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1 Empty-headed Adonis
6 Pay as little as possible11 Pay what’s owed
12 Ushers’ milieus
14 “I need some time alone”
15 Spherical infuser
17 Quiet
18 Theatre Royal ___ Lane (West End
venue)
20 ___ Bo
21 Hot-water laundry load
23 Get to
24 Onetime competitor of eBay
25 A buzz cut leaves it uncovered
26 Type of vacuum tube
29 Text, briefly
30 T. Rex hit that was titled “Get It On” in
the U.K.
31 Like used clothing
32 Things that are “like Cobwebs which
may catch small Flies, but let Wasps
and Hornets break through,” per
Jonathan Swift
33 Like some geometric coördinates
35 ___ check
38 Kinkajou, by another name
39 Cancer researcher Siddhartha
Mukherjee’s “The ___: An Intimate
History”
40 Touch
41 Destined beginning?
42 “Blast!”
44 One-___ max (weight lifter’s limit)
45 One of New Zealand’s official languages
47 “Uh-uh,” more formally
48 Co-creator and star of NBC’s
“Sunnyside”
50 In high ___ (angry)
52 New York Giant with five hundred and
eleven career home runs
53 Heroine of Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline”
54 Use a divining rod
55 “Splash” star Hannah
DOWN
1 Nickname of the “M*A*S*H” character
Margaret Houlihan
2 Capone, vis-à-vis Alcatraz
3 “Yeah, right!”
4 Mac
5 Kind of column
6 Festival that the poet Catullus called
“the best of days”
7 Author of “Either/Or”
8 “Goodness!”
9 Brewers’ org.
10 Wetland that contains decaying plant
matter
11 New York City suburb bordering New
Rochelle
13 Cut down
14 They might be replaced by xeriscaping
16 Directed
19 Diana of “The Avengers”
22 Wisenheimer
24 Coffee containers
27 “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” novelist
28 Hamlet
30 Snoozefest
31 “For ___ of a nail.. .”
33 Connected34 Interpreter of omens
35 Affectedly proper
36 What a choir may sing in
37 Grand ___ National Park
38 Letter-shaped girder
39 In a daze
40 Biblical creation with a double standard?
43 Common conjunction combination
45 “Wake up and feed me!,” perhaps
46 Terse admission
49 Grp. whose largest faction is Fatah
51 “Gattaca” actress ThurmanPUZZLES & GAMES DEPT.
THE
CROSSWORD
A moderately challenging puzzle.