12/26/16
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1D
Sushi bar finger food
EDAMAME
2D
Country whose currency, RUBLES, is almost an anagram of its name
BELARUS
3D
St. John the ___
BAPTIST
4D
___ Antilles
LESSER
5D
Pennsylvania city or the lake it’s on
ERIE
6D
Bygone point-to-point communication
TELEX
7D
Suffix with valid
ATION
8D
Gossipy sorts
YENTAS
9D
Border
EDGE
10D
Proportional to the surroundings
IN SCALE
11D
Motorized
POWERED
12D
Like the Venus de Milo
ARMLESS
15D
Summer treat that melts in the sun
CONE
24D
Naval engineers
SEABEES
26D
Massachusetts’ Mount ___ College
HOLYOKE
28D
Chi-town squad
SOX
30D
Airport screening grp.
TSA
33D
Container for dirty clothes
BIN
34D
Yoko who loved Lennon
ONO
35D
Common ingredient in pasta
EGG
38D
C.I.A. precursor
OSS
39D
Mafia big
DON
40D
Batting helmet part
EARFLAP
41D
Use for an attic or the cloud
STORAGE
42D
Ship with smokestacks
STEAMER
45D
Theologian Reinhold who wrote the Serenity Prayer
NIEBUHR
46D
Try
ATTEMPT
47D
Ilie who won both the U.S. and French Opens
NASTASE
49D
What meditators try to live in
THE NOW
51D
Cry upon arriving
I’M HERE!
One Clue Crossword
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Word Whizzle
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54D
Tour de France stage
ETAPE
55D
Martial ___ (judo and others)
ARTS
56D
Violent protests
RIOTS
59D
Stare slack-jawed
GAPE
60D
Part of a wolf or a lobster
CLAW
1A
Go out, as the tide
EBB
4A
Permit
LET
7A
Reply to a captain
AYE
10A
Brewpub offering, for short
IPA
13A
Org. that targets traffickers
DEA
14A
Raised, as a building
ERECTED
16A
Partner of neither
NOR
17A
Mountain on which you might yodel
ALP
18A
Stockpiling, in a way, as feed
SILOING
19A
Letters in a personals ad
SWM
20A
Gymnastics floor cover
MAT
21A
Directive for additional information
SEE NOTE
22A
Cartoon pic
CEL
23A
Get out of bed
ARISE
25A
TV warrior princess
XENA
26A
Race loser in an Aesop fable
HARE
27A
Reflective sorts
MUSERS
29A
Fur wraps
STOLES
31A
This: Sp.
ESTA
32A
It’s usually behind a viola in an orchestra
OBOE
36A
Flexible Flyers, e.g.
SLEDS
37A
Present time in England? …or a hint to each set of shaded squares
BOXING DAY
40A
Lispers’ banes
ESSES
43A
Scrubbed, as a NASA mission
NO-GO
44A
Be ___ equal footing
ON AN
48A
Bear witness (to)
ATTEST
50A
Soviet premier Khrushchev
NIKITA
52A
Caviars
ROES
53A
Try, as a case
HEAR
57A
Track events
MEETS
58A
Lobster ___ diavolo (Italian dish)
FRA
59A
Hit pay dirt
GET RICH
61A
You ___! (“Absolutely!”)
BET
62A
On the ___ (fleeing)
LAM
63A
Literary critic Broyard
ANATOLE
64A
Actress Thurman
UMA
65A
Get older
AGE
66A
Bruno Mars or Freddie Mercury
POP STAR
67A
Some PCs
HPS
68A
The “p” in m.p.g.
PER
69A
Ram’s mate
EWE
70A
Stockholm’s home: Abbr.
SWE
71A
U.S.P.S. assignment: Abbr.
RTE