Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

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312 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles


Across



  1. Band of seven

  2. First of billions

  3. 16.5 feet

  4. Rocky villain

  5. Andean city

  6. Wax trapper

  7. Antic

  8. Yankee in the news,
    informally

  9. Four-stringed
    instrument, for short

  10. Doc wannabes

  11. Tadpole cousins

  12. Hobby-store buys

  13. Pumas’ pads

  14. Balsamic, cider, or
    white

  15. Seat for two or more

  16. Gain access

  17. Nullify

  18. Always, in verse

  19. Perfectly away from
    either bank

  20. Test starter?

  21. Polyphonic song

  22. Old photo tint

  23. Go back

  24. Thoroughly

  25. Rousseau novel

  26. Draped dress
    55. Little one
    56. Garb for the jet set
    59. “___ Gotta Be Me”
    60. Walk with weariness
    61. Make-believe food
    66. Fractional monetary
    unit of Japan
    67. Water drainer
    68. Foreign Affairs Pulitzer
    winner Lurie
    69. Time of the 75th
    meridian
    70. Cultivated grasses
    71. Identifying


Down



  1. The Wild Bunch director
    Peckinpah

  2. 1972 DDT banner

  3. Container of peas

  4. ICU specialty

  5. Big Bad John actor Jack

  6. Brown v. Board of
    Education city

  7. “With ___ of thousands!”

  8. Pub competition

  9. Baseball brothers’
    surname

  10. Area near the
    Mediterranean

  11. Get exes to become
    ex-exes

  12. Yellow ribbon bearer
    13. Armoire kin
    21. Most urgent
    22. Snack or nosh
    23. Time before anything
    important
    24. Jaws sighting
    25. It does blowups
    26. Appear to be
    30. Scythe-bearing visitor
    31. 180 degrees from NNW
    34. 66, for one (Abbr.)
    35. Conductor Toscanini
    38. URL punctuator
    39. Satisfy, as demands
    40. Assumption
    41. Subtracts
    42. Clearly visible
    45. Snoop
    46. Kind
    47. Supporter’s response
    49. Folklore being
    51. Jack Haley role
    53. What push comes to
    54. Executive’s staff
    57. Leave helpless with
    laughter
    58. Toni Morrison novel
    62. Not very bright, really
    63. Chi–Omega connection
    64. Accord ender?
    65. Chang’s bosom buddy?


Puzzle 143: One Vowel Off


Treacherous

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