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ACROSS

1 Queenswho was producta Parade National POY

5 Small amphibian 9 Voice of Bugs

Bunny 10 Old recipe name for

imitation of butter

12 El Duque’s brother 13 Jet who was the NFL Defensive ROY in ‘14

14 Alex Ovechkin

15 Follows Santa

17 “Nails” 18 HOF defenseman who skated for the Rangers 1954-61 20 Former MLB catcher who won the Yastrzemski Award in 1987 as Suffolk County’s top baseball player 21 He picked off Favre in OT to set up the NYG’s winning FG in Championshipthe ‘08 NFC 23 New Game Yorker Grossfeldcoached the US Olympic gymnastics team

25 Put in the can

28 Miami WNBA team

29 Kerley’s college

30 Good score

31 MAAC commish 33 MetroStar great who

played 3B at UVA

35 Love

36 “Elbows” for the

Blueshirts

37 Elitist

38 NYC team

DOWN 1 Rookie who won

an AL batting title 2 Former Giant who was a national high school indoor triple jump champ

3 Stop ––– dime 4 The Jints sacked him 12 times to tie an NFL record in ‘07 5 Yankee who won 15 straight decisions 2011-12

6 Masked Marrero 7 Findings written

bya NYC lawyer

8 Brooklynite who

won an Oscar

9 Web posting 11 Went down with

the ship

16 NY sports org.

19 Get it? 20 Before the

ramparts

22 Bronx high

23 On the main 24 A-Rod passed him on the career RBI list in 2015

26 Soupy

27 Paper holder

29 Tom Trebelhorn

32 Grenada’s gold

34 Wooly mama