Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

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184 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles


Across



  1. Online journal

  2. Electric stun gun

  3. Rude and insensitive one

  4. Pan counterpart

  5. Be taken with

  6. It may be uncontrollable

  7. No longer one-sided

  8. Star Wars director

  9. Company’s alternative
    to bankruptcy

  10. Gradually decrease

  11. Hebrew judge

  12. Followed unobserved

  13. “Wreck” or “car”
    preceder

  14. Fay’s role in King Kong

  15. Take back

  16. Made varsity

  17. Rustic poems (Var.)

  18. Fever fit

  19. Conserve

  20. ___ colada

  21. Chip off the old urn?

  22. Blade of yore

  23. They’re offensive and
    looking to score

  24. Latin bandleader
    Puente

  25. Alter to make better

  26. Father of basketball
    46. Dieter’s bane
    47. L-o-n-g time
    48. Big name in cosmetics
    50. Eggnog enhancement
    53. Norma or Charlotte
    54. Have problems sleeping
    58. Fine steed
    59. Cream of the crop
    61. Cowell’s show,
    familiarly
    62. A sudden numbing
    dread
    63. Kidney-related
    64. Bump on a log, for
    example
    65. Friend in need
    66. Indications
    67. Reunion attendee


Down



  1. Start to form, as a
    storm

  2. Source of basalt

  3. Pizza producer

  4. United Nations group

  5. Scout’s discovery

  6. Insect stage

  7. Gregarious get-together

  8. Period of distinction

  9. Put another way

  10. Use for the conference
    room
    11. Like some vaccines
    12. Eye unsubtly
    13. Accordion component
    23. Formicary member
    25. Three for nanny?
    27. Become edible, in a way
    28. Absolutely Fabulous
    character
    29. Grammy winner Lauper
    31. Bologna buck
    32. Hindu royal (Var.)
    33. Fight card listing
    34. Papers signifying
    ownership
    36. “We want !”
    (baseball fans’ chant)
    39. Brandy-based drinks
    43. Gape producer
    45. Man among Stooges
    46. Hardens
    49. Paradise Lost character
    50.
    Valley, Calif.
    51. Russian river or
    mountains
    52. Skyscraping
    55. Fish market feature
    56. Kind of cracker
    57. Runners support it
    60. Lanai ring


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