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The crossword on this and the next two pages has two
independent sets of clues: “Hard” and “Easy.” First, fold this page
back on the dashed line so the clues below face the solving grid
on page 69. If you use only the Hard Clues (appearing below and
continuing under the grid), you’ll find the puzzle uncommonly
challenging. If you want help, or prefer a less severe challenge,
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Each puzzle below consists of a two-word clue. Your job
is to figure out the answer by determining which familiar
two-word phrase or name, when placed between the
existing two words, will result in three overlapping two-
word phrases or names. For example, the answer to the
clue “Taste bulb” would be “Bud Light” (taste bud, Bud
Light, light bulb). ANSWERS, PAGE 807ǜǠǣǘ)ǞȰǙ
ACROSS
1 TV type
7 Responds to
a ring
14 Previously,
once
19 Enterprise
competition
23 Worth more
24 Form of
Vitamin A
25 Not as cold
26 Slight progress
27 Go along with
28 Shakespeare in
Love role
29 Farm worker
31 Put away
32 Held back
33 Tongue, e.g.
34 Reflect
35 Rock blasters
36 McGwire rival
of the late ‘90s
37 ___ Evil (2006
horror flick)
38 Reg Smythe’s
Andy
40 Golfer with
an army
42 Sweeping
45 Talks to
48 Rise
49 Chaps
50 Gold Rush
figure
51 Do dock work
52 Rap sheet
listings
54 Perch for
strawberries
57 Use a fan
63 Stop on the way
65 Just makes it,
timewise
66 Without
planning
67 Barbarella
actor
68 Made it
70 Bank of seats
72 Chinese
restaurant
offering73 Fight over
England
80 See-through
brand
81 Greiner of
Shark Tank
85 Frustrate
86 Prison cake
ingredients?
87 Tug’s burden
89 By or bee
ending
90 Hot place
91 Either of two
wives of
Henry VIII
92 Words before
a time
93 Part of a
Kipling title
94 Poker holding
95 1962 expan-
sion team
96 Baltic capital
97 Cobbler fruit
98 Wharton
awards, briefly
99 Resignation
indication
100 Cornrow, e.g.
102 Get a
stranglehold
106 Brand on
the feet
108 Computer
buff
109 Yul’s Solomon
and Sheba
costar
110 Musical key
115 No longer
considered
117 Out there
121 Hangdog
124 Check
preceder
125 Builds a
fire under
127 Flower-shaped
ornament
128 Perfume name
130 Vapid
131 Normandy city
133 Exude134 Straw lid
139 Eugene’s
daughter
140 Gillespie’s
sound
141 Of that kind
142 “___ there
yet?”
143 Basted
145 Curse
146 Baby seats
148 West Side
Story star
151 Existing
power
structure
154 Colt of fame
157 Copernicus,
for one
158 Watch
159 Grievously
160 Monopoly
card
161 “Not for me”
162 Old golf club
163 Light
heavyweight?
164 Means
justifiers
165 Knotted up
166 Bubble source
167 Parlor pieceDOWN
1 CEO, often
2 Lean
3 Carry out
4 Exhibit
tardiness
5 Some Paris
parents
6 Gallery figure
7 Symbol of
mourning
8 Almost-victory
9 Mark of an
officer
10 Bush country
11 Organic
compound
12 Misty of
Hee Haw
13 Skeleton, e.g.
14 Therefore- Katy _____ Dixon
Swiss _____Bank
- Victor ___ Hogg
- Dirty __ Capote
- Boy __Smith
- Times ___ Canal
- French _____ Hockey
- Outer _____ Dew
- Heartbreak ___ Girls
- Fannie ___ Point
- Empty ___ McMuffin
George ____ Browne
- Oliver __Fanning
- Porky ___Pal
- Bloody ____Jewelers
- Jack __ Johnson
- Billy __ Barrel
- Sloppy _____ Spaniel
- Irving ____Street
Wax __Plate