Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

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Across



  1. Motivation to keep a
    doctor’s appointment

  2. Rhymester

  3. Trumped-up

  4. Let fall, as tears

  5. Restless yearning

  6. Bermuda border

  7. Indication of detachment

  8. Change in a major way

  9. Place to walk

  10. “Chances ___” (Johnny
    Mathis hit)

  11. The Cask of Amontillado
    author

  12. Sidekicks

  13. Aping avian

  14. Drove up the wall

  15. Genetic material

  16. Chain of mountains

  17. In the offing

  18. Cornered

  19. Arabian coffee

  20. Prepared a pineapple

  21. Boat propeller?

  22. One who’ll put you in
    your place

  23. Bit of a tiff

  24. Commandment

  25. Showy dance maneuver

  26. Letter from Greece?

  27. WWII predator
    59. Like some escapes
    61. How the sensible stand
    65. Commence
    66. Viscount’s superior
    67. Pre-Soviet royalty
    68. Humor with a twist
    69. Something to do to the
    music
    70. Slippery and slimy


Down



  1. Getaway with a guru

  2. Chipper

  3. Realm for St. Peter

  4. Work attributed to
    Snorri Sturluson

  5. Zero in on

  6. Mel with 511 home runs

  7. Twice-heard sound

  8. From that place

  9. System of numbering
    pages

  10. One struck Chicken
    Little

  11. Romanian money

  12. Down in the dumps

  13. Printer’s measures

  14. Little rascal

  15. It may be drawn by
    hand?

  16. Hence

  17. Figure in a pagoda,
    perhaps
    27. Organic compound
    28. Wasn’t off one’s rocker?
    30. Sole’s curve
    32. Sailing ship
    35. Wanted-poster
    abbreviation, perhaps
    36. Reverent wonder
    37. Passing fancies
    38. Lord of the Flies
    creature
    39. “God’s Little ___”
    40. Did groundbreaking
    work
    41. In a mistaken manner
    42. Implement in a bucket
    45. Abreast of
    46. Union members
    48. Examine with attention
    to detail
    49. Lacking a musical key
    50. Cheap and shoddy
    52. Interrupt, as a news
    broadcast
    53. Dark black hardwood
    55. Big deal for a duffer
    58. Springtime occurrence
    60. Education by
    memorization
    61. Edgar J. Hoover’s org.
    62. Auction end
    63. Braggart’s problem
    64. Historical segment


Puzzle 145: Ear to the Ground


Treacherous

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