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PUZZLES FOR YOU

Mountain View News Saturday, July 27, 2024

THEME: THINGS 
WITH BUTTONS

ACROSS

1. Genoa or storm jib

5. Pouch

8. Support for #1 Across

12. Gaelic language

13. Big-ticket ____

14. Flowerbed cover

15. Western Samoan money

16. Agrippina’s slayer

17. Literature class 
homework

18. *”The Curious Case of 
____ Button”

20. God of thunder

21. Tight or rigid

22. Blunder

23. *____ control

26. *Alarm clock delay

29. Edible tuber

30. Racecourses

33. Crew propellers

35. Often follows dark or 
back

37. ____-Town, or Chicago

38. Friend, south of the 
border

39. Singular of #25 Down

40. Containing uranium

42. Rip off

43. Sleeping sickness vector

45. Che Guevara’s hat, pl.

47. Roman road

48. “And Then ____ Were 
None”

50. Hillside, in Scotland

52. *Home ringer

55. Raccoon’s South 
American cousin

56. Debate side

57. Spring in a mattress

59. Ar, atomic number 18

60. Black-tie occasion

61. Golfer’s aim

62. Group with pressure

63. Stallone

64. Semiprecious variety of 
agate

DOWN

1. Collector’s goal

2. Kuwaiti, e.g.

3. ____ of Man

4. Shanty

5. Flower trunks

6. American Eagle’s 
intimates brand

7. “Oh _’___!”

8. *Edible button

9. “The Sun ___ Rises”

10. “The Lion King” villain

11. Olden day “your”

13. More asinine

14. City area

19. Bulwark

22. Ems follower

23. Aimless walk

24. “Bravo! Bravo!”, e.g.

25. Pall ____ and ____ of 
America

26. Largest organ of human 
body

27. Mobutu Sese Seko’s 
nation

28. Cereal killer

31. Land measure

32. ____-cha-cha

34. Wails

36. *Tall building 
people-mover

38. Of sour taste

40. All 50 states

41. Spanish airline

44. Make a logical 
connection (2 words)

46. Repeat an echo

48. Opposite of atonal

49. In a heated manner

50. Dull one

51. Angry display

52. Entertainingly eccentric 
people, Down Under

53. “On Golden Pond” bird

54. ____ of the valley

55. *A baseball one has a 
button on top

58. Lexington airport code


July 13, 2024 Solutions


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