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Twists and turnsGet ready to twist your words in this variety crossword. Answers take a winding path through the grid, each making one or more 90-degree turns. The letter after each clue number indicates the answer’s starting direction: north, south, east or west. The number in parentheses after the clue indicates the length of the answer. Each letter in the completed grid will appear in exactly two words.
1W Beneath (5) 2W Fertilizer compound (7) 3E Ugly sight (7) 4S Hiker’s path (5) 5S Flaccid (4) 6N Bona fide (7) 7S Eye part with rods and cones (6) 8E Saunter (5) 9N _____ and feathered (6) 10N Gold units (6) 11S One giving an exam (6) 12S Dorm room decoration (6) 13E Beauty parlour (5) 14S Cheese gadgets (7) 15S Like Tonto’s Ranger (4) 16N Connection (7)
17S Drive back (5) 18S Trade blockade (7) 19S Muss, as hair (6) 20S Colourful karate awards (5) 21S Keen insight (6) 22S Plunder and pillage (6) 23S There are six to an inning (4) 24E Diego Rivera painting, typically (5) 25N Most cordial (7) 26N Understood by few (6) 27N Philatelist’s purchase (5) 28E Broken mirror, some say (4) 29W Like some furniture (7) 30E Opposite of antebellum (7) 31W Certain golf tournaments (5)
Daisy chainThis is a toughie. Add a letter to the first set of letters below and form a common word by anagramming the six given letters plus the one you added. Enter the word in the squares to the right. For each succeeding row, add the last letter of the previous word you wrote to the new set of letters before anagramming. The last letter of your fifth word should be the letter you added to the first word. Only word play experts will complete this daisy chain of anagrams!
Slide showSlide the 18 letters surrounding the grid into the empty squares so that four words are formed reading across and five words are formed reading down. Letters above and below the grid slide vertically to any position without changing columns, and letters to the left and right slide horizontally to any position without changing rows. Each exterior letter is used only once. Two additional letters are already positioned in the grid. Can you slide all of the others into place?
Why not work your mind a little this Labour Day, with these word, number and logic-based brain-twisters from Fraser Simpson, creator of The Globe and Mail’s cryptic crossword
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WORD PLAY
RibbonThe answers to the clues are all four-letter words, listed in no particular order. Fill the ribbon with the words overlapping by two letters, like ACHY and HYMN in the example. We’ve supplied the first and last letters of the ribbon. Can you piece the words together?
CLUES: Casablanca heroine 411 Khartoum’s river forearm bone related (to) polio vaccine pioneer short skirt not fair plumbing problem hammer target
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NUMBER PLAY
Q V F G B H
X B Q K W Z
F X B F L N
N H Z W Q G
L K X Q V W
Catching a codeWe’ve taken five common six-letter words, listed in alphabetical order, and disguised them using a random substitution cipher. We’ll tell you that K stands for P, and X stands for D. Can you determine the words?
Just add vowelsIn this small crossword, all of the consonants in the answer words are provided (in alphabetical order). The missing vowels—and the words themselves—are for you to guess. The letter Y isn’t used.
ACROSS 1 MSS 4 DN 5 TTT
DOWN 1 TV 2 DST 3 MNN
Times squareEach of the eight letters used in this word square represents a different digit 1 through 8. The numbers outside the grid show the results of multiplying the values of the letters in each row and column. Can you determine the values of the letters and fill the empty grid with their corresponding numbers?
Place your chipsPut poker chips worth $5, $10, or $25 on the squares of this grid—but no more than one chip per square—so that their dollar values total the amount shown for each row, column, and long diagonal. Not every square will have a chip on it. Several chips and one blank square (designated by a star) have been placed to get you started. Can you get all the chips in place?
Reduced tensionA mediator can help! In this addition alphametic, each digit has been replaced with the same letter everywhere it appears. None of the three numbers has a leftmost digit that is zero. Can you find the unique solution?
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CLOCKWISE 1 Was obsequious 2 Swerved 3 Hospital staffers 4 Mineral that is 7 on the Mohs scale 5 Distinguishing features 6 In a creepy way 7 Insurgents 8 Novel featuring “number one fan” Annie Wilkes 9 Joe’s 2020 running mate 10 Restaurant patrons 11 Prepared (oneself) for action 12 Day’s end 13 Some Handel works 14 Store with a circular red-and-white logo 15 Salad veggie 16 Emulate Scorsese
COUNTERCLOCKWISE 1 Betray nervousness 2 Fluctuates 3 Most recent 4 Slake 5 Tank top 6 Wiped clean 7 Stood on hind legs 8 Deserves 9 Give unwanted advice 10 Studio stands 11 In a brave, spirited way 12 Indian strings 13 “_____ you jest!” 14 Arctic landscape 15 Employee rewards 16 Flitted
Flower powerFill this flower with 32 words that answer the clues. Enter each word inward from the tip of the petal to the centre of the bloom, one letter per space. Half the words proceed clockwise from the numbers, and the other half go counterclockwise. Use both sets of clues to get a full bloom.
