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Labyrinth | by Mike Shenk

6 • Bacon piece?

• Course requirement, often
  (2 wds.)
  7 • Make like a rodent


• Cornwall cape that’s
  England’s westernmost
  point (2 wds.)
  8 • Affectionate nickname of
  Davy Crockett’s flintlock
  rifle (2 wds.)


• Biting remark
  9 • Give rise to


• Object of Milhouse’s crush
  10 • Only Pennsylvania stop on
  the Lake Shore Limited


• Stared angrily
  11 • Monticello replaced it on
  the nickel in 1938


• Royal Stewart or Black
  Watch, e.g.
  12 • Heat to near boiling


• Sits in on
  13 • Intellectual poseur, in
  England


• Fairly sure thing (2 wds.)
  14 • Amyl nitrite, for cyanide
  poisoning


• Gig for an electronica DJ
  Winding


• 1963 war movie starring
  McQueen, Attenborough
  and Garner (3 wds.)


• 1985’s “Brothers in Arms”
  by Dire Straits may have
  been the first (2 wds.)


• Large estate in Spanish-
  speaking America


• Like Willie Nelson’s singing


• Not yielding to bullying


• Rival of Lipton and Snapple


• Where to get a Baconator or
  aFrosty


• Bathroom fixture (2 wds.)


• Villains


• Cork setting


• Hall of Fame pitcher Carlton


• Fire-walking requirement
  (2 wds.)


• Picnic side dish (2 wds.)


• Foe of technological change


• Alternative to Velcro


• World’s most widely used
  psychoactive substance


• The National Cartoonists
  Society’s annual award is
  named in his honor (2 wds.)


• Saint Augustine wrote in it
  (2 wds.)


• Airplane’s twisting motion,
  contrasted with pitch and ro


• About ten percent of
  Californians


• Precision-guided munition,
  informally (2 wds.)

Answer words go into this grid

in two ways. Across answers

are entered, two answers per

numbered row, in the order of the

clues. Winding answers are also

entered in the order of the clues, in

one unbroken string that begins in

the upper left corner, continues to

the right, forms one long path that

winds around the grid between the

heavy lines and ends in the box

beneath the starting box. Use both

sets of clues to find your way

around.

Across

1 • The “clew” that Ariadne

gave Theseus to help him

get out of the Labyrinth

• Color that Crayola has
  both burnt and raw
  versions of
  2 • Produce as an effect


• Producers of a summer
  song that can exceed
  100 decibels
  3 • Black Friday sale, often
  (2 wds.)


• Dance discouraged by
  Protestant missionaries in
  the 1820s
  4 • Lure into a compromising
  act


• “Are you a good witch, or a
  bad witch?” asker
  5 • Last name of Willy,
  Linda, Happy and Biff in
  a 1949 play


• “Gimme!” (3 wds.)

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Get the solutions to this week’s Journal Weekend Puzzles in next

Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. Solve crosswords and acrostics

online, get pointers on solving cryptic puzzles and discuss all of the

puzzles online at WSJ.com/Puzzles.

Across

1 Arles article

4 Jardin des

Champs-Élysées,

par exemple

8 Soundly defeat,

slangily

11 “When All Is Said

and Done” group

15 Campaign-

backing org.

18 Many a Putin

crony

20 Duesenberg

contemporary

21 Important

element in the

formation of a

star?

23 Ninth grade

math, often

24 Hall of Famer Mel

25 Exploit the base

instincts of

26 Shoe designer

Blahnik

27 It’s shared virally

29 Many an Ernst &

Young employee

31 Some small

trucks

32 • Useahoseata

nobleman’s

bidding?

36 1965 novel

featuring Paul

Atreides

39 Gift from Mrs.

Fields

40 Org. that patrols

the Tenderloin

44 Musician who

conceived

Iceland’s Imagine

Peace Tower

88 Crazy Horse, e.g.

89 Mao ___-tung

90 Piggy, in a

children’s rhyme

91 Like a fashion

magazine

92 Air rifle ammo

93 Holed up

94 Boston Garden

Hall of Famer

95 Long ago, long

ago

96 Anime genre

featuring giant

robots

99 Abbey’s hubby on

“The West Wing”

100 Not pos.

102 Hardly tasteful

106 Detective

Pinkerton

107 Eclipse, to the

superstitious

109 Singer Winans

with 12 Grammys

110 Custom

111 Evil manipulator

113 Follower of

“brown.” or “rice.”

115 “Encore!”

117 Manta

118 “The elimination

of the

unnecessary,”

per Picasso

119 Seven-time AL

batting champion

120 NYC enters it by

falling back

121 React to stunning

news, say

122 Reuben base

123 Disquietingly

bleak

124 NFL scores

Down

1 Fertile soil

2 Jazz legend

Fitzgerald

3 Speak silently

4 Drug kingpin

Escobar

5 Elevator button

symbol

6 Color TV pioneer

7 “He’s So Fine”

group, with “The”

8 2020 candidate

Beto

9 Like somebody

without an

umbrella, and

what’s added to

four starred

answers

10 Like a gunslinger’s

gun, perhaps

11 He’s played Roy

Cohn, Phil Spector

and Joe Paterno

12 Arthur of “The

Golden Girls”

13 Original source of

“gumbo” and

“goober”

14 Annex

15 It may be tacked

onto a bill

16 Ski resort close

to Salt Lake City

17 Co. chiefs

19 Crystal-lined rock

22 Mom and Dad,

slangily

28 Physical

attractiveness

30 “Oh, for ___ sake!”

