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Crossword No. 544: We Were the Champions by Matt Gaffney
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The Week Contest
This week’s question: The Australian newspaper NT
News printed a special edition with eight blank pages for
use as toilet paper, currently in short supply because of
coronavirus-inspired hoarding. If a media group were to
launch a news publication that was printed entirely on
toilet paper, what should it be titled?
Last week’s contest: Country singer Garth Brooks was
deluged with online vitriol for wearing a jersey with
the name “Sanders” on the back at a concert, to honor
former Detroit Lions running back Barry Sanders. Some
fans thought he was showing support for Democratic
candidate Bernie Sanders. Please come up with the title
of a country song about Sanders’ faltering campaign.
THE WINNER: “I’m So Far Left I’m Just Not Right for You”
David Gilbert, Seattle
SECOND PLACE: “They Never Promised Me the Rose Garden”
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
THIRD PLACE: “I Don’t Walk the Party Line”
Doug Carasso, Seal Beach, Calif.
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
“TP News” in the subject line. Entries are due by noon,
Eastern Time, Tuesday, March 24. Winners will appear
on the Puzzle Page next issue and at
theweek.com/puzzles on Friday, March 27.
In the case of identical or similar entries,
ACROSS the first one received gets credit.
1 Avoid punishment for
a crime
5 Grifter’s trick
9 Arduous journeys
14 City on the
Mediterranean
15 Way of speaking
16 Humble home
17 Fairy-tale monster
18 Eke living
19 Lamenting poem
20 Frequent performer at
the Cotton Club (1991,
1992, 2001, 2010, 2015)
23 “Certainly”
24 Toured, casually
25 Shelter for later in life
26 “U may disagree,
but...”
29 Scientist with a whip
(1940, 1953, 1976,
1981, 1987)
32 Xi’s land
35 Company with a
lion logo
36 City east of Jaipur
37 Current period
38 Director Van Sant
39 Emulate Dracula
40 “Anyone ?”
41 Org. with many forms
42 Shade of faded photos
43 Esther Rolle’s role
on Maude and Good
Times (2006, 2007)
47 Brand of beer whose
name means “sun”
48 Sloth, say
49 Before this moment
50 Bean counter at a
company, for short
53 Mrs. Dalloway novelist
(2019)
57 Gladiator’s place
59 A whole bunch
60 Org. whose
“March Madness”
tournament would
have started this
week, had it not been
canceled because of
coronavirus concerns;
some of its past
champions (with their
winning years) begin
the four theme entries
61 Conical cap wearer
62 ___ Bayou (1997
drama)
63 Cobra’s shape
64 Gold or bronze, e.g.
65 Wrapping for a rani
66 Jimmy Carter’s middle
name
DOWN
1 Tom’s role in
Toy Story
2 Quarrel
3 Small songbirds
4 It’s covered by
capri pants
5 Unemotional
6 Request for
permission
7 Start for climactic
8 Definitions
9 Former Trump
property in AC
10 Candy in gold foil
11 Tying
12 Drum for rum
13 Clever
21 Writer Ferber
22 Metric measurement
27 Mathieu’s “Thank you”
28 City whose name
means “large hill”
29 Bury
30 Cause to grin
31 Stops for camels
32 Pitch indicators
33 “What were you
thinking?!”
34 About to go bankrupt
38 Countertop materials
41 “Sounds good,” in
the ‘60s
42 Camouflage for
polar bears
44 Part of AIPAC
45 More conceited
46 Graf’s guy
50 Drink in a mug
51 Pizzazz
52 Counting everyone
54 Emperor Pachacuti,
e.g.
55 Science show
56 A single time
57 Fleet fig.
58 Want to apologize for
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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
Fill in all the
boxes so that
each row, column,
and outlined
square includes
all the numbers
from 1 through 9.
Difficulty:
hard
Sudoku
WThe winner gets a one-year
subscription to The Week.
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