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SkyscrapersThe grid represents a bird’s-eye view of a city’s downtown core. Place a number from 1 to 5 (representing a building’s height) in each cell so that no two buildings in any row or column have the same height. The numbers outside the grid tell you the number of buildings visible from that direction (sample, above). Higher buildings block the view of lower ones behind them. Can you determine the heights of all 25 buildings?
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Flower power
Twists and turns
Bits and bytes
Star search
Spymaster
1742
Reduced tension
Place your chips
Times square
Skyscrapers
Ribbon
Just add vowelsDaisy chain Catching a code
HUSBANDKINGDOMSOMEHOWWINDBAGGONDOLA
ATOMICDIAPERODIOUSSCREAMUPDATE
Slide show
1 UNDER 2 NITRATE 3 EYESORE 4 TRAIL 5 LIMP 6 GENUINE 7 RETINA 8 MOSEY 9 TARRED 10 KARATS 11 TESTER 12 POSTER 13 SALON 14 GRATERS 15 LONE 16 LINKAGE
17 REPEL 18 EMBARGO 19 TOUSLE 20 BELTS 21 ACUMEN 22 MARAUD 23 OUTS 24 MURAL 25 WARMEST 26 ARCANE 27 STAMP 28 OMEN 29 MODULAR 30 POSTWAR 31 OPENS
LOGIC PLAY
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Solutions for the giant crossword will be in next Saturday’s Arts & Pursuits section
SOLUTIONS
Bits and bytesPut a zero or a one in each empty cell of this grid so that every row and every column contains four ones and four zeros. No more than two ones or two zeros can be adjacent in any row or column. The solution is unique.
Star searchPlace stars in seven cells of this grid so that every row, every column, and every outlined region contains exactly one star. Stars must never be located in adjacent cells, not even diagonally.
SpymasterDeduce a secret number made of four different digits 1 through 9. The chart shows four guesses at the number, and a score for each guess using marbles. Any digit that appears in the secret number in the same position as in the guess is scored with a black marble. Any digit that appears in the secret number in a different position than in the guess is scored with a white marble. Any digit that is not in the secret number does not get a marble. It’s up to you to determine which digits are indicated by the marbles. Can you figure out the four-digit number?
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Instructions
The crossword will printout in 12 pages.
Pages 5-10Clues
Pages 11-16Crossword grid, in sections; you can piece it together using the diagram at right.
BY FRASER SIMPSON
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1 Sikorsky craft (10)6 Recipe measure (8)19 It may have crumbs under it (4,7)25 Barbecue briquettes (8)29 Wide _____ Sea (Jean Rhys novel
based on a Jane Eyre character) (8)35 “Who, me?” response (4,3)37 Fashionable (7)38 “Drain the _____” (2016 Trump
phrase) (5)41 Painter Picasso (5)42 Glenn Gould, e.g. (7)43 Stair part (5)44 Actor Elba of The Wire (5)45 Star Trek: Voyager captain (7)46 _____ Mysteries (Yannick Bisson
detective series) (7)47 Raisin’s smaller cousin (7)48 Couldn’t keep up (7)49 What you or me is (7)50 Make damp (7)51 Elected school board official (7)52 Fairground kiosk (6,5)53 Surrounding glow (4)54 Perry Mason portrayer Raymond (4)55 In a risky situation (2,4,3)56 Heart of Gold singer (4,5)57 Overseas (6)59 Go on vacation (3,4,4,2,3)63 Fresh oxygen carrier (3,5,4)66 Drive-in feature (6)69 Like water in which mosquitoes
breed (8)70 Loafer, e.g. (4)72 Motown’s Franklin (6)73 Moulin Rouge dance (6)76 Consequence (9)77 Elephant 246-Down material (5)78 _____ of Panama (7)81 Source of the words “glitch” and
“kvetch” (7)
83 Breakfast cereal bit (5)84 Beg (5)85 Insincere praise (8)87 Feb. 2, 2020 event numbered LIV
