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Crossword No. 586: Any Way You Slice It by Matt Gaffney
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The Week Contest
This week’s question: Oklahoma lawmaker Justin
Humphrey has proposed creating a Bigfoot hunting sea-
son as “a revenue creator,” complete with permits, fees,
and a $25,000 reward for anyone who manages to “trap
a live Bigfoot.” In seven words or fewer, please come up
with a snappy tourism slogan that Oklahoma could use
to attract gullible Bigfoot hunters.
Last week’s contest: A Tennessee law firm is offering
a free divorce to whoever submits the best rationale,
explaining that some couples trapped together in lock-
down “may have reached their breaking point.” Please
come up with a snappy advertising slogan for a law firm
that specializes in pandemic-era splits.
THE WINNER: Because there’s no vaccine for irreconcilable
differences —Lila Ash, Los Angeles
SECOND PLACE: When six feet is not enough
Elizabeth Jones, Long Beach, Calif.
THIRD PLACE: Helping you burst your pandemic bubble
Beth Cedarholm, River Falls, Wis.
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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 “Bigfoot hunt” in the subject line. Entries are due by
noon, Eastern Time, Tuesday, Feb. 9. Winners will appear
on the Puzzle Page next issue and at
theweek.com/puzzles on Friday, Feb. 12.
In the case of identical or similar entries,
ACROSS the first one received gets credit.
1 Leafy lunch
6 Mischievous child
11 Unit for a personal
trainer
14 Flying solo
15 Law & Order excuse
16 Singer Cassidy
17 Pizza Hut introduced
its new Detroit-style
pizza on Jan. 26; it’s
a style marked by
caramelized crust,
cheese all the way to
the edges, and this
type of shape
19 Brunswick
(province of Canada)
20 “Get that away
from me!”
21 Mid-February dozen
22 Beautify
24 Some do it gracefully
25 Word under an
unsigned poem
26 St. Louis–style pizza is
made with a cracker-
like crust and topped
with a locally produced
blend that includes this
34 Speedy
35 Terra (earthenware
material)
36 Kilmer of The Doors
37 Poetry category
38 Rogen and Green,
for two
39 Neighbor of Senegal
40 Earn the biggest
trophy
41 Missile Command
maker
42 Half of a record
43 New Haven–style
white pizza is
characteristically
topped with these,
found plentifully in
nearby Long Island
Sound
46 Alarm clock setter’s
options
47 “With a load of iron
...” (“The Wreck
of the Edmund
Fitzgerald” lyric)
48 Second- longest bone
50 Pace, for a pianist
53 Nail care brand
56 Talking with your
hands, for short
57 Quad Cities–style pizza
includes a crust made
with malt, and sauce
spiced up with these
60 Ang or Spike
61 Quinn of The Mission
62 Mango (drink at an
Indian restaurant)
63 Miz (noted musical,
casually)
64 Shell out
65 Photographer’s session
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1 Long, flowing garment
2 Hilaria Baldwin’s
husband
3 Car door feature
4 Crumb devourer
5 “My heavens!”
6 Loses tautness
7 Professor Plum’s game
8 “This’ll cure what
ya”
9 Wharton deg.
10 Flesh-eating fish
11 “The Biggest Little City
in the World”
12 At any point
13 The Queen’s Gambit
piece
18 Christmas, in Cherbourg
23 Forest female
24 Competitor with Hertz
25 Congressional
creations
26 On the (hunting for
prey)
27 Geometric lines
28 Maître d’s lead parties
to them
29 View from Malibu
30 Dame (football
powerhouse)
31 Guiding principle
32 Capital south of
Portland
33 Inventor Howe
38 Originate (from)
39 Nonmetric distance
41 Fleece- yielding animals
42 Goes (through), as
one’s texts
44 “I don’t wanna hear
any more of this”
45 German for “head”
48 Like most NBA players
49 “Got it”
50 It turns at sea
51 Verve
52 fences (patch
things up)
53 “Then what you’re
trying to say is...”
54 Mexican money
55 “You sure about that?”
58 Far from uncool
59 “Ooh! !”
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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
Fill in all the
boxes so that
each row, column,
and outlined
square includes
all the numbers
from 1 through 9.
Difficulty:
super-hard
Sudoku
WThe winner gets a one-year
subscription to The Week.
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