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Crossword No. 514: Boris Chorus by Matt Gaffney
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The Week Contest
This week’s question: The town of Joensuu in Finland
recently hosted the first-ever Heavy Metal Knitting World
Championships, which saw competitors knit onstage
while head-banging to ear-bleeding riffs. If a heavy metal
band were to record a song about the joy of knitting,
what title could it give the track?
Last week’s contest: Authorities in Chicago have cap-
tured a 5-foot-long alligator nicknamed Chance the
Snapper that was found wandering around Humboldt
Park. If Chicago hip-hop star Chance the Rapper were to
release a single about his reptilian counterpart’s urban
adventures, what title could he give the rap song?
THE WINNER: “Straight Outta Chompton”
Barbara James, Bedford, Mass.
SECOND PLACE: “Snapper’s Delight”
Erin Mistele, Peapack, N.J.
THIRD PLACE: “Bite the Power”
Doug Carasso, Seal Beach, Calif.
For runners-up and complete contest rules, please go to
theweek.com/contest.
How to enter: Submissions should be emailed to contest
@theweek.com. Please include your name, address, and
daytime telephone number for verification; this week,
type “Heavy knitter” in the subject line. Entries are due
by noon, Eastern Time, Tuesday, Aug. 6. Winners will
appear on the Puzzle Page next issue
and at theweek.com/puzzles on Friday,
Aug. 9. In the case of identical or similar
entries, the first one received gets credit.
ACROSS
1 Form a coalition
6 Puts a cold pack on
10 “ the night before
Christmas...”
14 Part of a piano or
tricycle
15 Syllable in many
business names
16 Verdi opera
17 On July 24, Boris
Johnson succeeded
her as prime minister
of the U.K.
19 2000 movie with Hugh
Jackman as Wolverine
20 “...man mouse?”
21 Micro-
22 Like gymnasts
24 Heartbeats
26 Singing group
28 Close- community
30 Concerning sheep
31 badges (Scouts
earn them)
34 Word before “hoping”
or “Johnny”
36 Small amount, as of
paint
39 Where dough goes
40 Necklace sphere
41 Paul Hewson, to music
fans
42 Route
43 Made sure of
44 Like towels on the
beach
45 Savory pastry at a deli
47 Q–V link
49 seat (fighter jet
feature)
51 Wanderers
55 Its state sport is dog
mushing
56 Adam Smith’s field, for
short
58 Brunswick
(Canadian province)
59 POTUS heads it
60 Antlered foe of Boris
Badenov
63 Mayberry kid
64 It’s about 2½ times
larger than South
America
65 Streisand’s co-star in
The Prince of Tides
66 Prefix with liter or
meter
67 Risqué
68 “Awesome!”
DOWN
1 “Gimme five!”
2 Prime minister who
graduated from
Cambridge in 1910
3 Absolutely perfect
4 Baby (Toni
Morrison novel)
5 Sodium or silicon, e.g.
6 Volunteer’s statement
7 Nightclub jokester
8 Stat that’s low for a
Cy Young winner
9 Graham Greene’s Our
Man in Havana, e.g.
10 Beatles song on the
radio in mid-April
11 Boris Becker won this
tournament three
times in the 1980s
12 “All I Ask” singer, 2015
13 Rational
18 Enthusiastic
agreement, in Spanish
23 It’s green if you’re
green-eyed
25 Potato’s cover
27 Film genre in which
Boris Karloff excelled
29 Band with the 1966
song “Boris the
Spider”
31 Push a Toro
32 Acting Longoria
33 In 1972, Boris Spassky
lost his world chess
champion’s crown to
Bobby Fischer in this
city
35 “Hurry up, before it
gets cold!”
37 &
38 Gender reveal party
possibility
40 Brunch buffet section
41 Creator of the Tin Man
43 “That’s disgusting!”
44 Throwing rocks at
46 Bigelow or Tetley
alternative
48 Winter blanket?
49 Tie the knot on the sly
50 Historical item
52 It may get sprained
53 Letter shaped like a
triangle
54 Very thoughtful
55 “There is !”
57 Pottery material
61 Host nat. of the 2028
Olympics
62 Neither here ___ there
(irrelevant)
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14 15 16
17 18 19
20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27
28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38
39 40 41
42 43 44
45 46 47 48
49 50 51 52 53 54
55 56 57 58
59 60 61 62
63 64 65
66 67 68
Fill in all the
boxes so that
each row, column,
and outlined
square includes
all the numbers
from 1 through 9.
Difficulty:
hard
Sudoku
WThe winner gets a one-year
subscription to The Week.
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