(5,4)90 The “F” in FBI (7)93 Cancun’s peninsula (7)97 Wiener dogs (10)102 Guy Fawkes figure (6)104 Reference compendium (12)106 Support physically (7)107 Offensive remark (6)109 Old-timey pharmacist (10)111 Ice cubes, in a bar (5)113 Woman’s top (6)114 Number used in time conversions
(5)115 _____ the Rim to Win (516-Down
promotion) (4,2)117 West Side Story duet (7)118 Praise highly (5)119 Hitchhiker’s digit (5)120 Make money after expenses (4,1,6)122 Japanese graphic novels (5)123 Pants measure (6)124 Paper lunch container (5,3)126 Service staff awardees (9,2,3,5)134 Professor Plum’s game (4)135 Book set in West Egg and East Egg
(3,5,6)140 U.S. state with a panhandle (8)143 Blue jeans brand (5)144 Dog’s sound (4)145 Field yield (4)146 Kneecap (7)149 Rebuke to Brutus (2,2)150 Plastic horn of South African
soccer games (8)151 Glowing coal (5)153 Noted Yosemite photographer (5,5)155 Ribald verse style that may
mention Nantucket (8)156 Invite with a friendly wave (6)
157 Revolving cookout spit (10)159 Singer with the 2002 debut album
Justified (10)162 Hans Christian _____ (8)163 Skin softener (6)164 Wraps tightly in blankets (7)169 Graceful swimmers (5)171 Thick cream soup (6)172 Military coat (5)174 Demolishes, as a house (5)176 Stray from the script (2,3)178 “Attention!” in German (7)179 Siren on the Rhine (7)180 Text of an opera (8)182 Spiny insectivores (9)184 Church tower (7)185 Emotionless (7)186 Latch onto for a conversation (10)188 Jake Gyllenhaal war drama (7)190 “Mind your _____!” (2,3,2)192 Media barrage (5)193 Casino game featuring the units
digit of a sum (8)195 Actress Stone of La La Land (4)197 Jed Clampett’s nephew (6)198 Left Bank river (5)200 Exertions (7)204 Speed inhibitors on city roads (5)206 Plan 9 from Outer Space director
(2,4)207 Hosiery shade (4)210 Across Canada (5,2,5)211 Slips by (7)215 Russian physiologist with
salivating dogs (4,6)216 Walden author (7)217 Class attendee (7)218 Multiplication answers (8)219 Animated polar bear who lives in
Nutwood (6)221 Lurid, like tabloid headlines (11)223 Snakes on a Plane actor _____ L.
Jackson (6)
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227 Sat for a portrait (5)230 Asteroids video game company (5)231 Steakhouse order (3,7)236 Cat owner’s purchase (10,4)244 Country whose president is Abdel
Fattah el-Sisi (5)245 Word meaning “occupant” hidden
in the previous clue (8)247 Scientists: ornithologists ::
hobbyists : _____ (12)249 Pickpocket (5)250 Funded (7)251 U.S. pet welfare org. (5)254 Giraffe’s shorter cousin (5)255 Yegg (11)257 Veggie that brings you to tears? (5)258 Kind of pudding served with544-Across (9)259 Andre De Grasse and Cindy
Klassen, e.g. (9)263 Xerox competitor (5)265 Correspondent (6,6)266 _____ Rae (Sally Field film) (5)267 Having no fixed home (7)268 Nanki-Poo’s love in The Mikado
(3-3)269 Banjo sound (5)270 Window over a door (7)271 Humiliate (7)272 Structure inside a beehive (9)273 Swamp trees (9)274 Helter-_____ (7)275 Tile art (6)278 Least cluttered (7)279 Rat Pack leader (7)281 “Certainly, madame!” (3,3)282 Blow away (8)285 “Do _____ others as...” (4)287 Archaeologists, at times (10)289 Rabbit ears (2,7)291 Organization’s money manager (9)
294 Royal Commission on the _____ of Women (6)
295 Unpredictable (7)298 Aviator Amelia (7)300 Overhaul (6)302 Political upheaval (4,1’4)304 Entrance sidepiece (4,4)306 Puffy white cloud type (7)307 Building (7)308 Stated, as an opinion (9)310 Laid back (9)312 Bad blood (6)314 Paper-folding art (7)316 Archie Mountbatten-_____ (Harry
and Meghan’s son) (7)317 Piece of chinaware (6)319 Pez collectible (9)321 Removed, as cargo (9)322 Browse the web (7)324 Scary wave (7)325 Made less tight, as shoelaces (8)326 High-altitude air current (3,6)328 Newspaper number puzzle (6)329 Asia’s longest river (7)330 Wyoming city that is an anagram of
