Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

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300 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles


Across



  1. Backless footgear

  2. Word after 17-, 38-, and
    59-Across, and 11- and
    34-Down

  3. Coal carrier

  4. Play to ___ (deadlock)

  5. Vacuous

  6. “Now then, where ___?”

  7. Form of liquor
    smuggling

  8. October birthstone

  9. Distinguishing feature

  10. “Clue” piece

  11. Clothes lines?

  12. Take ___ off (sit down)

  13. Conceal from danger

  14. Special talents

  15. Jocularity

  16. Meadowland

  17. Transmitting

  18. Infant fare

  19. Naval veteran

  20. Dull daily routing

  21. Show with clarity

  22. File suit against

  23. Teachers’ favorites

  24. The Balcony playwright

  25. You, at this very
    moment

  26. Informed
    50. Go awry
    54. Steakhouse order
    57. Per ___ (yearly)
    58. Prefix meaning “bone”
    59. Wintertime affliction
    62. Letters on some planes
    63. Dobie Gillis’s buddy
    64. Ultimatum’s ultimate
    word, usually
    65. Retained
    66. Biblical matriarch
    67. Penn with an Oscar


Down



  1. Cuban patriot José

  2. Auto maneuver

  3. Succotash, in part

  4. Least explainable

  5. Best the rest

  6. ___ Arbor, Michigan

  7. Follow furtively

  8. Group of nine

  9. Majestic

  10. Poker holding, perhaps

  11. In quick succession

  12. Letters of haste

  13. Eight furlongs

  14. Zion National Park
    location

  15. Give less than 100
    percent
    24. Choreographer Agnes
    de
    25. Tournament ranking
    28. Cowboy’s apparatus
    30. Fastening item
    31. Pepper and Preston
    (Abbr.)
    32. Computer image file
    format
    33. Roof overhang
    34. Band in a 1984 film
    parody
    36. Pain relief brand
    38. Group of eight
    39. New Year’s word
    42. 1960s political
    movement
    44. Charles, William, and
    Harry
    46. Spanish woman’s title
    47. The Blackboard Jungle
    novelist Hunter
    49. Neil Diamond’s “Love
    on the

    51. Iguanalike critter
    52. Oklahoma city
    53. German port city
    54. Queeg’s creator
    55. To be, to Brutus
    56. ER part
    60. Wharton deg.
    61. City in Kyrgyzstan


Puzzle 137: Thirsty?


Treacherous

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