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Labyrinth|by Mike Shenk

8 • Anthony of “Star Trek:

Discovery”

• Lack of adornment
  9 • Tops (2 wds.)


• Continental movers
  10 • Envelope feature


• Flair
  11 • 1980s foes of the
  Sandinistas


• Something picked up by
  a dog
  12 • Up to the job


• Crashes, say
  13 • Immerse briefly in boiling
  water


• Paramount Pictures
  co-founder Zukor
  14 • Controlling power


• Boxer from California
  Winding


• “I Let a Song Go Out of
  My Heart” composer
  (2 wds.)


• Snaps (3 wds.)


• Help feature on some
  e-commerce sites (2 wds.)


• Trick-taking card game
  popular in Germany


• Material for a mountain man’s
  coat (2 wds.)


• Be decisive


• Puts a hold on, say


• Shaqnosis basketball shoes,
  e.g.


• Mercury, for one (2 wds.)


• It has a lot of moving pieces
  (2 wds.)


• Gave an edge to


• Apostrophized word in a
  Shakespeare title


• Card game using two decks


• Lackluster


• Strong spirit often flavored
  with fruit


• More frequent than
  presidential elections but less
  frequent than House elections


• Thirteenth word of Hamlet’s
  soliloquy


• Gambling card game played
  by James Bond


• Pole in a park


• Riveted


• Resident of Dickens’s curiosity
  shop


• Gets a new crew

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clues. Winding answers are also

entered in the order of the clues, in

one unbroken string that begins in

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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 • Labyrinthine

subterranean setting in

fantasy role-playing

games

• Bounded
  2 • “SNL” segments


• Frida Kahlo feature
  3 • Blackmailer or burglar


• Down sample
  4 • Retreated (2 wds.)


• Choice in a debate
  5 • Sanctions


• Envious detractors
  6 • Hierarchical chart


• Most energetic
  7 • Forwards (2 wds.)


• Inventor for whom
  element #102 is named

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Across

1 Bouillabaisse

bit

7 Smoked sausage

selection

15 Burns a bit

20 Safe and sound

21 Brand name in

the freezer

section

22 Adjust, as a

boutonniere

23 Movie that

features jerseys

and cow

catchers?

25 “___ a Rainy

Night” (Eddie

Rabbitt song)

26 Law school

topic

27 Mil. mail center

28 Magnolia or tulip

29 Host a roast,

say

30 Reddish-brown

horses

32 Abbr. to facilitate

routing

33 Not the real deal

34 Maker of

13-Down

35 More disgusting

39 Surfacing stuff

41 Atticus Finch’s

creator

42 Movie about

dogs that hustle,

with “The”?

47 NFL rushing

units

48 Pope’s faith: Abbr.

88 ___ Club

(Walmart

offshoot)

90 “Africa” band

92 Chem class

abbr.

94 Bird in Liberty

Mutual ads

96 Movie about

horses that’s sure

to stirrup some

emotions?

100 ___ culpa

101 Setting of many

schools

102 “1917” director

103 “Go on...”

106 Mischievous

moppet

109 Spout off

112 Work on

antiques

115 Compare

116 Breakout, of a

sort

117 Bill addition

119 Caravan stops

120 Blast from the

past

121 Movie musical

with the song

“We Welcome

Ewe to

Munchkinland”?

125 To the point

126 Indefatigable

127 “Out with it!”

128 Corsair or Pacer

129 Adam’s

“Marriage Story”

co-star

130 Halloween haul

Down

1 Pound picks

2 Disconnect, in a

way

3 Fashion designer

Hill

4 Do some

deduction

5 Clear off

6 Former Ford

7 Surgeon general

of the 1980s

8 “Saturn is fallen,

am ___ to fall?”:

Keats

9 Superman and

Supergirl, for two

10 Pres. Michel

Aoun’s nation

11 Favre with a

football

12 No longer

together

13 SUVs from

South Korea

14 Sanctuary area

15 Bygone maker of

announcements

16 Manages

17 Movie about a

cat fight in

Vietnam?