REAL AIM (7)332 Chest of drawers (6)333 Nation engaged in war (9)335 Precisely right (2,3,4)337 Supplementary (10)338 Prison (4)339 Words said when imitating Rocky
(2,6)342 Stick around (6)344 Expressing the writer’s emotions
(7)347 Becomes charged, as an atom (7)349 Like the smell of a fresh garden (6)351 Stipulation on a birthday party
invitation (2,5)353 Court coach (6,3)354 Can’t sleep (4,5)356 House heater (7)
358 Los Angeles neighbourhood named for an Edgar Rice Burroughs character (7)
360 Taxi mechanic played by Andy Kaufman (5)
363 Steak and _____ pie (6)364 More spiteful (7)366 Artillery burst (5)367 Baked breakfast treat (6,6)369 Betrays boredom (5)370 December 137-Down (9)374 Omits (6,3)375 Boredom (5)376 Number enclosers at the end of
this clue (11)377 Puffs on an e-cigarette (5)378 One of 150 in the Old Testament (5)381 Fixed an incorrect password (7)382 In an unfriendly fashion (5)383 Laughing gas (7,5)385 Kuala Lumpur’s land (8)387 Blacksmith’s block (5)388 Symphony adaptations (14)396 Reduced to dust (10)400 Regretting (5)401 Jeer (at) (5)404 Smartphone feature (6)408 Overmuch (11)410 Theatre employees (6)411 Follows a conversation without
hearing (3-5)413 Word on a new employee’s name
badge (7)414 Sidewalk chalk brand (7)415 Columbus’s flagship (5,5)417 Time zone for 138-Down (7)419 Saturday Night Live segment (6,6)420 Bird-feeder bit (4)421 Homecoming attendees (6)422 Calligraphy embellishment (5)424 Crisis-prone age? (7)428 Argentina-set musical (5)429 Frugal shopper’s virtue (6)
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430 Curling captain (4)431 Domed halls (8)433 Fancy tie (5)435 Nuptials (7)437 Our anthem (1,6)438 Denizen (10)441 Oktoberfest snack (7)443 Fast-food tycoon portrayed by Mi-
chael Keaton in The Founder (3,4)444 Sword pulled from a stone (9)447 Airport minibuses (8)449 “I’m not impressed” (3,4)450 Dr. Scholl’s products (7)451 Glossy gown material (5)452 First version (5)454 Lukewarm (5)455 Anna of True Blood (6)457 Birthday mail (5)459 Musical with the song Schaden-
freude (6,1)463 Awarded blue ribbons (6)464 Medical checkup (8)466 Shades (10)467 Carries through to the end (10)470 Manatee relative (6)471 Train driver (8)472 Type of molasses (10)475 Standoffish (5)476 Seminary course (8)477 Mosque leader (4)478 Sun porches (7)480 Midterm or final (4)481 Hide and _____ (4)482 Army doc (5)483 Come near (8)487 Unidentified bouquet senders (6,8)493 Lyft competitor (4)495 Purposely didn’t fill up on the
main course (5,4,3,7)502 Good thing to bring to the table?
(8)
504 Logo (6)505 Composition for nine (5)506 Like a glass-half-empty view (11)507 Sports venue (5)508 Nation in 82-Down (5)509 Fez’s place (7)510 Japan’s largest island (6)511 Frances McDormand film of 1996
(5)512 Athena’s domain (6)513 Close, as a parka (3,2)515 Image transmitter to the brain (5,5)517 1992 Wimbledon champ Andre (6)518 Like Alfred Nobel (7)519 Basketball infraction (8,4)520 Siberian plain (6)522 Acting alone (6,4)527 Containing tin (7)531 Soviet satellite (7)532 Flag symbol (5,4)534 Afternoon movies (8)537 Ice cream serving (5)538 Skating jumps (5)539 _____ stick (bar stirrer) (7)542 Supermarket staffer (7)543 Hamburger unit (5)544 “This little piggy had ______” (5,4)546 More indolent (6)547 Time machine in a 2010 movie (3,3)549 Brought into the world (4)550 Seafood treat (8)552 Starbucks drinks (6)554 Bela Lugosi role (5,7)558 Messy treat from 516-Down (8,8)560 Funeral car (6)562 Gus Grissom, e.g. (9)564 Bee Gees birthplace in the Irish Sea
(4,2,3)566 Othello villain (4)567 Ridiculously Photogenic Guy, e.g.
