SPELLING BEE
By Frank Longo
How many common words of 5 or more letters can
you spell using the letters in the hive? Every answer
must use the center letter at least once. Letters may
be reused in a word. At least one word will use all 7
letters. Proper names and hyphenated words are not
allowed. Score 1 point for each answer, and 3 points
for a word that uses all 7 letters.Rating: 9s = good; 14 = excellent; 19 = geniusV
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Our list of words, worth 24 points, appears with last week’s answers.SWITCHBACKS
By Patrick BerryTRIPLE TREASURE
By Ashish Kumar
In each outlined region, locate three treasure chests.
A number indicates how many of the neighboring cells
(horizontally, vertically and diagonally) contain chests.
A chest cannot appear in a cell with a number.3
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2
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4
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123 2
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12Ex.PUNS AND ANAGRAMS
By Andy Kravis and Andrew J. Ries3 Some cards that are
passed out
4 ____ B. Stone, cemetery
manager
5 Mail man
6 Nonstarting center
7 High-minded sort
8 Sharp shooter
9 What a bagel shop uses
for security
10 Ski resort in Gibraltar
11 Like an experienced poet
12 Crystal gale
13 Happened to cure meat
16 Seek art in new instances
of filming
21 Law about “E.T.”
24 Stitched in all four
directions
26 Beat at a hairstyling
competition
29 Lead-in to “mate”
33 Physician leading a
physicians’ org.
35 Where pioneers once built
a hut
37 S__r__nd__ on __om__
cornsta__k__
38 April 5, 202039 Gets sleazier
40 Odes seen regarding likely
winners
41 Where two-thirds of raises
may be investedACROSS
1 Having almost no
corrosion
8 Like some language cavils
14 Apt title for Georges
Seurat’s memoir
15 Indy 500 auto from
Warsaw
17 Oh, see a malt beverage
18 Outermost Mex. tree
19 Child’s joke
20 Compiler of names of
geniuses
22 East’s selling point
23 Cries of terror heard
25 True stereo, when every
second counts
27 Woman who’s a bit of a
sweet talker
28 Fix, as a tree’s broken limb
30 B nd of spahetti sace
31 D / K
32 Drops back
34 Peace Nobelist’s skirt
36 Cruel heart
37 Rev(4:00, 7:30)olve
42 Newspaper section
43 Name for part of a horse
44 “Either ____” (“You choose
where to sit in the galley”)
45 Rabid fan of the Nats
47 Check back
49 City where a hair fad
mostly started
53 Single flight to Oslo
54 It rates a page in a flower
guide
56 One who respects nobody,
intrinsically
57 Who might fix the typho
in this clue
59 Like an empty
Pennsylvania city
61 Little beer left
62 Hawaiian garland + Z + I
... can you see?
64 Where to find top of
church
66 Guided to Deseret
67 Views of spas, etc.
68 What ’enry ’iggins does at
a red light
69 Mi__ __, i__ch, lea__ue and
o__ __er__DOWN
1 Chair for an electric
guitarist
2 Dissimilar, in Luke46 Procrastinator’s reply to
“nyet”
48 Soap opera, e.g., in Israel
50 Indicate A&E is missing
51 Go ____ and multiply (not
be in the top three in
arithmetic class)
52 A f-first lady of the 1940s55 Wash off resin
58 Protagonist in “On the
Road”
60 Where to watch the Pens
play hockey
63 What you exclaim
positively, at first
65 Rho, e.g.1234567 8910111213
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 Answers in this grid proceed in two long, winding paths.
Path A starts in the upper-left corner and winds left and
right, taking hairpin turns at the curved ends. Path B
starts in the same place but winds up and down. Each
path contains a series of answers placed end to end,
one letter per space (including each loop on the sides),
clued in order of appearance.
Path A Player with the most goals, e.g. (2 wds.) • De-
serter of a cause • What each star on the American flag
represents • Pens with wide tips
Path B Abound (with) • Autumn lawn tool • Hotel dis-
count offered to a large party (2 wds.) • Techniques that
companies don’t want to share (2 wds.)A
A
B
B
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