Montreal Gazette

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

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1 Tears 9 Philatelis­t’s abbr. 13 Blow up 15 Zero, for one 16 When Winesap apples ripen 18 Genesis source 19 Weapons in Olympic shooting events 20 Actress in a best-selling 1979 swimsuit poster 22 Braves’ division, briefly 23 Make less attractive? 24 Mythical hunter 25 Notable buried at the Cathedral of Lima 26 Inside opening? 27 Downs rapidly 28 N.F.L. positions: Abbr. 29 Blew away 30 Ottawa electees, for short 33 Flusters 34 Existed 35 Bungler 36 Soda, at times 37 Tattooed temporaril­y 38 Red-eye remedy 39 Mitsubishi model whose name means “huntsman” in Spanish 40 Describing an ancient tragedian 41 One of the books in the Book of Mormon 42 Rosalind Russell title role 44 Ball ___ 45 Lied 46 Filmmaker ___ C. Kenton 47 Worker who often takes leaves

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1 It doesn’t hold water 2 Proving beneficial 3 Camp David and others 4 Purple-flowered perennial 5 Patriotic chant 6 Means of attracting publicity 7 Takes courses? 8 World Series of Poker champion ___ Ungar 9 Affected sorts 10 Extremely 11 Fulminates 12 Kind of jacket 14 Crooked bank manager, maybe 17 Arizona city across the border from a city of Sonora with the same name 21 Belled the cat 23 Confused 25 Solve 27 Ben of “Run for Your Life” 29 Moon of Saturn 30 Latin America’s northernmo­st city 31 Matthew, Mark, Luke and John 32 Least flustered 33 Life insurance plan 34 Member of a biblical trio 35 Kitchen bulb? 36 Democrat in the Bush cabinet 37 It’s a long shot 38 “Casablanca” actor Conrad 39 Emulate Eeyore 40 Capital of France’s Manche department 43 Head, in slang

 ?? Puzzle by: David Steinberg ?? No: 0523
Puzzle by: David Steinberg No: 0523

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