Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

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178 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles


Across



  1. Prerecorded

  2. Baseball’s Ripken

  3. Joplin of ragtime fame

  4. Honshu port

  5. Stretch the truth

  6. Movie tough guy Peter

  7. Summer Olympics
    event

  8. Merger

  9. Before, formerly

  10. “___ the season.. .”

  11. Neaten, as a napkin

  12. Break in the action

  13. Minor transgression

  14. Immigration island

  15. Word with “fly” or
    “clap”

  16. One ’twixt 12 and 20

  17. Term of affection

  18. 90 degrees from norte

  19. AARP members

  20. Words after the end of
    17-, 25-, 53-, and 62-A

  21. K.C. time zone

  22. One way to get to
    elementary school

  23. Workers’ incentives

  24. Sounds of insight

  25. Curved molding
    52. “You’ve got the wrong
    guy!”
    53. Monaco resort
    56. Bum, to some
    57. Fertilizer ingredient
    58. Italian monk
    60. Order to a firing squad
    61. French states
    62. Banded beast
    65. Sidewalk show
    66. Cooked–turn link
    67. Xenophobe’s fear
    68. Musial and Getz
    69. Tub trio
    70. Does a darn good job?


Down



  1. Dried (off)

  2. Generally speaking

  3. Kneecap

  4. Barely manage (with
    “out”)

  5. Kind of board

  6. Skeleton site

  7. Feel malaise, for
    example

  8. MGM’s lion

  9. Swerved

  10. Meat cooked and
    preserved in its own fat

  11. Some birds
    12. Certain fisherman
    13. Sinews
    18. Apple seed, for example
    22. Bird of prey
    24. Former Italian bread
    26. Spreading plant
    27. Like some transactions
    29. Absolution targets
    33. Former Gracie Mansion
    resident
    35. Distinctive flair
    38. Nickname of Aqueduct
    Racetrack
    39. Name that’s quite
    fashionable
    40. Some park dwellers
    41. Try for
    42. Clarion blast
    45. Arrive quietly
    46. Sent via a click
    47. Some weekly messages
    49. New York island
    51. Dharma & Greg star
    54. Steven Spielberg
    openings?
    55. “... man ___ mouse?”
    59. First of all
    62. Bread box?
    63. Lobster coral
    64. Project end?


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