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There’s something strange about a

few of this puzzle’s squares, whose

locations must be deduced without

the aid of answer lengths. Studied

collectively from left to right in the

finished grid, their true nature

should become evident.

Across

1 Role in “Evita” conveying a

radical act

8 Back of dump is a place

with a tower

11 Character seen in

restaurant

12 Swank put Leno off

13 State invested in

Tennessee bar

14 God of love in the morning

and love mid-afternoon

15 Make a bundle hosting a

couple bachelors’ foolish

talk

16 Pooches put outside during

activities

17 Nothing pleasant pending

(2 wds.)

18 Changed sites before a nap

19 Hairstyle and mani-pedi

providers help novelist

(2 wds.)

20 With article, get firm

sponsor

23 Cuts ripe bananas for

dessert shell (2 wds.)

26 Book of maps finally

abridged

28 Reworked tie to film

character’s theme

30 Little bear hugging her

sweet infant

31 Maine transformed

“Pokemon” genre

33 Takes in bustle parts

34 Basic border straddled by

friend

35 Dash back through final

exams

36 Luxurious, like a

bathroom?

37 Silent type, with some

choice words, cries out

38 Custard left in cooler

39 Opening first letter from

home, cheer

40 Stirred in my tea, night or

day

Down

1 Asian land’s spy agency

framing ambassador with

drug problem

2 Work smoothly with one

person

3 New barista is expert in

Middle Eastern culture

4 Planted in plaza, leafy

shrub

5 Various explorers

underwater by error

6 Spot on crackpot, poor sap

7 African nation is island

surrounded by fish

8 Loudly mournful, mean

fellow

9 Rodents unexpectedly

made piggish sounds

10 Song about true hearts, in

part

16 Catches sight of

prohibitionists intercepting

escape

21 Interest in large cat rescue

device

22 Shakespearean character’s

Old Testament greeting

23 Randomly name-drop,

sorry to intrude (2 wds.)

24 Elevated Olympian Thorpe

keeping to ideal

25 Limit U.S. traveling

incentives

27 Dine with group outside

building’s first story on the

side

28 Turned part of a sock into

fat, stretchy garment

29 Spoil start, waterlogged

30 At hearing, arrest someone

from Prague

32 Furious with a married

brothel owner

Across
1 Whole of
civilization
6 One-two punch,
e.g.
11 Ruler-on-
knuckles blow
14 Trade org.
18 Parting word
19 Creator of the
tempest in
“The Tempest”
20 “Hold On Tight”
band
21 Microwaving
no-no
23 Witch’s lunch
order?
25 Eagles album
and song of 1973
27 Surgery ctrs.
28 Like a count
29 Trampoline act
at a family
reunion?
30 Boosts in price
31 Trot-gallop
go-between
32 Eat off the good
china, say
33 Java additive
36 Supermarket
sections
38 Made amends
40 Bell prompting
someone to get
into the tub?
42 Pipe part
43 Pond glider
44 Yule libation
45 Shield from view
48 Leaves for a drink

100 Miss Piggy’s

favorite water

park ride?

102 American rival

104 Baudelaire’s “___

Fleurs du Mal”

107 Boosters of bad

cholesterol

108 Isaac Newton’s

yacht?

110 “Because It Is

Bitter, and

Because It Is My

Heart” author

111 Org. supporting

museums

112 From square one

113 City in the

Mohawk Valley

114 Parisian pop

115 Toxin mentioned

in Joni Mitchell’s

“Big Yellow Taxi”

116 Food that’s

totally tubular

117 Annoyingly

aggressive

Down

1 Baylor base

2 Ozone feature

3 Chest protectors

4 “Ben-Hur” writer

Wallace

5 An appropriate

future moment

6 Furniture

movers

7 Audible exams

8 Eight furlongs

9 Abacus clacker

10 Dated

11 Overhauled

12 Indigenous

Alaskans

13 Entourage

14 “Agree totally!”

15 Subjugated state

16 Real-life

counterpart of

Napoleon in

“Animal Farm”

17 “July’s People”

author Gordimer

22 Bounded

24 Hog owner

26 Flouting

copyright

29 Necessitates

30 Violin virtuoso

Hilary

31 Richmond was

its cap.

33 Stephen Colbert’s

employer

34 Untested

35 One of four

rhyming letters

36 Beside oneself

with excitement

37 “Picnic”

playwright

39 Watch over

41 Public houses

42 Home of the

WNBA’s Storm

46 Political

hanger-on?

