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CROSSWORD
Matt Gaffney
October 20, 2009
Across
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Furniture material
7.
Got milk?
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Ms. Benes of TV
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Seize
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Show up
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Can't turn away from
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Kristin Davis's role on "Sex and the City"
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Is stricken with
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___-Caribbean
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Teams may retire one out of respect
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Enjoyed one of the best rooms in the hotel, say
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Unquestioning
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Nuclear
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Asked "Paper or plastic?"
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1988 Olympics city
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Not quite a hat-trick
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Common swine breed
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Girlfriend in Paris
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CNN, the NYT, et al., in a somewhat pejorative internet acronym
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Clothing tag words, perhaps
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Pablo Neruda and Marcelo Rios, e.g.
55.
Former Israeli PM Ehud
56.
Trash someone
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High-protein breakfast
58.
Very good, as a prep athlete
59.
"I haven't heard anything yet," or the theme of this puzzle
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Ben Tausig
Reveal Word
Reveal All
Show Errors
Down
Achieve
.1
Dominant
.2
Word before bar or menu
.3
Level
.4
___ stage (Freudian notion)
.5
Roman who had his mother executed
.6
Stragglers
.7
Big highway
.8
One of 64 in some boxes
.9
Pamplona runner
.10
New ___ (spiritual type)
.11
Job at hand
.12
Greek letter that looks like an H
.13
Mich. city that's lost half its population in the past fifty years
.14
Commit police brutality, potentially
.20
Clog
.23
Bad things
.24
Wrestler ___ Flair
.25
Eel, in sushi restaurants
.26
One of a biblical pair
.27
"It's not that ___ deal"
.28
First name in stunts
.29
Cellar-dwelling Ohioans
.30
Powerful weed
.31
"___ cheeseburger and just kept getting bigger" (U2 line about Elvis)
.32
Destruction
.33
Hit on the head
.36
Italian port city
.38
"Happy Colored Marbles" band
.39
"Too funny"
.41
"Right away, ma'am!"
.42
Vacuum cleaner company
.44
A simple machine
.45
Applesauce brand
.46
Animated Bobby or Hank
.47
Big deer
.48
"___ la vie"
.49
Bottom out?
.50
Red doll
.51
Marvel-ous heroes?
.52
Org. with a blue line to O'Hare
.53
"Shallow ___" (Jack Black movie)
.54
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