Building Vocabulary
Embarrassment Multi-purpose cotton wad Knack Metric weights Baba ghanoush bread
Pals Low-tech iCloud precursor Supreme effort Like some wells Kind of case or law Batman and Robin, e.g.
27 Loses it
31 Savvy
35 Dignify
39 Because of 42 Historic trail
terminus: Abbr. 43 Boot camp bigwig 46 Game whose “Discover the Secrets” version includes a baseball bat and a dumbbell Half of ASAP Voyaging Obstructed the progress of Literally, Latin for “it follows” Org. concerned with alleys Late bloomers Shell for a crew Mount once called Tacoma Stimulant
Org. with a lot of baggage? Billowy attire named for an early rapper Friend of TV’s Sheldon Entangle ... or disentangle, oddly Welcomed at the door
74 VP before Gerald 76 “Blue” or “Red”
cattle dog 78 Uncertain sounds 79 Bygone data entry
method
81 Seat sometimes
spun
83 Crunchy salad bit 86 Try to influence 87 Novel of the South Seas ’60s-’70s NBC News White House correspondent 92 Icky stuff 93 Dawdles
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20 21
23 24 25 26 47 50 51
53 55
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63 64
65 67 70 73 88 94 Dabs with a towel 98 Recorded
102 Like original
Matchbox cars 104 Dorm VIPs 105 Cause __: icon 108 Material used to
make cans
112 Flier’s concern 115 Manicurist’s item 118 Air
119 Green Gables girl 120 Tee off
121 Blue
122 Big name in little
trains
123 Eye drops
1
Winter resort feature
Big name in hotels Toward the sheltered side Hang-around-thehouse footwear Morales of “NYPD Blue” Willpower Prevail Scarfed down Cave dweller Did a takeoff on Upgrade, as a dirt driveway Levels Muhammad’s religion Drum with a sitar Parisian article They’re allowed Rough no. Wither away Deli bread Projecting shelf Canine found in cats Turn partner Popeye’s __’Pea Juan’s “Look!” Place to spin your wheels
More accurate Ranked tournament players Two-time N.L. batting champ Lefty 37 Swelter
38 Buildup in a trap 40 Triumphant cry 41 Indivisible
44 QB Jared Goff, e.g. 45 Snares
46 Ticket
47 Second in command: Abbr. “Just a few __” One of two for a positive number
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4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13
14 15 16 17 21 22 23 25 28 29 30 32
33 34
36 48 49 52 54
Venomous snake River through Kazakhstan
Le Pew of toons Bit of finishing hardware Mosque leader Urquhart Castle’s loch
Vex
Eric who founded a reader
Subs F-series camera maker
West Coast gas brand
Doe in many films Plus
Review for accuracy Word heard twice in “I’m a Little Teapot” Runs smoothly WarnerMedia streaming service recently retired in the U.S. Former Irish leader de Valera Forearm bone Org. with an annual Week Without Violence Muesli morsel Cheese on crackers With, on la carte Hombre’s home Death Row Records co-founder Southernmost Great Lake Vision-related Don or Betty on “Mad Men” Top-10 list makers WWI battle river Afflicted with a breakout
100 Tick off
101 Tiny
103 Fifth cen. pope
called “The Great” 106 Effortlessness 107 Raised
109 Cartographer’s
abbr.
110 Chris who plays Kirk in three “Star Trek” films
111 Babe Zaharias is a charter member of its HOF
112 NFL stat
113 Grassy plain
114 City council rep. 115 __ Geo
116 “__ thoughts?” 117 Business mag
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65 66
68
69 71 72 74
75 76 77
78 80
82 83 84 85 89
90
91 95
96 97 99
Unscramble the six Jumbles, one letter per square, to form six words. Then arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by this cartoon.
Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box in bold borders contains every digit 1to9.
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