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Crossword Puzzle 1

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ACROSS

1 Doesnʼt block 7 Financial crime

trial evidence 13 Daybreak? 14 Pronoun sung multiple times in the 1968 hit “Turn Around, Look at Me”

15 French president

after Hollande 16 One can hold about 500 hours of HD video

17 “I hate that!” 18 Wine-and-food

match, e.g. 20 Ancient refuge 21 Compensate for goofing off, maybe

23 Fill with wonder 24 Not busy 25 Capital NE of

Vientiane 27 Cream __

28 __ oneʼs time:

waited 29 Motivation in

“The Manchurian Candidate” 32 Designersʼ tools 34 Begged off

formally 36 Negotiatio­ns 39 Proof letters 40 Guitar attachment 42 Fruit picked from

palms

43 Old Venetian coin 45 Estate __

46 Place for a

bargain

47 “See here,

fella ... ” 49 Misfortune 50 Leftovers 52 Nervous

excitement 54 Singer who played a hacker in “Oceanʼs 8” 55 Francia neighbor 56 Enterprise

engineer

57 Small town

symbol

DOWN

1 To the same degree

2 Sentence model used in language teaching

3 Pit crew member 4 State since 1948:

Abbr.

5 Sporty car option 6 Arabian

Peninsula capital 7 Producer

Michaels

8 Salon, for one 9 Ball star 10 Homer, in

baseball jargon 11 Main menu item 12 Gave a strong

impression (of) 14 Motto attributed

to Horace

16 Total disasters 19 Reason for a Champagne shortage, maybe 22 Snowboard

relative

24 Sole food 26 Waits at the

drive-thru 28 Participan­ts in Africaʼs 1830s-ʼ40s Great Trek 30 Cell occupant 31 Short rule? 33 Deliberate­ly weak argument metaphor 35 Stereotypi­cal swinging-doors sites

36 Small drums 37 Like vinegar 38 Cry from a

nest? 41 Study closely 43 Youngest of a ʼ60s-ʼ70s male quintet, familiarly 44 Carved symbol 47 Gave for a

while

48 __ Minor 51 Sweeperʼs

convenienc­e? 53 Center opening

 ?? By Roland Huget ?? 12/5/20
By Roland Huget 12/5/20

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