(4)569 Boss of Starbuck and Queequeg
(7,4)
572 Slob’s opposite (7)575 Choices (7)576 Renders harmless, as a bomb (7)578 The 6,020-piece Hogwarts Castle,
e.g. (4,3)580 Split hairs (7)581 Had a horse voice? (7)582 Jester’s cap (7)583 Cluster (5)584 Atmospheric layer (5)585 Twin brother of Remus (7)586 Chicago character _____ Hart (5)587 Not watertight (5)588 Les Miserables protagonist (7)589 Resentment (7)590 Incandescent lamp’s glowing wire
(8)591 Lumberjack’s power tool (8)592 Lionel Richie hit featured in White
Nights (3,3,3,2)593 Song standard that begins “And
now the purple dusk of twilight time” (8)
594 Sends out radio signals (10)
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1 Retro-chic types (8)2 Sept. 7, 2020 (6,3)3 Political influence (5)4 Pizza sausage (9)5 Like some waistbands (7)7 High regard (6)8 Really clean a floor (5)9 No longer aboard ship (7)10 Jane Austen’s satire of Gothic novels
(10,5)11 Musical based on Shaw’s Pygmalion
(2,4,4)12 Retail complex (4)13 Album featuring the song When
Doves Cry (6,4)14 Nobel Peace Prize city (4)15 Firebug (10)16 Twain rafter (4)17 “Tsk tsk!” (5,2,3)18 Birthplace of St. Francis (6)19 This Is _____ Tap (6)20 Citadel (8)21 Astrological border (4)22 Brief stay (7)23 Bliss, they say (9)24 His Opticks is a study of light and
colour (6)25 Underground vault (5)26 Tall wardrobe (7)27 Napoleon’s birthplace (7)28 Warmer than freezing (5,4)30 KJ’s role on Riverdale (6)31 Manipulate electoral districts (11)32 Big foul-up (5)33 Stop sign shape (7)34 Galvanizing metal (4)36 Talk like this, he does (4)39 Draws in (8)40 Andean rodent prized for its fur (10)58 Cobwebby storage area (5)60 Garden pest (5)
61 Dental thread (5)62 Tonight Show host Jimmy (6)64 Alejandro singer (4,4)65 Daveed Diggs role in Hamilton (9)67 Caesarion’s mom (9)68 Spoiled kid (4)71 “Be quiet, now!” (4)74 Kind of pipe (7)75 Narrow opening for delivered enve-
lopes (4,4)78 Comprehensive (2-5)79 Greek eggplant dish (8)80 Twisters (8)82 Dystopian Suzanne Collins novel,
with “The” (6,5)84 Spots for orators (7)86 Ironman, e.g. (9)88 “Back by _____!” (7,6)89 Corkscrew pasta (6)90 Venus _____ (7)91 Layered pasta dish (7)92 Frilly undergarments (10)94 Standard (5)95 Animator Tex (5)96 Supermarket section (5)98 Thus far (2,3)99 Pungent accompaniment
for 544-Across (11)100 John Carpenter horror film (9)101 Coiffure (6)103 Melted-cheese dishes (7)105 World’s fair (4)106 Movie ogre (5)108 Russian tea urn (7)110 Complete (6)112 Carve in stone (4)116 Jewish scholars (6)121 Voice of 36-Down (5,2)125 Like good rain boots (10)127 Russian president (5)128 Sumptuous (7)129 Alison singer (5,8)130 Bliss (7,6)
131 Sputtered out (7)132 Sousaphone’s cousins (5)133 _____ for Hitler (fictional musical
in The Producers) (10)136 Malady (7)137 Ruby, e.g. (8)138 Hockey Hall of Fame city (7)139 Tandem (7,5,3,3)140 Killer whale (4)141 _____ Lomond, Scotland (4)142 Major airports (4)147 Jim Carrey film about a lawyer
forced to tell the truth (4,4)148 Skeleton’s place? (6)152 Crazy _____ (game akin to Uno
played with a regular deck) (6)154 Fiascos (8)158 Paparazzo’s lens (9)160 Country that borders Guatemala
(6)161 Formal decrees (6)165 The Dairy State (9)166 Lumberjack’s leftover (4,5)167 Sad feeling (9)168 Future tulip (4)170 Photo book (5)173 Seemingly (2,6)174 Turns down (7)175 Apparition (7)176 “Very much so!” (3,3)177 “I have no idea” (5,2)181 Makes a retraction (7)183 Pig out (7)185 Tam o’ Shanter poet (6,5)186 Headwear in Magritte’s The Son of
Man (6,3)187 Hammer, wrench, plane, etc. (5)189 Royal domain (5)191 Typewriter-style devices for
computers (6,9)194 Run in syndication, perhaps (5)196 Tales of the gods (5)199 Hakuna _____ (6)
