Don’t Be Puzzled

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Cookies are often removed from them

5 Hippie’s “Gotcha, dude” 9 Sound in old Alka-Seltzer ads 10 Lean meat in some burgers 12 “Sesame Street” character 13 Lawyer whose work helped pave the way for the Civil Rights Act

15 George’s ___, fig variety that can grow to the size of a fist 17 Free of charge, as a bank account

18 Molten muck

20 Manuscript markers, for short 21 Subject of a famed Edmonia Lewis sculpture

25 Garment with an underwire 26 ___/her pronouns

27 Greek letter I’s

30 ___ Passage, path to freedom that existed before the Underground Railroad

34 New York county where Sybil Ludington warned of approaching British troops 36 Prefix with dynamic

37 Kendrick who co-created the world’s first pertussis vaccine

38 Pesters, pesters, pesters 39 Thick piece of cake

40 Ancient locale nowadays connected to Hisarlik, Turkey

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1 Digital image format

2 “___ ask is that . . . ”

3 Capital of Italia

4 Someone who can soak up a ton of information, metaphorically

5 Big name in computing 6 Singer Celine

7 What “:” means in an analogy 8 One going for a drive?

11 “___ lift?” (carpool offer) 14 Affirmative answer 16 Homophone of a low number 19 Follower of “black” or “special”

21 Common baby ailment

22 Some coffee shop orders 23 Tuna from Hawaii

24 One paying rent

25 Repeating sound from a heart monitor

28 Fussy about details

29 ___ Lee (dessert brand) 31 Getting warmer, so to speak 32 Therefore

33 Pinkish, like cheeks

35 Org. with Orioles