33 Elite Eight org.

34 Payment for tat?

35 “I’ll handle that

right away!”

36 Ellipsis unit

37 Game with Wi

Draw 4 cards

38 • College footba

game for

milquetoasts?

41 • Procedures fo

dealing with

spills?

42 Delt neighbor

43 Female fawn

45 Interdictions

46 DJs used to sp

them

47 4x4, e.g.

48 It generates

interest

51 Golden State

Warriors coach

Steve

53 Is a contender

56 “Against

Interpretation”

writer Susan

57 Needed a visit

EMTs, maybe

58 • Quality test fo

a pepper grinde

59 Catch unprepa

60 Guided

61 Pours out one’s

troubles on

62 “Stormy

Weather” singe

63 • Remove

moistness from

vinyl?

64 Common Fathe

Day gifts

66 Some air rifles

67 Bash

68 Virgil hero

70 Walk through

deep mud, say

72 Like many dorm

rooms

74 • Hammer mad

for plasterboar

76 • Unemployme

benefit?

83 Expert, in Engla

87 Rhyming

nickname for

Obama

96 En ___ (in a lar

group)

97 Sindarin speake

in Tolkien’s wor

98 Sole supporter

99 Director of 20 1

“Unbroken”

101 Salami variety

103 “Scrub the

mission!”

104 Bred winners?

105 Burgoo and

cioppino

108 Approach

109 Eliciting an

“aww,” say

112 “Hail, Caesar!”

114 Like somebody

under an

umbrella, and

what’s addedt

four starred

answers

116 USN rank below

capt.

Stormy Weather | by John-Clark Levin & Jeff Chen

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45 • Party pooper’s

refusal to accept

reality?

49 Stellar cat

50 Said “Not for me,

thanks”

52 How juicy gossip

might be shared

54 Cub Scout groups

55 Laptop brand

created by Sony

56 Some Canons, for

short

57 Spheres

61 Platelet

aggregation

65 Professor Frink

on “The

Simpsons,” e.g.

67 Transvaal

colonist

68 Not minor

69 Make ready for

new use

71 Inbox clogger

73 Like

Shostakovich’s

Symphony No. 2

74 Dog at a picnic

75 Concludes

77 Course position

78 Pontiac in a 1964

song

79 Free throw for

being fouled

while scoring, in

basketball lingo

80 Revels in

81 Balaam’s ride

82 Dillydally

84 POTUS 32

85 Moviegoer’s

reprimand

86 Place to get a

Lumberjack Slam

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Challenge 1:

Two parts of

the same area

and shape.

Challenge 2:

Three parts of

the same area.

WSJ BRAIN GAMES Provided by Serhiy and Peter Grabarchuk (grabarchukpuzzles.com)

1. Canada’s ethics
watchdog said that
Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau broke the
law by trying to
prevent prosecution of
a Montreal company.
Which?

A. Bank of Montreal

B. Bombardier

C. Canadian Pacific

D. SNC-Lavalin

2. CBS and Viacom agreed to
merge, 13 years after they were
split up. Which of these rivals
has a larger market capitaliza-
tion than the two companies
combined?

A. Walt Disney

B. Comcast

C. Netflix

D. All of the above

3. SafeHavenBabyBoxesare
spreading. What are they for?

A. Mothers who want to drop
off unwanted newborns

B. Parents who want a secure
place for babies in an emergency

C. Carrying babies on
airplanes

D. People who can’t afford
Safe Haven Full-Size Boxes

4. Argentine markets were
rocked—by what?

A. A nationwide gaucho strike

B. Higher than expected
government deficits

C. A primary result implying
that the Peronist movement will
return to power

D. An accounting scandal at
the state-owned oil company

5. A U.S. panel of medical ex-
perts proposes that doctors ask
every adult something. What?

Answers are listed below the
crossword solutions at right.

 A. Whether they are us-

ing illicit drugs


 B. Whether they are

U.S. citizens


 C. If they’ve experi-

enced domestic violence


 D. What vaccines they

can remember receiving

6. An article about sound men-
tioned Pindrop. What is it?

 A. A company that makes

high-tech soundproofing materials


 B. A security firm whose

products can detect telephone

fraud


 C. A smartphone app that

measures ambient noise in a

room


 D. A hackers’ tool that uses

soundwaves to capture PIN

numbers

7. Amanda Lacaze runs a small
company in Malaysia that hopes
to win big if trade tensions with
China escalate. What’s her
business?

 A. Rare earths used in tech gear


 B. Telecom chips


 C. Scrapping surplus cargo

ships


 D. Sourcing thousands of

products from elsewhere in Asia

8. How big was the net loss
that Uber reported for the sec-
ond quarter of this year?

A. $52.4 million

B. $524 million

C. $5.24 billion

D. $52.4 billion

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SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES

For previous weeks’ puzzles, and to discuss strategies with other solvers, go toWSJ.com/puzzle.

WSJ Brain Games

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How many outlines

of triangles of all

sizes can you find

in the pattern?

3.HHHII

The 3-D shape

consists of nine

cubes, five yellow

and four purple.

Which of the five

2-D views of the

shape (A-E) are

correct?