32 GAMES WORLD^ OF PUZZLES december 2019
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35 36 37
38 39 40 41
42 43 44 45 46 47
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S HA RES
ACROSS
1 Divvies up
4 Inaccurate designations
8 Throws away
12 Fireplace floor
13 Invented, as a phrase
14 Cattle pen
15 Self-help classic by Norman
Vincent Peale: 5 wds.
18 Not foreign, as policy
19 When asked for: 2 wds.
20 Sticks together
23 2011–15 House speaker John
26 Marks of shame
29 Cause to lose spirit
31 Long Spanish river
32 Failure of a jet engine due
to faulty combustion
33 Live together as a couple
34 Broad valleys
35 Two-month-old, e.g.
36 Catalytic exhaust system device
37 Skips over, as a sound
38 Some fatty acid esters
40 Carnivore: 2 wds.
42 Tex-Mex dried chili pepper
44 Keepers of rabbit
breeding facilities
48 Self-help classic by Dale
Carnegie: 7 wds.
52 Filming, in Variety-speak
53 Port on the Loire River
54 Email command
55 Handing down, as a verdict
56 Sitcom, e.g.
57 Jittery: 2 wds.
DOWN
1 Put away, as a sword
2 Brother of Chico and Groucho
3 Place to convalesce: 2 wds.
4 Sheet of tiny printed pages
5 Be nosy
6 Fine-wooled sheep
7 Stirring up of discontent against
the government in power
8 Club with strobe lights
9 Bears most of a job’s
responsibilities: 3 wds.
10 7MTTIHSVKY^^PIH
11 Supporter for an injured arm
16 The Bay Area’s area: 2 wds.
17 Forbidden
21 Find out again
22 2004 Spike Lee film starring
Anthony Mackie: 3 wds.
24 Sea nymph, in Greek myth
25 February 14 bouquet
26 How it’s hot when the heat
is suffocating
27 Athlete’s intense look: 2 wds.
28 Volcanic peak in the
Cascades: 2 wds.
30 Be an adjudicator
34 Dissuasion, as by instilling fear
36 Assume an air of superiority
39 Encroaching (on)
41 Mindful state
43 Biblical shouts of praise
45 Big name in printers
46 Unlocked anew
47 Heavy hammer
48 Amusingly stupid mistake
49 Hollywood Shuffle
director Robert
50 Evening meal
51 Heisman-winning
quarterback Doug
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number of letters in a space is for you to determine, using logic and the crossing of words. The answer to 1-Across,
S-HA-RES, has been filled in as an example. ANSWER, PAGE 76
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BY FRANK LONGO