18 Rapt

19 They often bring

blessings

24 Sidelines figures

31 “Woah” rapper

___ Baby

32 Pound sound

33 Before, in verses

36 Divine cowherd

of Hinduism

37 Seething state

38 Pole position?

40 Museum of

Anatolian

Civilizations

location

43 “Yikes!”

44 Raiders’ org.

45 Fragrant wine

grape

46 “___ Blues”

(Beatles song)

48 Chevy model

since 1966

49 Movie that

features Marxist

ducks?

53 More tender

54 Introspective

study

56 Its b’day is July 4

58 Towel material

60 Half of an

infamous duo

61 Peak

63 Diploma word

65 “No problem”

67 Updated one’s

followers,

perhaps

69 Mold on the

beach

72 “Let me check”

73 Assuage

79 ___ Benson Miller

of CBS’s “The

Unicorn”

81 LAX summer

setting

83 Footballer

Umenyiora

85 Brought down

89 In turmoil

91 Dominate,

slangily

93 Service station,

of a sort

94 Attempt to equal

95 Was deserving of

97 QVC alternative

98 Chronometry

standard: Abbr.

99 Language suffix

104 Cash register

words

105 Had aspirations

107 “Siddhartha”

author

108 Gathering of

moles?

110 The end of ___

111 More original

113 “Never ___” (1959

Sinatra film)

114 Slalom run

makeup

116 Bar assn.

members

117 Swift

118 Formerly,

formerly

122 Under the

weather

123 Alphabet ender

124 NFL tiebreakers

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50 Loyalty program

level

51 Perform on the

streets

52 Psychic power,

for short

54 Common word

in California

town names

55 Tousle

57 Singer Redding

59 Clue category

62 Dickinson and

Post

64 Rhode Island’s

motto

66 Abbr. in a PC

menu

68 Go for a second

tour

70 Tibetan monk

71 Movie musical

that floats pigs’

boats?

74 Madame

Bovary’s given

name

75 Wife, in

Wiesbaden

76 Spare tire,

essentially

77 Monotonous

learning

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80 Friend since

childhood

82 Doofus

84 Sch. level

86 Salad bar

stuff

87 Proof-ending

letters

THE JOURNAL WEEKEND PUZZLESedited byMIKE SHENK

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From this week’s

Wall Street Journal

AnswerstoNewsQuiz:1.D,2.C,3.B,4.A,5.D,6.C,7.B,8.A

NEWS QUIZ DANIEL AKST

1.Asked about the
economy, what did
Fed chief Jerome
Powell say?

A.“This is a
unique situation.”

B.The U.S.
“may well be in a
recession.”

C.“The virus is going
to dictate the timetable.”

D.All of the above

2.How did South Korea, bat-
tling the new coronavirus, cope
with a hospital bed shortage?

A.Setting up makeshift clin-
ics in subway stations

B.Converting empty hotels

C.Borrowing dorms from big
businesses

D.All of the above

3.Woody Allen’s memoir,
dropped by Hachette after staff
protests, was brought out by
Arcade Publishing. What’s the
title?

A.“Much Ado About Nothing”

B.“Apropos of Nothing”

C.“Something From Nothing”

D.“Nothing but the Truth”

4.Occidental Petroleum ceded
to Carl Icahn’s demands—that it
do what?

A.Slash spending and add his
deputies to its board

B.Acquire Chevron

C.Ramp up fracking

D.Retool to make hand
sanitizer

5.Nancy Lublin runs an outfit
whose services are particularly
timely. What does it do?

A.Disinfects delivery vehicles

B.Provides home schooling
curricula

C.Makes respirator

kits for home use


D.Helps the anx-

ious via text message

6.The Supreme

Court held that law-

makers can limit a

venerable defense in

criminal law. Which?

A.Self-defense


B.Coercion


C.Insanity


D.Zone

7.A record 3.3 million Ameri-

cans filed for unemployment in

the week ending March 21,

almost five times the previous

weekly record—which was set

when?

A.March 2009


B.October 1982


C.July 1932


D.May 2000

8.Major League Baseball

postponed opening day due to

the coronavirus outbreak. It’s

happened before—because of

what?

A.Labor stoppages


B.World War II


C.The 1918 flu pandemic


D.Antiwar protests in 1968

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