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201 Floating wreckage (7)202 Secret organization in The Da Vinci
Code (4,3)203 Saturn’s largest moon (5)205 Scarecrow stuffing (5)208 They’re serving time (8)209 Impoverished (4)212 Resell tickets illegally (5)213 Staircase shape (6)214 Having lasting significance (8)220 _____, Prince of Tyre (Shakespeare
play) (8)222 Homeland of Mozart and Haydn
(7)224 Insect section (7)225 Single (5)226 D.H. Lawrence novel (4,11,5)227 Regular customer (6)228 Concurs (4,3,2,3)229 Large bottle used in home brewing
(8)232 Town square (5)233 Walt Whitman poem (1,4,3,4,8)234 The “L” of the postal abbreviation
NL (8)235 Mad (6)237 Apres-ski beverage (5)238 Cunning spider of African folklore
(6)239 Duncan Hines offerings (4,5)240 Bombard with gamma particles,
perhaps (9)241 “My word!” (4,8)242 Mystical board with a planchette
(5)243 Sweet Bird of Youth playwright
(9,8)246 Walrus features (5)248 Permissive (8)252 Refuse (3,2)253 Tell lies under oath (6,7)256 Rich pasta dish (10,7)
260 World Series champs in 1998, 1999, and 2000 (7)
261 Arc de Triomphe locale (5)262 Promote your product (9)264 Sundae topping (3,5)275 Supremely skillful acts (13)276 Sent junk e-mail to (7)277 One of the three main groups of
Aboriginal Canadians (5)280 Defrosts (5)283 Galaxy Quest, e.g. (5)284 “Because _____!” (parental
“explanation”) (1,4,2)286 Enticed (7)288 Island birthplace of karate (7)290 Ancient Greek jar (7)292 Dictator’s government (6)293 Like vinegar (6)296 Browned bread (5)297 Serving as an example (12)299 Time off, for short (1,3,1)301 Old as the hills (7)303 Constellation with Polaris (4,5)305 Copacabana city (3,2,7)309 Biblical queen’s land (5)311 Fly off the handle (3,5)313 What YOLO stands for (3,4,4,4)315 _____ sanctum (5)318 Caribbean island (5)320 Wrinkly Chinese dog (4-3)323 Terracotta plant holder (9)324 Italian restaurant (9)327 “Much obliged” (5,3)331 Congratulatory cry (5,3)334 French farewell (5)336 Pedicure target (8)340 It might give you a jump (8,10)341 Cream-coloured, e.g. (3-5)343 Wizard of Oz’s gift to the Cowardly
Lion (5)345 Fridge drawer (7)346 Its capital is Bandar Seri Begawan
(6)
348 Bahamas port (6)349 Bacon or Lamb, e.g. (8)350 Language of Easter Island (4,3)352 Like Hitchcock films (11)353 Tribal symbol (5)355 Many (1,3,2)357 Like old Norse alphabets (5)359 Pallid (5)361 November 137-Down (5)362 Completely surround (8)365 Ryan O’Neal’s daughter (5)368 Six years, for a U.S. Senator (4,5)371 Spat (7)372 Not freelancing (2,5)373 Thinly distributed (6)379 Out of whack (5)380 Fridge decoration (6)384 Desert haven (5)386 Defendant’s story (5)389 Shows like The Bachelor or Survi-
vor (7,2)390 Man associated with the numbers
755 and .305 (4,5)391 Extravaganza (9)392 Airplane’s black box, e.g. (8)393 Rush-hour woe (7)394 Woodwind instrument (4)395 Principal house of the North in
Game of Thrones (5)396 It should show you unsmiling, with
a closed mouth (8,5)397 American rock band name whose
only vowel is Y (6,7)398 Precisely right (5)399 Peeved (2,1,4)402 Snickerdoodles, e.g. (7)403 Cargo ship (9)405 Klutzy (7)406 Uncredited actor (5)407 Deep down (2,5)409 Europe’s longest river (5)412 Magnate (6)416 From Latin America (8)
201 – 416
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418 “Eureka!” shouter (10)423 Stubble remover (5)424 Deadly African snakes (6)425 Shortcut path, at times (8)426 “Something’s fishy” (1,5,1,3)427 87-Across winners of 2018 (6)432 Antonym of insubordinate (8)434 To-do list item (4)435 Wild canines (6)436 The Towering Inferno, e.g. (8,5)439 More content (7)440 Coming to a point (7)442 It can be lame or poor (6)445 Gathering halls (11)446 Night spot (7)448 Brings together as one (7)453 Knitted blankets (7)456 Mean-spirited bits of gossip (4,7)458 Influential nation (10)459 Food thickener (4)460 Better Than _____ (band withthe 1995 hit Good) (4)461 Bryce Canyon’s state (4)462 Salesperson’s goal (5)463 Daveed Diggs role in Hamilton (9)465 Bowl over (5)468 Minnesota footballer (6)469 Calms medically (7)470 Potemkin village, e.g. (9)473 Cyborg film of 1987 (7)474 Runway surface (6)478 Poem divisions (7)479 Gallery display (7)482 One-partner-only concept (8)484 Ready to pounce (6)485 Points of view (8)486 Simple ball game (5)487 Postage hobbyists (5,10)488 “Don’t be glum!” (5,2)489 Disappear (9)
