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Crossword No. 513: Billions and Billions by Matt Gaffney
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The Week Contest
This week’s question: Authorities in Chicago have
captured 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?
Last week’s contest: The Rolling Stones have found an
age-appropriate sponsor for their current North American
tour: a trade association that promotes the sale of annui-
ties. If Mick Jagger, 75, and his bandmates were to write
a song about the importance of financial planning for
seniors, what title could they give the track?
THE WINNER: “Gimme Tax Shelter”
Paul Anderson, Franklin, Tenn.
SECOND PLACE: “Compound Interest (Time Is on My Side)”
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pa.
THIRD PLACE: “Let’s Spend the REIT Together”
Steve Batdorf, Grand Rapids, Mich.
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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 “Gator rap” in the subject line. Entries are due
by noon, Eastern Time, Tuesday, July 30. Winners will
appear on the Puzzle Page next issue
and at theweek.com/puzzles on Friday,
Aug. 2. In the case of identical or similar
entries, the first one received gets credit.
ACROSS
1 Business open late
4 Piece of bacon
9 Yearns (for)
14 In the style of
15 Elegance
16 Digitized Dickens, e.g.
17 On July 9, this
billionaire hedge fund
manager entered the
race for the Democratic
presidential nomination
19 -gritty (heart of
the matter)
20 Actress in Mermaids
and Mamma Mia!
Here We Go Again
21 Billionaire who has
been U.S. secretary of
education since 2017
23 He left a trail of bread
crumbs
25 Gobble up
26 Shambles
29 Like some sneakers
34 West Virginia’s
billionaire governor,
whose businesses
include coal mines and
golf courses
39 Make sharper
40 April 1 birth
41 Thurman who grew up
in Woodstock, N.Y.
42 “ you asked...”
43 “I’ll take care of that
right now”
44 Illinois’ billionaire
governor, whose family
endowed a famed
architecture prize
46 Mitchell or Bocelli
48 Facilitator of pet
adoptions
49 Party people
51 Zebu or zebra, e.g.
56 Billionaire governor
of Minnesota (2011–
2019) whose great-
grandfather founded
Target’s parent store
62 Used, as a bus
63 Rice- (dish sold
since 1958)
64 This billionaire, who
passed away July 9,
got 19 percent of the
national vote in the
1992 election
66 Fleming or Zellweger
67 Freud rival
68 Give weapons to
69 Loosens, as restrictions
70 “Nonsense!”
71 Blue jeans brand
DOWN
1 Panful of cookies,
maybe
2 “Howdy!” in Hawaii
3 Nagasaki noodles
4 Abbreviation that starts
a Beatles album title
5 Increases by
200 percent
6 Funny Martha
7 Law & Order: SVU
actor since 2000
8 In and of itself
9 Give for a while
10 Theater award less
prestigious than a Tony
11 Kid’s punishment,
maybe
12 Visit
13 “The the limit!”
18 Soon-to-be grads
22 Where Bill and Hillary
met
24 Big birds
27 Injure slightly, as one’s
toe
28 Easily fooled people
30 Phenom
31 The Rolling Stones’
“Honky Women”
32 Just that single time
33 Social equal
34 Pinkett Smith of Bad
Moms
35 Pressing need?
36 Watch, as one’s
manners
37 Insulting comment
38 Be a faultfinder
42 Ending of seven Asian
countries’ names
44 “Yes, yes,” in Cologne
45 “Evidently”
47 Money and Murphy,
for two
50 Popular red wine
52 Raise the of
(outrage)
53 Right
54 Opposite of “loathe”
55 “If I may be so bold...”
56 Female horse
57 Neck of the woods
58 Silver and Paul, for two
59 Where the tibia and
femur meet
60 Hullabaloo
61 It’s a 17-hour ferry ride
from Copenhagen
65 Be nosy
123 45678 910111213
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
69 70 71
Fill in all the
boxes so that
each row, column,
and outlined
square includes
all the numbers
from 1 through 9.
Difficulty:
medium
Sudoku
WThe winner gets a one-year
subscription to The Week.
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