Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

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274 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles


Across



  1. Becomes worthy of

  2. Golden Horde member

  3. “A clue!”

  4. Bad business partner

  5. Plus end, for example

  6. Response to “When do
    we want it?”

  7. It’s almost lucky?

  8. Application before
    feathers

  9. Aspirin has several

  10. Aristotle’s H

  11. Supermarket section

  12. Having pauses in
    conversation

  13. Squirming baby,
    sometimes

  14. Reporter’s need

  15. No longer together

  16. Richard Branson, for
    example

  17. Ankle bones

  18. It’s almost lucky?

  19. Commercial suffix with
    “Star” and “Sun”

  20. “___ honor.. .” (oath)

  21. Apt to stay put

  22. Big building

  23. Dodges

  24. In a harmonious
    manner

  25. Penetrating cold
    54. Formal requirement
    55. Astronomer’s sighting,
    perhaps
    59. Center of activity
    60. It’s almost lucky?
    64. Steak partner
    65. Low pair
    66. Word with “main” or
    “blessed”
    67. Push to the limit
    68. Set out suddenly
    69. Serves beer after beer,
    for example


Down



  1. Lamp shade shade

  2. Armenia’s chief river

  3. It goes on after a bath

  4. British bigwigs

  5. “___ Utah!” (license
    plate phrase)

  6. Discernment

  7. Pavlova and Karenina

  8. “___ Much” (Presley
    chart-topper of ’57)

  9. Sun spots in Baltimore?

  10. Make further
    corrections

  11. Certainly not pro

  12. Cold coating

  13. All wrong

  14. Certain duck

  15. A source of chloroform

  16. “Don’t get ___ with me!”
    25. Bring together
    26. West Point alternative
    27. Applesauce-topped
    treat
    28. Agricultural pest
    29. Zoroastrian
    30. In a troubled state
    32. Asphalt worker
    33. “Heads up!,” for
    example
    34. Agronomist’s samples
    36. John Brown’s Body
    author
    37. Paul McCartney album
    of 1971
    40. Graph points
    41. History of Rome author
    46. Coastal coves
    47. Not aweather
    49. Type of alcohol
    50. Scatterbrained
    51. Many people now do it
    online
    52. Sinuous dance
    53. Alpine goat
    55. Field of granular snow
    56. Child’s appliance?
    57. Sell by machine
    58. Woodpecker’s prey
    61. A Kiss Before Dying
    novelist Levin
    62. It sticks to your hair
    63. Net judge’s call


Puzzle 124: Rotten Luck


Treacherous

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