Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

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236 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles


Across



  1. Operatic villains, often

  2. Bit of a tiff

  3. Oration location

  4. Sneak ___ (look quickly)

  5. Mark’s successor?

  6. Early South American

  7. Yukon hero

  8. Jack London sailor

  9. Tick’s cousin

  10. Dry with a twist

  11. Tater topper, perhaps

  12. Elation

  13. Good, on the street

  14. Bring to a boil?

  15. Skip a turn

  16. Diminish, in a way

  17. Commandment
    violation

  18. Mezzo’s colleague

  19. Medical soap?

  20. 1961 chimp in space

  21. Precious eggs

  22. At pique’s peak?

  23. Tropical root

  24. Dis

  25. Do followers on a music
    scale

  26. Starring role

  27. Small paving stone

  28. Bit of broccoli
    59. Wife of Charlie Chaplin
    61. Be a little hoarse
    65. Long-running kid’s
    show
    68. The African Queen
    screenwriter
    69. First name in game
    show production
    70. Neptune’s realm
    71. Marsh plant
    72. Say grace
    73. Feature on an old
    Lincoln?


Down



  1. Camden Yards marker

  2. Followed suit

  3. Withering

  4. Musical repeat sign

  5. Musician Turner

  6. Junior’s namesake

  7. Minor stroke

  8. Chord whose notes
    are played in rapid
    succession

  9. Rocky peak

  10. Condition of needing to
    be fixed

  11. Member of the
    opposition

  12. Elvis, to many

  13. Ratted, in mob lingo
    18. Preacher’s closing
    19. Meadow mother
    24. Stare amorously
    26. Telescope piece
    27. Procreate, biblically
    28. Sphere of competition
    29. Generous sort
    31. Fire proof?
    33. Setting for a bachelor’s
    last day
    34. Washington, for one
    35. Pumps have them
    37. Depopulated
    41. La Scala show-stopper
    42. Tube patron
    43. Brad of Hollywood
    49. Seabees’ branch of the
    military
    50. Like Jack Sprat’s diet
    53. Notable time
    55. Slightest evidence
    56. Rhinoplasty reminder
    57. Capitol Hill worker
    58. Cousin of a foil
    60. Gumbo pod
    62. ___ code
    63. Fly high
    64. Fishing hole, perhaps
    66. Street urchin
    67. Whipped cream serving


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