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1 Unkempt
7 ___ App (Venmo competitor)11 At risk of
12 Not seriously
14 Much parodied William Carlos Williams
poem
17 “Rumor ___.. .”
18 Initials, say
19 Draw
20 Linguistic cousin of Manx
21 Some yoga poses
22 ___ Baker Center for Human Rights
(Oakland-based nonprofit)
23 Like the title character of Camus’s “The
Stranger”
25 They may go from A to A
27 ___ Narciso (fictional California city
in Thomas Pynchon’s “The Crying of
Lot 49”)
28 Place for hot rolls
30 Symbol seen on the one-dollar bill
31 Ripoff?
32 Curious
35 Home wrecker?
36 One giving ten per cent
38 Stuff tight
39 ___ one’s time
41 Like smear campaigns
42 Member of the Squad, for short
43 Alternatives to yellow cabs
44 Bear out
45 Series on which Dick Van Dyke played a
doctor who solves crimes with his
detective son
48 Crocheter’s purchase
49 Pays attention
50 Some music-festival volunteers: Abbr.
51 Gave for a while
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1 Goosebump-inducing shiver
2 More optimistic
3 “I’ll handle that”4 Jazz virtuoso Montgomery
5 Missouri birthplace of Eminem,
informally
6 “Same as always”
7 1931 pre-Code film noir starring Gary
Cooper as the Kid
8 “What is this? A center for ___?”
(Zoolander’s reaction to a scale model, in
“Zoolander”)
9 Hub between LAX and SEA
10 Go-getter
11 Big ___
13 Does perfectly
14 A.L. West team, familiarly
15 Sorry sort
16 Affirmative vote
21 Strips of first place?
22 “Being ___” (2015 documentary about
Robert Knievel)
24 Man whose name God lengthens at the
age of ninety-nine, in Genesis
26 Family name in sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century Italian music
29 Video ___ (British term for some
unregulated, often obscene films)
30 Seed
31 Husband of Janie in “Their Eyes Were
Watching God” who shares his nickname
with a baked good
32 “Never in a million years!”33 Digs (into)
34 Load-bearing device?
35 Garage A ___ (jazz group that, despite its
name, has often performed as a quartet)
37 Tank top
38 Scoundrel
40 Davis who stars in “Miss Fisher’s
Murder Mysteries”
43 Group of textbook chapters
44 Tap-in, e.g.
46 Beaut
47 ___ Search (predecessor of Bing)PUZZLES & GAMES DEPT.
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