490 Parent company of Google (8)491 Mission statement (9)492 Freeway exit (4)494 Monty Python member John (6)495 Rhodes _____ (7)496 Butcher’s scraps (5)497 Barn site (4)498 Perching place (5)499 Astronomer Hubble (5)500 Nori-wrapped bites (5)501 Literally, “first animals” (8)503 Classroom surprise (3,4)514 Capital of Hell in Milton’s Paradise
Lost (11)516 Canada’s largest quick-service
restaurant chain (3,7)518 Teeter-totter (6)521 Worship from _____ (4)523 Awe-inspiring (10)524 Like some exclusive communities
(5)525 “Get up, soldier!” (2,4,4)526 Talk-show host dubbed the “Queen
of All Media” (5)527 Tall and dignified (10)528 Choir voice (4)529 Emma Roberts, to Julia Roberts (5)530 The African Queen author (1,1,8)533 Lab culture container (5,4)535 Nunavut, e.g. (9)536 Longfellow hero (8)540 Country with gamelan orchestras
(9)541 They’re vernal and autumnal each
year (9)542 Graduation, e.g. (8)545 Conrad’s Heart of _____ (8)546 Hear about (5,2)548 South Pacific tune (4,3)549 Gentlemen Prefer _____ (Anita
Loos novel) (7)551 Object of anxiety (7)553 Pudding choice (7)
555 Of interstellar clouds (7)556 Serviette (6)557 Black stones (6)558 “Sexiest Man Alive” magazine (6)559 Word derived from a name (6)561 Some drums (6)563 Add up (5)565 Long-tailed parrot (5)568 Wood or iron (4)570 Modify, as a law (5)571 Mad Men star Jon (4)573 Goldfinger’s first name (5)574 Dairy dozen (4)576 The Persistence of Memory painter
(4)577 Kitchen basin (4)579 Garbage bag brand (4)
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S O U P S N E U H T R A I L E D P R O N O U N M O I S T E N T P O O T P O S V I H R F A
T R U S T E E T I C K E T B O O T H I A L M E S R A U R A B U R R O N T H I N I C E N E I L Y O U N G
E R R I M R A B R O A D G E T A W A Y F R O M I T A L L E F R A N R C Z C E M O
R E D B L O O D C E L L S C R E E N L T B R P N L N C S T A G N A N T S H O E A R E T H A C A N C A N
S A A N A M L G A F T E R M A T H I V O R Y I S T H M U S L C C U R I N O
Y I D D I S H F L A K E P L E A D I A I I A S O N S O F L A T T E R Y S U P E R B O W L F E D E R A L
P Y U A I O O R Y U C A T A N D A C H S H U N D S U H O R C H O O L L E N A
E F F I G Y E N C Y C L O P E D I A S V I E S O A E S U S T A I N I N S U L T A P O T H E C A R Y R O C K S
T O A E G E S A I B L O U S E S I X T Y R O L L U P H S I A A O R U I N T O A
T O N I G H T E X T O L T H U M B A R L P E S L T U R N A P R O F I T M A N G A L E N G T H B R O W N B A G
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C L U E T H E G R E A T G A T S B Y U P L E I R W U O K L A H O M A L E V I S B A R K C R O P P A T E L L A
O E C A I E O I E T T U V U V U Z E L A E M B E R O U N O A I D E E R E I
A N S E L A D A M S L I M E R I C K I L I E Z D E A C C B E C K O N R O T I S S E R I E T I M B E R L A K E
T O E E M S O Y A N D E R S E N L O T I O N S W A T H E S O E M G B N E P R D
S W A N S B I S Q U E T U N I C N C T E S A I R M R A Z E S A D L I B A C H T U N G L O R E L E I
L E A N O T L I B R E T T O H E D G E H O G S S T E E P L E P N E E N T L T I O I C
R O B O T I C B U T T O N H O L E E S H V T C E T J A R H E A D P S A N D Q S B L I T Z O A T
