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Crossword No. 516: Gran Colombia by Matt Gaffney
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The Week Contest
This week’s question: Procter & Gamble has blamed
extravagantly bearded Millennials and the growing social
acceptance of stubble for an $8 billion write-down of
its struggling Gillette shaving brand. In seven words or
fewer, please come up with an advertising slogan that
Gillette might use to encourage hirsute dudes to shave
off their facial hair.
Last week’s contest: The average legroom for fliers
in economy class has fallen by 5 inches since 2006, to
30 inches, and the average seat width has narrowed to
17 inches. Please come up with an honest slogan that
an airline could use to promote its increasingly cramped
cabins and ever- shrinking seats.
THE WINNER: Fly the way too friendly skies
Don Phillips, Point Arena, Calif.
SECOND PLACE: Come fly with knee!
David Crommie, San Francisco
THIRD PLACE: We make the world small for you!
Tom Roeber, San Diego
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subject line. Entries are due by noon, Eastern Time,
Tuesday, Aug. 20. Winners will appear
on the Puzzle Page next issue and at
theweek.com/puzzles on Friday, Aug. 23.
In the case of identical or similar entries,
ACROSS the first one received gets credit.
1 Amazon predator
4 John who sings “Angel
From Montgomery”
9 Top-quality
14 Days (hotel chain)
15 Try again on the
new lawn
16 From around here
17 Ingredient in a
Tom Collins
18 Try not to see
19 Change, as a contract
20 Egan Bernal of
Colombia won this
race on July 28,
becoming its first-ever
Latin American champ
23 Temporarily given
24 Bread that may
contain caraway seeds
25 “Say no more...
please”
28 Gas station brand in
old movies
29 Colombia’s James
Rodriguez scored more
goals than any other
player in the 2014
World Cup, thereby
winning this award
33 Corleone brother that
CNN’s Chris Cuomo
didn’t appreciate being
likened to
35 sauce (it’s served
with seafood)
36 Speak to an audience
39 Cold case solver, often
41 Like jungles at dawn
42 Exit, as a streetcar
44 Uses Elmer’s on
46 2015 cop comedy
starring Colombian
actress Sofia Vergara
(along with Reese
Witherspoon)
48 Part of a nest
52 “For what worth...”
53 Hardy or Brady
54 Like rose bushes
56 Literary style
associated with
novelist Gabriel García
Márquez
59 Beyoncé or Oprah, e.g.
62 Discover
63 the Science Kid
(PBS show)
64 To any extent
65 Narrowly defeated
66 Org. that’s part of DHS
67 “Thanks a ” (note
on coffee shop tip jars)
68 Items in a garden
store packet
69 Hog’s home
DOWN
1 Largest of five
2 They make chefs cry
3 Undoes, as a recent
marriage
4 Fashion label for Meryl
Streep, in a 2006 film
5 It may be “sweet” or
“best served cold”
6 “Time the
essence”
7 Opposite of blanc
8 Game of Thrones
patriarch Stark
9 “California” or
“Kalamazoo,” e.g.
10 The Eternal City
11 Chilling cubes
12 “! I Feel Like a
Woman!” (Shania
Twain hit)
13 No spring chicken
21 Location of a bar with
good views
22 No, to Nabokov
25 Infants, a year or two
later
26 Man-made body of
water
27 Coy reply to “Nice job!”
30 Out of the ordinary
31 One of two in “Subaru”
32 English city where
Cary Grant was born
34 Not airtight, as an
argument
36 “Surprised to see you
here!”
37 Lowest part of a tree
38 Many NY’ers live in
them
40 Comedian Wong
43 Green leaper
45 Said
47 Shows one’s choppers
49 Watch locations
50 Refuse to take no for
an answer
51 When to work out
55 Clapping pair
56 Liquefy
57 Surrender, as territory
58 All the (popular)
59 Right-handed Ripken
60 “When should I pick
you up?” info
61 Paper loaded with
showbiz news
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14 15 16
17 18 19
20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31 32
33 34 35
36 37 38 39 40 41
42 43 44 45
46 47 48 49 50 51
52 53 54 55
56 57 58
59 60 61 62 63
64 65 66
67 68 69
Fill in all the
boxes so that
each row, column,
and outlined
square includes
all the numbers
from 1 through 9.
Difficulty:
super-hard
Sudoku
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subscription to The Week.
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