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PUZZLES FOR YOU

Mountain View News Saturday, June 15, 2024


THE 4TH OF JULY

ACROSS

1. South American palm 
berry

5. Chi preceder

8. Tatted cloth

12. *”Knee high in July”?

13. Hole-making tools

14. Sign in (2 words)

15. Discharge

16. Violin’s Renaissance 
predecessor

17. Nursemaid in India, pl.

18. *On the grill on the 
4th?

20. Tropical tuber

21. Propelled like Argo

22. “Fresh Prince of 
____-Air”

23. *#18 Across, picnics 
and such

26. Yellow ride

30. Not well

31. Heavy lifting injury

34. “Brave New World” 
drug

35. Feudal estates

37. Storm center

38. Rand McNally book

39. Singer-songwriter 
Amos

40. Deserving veneration

42. Giant “Master Melvin”

43. Y on Periodic Table

45. Unkind one, slangily

47. Clairvoyant’s gift, acr.

48. “____ under the rug”

50. Cry like a baby

52. *Number of stripes on 
Old Glory

55. Birch bark vessel

56. Object of Frodo’s 
obsession

57. Norse war god

59. Cut mission short

60. Fairy tale beginning

61. Tangerine/grapefruit 
hybrid

62. MTV’s “____’d” 
(2003-2015)

63. Like Willie Winkie

64. “Team” homophone

DOWN

1. Fighter pilot

2. Toothy groomer

3. Operatic solo

4. Openings

5. Between once and thrice

6. Viva voce

7. Maroon’s home

8. *As opposed to Patriot

9. Lab culture

10. Type of salmon

11. Short for ensign

13. Not sympathetic

14. Potentially allergenic 
glove material

19. Tubs

22. Farm cry

23. *Number of stars on 
Old Glory

24. “The Waste Land” poet

25. Heads-up

26. Wedding cake layer

27. 2-dotted mark

28. Stradivari competitor

29. Moisten, as in a turkey

32. 500 sheets

33. *Largest Fourth of July 
pyrotechnics display loc.

36. *Celebratory 
combustible

38. Highly skilled

40. Break bread

41. Come into view

44. Even smaller than #7 
Down

46. Dined elsewhere (2 
words)

48. Use a shoe polish

49. Grimace in pain

50. Hindu Mr.

51. Before long, to 
Shakespeare

52. Think, arch.

53. Part of a seat

54. World’s longest river

55. Upper limit

58. Jodie Foster’s “____’s 
Island”

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