Games_World_of_Puzzles 2019-12-01

32 GAMES WORLD^ OF PUZZLES december 2019

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S HA RES

ACROSS

1 Divvies up

4 Inaccurate designations

8 Throws away

12 Fireplace floor

13 Invented, as a phrase

14 Cattle pen

15 Self-help classic by Norman

Vincent Peale: 5 wds.

18 Not foreign, as policy

19 When asked for: 2 wds.

20 Sticks together

23 2011–15 House speaker John

26 Marks of shame

29 Cause to lose spirit

31 Long Spanish river

32 Failure of a jet engine due

to faulty combustion

33 Live together as a couple

34 Broad valleys

35 Two-month-old, e.g.

36 Catalytic exhaust system device

37 Skips over, as a sound

38 Some fatty acid esters

40 Carnivore: 2 wds.

42 Tex-Mex dried chili pepper

44 Keepers of rabbit

breeding facilities

48 Self-help classic by Dale

Carnegie: 7 wds.

52 Filming, in Variety-speak

53 Port on the Loire River

54 Email command

55 Handing down, as a verdict

56 Sitcom, e.g.

57 Jittery: 2 wds.

DOWN

1 Put away, as a sword

2 Brother of Chico and Groucho

3 Place to convalesce: 2 wds.

4 Sheet of tiny printed pages

5 Be nosy

6 Fine-wooled sheep

7 Stirring up of discontent against

the government in power

8 Club with strobe lights

9 Bears most of a job’s

responsibilities: 3 wds.

10 7MTTIHSVKY^^PIH

11 Supporter for an injured arm

16 The Bay Area’s area: 2 wds.

17 Forbidden

21 Find out again

22 2004 Spike Lee film starring

Anthony Mackie: 3 wds.

24 Sea nymph, in Greek myth

25 February 14 bouquet

26 How it’s hot when the heat

is suffocating

27 Athlete’s intense look: 2 wds.

28 Volcanic peak in the

Cascades: 2 wds.

30 Be an adjudicator

34 Dissuasion, as by instilling fear

36 Assume an air of superiority

39 Encroaching (on)

41 Mindful state

43 Biblical shouts of praise

45 Big name in printers

46 Unlocked anew

47 Heavy hammer

48 Amusingly stupid mistake

49 Hollywood Shuffle

director Robert

50 Evening meal

51 Heisman-winning

quarterback Doug

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number of letters in a space is for you to determine, using logic and the crossing of words. The answer to 1-Across,

S-HA-RES, has been filled in as an example. ANSWER, PAGE 76

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BY FRANK LONGO