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Crossword No. 587: Calendar Check by Matt Gaffney
Sources: A complete list of publications cited in The Week can be found at theweek.com/sources.
The Week Contest
This week’s question: A ragtag band of investors tempo-
rar ily caused the stock price of struggling video-game
retailer GameStop to skyrocket— netting a few lucky indi-
viduals millions of dollars and costing some hedge funds
billions in losses. If Hollywood were to make a movie
about this short-lived stock-market rebellion, what should
it be titled?
Last week’s contest: Oklahoma lawmaker Justin Hum phrey
has proposed creating a Bigfoot hunting season as “a rev-
enue creator,” complete with permits, fees, and a $25,000
reward for anyone who manages to “trap a live Bigfoot.”
Please come up with a snappy tourism slogan that Okla-
homa could use to attract gullible Bigfoot hunters.
THE WINNER: “Yeti or not, come take your shot”
Peter Simis, Fresno, Calif.
SECOND PLACE: “Where Bigfoot hunting is more than just OK”
Michael Rouse, Troy, Mich.
THIRD PLACE: “Trap a Bigfoot sooner in Oklahoma”
Rex Morgan, Santa Rosa, Calif.
For runners-up and complete contest rules, please go to
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 “Rebel stock” in the subject line. Entries are due
by noon, Eastern Time, Tuesday, Feb. 16. Winners will
appear on the Puzzle Page next issue and
at theweek.com/puzzles on Friday, Feb. 19.
In the case of identical or similar entries,
ACROSS the first one received gets credit.
1 Procedure with
compressions
4 Newborn’s cover
10 “ if I can help it!”
13 Prior to, in poetry
14 No petty criminals
15 Green mineral
16 Actor Beatty
17 In 2021, it will occur on
Sept. 22
19 Eagerly anticipating
21 Fire up, as an engine
22 Pig’s sound
23 In 2021, she’ll star
in a Friends reunion
special on HBO Max
27 Necklace pieces
28 A, in Berlin
29 Not neg.
32 Baby bird of a sort
34 Granola bar bit
35 Weather (rooftop
pointer)
36 In 2021, their season
opener will be on
April 1 against the Los
Angeles Angels
40 Sharpen
41 Hawaiian instrument,
casually
42 Contest submission
43 Texter’s “Wow!”
44 Leader on Chinese
banknotes
45 Copy of Vogue or
Vanity Fair
47 In 2021, they’ll decide
whether to make their
recent plant-based
“chicken” sandwiches
a permanent part of
the menu
51 Magazine piece
54 General ’s chicken
55 Like lemons
56 What 2021 will be on
the Chinese calendar,
beginning Feb. 12; see
the ends of the theme
answers for a hint
60 standstill (halted)
61 Hits on purpose, as
another bumper car
62 Put on a Visa, e.g.
63 King, in Quito
64 Where some M.D.s
work
65 Tricky baseball pitch
66 ENT and OB-GYN, e.g.
DOWN
1 Wyatt of The Daily
Show fame
2 Rival of Ragú
3 Increasing
significantly, as efforts
4 Not scheduled to work
5 Got closer to
6 Burstyn and Barkin,
for two
7 Fill in, like a crossword
8 Suffix with serpent
or salt
9 Letters after a lawyer’s
name
10 Prefix with bot or
technology
11 Sneaker emanation
12 Phone message
15 Give bad luck to
18 “Follow Twitter”
(phrase seen in ads)
20 President Katerina
Sakellaropoulou’s
country
24 “See you soon!”
25 “Uh-huh”
26 Field (where the
Mets play)
29 Cheap building
material
30 about
(approximately)
31 Alluring
32 Half of dieciséis
33 “With am I
speaking?”
34 Be in arrears to
35 Concert sites
37 Green dip, casually
38 “All right—have it
your way!”
39 John of Entertainment
Tonight fame
44 Spread on a sandwich
45 Special newspaper
section
46 Larry or Moe, e.g.
47 Canning containers
48 “Am Easy to
Forget?” (oft- covered
country song of 1959)
49 External
50 Break finders
51 Brontë heroine
52 Cook quickly
53 Club (Costco rival)
57 TV overseers in D.C.
58 Two after Tue.
59 Gen-___ (Millennial’s
elder)
123 456789 101112
13 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
Fill in all the
boxes so that
each row, column,
and outlined
square includes
all the numbers
from 1 through 9.
Difficulty:
hard
Sudoku
WThe winner gets a one-year
subscription to The Week.
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