O U L O O E B A C C A R A T E M M A J E T H R O S E I N E E C H H T W M M E F F O R T S
B U M P S E D W O O D E C R U A E E A Y P R O N T N C O A S T T O C O A S T E L A P S E S L P I
E T S L L H O I V A N P A V L O V T H O R E A U S T U D E N T L R W T M R T C P R O D U C T S
R U P E R T S E N S A T I O N A L T I L E H O A G I M S S A M U E L P O S E D T A T A R I T S A
T E A R U S V T O P S I R L O I N S C R A T C H I N G P O S T B N A A E E G Y P T L R E S I D E N T
B I R D W A T C H E R S T H I E F L S A N O N A R O U E N D O W E D T E M K A S P C A A E U
U I O A T O C O K A P I B S A F E C R A C K E R O N I O N O E Y O R K S H I R E A O L Y M P I A N S
R I C O H L E T T E R W R I T E R Z N O R M A E O N E A D J N O M A D I C O E J Y U M Y U M A A D K
N L O E I I S T W A N G A N T R A N S O M D E G R A D E E H O N E Y C O M B N M A N G R O V E S
S K E L T E R M O S A I C W T I D I E S T I I I R S I N A T R A E H O U I O U I K I E
S F A A P N A S T O N I S H O U N T O E X C A V A T O R S H T V A N T E N N A T R E A S U R E R
A U N S T A T U S P S E R R A T I C E I E T C K E A R H A R T M O R E V A M P E T E
C O U P D E T A T M I D O O R J A M B O C U M U L U S E D I F I C E A W E X P R E S S E D N E A S Y G O I N G
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C O M B A T A N T O N T H E N O S E E A D D I T I O N A L J A I L A Y O A D R I A N B N R A N O
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T E N N I S P R O E L I E S A W A K E R F U R N A C E T A R Z A N A A E L A T K A E S A K R F U
O O E E K I D N E Y N N T C A T T I E R U T R O U S M S A L V O O D A N I S H P A S T R Y Y A W N S
T U R Q U O I S E A L E A V E S O U T A S E N N U I P A R E N T H E S E S T V A P E S C A A E O H P
E U N P S A L M I I I N R E T Y P E D I V O I E E A O E A I C I L Y N I T R O U S O X I D E
M A L A Y S I A M A N V I L R O I U E O R C H E S T R A T I O N S P U L V E R I Z E D R I U M A T N
L R T R U I N G E S C O F F C A M E R A E A P E R B T A Y X N E X C E S S I V E L Y U S H E R S
L I P R E A D S S N O O R T W X T R A I N E E C R A Y O L A S A N T A M A R I A L T O I H I E
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M A M G H A O I E H O R R A Y K R O C E X C A L I B U R S H U T T L E S A E A A X O
B I G D E A L I N S O L E S S A T I N D R A F T T O L R U E T K N T E P I D P A Q U I N C A R D S
A O L E M K V A E F A V E N U E Q J U D G E D P H Y S I C A L A P I E G I U U
S U N G L A S S E S P E R S E V E R E S D U G O N G Z T U E I R H N F M E N G I N E E R B L A C K S T R A P
A A D T S T I E E H A R A L O O F T H E O L O G Y I M A M C E N E Y E O E
S O L A R I A E X A M S E E K M E D I C A P P R O A C H T F O O T R E Z S E C R E T A D M I R E R S U B E R
T A R S R C R I O A E N O P A S A V E D R O O M F O R D E S S E R T H V L A U A P O P
A P P E T I T E E M B L E M N O N E T P E S S I M I S T I C R I F A O D U A R E N A P A N E M M O R O C C O
N O W A E O G O E T S N C H O N S H U F A R G O W I S D O M E P H I O P O O W
Z I P U P O P T I C N E R V E A G A S S I S W E D I S H O O M A M S I H P E R S O N A L F O U L S T E P P E
A Q A R I S I A A O E D O F L Y I N G S O L O S T A N N I C C U R B E R O R
S P U T N I K M A P L E L E A F M A T I N E E S N H A M A N P T L I S C O O P A X E L S S W I Z Z L E
I D H E A Y E S C A S H I E R P A T T Y R O A S T B E E F L T T T N O Q D
L A Z I E R H O T T U B B O R N C R A B C A K E A R E O A T O C O L A T T E S C O U N T D R A C U L A
E M N R R A L O R U W R P O W D E R E D D O U G H N U T H E A R S E A S E O I R
A S T R O N A U T I S L E O F M A N I A G O M E M E A P S R E C E C A P T A I N A H A B N E A T N I K
R O N P O D I N A Y T A E M O P T I O N S D E F U S E S L E G O S E T I M A A U E U O N
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