june 2019 | GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES 63
Some stars get really cocky when they make it. And sometimes they become less disciplined and put on a few
pounds. Could this happen to the celebrity at the center of the grid below?
Twenty-four answers will not fit into the grid; solvers who deduce how to put them on the page will find a phrase
that might describe those answers. And it might also describe the guy at the center of the grid if fame goes to his
head and his body goes to pot. ANSWERS, PAGE 79%*ǣǘǘǣǞǥ%ǞǙǕȨǚƏǝǚ2ǝǘ BY HARVEY ESTES
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1 Like a Greek god taking ten outside
6 School in Eau Claire
8 I screwed up game of basketball, after losing opener
10 Actress Liv in unopened sleeping car, beginning to nod
11 Don’t start making tiny pellets of dessert topping
12 Old school of women is essential to diva’s sarcasm
15 Cleopatra rationalizes about unusual Caesarean?
16 Missouri war supporter with punky hairdo
17 Hug archer and hug opera’s jealous guy
18 Winslet comprehends right answer in defense class
20 See instructions
24 Sounds like swell suit material
26 While plucked instrument produces
sound from a black key (2 wds.)
29 Female uttered, “Pertaining to a certain leg bone...”
31 Visitor to Siam heading off unexpected help
32 Legs I’d twisted in dancing moves
33 Got wind of one among bunch of cows
34 Flier and pilot losing third and fourth sections of wing
35 Ephron flipped over East of Eden character
36 Yours truly is one Somalia supermodel
37 Uncertainty with bit of hope before
regressive period in Georgia (2 wds.)
DOWN
1 Neat ones tidied up recent deliveries?
2 Stop former spouse sitting on quiet anger
3 Ongoing story is real funny
4 Nurse bearing terrible onus keeps going (2 wds.)
5 Ovals reshaped, becoming round
6 As resident assistant’s turning up cosmic radio source
7 A Mexican wraps left arm bone
9 Illegally resell repaired clasp
13 Obsessive whaler is so second-rate
14 Sailor with a bucket, initially!
16 Master hazard for skiers
19 Bolter perfectly encloses holder for coffee cup
20 Reject first of limes sent back in 18-wheeler
21 Monster spattering gore
22 Diner upset tea and spilled rye
23 Oh, replacing Tara’s leader is Scarlett
25 Watergate chairman evokes stink
arising around officeholder
27 Scold good man hanging around wine valley (2 wds.)
28 Further legal matter in Segovia
30 Leader of Rangers interrupts concerning
Texas athlete
32 Dog bites male farm animal