Crossword Edited by Will Shortz
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Crooked, as a
1
painting on the wall
Nine-digit ID
6
How revenge
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(or pizza for breakfast) is best served
Steeple
13
Noshed
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Corporate rule or
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regulation Concept that
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can’t be criticized or questioned, metaphorically Tennis’s Agassi
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Torah holders
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Bigeye or
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yellowfin tuna, at a sushi bar
Feel great sorrow
21
Shout made with
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a fist pump Seafood often
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served with picks Dab, as with a
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paper towel
Chicago trains
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Not showy
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Language spoken
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in Bangkok
Ballet dancer’s
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knee bend Pre-employment
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investigation “A guy walks into
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a bar …” may start one
Caesar’s words
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to Brutus
Music Mann?
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Shoofly ___
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Norway’s biggest
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city
Cocktail named
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for two iconic beverage brands Catch forty winks
50
Changes, as a
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hemline 22-Across, in
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French
Regarding
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Latin for “in
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itself”
Behaved in a
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laid-back way Connections for
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car wheels Author Edgar
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Allan ___
In an unusual
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way
Army’s football
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rival
Mr. Potato Head
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piece
Sell illegally, as
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tickets
DOWN
Test for purity
1
What a diagonal
2
line represents on a bowling scoresheet Relaxes
3
Commits a
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fumble
Small, to a Scot
5
Borat creator ___
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Baron Cohen Showing no
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emotion
Either “N” in
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NY, NY
Jaded doubter
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More ancient
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Stage in a
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butterfly’s development Socially inept
12
sort
Poets of yore
15
It’s tossed toward
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a bull’s-eye Frozen
21
Viet ___ (armed
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force of the 1960s-’70s) Reeves of the
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“Matrix” films
Thumbs-up on
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Gooey lunchbox
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sandwich, informally Language spoken
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in Vientiane Schlepped
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Primitive dwelling
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TV’s Dr. ___
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San Pellegrino
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offering
“Rocks” that clink
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in a drink
___ out a living
35
Rider’s handful
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Assignment for a
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lawyer
Removes skin
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from
“The Grapes of
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Wrath” figure Mount Fuji’s
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locale
Amazon
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“assistant” PC command to
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paste
Ken who wrote
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“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
Hot drink with
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marshmallows Word before
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space or limits Coral islet chain
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Coral reef
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producer “Highway to
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Hell” rock group … or a hint to electrical switches found in 16-, 23-,
36-, 44- and 57-Across Gorilla, e.g.
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Uno + uno
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