Crossword Edited by Will Shortz
ACROSS
Actress Raquel
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Slightly wet
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___-retentive
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Nebraska city
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nicknamed the “Gateway to the West”
Female French
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friend
It’s good for what
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ails you
Prince or
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princess
Held in high
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esteem
Prompt action
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when things are unraveling Number of
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provinces in Canada
Nay’s opposite
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Rear end, in
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slang Ground-breaking
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tool
Watery expanse
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In the mail
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Beat around the
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bush
“Well,
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___-di-dah!”
Cry of pity
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Shoe bottoms
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“The ___
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Duckling” (fairy tale)
Relieved (of)
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“Oh, blast!”
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One of three in
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Orion’s belt Bundle of
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money
Poetic praise
47
Prefix meaning
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“different”
“A work of ___
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that did not begin in emotion is not ___”: Cézanne
Letter before chi
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What ties
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everything together, including
20-, 32- and
42-Across? Pulsating
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Like
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coincidences that make you go “hmm”
The “h” in m.p.h.
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Brewed
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beverages in bottles
Fauna’s partner
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Piece with a view
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Exam
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Annual theater
67 awards
DOWN
Lowest of the
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low
Act poorly?
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Stockpile
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Chew the fat
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Like the good old
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days
Title girl in a
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bygone MTV cartoon
“You said it!”
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Fine spray
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Pumpkin seed
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Means of entry
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Hexagonal bit of
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hardware
“___ we cool?”
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Was in first place
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Outback bird
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Obeys
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Andrew Wyeth
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portrait subject Counting
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everything together
Antiknock fluid
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Contains
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One getting
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dressed for lunch? Wide-mouthed
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jug
Caustic
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Of the highest
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standard
Angry with
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Host Kotb of
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morning TV Sound from a
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pug
Salt Lake City
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athlete
Goal of phishing
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schemes, informally
“Let the ___
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show …”
Outback animal
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Burgle
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Frequent
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teenage sensation
The Evita of
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“Evita”
Opposite of
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clean-shaven
They’re
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symbolized by light bulbs in cartoons
One of about 93
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million between Earth and the sun
Change for a five
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Move, in real
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estate lingo
Howe’er
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You might do it
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after stubbing a toe
Feel sorry about
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