. 41. Knuckleballer Phil 42. Disney+ offering for teenagers 45. Countdown figure 46. Stuff in one’s cart 47. Edgy 49. Strip in the Middle East 50. Theoretical primordial ooze 51. Soft ball company 52. Subj. where you’ll watch the “Stamford Prison Experiment” video 53. Agosto is part of it
“...if ever the sun rises upon Barbecue, its flavor vanishes like Cinderella’s silks, and it becomes cold baked beef - staler in the chill dawn than illicit love.” —William Allen White
35 VOLUME 25 ISSUE 29 / JULY 22, 2021 / THE SOURCE WEEKLY
©2021 Brendan Emmett Quigley (www.brendanemmettquigley.com)
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