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“XXX”

By Brendan Emmett Quigley

©2021 Brendan Emmett Quigley (www.brendanemmettquigley.com)

ACROSS 1 Expensive party 5 A Tribe Called Quest rapper 9 Peter Parker’s sweetheart ___ Stacy 13 Poem about the 36-Down 15 Evian rival 16 Wildcats of the NCAA, for short 17 Legal job for Pope Francis ? 19 Extra stipulations 20 Kind of country played by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings 21 Fodder holder 23 Forehead application at the start of Lent 24 Teaching coach Hagen 25 One side of a battery: Abbr. 27 Boorish brute 29 iMacs for Steelers legend Bettis? 34 Regarding, in memos 37 Gold Fort 38 “Everybody Hurts” singer 39 Nativity scene figure 40 Start of a day 42 Some 43 High up in the air 45 Created 46 Mentally with it 47 Naively simplistic Vokswagen? 50 One who used to attend Temple 51 Hard stop? 52 Product pushers 55 “Mass” actress Dowd 57 Chest coverings 60 Daily allotment 62 Cheek by ___ 64 Shank on a seder plate? 66 “Right now, no really” 67 Supreme Leader’s country 68 Crimean resort city 69 Stereotypical disaffected slackers 70 Defeated 71 Game played on a map DOWN 1 Delicate ornament 2 Indigenous people of Alaska 3 Rap relative 4 Schlep with effort 5 Initials in show business? 6 Hermanas de la madre 7 “You’re looking at him” 8 Spanish seafood and rice dish 9 “Liquid Swords” rapper 10 Was successful in every imaginable way possible 11 Calls it quits 12 Brooklyn Nets coach Steve 14 Steak ___ 18 Moves behind on the dance floor 22 “My dumb mistake” 26 Lose feeling 28 Comprehension 29 Extremely happy 30 Janelle of R&B 31 Oozed forth 32 Electrified weapon 33 Like needlework 34 Key with three sharps: Abbr. 35 Black Friday event 36 See 13-Across 41 ___ out (fades) 44 Letter-shaped hardware piece 48 Faces on screen 49 Vermont Senator Patrick 52 Fish sandwich spread 53 Abstaining advice 54 4th and inches play 55 36-Down hero 56 Be a yenta 58 Country that gave us ceviche 59 Graceful swimmer 61 Letter-shaped construction piece 63 They sound so much better than streaming, supposedly 65 Stamping need Pearl’s Puzzle Difficulty Level Puzzle for the week of March 7, 2022 Difficulty Level: ●●○○

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VOLUME 26 ISSUE 10 / MARCH 10, 2022 /

Fill in every row, column, and 3x3 box with each of the letters exactly once. B U Y H E R O A K The highlighted letters read left to right and top to bottom will complete the quote: “To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will ____________t.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Fill in every row, column, and 3x3 box with each of the letters B U Y H E R O A K exactly once. The highlighted letters read left to right and top to bottom will complete the quote: “To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will ____________ t.” ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan THE SOURCE WEEKLY

The highlighted letters read left to right and top to bottom will complete the quote:

ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLESAnswer for the week of February 28, 2022 “To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will ____________ ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan Answer for the week of February 28, 2022 “Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!” “Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!” - Martin Luther — Martin Luther © Pearl Stark www.mathpuzzlesgames.com/quodoku

“Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!” - Martin Luther