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PUZZLES FOR YOU

Mountain View News Saturday, November 16, 2024


MANIAS AND 
PHOBIAS

ACROSS

1. Figaro's solo, e.g.

5. Not sin, as in math

8. Designer Laroche

11. Pi-meson

12. Cut, like a log

13. *Telephobia, or fear of this device

15. "He's Just Not That ____ You", 
movie

16. 2D measurement

17. Gives a helping hand

18. *Ludomania, obsession with ____

20. Therefore

21. Poetic feet

22. Accident

23. *____mania, obsession with wealth 
and power

26. Type of throw, in baseball

30. Miner's load

31. Member of Round Table

34. Quartet minus one

35. Spacious

37. Last word of "America the 
Beautiful"

38. Young chicken

39. Cocoyam

40. Largest Asian antelope

42. Haute couture gala location, with 
The

43. Slimy phlebotomists

45. *____phobia, fear of public 
speaking

47. Took the bait

48. Tempter

50. Dumbstruck

52. *Gamophobia, fear of ____

55. September stone

56. Cantina cooker

57. Apple leftover

59. Lakes, in Scotland

60. ____ gin

61. "On a ____," or carefree

62. *____mania, obsession with oneself

63. Cough syrup amt.

64. Additional

DOWN

1. *____phobia, fear of bees

2. Bananaphone preceder

3. Itty bit

4. Language disfunction

5. Indigenous person of Lesser Antilles

6. Track and field star, 1936 Olympics

7. Tear in pantyhose

8. Struck with a mallet

9. Back arrow key

10. Indeed

12. Against the stream swimmer

13. Say "pretty please"

14. *____phobia, fear of snakes and 
crocodiles

19. Uncooperative, like a mule

22. "Battleship" success

23. Kind of mushroom

24. Grind down

25. Glittery stone

26. Carpet style

27. Lily genus, pl.

28. Angers

29. "All for one and one for all," to 
Musketeers

32. Egyptian goddess of fertility

33. Hair raiser

36. *____ effect, or compulsive 
handwashing

38. Pileus, pl.

40. Entomologist's catcher, sometimes

41. Agora, plural

44. Tannery supply, pl.

46. Delphi talker

48. Room partitions

49. Lowest deck on a ship

50. Full of excitement

51. Home to Baylor University

52. Lion's share

53. Hockey score

54. Commits a faux pas

55. A in IPA

58. Increase

NOV. 9, 2024 Solutions

 
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