Crossword Edited by Will Shortz No. 1025
ACROSS
Wood strip
1
Circus animal
5
balancing a ball on its nose
Cook, as
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vegetables Farmland
14
measure
___ Major (the
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Big Dipper)
Issue to discuss
16
Former CNN
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anchor with a true-crime series on the Investigation Discovery channel
Apple tablets
19
Shrimp dish
20
On the ocean
21
German article
23
Places where
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kids can feed
goats and sheep College entrance
30
exams “Approximately
32
speaking”
Obsolescent TV
33
hookup
Annoying
34
Round trips?
37
Classic Nintendo
40
character named after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife
Like Mr. Spock’s
43
ears
Failed epically
44
Hoppy quaff, in
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brief
Body part that a
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Manx cat lacks Western lily
48
Warsaw currency
52
Neighbor of
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Syria: Abbr.
___ (the
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Jet) Walker, Basketball Hallof-Famer Long-haired,
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pot-smoking 1960s stereotype
Eyelashes
61
So simple … like
64
17-, 24-, 40and 52-Across?
Ballpark purchase
67
in a bun
Study, study,
68
study
Tennis great
69
Arthur
Overhang
70
Eyelid affliction
71
Warty fly-catcher
72
DOWN
Unwanted gaps
1
Thorny tree
2
School skipper
3
Captain’s post
4
“The World of
5
___ Wong” Timeline
6
segment
Wood for a
7
baseball bat Hawaiian
8
porches
Larsson who
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wrote the “Millennium” trilogy
November
10
birthstone Smog-monitoring
11
org.
Lend a hand
12
Ones making
13
introductions, in brief
TikTok, Instagram
18
or Google’s Find My Device
Kind of alarm
22
often activated in
the morning
Puff from a pipe
25
or cigarette
It’s hoisted on
26
a brig in high
winds
“Ars Amatoria”
27
poet
Twice tetra
28 Normandy battle Spice whose
42 55
name consists of Many takers of site in W.W. II
two consecutive
29
30-Across: Abbr. Backup singer
43 pronouns
Whirl or twirl for Gladys Knight
31
Bark like a lap
56
Sinus doc Montezuma’s dog
35 47
people
Grim Reaper’s Fuel from a bog
36 implement Only major Texas
49 60
city on Mountain
Big retailer of North-of-theborder
38 Time 61 outdoor gear sports org.
Performer in a
50
Three-ingredient 62
39 kimono Fury sandwiches, for short Did as directed Young fellow
51 63
Law officers, in Sweet cake Good name for a
40 53 65 slang topper museum curator? Iranian money Malted, e.g. “___ what?”
41 54 66
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