CRYPTOQUIP

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error.

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DAILY CROSSWORD

1 End with force 8 Percussion

instrument 15 Contemporary of

Plácido 16 Went deep 17 Agitated 18 Like the flame at

Graceland 19 Singing voice,

informally 20 Workout spot 22 Ax 23 Quick-footed 24 “I’m amazed!” 25 Springfield bar 26 Traditional March

14 servings 27 Venus, when appearing as the morning star 29 Paradise in

“On the Road” 30 Minor employment needs, in some places 34 Longtime NBC hit 35 Blow away 36 Pittsburgh’s __

Park 37 Thanksgiving,

e.g.: Abbr. 38 Helpful program

for frequent fliers 41 42

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9 Give under pressure Joan of Arc, for one Fill up Close buds Hardly fresh Father’s ceremony The first “A” in A.A. Milne Great Plains st. Maestro Doráti Trattoria staple Theater originally lit with oil lamps Enter covertly Self-gratifying pursuit Picking up Law groups

Space for a ship They started the Arab Spring Like Pentatonix performances Unlikely GoFundMe supporters One taking a fall Table for __ “Way to go!” Dancers seen in strips? Little bit 10 11 12 13 14 21 25

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55 Fr. title Put on Jack’s links rival Almost reaches Like some chatter Ridicule Pharmaceutical giant Whisper from a cheater, maybe Decrease Place for the undecided? Hawked stuff “Good first step” “Not true!” Knight who cofounded Death Row Records Impostors Barrier for Sisyphus Safe havens Play loudly “Ungainly fowl” of poetry __ jar Lob paths Lena of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” Napkin holders? Coty subsidiary that makes nail polish Brandy statistic ©2017 Tribune Content Agency 9/9/17