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: 9 = good; 14 = excellent; 19 = geniusO
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Our list of words, worth 22 points, appears with last week’s answers.
HEX NUTS
By Patrick BerryGAS LINES
By Thinh Van Duc Lai
Connect each home (circled number) to a gas utility
(black circle) by a line that follows the dots. The line
must have the number of straight segments indicated.
No lines can touch.Ex.PUNS AND ANAGRAMS
By Sam Ezersky
DOWN
1 Where QBs are ’roiding
2 N
O
N
O
3 An angry little sucker, by
the sound of it
4 Alaskan interior
5 Hey, an African animal!
6 Contents of de tackle box
7 Followers of Dev
8 Hairdryers are full of it
9 Temporarily gave up
before Easter
10 Anti-Giant, in a New York
sports rivalry
11 Brand that competes with
Aquafina and is a product
of Coca-Cola
12 Later warning
15 Proposer’s tyrant
17 Word seen in sales signs
22 Ida Tarbell or Ivana Trump
25 Get food to pare
28 Group from Ga. en route
30 Gun range org., in part
32 Amount of corn per cob
35 Rising in the distance
36 Raising cats and dogs
38 Does a priest go on them?
39 Foreign-language question
for the comatose
40 TA LKACROSS
1 rid, teet
6 See 49-Down
10 Kissing outside of one’s
pad, for short
13 Shaky fighter
14 Belief, at heart
15 Kind of exam in vector
algebra
16 Like the children of
laborers in Exodus
18 Ask “Whose work is
‘The Raven’?”
19 Ref. work read back to
front
20 Word a pen might scratch
on a tide table
21 J
A
R
23 Psychoanalysis patients
get theirs checked
24 Something to stare at in a
garden
26 Spanish train to cross an
English river
27 Freedom of speech
29 Green site for wildebeests
31 Bottle __ (Dracula’s
alcohol purchase)
33 “Apologies”
34 Sweet drinks for trances
37 Spacers in outer space
41 Zero m.p.g., say
43 Long “o” in “passcode”
44 L
L
U
F
48 Capital where “love” is
“amor”
49 Did he run for office in
India?
50 They sound like hassles
for window washers
52 Tee or polo, initially
53 Shaq with 50 (it’s a tie!)
55 Where philosopher John
Stuart cuts wood
56 Start of a tangle
57 Spiel’s conclusion
58 Like the samurai in training
61 “That makes sense”
62 Very much my sort of look
63 Tapes body parts
64 $1,000 commercial
65 __urr__ __ __
66 What a Twitter username
does42 Made me a Japanese
appetizer
44 Role in a scene from
“Quo Vadis”
45 ____ need to be more
revenue to get out of ____
46 Together at the airport
47 A su__ __rstar ath__ __te49 With 6-Across, result of a
contract dispute
51 ’S quite luxurious
54 What’s taken from a
flashlight for a flight
59 Who heard a French kiss
60 Concerning a star of “The
Crying Game”12345 6789 101112
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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 66Each nine-letter Row answer reads across
its correspondingly lettered row. Each six-letter Hex
answer fills its correspondingly numbered hexagon,
starting in one of the six spaces and reading clockwise
or counterclockwise. As a solving aid, the two shaded
half-hexagons will contain the same three-letter
sequence (as if the grid is wrapping around vertically).ROWS
A. Striped relatives of squirrels B. Staple of close-up
magic (2 wds.) C. Stationery smaller than letter size
D. Conical toppers worn at celebrations (2 wds.)
HEXES- ___ Dumpty 2. Former French president Jacques
- N.B.A. team based in Manhattan 4. Leave 5. Dolly
with nine Grammys 6. Grows narrower
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