Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

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200 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles


Across



  1. Candied tuber

  2. Casablanca cafe

  3. Native plant life

  4. “... man ___ mouse?”

  5. Moral code

  6. Hood of renown

  7. “Ick!”

  8. Land depletion

  9. “Equatorially” ample

  10. Things stacked in a
    parlor

  11. He anointed Saul and
    David as kings

  12. Sold out, as an arena

  13. Like some criticism

  14. Follow suit

  15. H.S. dropouts’
    achievements

  16. Southeast Asian
    language

  17. A dropped pop, for
    example

  18. Once around the block

  19. Street gang combat

  20. Grenade ingredient,
    perhaps

  21. Heep of fiction

  22. Whimsically strange

  23. “Take ___ Train” (Duke
    Ellington song)

  24. Melancholy poems

  25. Make obscure
    52. Like a ghost town
    54. Spanish wife
    57. Makeshift money
    59. Someone who makes a
    lot?
    60. Ducks for cover
    65. Serpent’s mark?
    66. Sporting wings
    67. Beethoven’s last
    symphony
    68. Bank worry
    69. Andrew ___ Webber
    70. Diminutive suffixes
    71. Last word of “America
    the Beautiful”


Down



  1. Acts unpredictably, as a
    stock price

  2. Antilles resort

  3. Prepare faux chocolate
    pastries?

  4. Tend to the bird feeder

  5. “How was ___ know?”

  6. Elegantly stylish

  7. Drug smuggler’s
    measures, perhaps

  8. Act start

  9. Less genial

  10. Article for Alamos

  11. It’s fit to be tied

  12. Bravo or Lobo

  13. Massachusetts cape
    19. Paper measure
    21. Grabs some rays
    24. Ripsnorter
    26. 81 ⁄ 2 -x-11-inch size, briefly
    27. Bulldozers, for example
    28. Item used in curling
    29. Sealy competitor
    31. Drop target, sometimes
    33. Bonded, in a way
    34. Bogart’s role in High
    Sierra
    36. Switch setting
    39. Hungered partner
    40. Fly catcher
    41. Supporting ballots
    44. Survey blank
    46. Rocker Turner
    48. Impress indelibly
    49. Calm and unruffled
    51. Plumb-line measures
    53. “I ___ my way.. .”
    (famous lyrics)
    55. Las Vegas show,
    perhaps
    56. Boxing locale
    58. Pub serving, sometimes
    60. Actor Holbrook
    61. Not well
    62. It’s universal, in
    Chinese philosophy
    63. Shoat place
    64. Map abbreviation


Puzzle 87: Smooth Landing


Tough

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