47 ___ publica (the

state, legally)

48 Dime, to a dollar

49 City on the Gulf

of Finland

50 Dandifying

neckwear

51 USN rank below

Capt.

52 “Yes” in

Yokohama

53 Andean herd

54 University town

near Bangor

55 Well-worn

grooves

56 Emulates Ella

57 Comics character

who announced

her pregnancy in

the last strip

58 Dangerous

partner

59 Agcy. that

investigates

derailments

63 Russian city on

the Ural

64 Figure punished

for looking back

66 Snarky laugh

sound

67 Kinshasa

Declaration

protectee

70 Lab-classifying

org.

71 Pump, e.g.

73 Org. that

added a P for

“Paralympic” in

June 2019

74 How a big bad

wolf might storm

off

75 Noodge

76 Ivies, e.g.: Abbr.

80 Spa sighs

81 A pop

82 Sardaigne ou

Sicile

83 Schooner

contents

84 Tony and Oscar

winner as the

King of Siam

86 Oneor more

87 Comic’s

performance

88 Coastal recess

89 Hit the books

90 Sixth, in Siena

91 Swaddle

92 Take wing

93 Like some

columns

94 Targets

98 Hormone source,

often

99 Bon Jovi’s “___

on a Prayer”

101 Being, to

Britannicus

102 Yen

103 Bread

accompanying

vindaloo

104 Lane in

Metropolis

105 A pop

106 Legal

postponement

108 Breach

109 A/C measure

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51 Trading a

wimple for a

turban?

56 Campaign

derailers

60 Pepper with

facetious insults

61 Sexist, say

62 Many a family

vacation

63 Grace starter

65 “Another good

suggestion!”

68 PIN requesters

69 Judge on the

diamond

71 Lightning strike?

72 Posting by a

LaCrosse

owner’s parking

spot?

77 “Danny and the

Dinosaur” author

Hoff

78 Cheats on a diet,

perhaps

79 Green starter

80 Samoan capital

84 Drag accessories

85 Laundromat-in-

disrepair

complaint?

90 Website feature

often indicated

by a magnifying

glass

93 Swoons

95 Words for

coordinating

action

96 Green feeling

97 Disfigure

99 Humdingers

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Loop-the-Loop

WSJ Brain Games

1. Which company
said it will name
Harvard professor
Frances Frei as its
first female board
member?

A. Uber

B. Lyft

C. WeWork

D. Slack

2. After two parliamentary
defeats over Brexit, British
Prime Minister Boris Johnson
was hit by the resignation of
his brother as a minister.
Name that sibling!

A. Jack Johnson

B. John Johnson

C. Jo Johnson

D. Paul Johnson

3. Insurers are scrambling to
blunt the expense of new drugs
costing more than $2 million
per treatment. How?

A. By selling lottery tickets

B. By enabling patients to tap
into their home equity

C. By rewriting insurance
contracts to exclude such
treatments

D. By setting up new
insurance plans separate from
the ones employers already have

4. American players have come
roaring back to dominate global
banking. Which is the lone
European holdout striving to be
a universal bank?

A. Deutsche Bank

B. Lombank

C. UBS Group

D. Barclays

5. Tel Aviv-based cookbook
author Adeena Sussman
indulges in schug .Whatisit?

 A. An Israeli version of

a shrug


 B. A Yemenite hot

sauce


 C. A Moroccan fig

liqueur


 D. A dance popular

among Russian immigrants

6. Whose government just
imposed capital controls?

 A. The U.K.


 B. Argentina


 C. Italy


 D. Nevada

7. Hooked on profits from
pickups, Detroit is working on
electric versions. Meanwhile,
which is the category’s top seller?

 A. Ford F-150


 B. Chevy Silverado 1500


 C. Ram 1500


 D. Hudson Big Boy C28

8. What new service is
Facebook bringing to the U.S.
after launching it overseas?

 A. Burial


 B. Dating


 C. Privacy consulting


 D. A budgeting app

9. Turnips aren’t just for
eating. What else are they
used for in the Irish village of
Ballydehob?

 A. Tossing uphill as part of

an unusual annual footrace


 B. A Gaelic version of bocce


 C. A unique variant on

marbles


 D. Low-impact clappers in

a fragile historic bell

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the crossword solutions at right.

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SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES

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Draw a line composed of four straight seg-

ments to connect the center of each of the ten

balls, without lifting your pencil off the paper.

3.HHHHI

Which cube is it possible to

fold from the given pattern?

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What letter and

number should

replace the

question mark to

complete the

sequence?