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PUZZLES FOR YOU

Mountain View News Saturday, May 18, 2024

THEME: AT THE THEATER

ACROSS

1. Bottomless pit

6. Paper or plastic one

9. Mercantile establishment

13. *Ticket agent’s cubicle

14. Kimono sash

15. Cautious gambler

16. Tidal bore

17. ____-been

18. Get together

19. *Movie preview

21. *Daytime attraction

23. Rubber substitute

24. 1960s ____ boots

25. Good times

28. No problem

30. *Box ____

35. Deli side

37. Jerk, in Yiddish

39. Cell dweller

40. *Common theater admonition

41. Blows a horn

43. Be inclined

44. Community spirit

46. Stuff for sale, sing.

47. Not manual

48. *Traveling entertainer’s helper

50. Cutting tools

52. “Reap what you ____”

53. Sail holder

55. Ostrich-like bird

57. *Snack in a tub

61. *Blast from the past venue

65. Bulb in produce aisle

66. Zoo’s Primate House inhabitant

68. Telephone company portmanteau

69. Like an uncomfortable mattress

70. Not in good health

71. Alleviated

72. Law school prerequisite, acr.

73. Sodium hydroxide

74. Musher’s ride, pl.

DOWN

1. Drive a getaway car, e.g.

2. Wild swine

3. Vinyasa workout

4. Landing road

5. Put on hold

6. Physicist Niels

7. Lawyers’ grp.

8. Contraption

9. Adjective for #9 Across

10. Blood-related

11. Network of nerves

12. Standing pose in #3 Down

15. Postpone (2 words)

20. E-wallet content

22. Don McLean: “A long, long time 
____...”

24. Simone Biles, e.g.

25. *Theater guide

26. Mickey Mouse’s pet

27. Alexander, for short

29. *Opera or movie

31. Sheep’s milk cheese

32. Intestinal obstruction

33. What contortion and contour have 
in common

34. Furnish with a fund

36. Who would

38. Creole cuisine staple

42. Waste conduit

45. Bribery, to a church official

49. ENT’s first concern?

51. Afflicts with a blow

54. Symbol of slowness

56. Relating to uvea

57. Gallup’s inquiry

58. Burden

59. Type of cotton

60. Native Egyptian, in Roman times

61. Expunge

62. *At concession stand: “Anything 
____?”

63. Not hot, at a coffee shop

64. Nonverbal OKs

67. Layer


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