STRETCHING EXERCISES
Jeremy Newton, of Austin, Texas, is a software engineer who makes mobile games. Titles he has worked on include Crosswords With Friends, Zynga Poker, Dragon Academy and many others. He has been a puzzle enthusiast since he was a child, when a grandmother
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Muhammad Ali’s “Me! Whee!,” e.g.
“S.N.L.” alum Hartman
Start off on the wrong foot, maybe? Contaminate What may be in a star’s orbit
Throw with power
Alleviate
Sheep’s milk product that’s often grated Classic name for the land north of England
Course taken in shorts, often
“Ya don’t say!” 765-foot-long “water coaster” on Disney cruises Countertenor SWAT team or Navy SEAL group, e.g.
Name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet
Epitome of smoothness “Roots” author Haley
Shocker, at times & 44 It goes around every hour
Gaming novice, slangily
Secured skates, with “up”
Float component Act as a blueprint for, as DNA for proteins
Brawled, in the backwoods “Howdy, everybody!” Withstand
Fly off the shelves
Like bread made from almond flour 61 64 65
“Oh, hell yes!” Turn red, say Certain formal duds
Nice round number? Bollywood megastar Aishwarya ____ “My dear man” Grammy category won multiple times by Kendrick Lamar
Racy selfie posted for likes on social media, in modern lingo Not a problem Kennel club category
Makeup table “Dead serious!” “And, uh, that about covers it” Supporting role New students at Princeton or Yale in 1969
There’s a famous “half” one in Yosemite National Park Vessel protected by Hera Uninteresting Encouraging cry
Bottom
Saves, with “away”
“Ain’t dead ____!”
They often come to professors with excuses
102 Hoodwink
104 Get snake eyes,
say
107 Lacking
experience
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shop
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113 Oscar winner for his role as a Mexican narc in “Traffic”
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informally
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Verve
It’s 50/50
“That kinda stuff”: Abbr. Buckaroos
Mint
Fictional pilot with the line “You like me because I’m a scoundrel” “Here ____ again”
Milk for un café Onetime MTV reality series filmed near Hollywood
Recall regretfully Auditing org. Courtroom statements
Bone to pick Lighter than lite Word after soul or solid
“You, too?!” playfully
Smart
Wood that’s resistant to warping Mountain chain that stretches from Kazakhstan to the Arctic
Do a waving motion by the ocean, say
“That proves it” Shade similar to verdigris Distinguish oneself Positioned to win Shared with for quick feedback Cut into
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Pen pa?
Just hanging out It really blows Knucklehead Flinch (at)
Ending for a dean’s address Cable network with movies like “Sharktopus” and “Mansquito” Least klutzy Made a booboo
“I won’t ____ it!” Pending
Risqué communiqué Ancient home to Priam’s Treasure Out of practice Quick refresher Visibly scornful Cold that just won’t go away? Superpopular Gooey spread Where gymnast Simone Biles won four golds One-celled organism
Enter unannounced, in a way
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Spot between programs, e.g. Beehive material Annual May race, informally
One of three characters in “M*A*S*H”
Ones behind the scenes
Consider, with “on”
High-priority item
Vocalist’s asset Directly criticized on Twitter with an “@”
Gillette razor name
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Literature Nobelist Bellow 99 Bit of faulty logic 100 Sandwich supposedly named after low-income New Orleans workers 101 Begins a triathlon 103 Like the clue for
103-Down?
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incessantly
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park
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dispensers
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money to waste? 115 Order member 116 “Ver-r-ry
interesting!”