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Crossword No. 515: Reach for the Stars by Matt Gaffney
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The Week Contest
This week’s question: 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. In seven words or fewer, please come up with
an honest advertising slogan that an airline could use
to promote its increasingly cramped cabins and ever-
shrinking seats.
Last week’s contest: The town of Joensuu in Finland
recently hosted the first-ever Heavy Metal Knitting World
Championships, which saw competitors knit onstage
while head-banging to ear-bleeding riffs. If a heavy metal
band were to record a song about the joy of knitting,
what title could it give the track?
THE WINNER: “Enter Strandman”
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vt.
SECOND PLACE: “(Don’t Fear) the Weaver”
Jason Schnuit, Santa Monica, Calif.
THIRD PLACE: “Welcome to My Knitmare”
Barbara Race, Dowagiac, Mich.
For runners-up and complete contest rules, please go to
theweek.com/contest.
How to enter: Submissions should be emailed to contest
@theweek.com. Please include your name, address, and
daytime telephone number for verification; this week,
type “Cramped flight” in the subject line. Entries are due
by noon, Eastern Time, Tuesday, Aug. 13. Winners will
appear on the Puzzle Page next issue and at theweek .com/
puzzles on Friday, Aug. 16. In the case of
identical or similar entries, the first one
received gets credit.
ACROSS
1 Cuban house
5 General tofu
(vegetarian version of
a Chinese dish)
9 on the wrist
(administers a minimal
punishment to)
14 Decide not to invite,
maybe
15 Honolulu’s island
16 Bat mitzvah text
17 Stats, for example
18 Some real estate
19 More than mad
20 Proposed currency
about which tech exec
David Marcus testified
before Congress last
month
23 Requirement to log in
25 Group of tools
26 Whole bunch
27 Best-selling car in the
U.S. for all years from
1992 to ‘96
30 Phnom
(Cambodia’s capital)
31 “Bravissimo!”
32 “You’re much
trouble!”
33 Stopped standing
35 Family car
37 “So cute!”
39 spray
(decongestant)
43 “Act your !”
45 Buds go in them
47 Euron Greyjoy’s
weapon, on Game of
Thrones
48 Tavern containers
51 Motor Trend’s Car of
the Year for 1981
54 Twelve months old
55 Egypt’s “boy king”
56 Basketball practice
activities
57 Space program of the
1960s
61 Removed the peel
from
62 Singer King
63 Make cuts
66 Defaced, as a car on
Halloween
67 City northwest of
Napoli
68 List-ending abbr.
69 Hesitant
70 Dalmatian’s marking
71 PlayStation 4 creator
DOWN
1 Show with an episode
titled “Invisible
Evidence”
2 Curry or Coulter
3 Went through an
unpleasant ordeal
4 “All !”
5 Resident of a certain
Ohio city
6 Former rival of Volvo
7 “I’m so sorry to hear
that!”
8 Game with 81 squares
9 One of a clown’s pair
10 Actress Petty of A
League of Their Own
11 Good for farming
12 Wealthy supporter
13 Sword holder
21 Naming as a source
22 Make a mwah sound
23 Mysteries in the sky
24 Part of a shoe
28 One of NATO’s
founding members
29 Propelled a dinghy
30 School org.
34 Aziz : Right Now
(2019 Netflix special)
36 Little batteries
38 Tail movement
40 Enter, as a harbor
41 Skating feat
42 Ending for heart or
mind
44 Cabinet dept.
46 Ostrich or venison
48 Ted of Nightline fame
49 Really tick off
50 Takei or Pataki
52 Animals that use rocks
to break open oysters
53 Gets the soap off
55 Bedtime bear
58 Snarky remark
59 Unappetizing food
60 Sesame Street
monster
64 The Spy Who Loved
Me novelist Fleming
65 Layer, as of a paper
towel
1234 5678 910111213
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 70 71
Fill in all the
boxes so that
each row, column,
and outlined
square includes
all the numbers
from 1 through 9.
Difficulty:
medium
Sudoku
WThe winner gets a one-year
subscription to The Week.
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