CROSSWORD PUZZLER
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1 Stroll 6 -- -- committee 11 Of the blood 16 Records 21 Farrell or Firth 22 Liable 23 Last letter 24 Slow, as a pupil 25 Commerce 26 Gone up 27 Hearsay 28 Strictness 29 Letters on a battleship 30 Send upward 31 Half score 33 Pungent bulb 35 Dutch commune 36 Animal friends 38 Emmet 39 Cup 40 Edible tuber 41 Baste 42 -- and haws 44 Deal 48 Work the soil 51 Old court dance 54 Helen of -55 Ski lift (hyph.) 57 Sartorial expert 61 Jefferson’s
predecessor 62 Toothed wheel 63 Metric measure 65 Use a loom 66 Roofing piece 67 Braincase 70 Sand hills 72 Brooks or Torme 73 Costa del -74 Stony 75 Seize 77 Variety show 79 Baseball stat. 80 River in Belgium 82 Climbing plant 83 Ad astra per -85 Abundance 87 Delicious 89 PC part 90 Punta -- Este 91 Chair-back part 92 Moderate 94 Nests 96 -- cares? 97 Coarse file 100 Paid athlete 101 Lukewarm 104 Common abbr. 105 Landing place 106 Seaman 107 Neighbor of Syr. 108 Sing, in a way 110 Kitchen item 112 Be in agreement 113 Scoundrel 116 Kind of colony 118 Fat 119 Implements 120 Pep 122 High point 123 Precious stones 124 Des --, Iowa 125 Do nothing 127 Lover of good food 129 Cut 130 Once around a track 133 Ump’s cousin 135 Busy insect 136 -- Beta Kappa 137 Streetcar 141 Sickly 142 Work dough 144 CIA predecessor 145 Go by boat 146 Holiday time 147 Blackboard 149 Andes beast 151 Murdered 153 Competitor 155 Tulip part 156 Lab compound 157 Bird on a coin 158 That is (Lat.) 159 Pry 160 Peruses 161 Prepare a salad 162 Grains for brewing
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1 Misbehave (2 wds.) 2 Code name 3 Explosion 4 Top 5 Compass point 6 Protective garments 7 Go aimlessly 8 Party giver 9 United 10 Period of time 11 Cornet 12 Big bird 13 Office note 14 “The -- and the Ecstasy” 15 Lasso 16 Become 17 Black cuckoo 18 Congressional aides 19 Lyric poem 20 Scatter 30 Halt 32 Fellow 34 Leave unmentioned 37 Ignominy 39 People of New Zealand 43 Print measures 44 Label 45 Ga. city 46 Abbr. in footnotes 47 Innate 49 Statute 50 Fib 51 Fall guy 52 Goodbye, amigo! 53 Revolutionary War
camp (2 wds.) 54 Lachrymal 56 Descartes or Coty 58 Expression of grief 59 Manifest 60 Send 62 Meaty sauce 64 Race an engine 67 Flue 68 Not certain 69 Chart 71 Back 76 Decorate 78 Building annex 81 Furrow 83 Simian creature 84 In medias -86 Cup handle 88 Encountered 89 Rhythmic flow 91 White-sale item 92 Steeple 93 Bean or Welles 95 “-- a girl!” 96 Tricky acts 98 Rich fur 99 Iron 102 Daddy 103 Notion 105 Showy feather 109 Source of light 111 French department 112 Kind of venture 114 Web address (abbr.) 115 The “I” 117 Fragrant necklace 119 Drag 121 Story 123 Conjectured 124 Postal material 126 Antenna 128 TV network 129 Glistens 130 Speaks imperfectly 131 Fred or Gracie 132 Greek thinker 134 Test question answer 136 Buckets 138 Take pleasure in 139 “Stop!” at sea 140 Liquefies 142 Marine plant 143 -- processing 144 Sculls 145 Wise 148 Chinese “way” 150 Sweater size (abbr.) 152 Roman god 153 Edge 154 Actress -- Lupino