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Crossword No. 434: Another Turkey Day
ACROSS
1 Resort island just east of Java
5 Vehicles in blurry photos
9 Country whose largest island is Savaii
14 “Let’s do it!”
15 Science show since 1974
16 Desktop images
17 Ancient city that became today’s Istanbul
19 Bobby Orr was one
20 Newman on Seinfeld et al.
22 Not as a regular thing
23 Sketchy plans
26 Pearl clutcher?
28 Went after
29 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner who went on to become president of Poland
31 Cloths for cleaning
32 One of Columbus’ ships
33 Informer
36 “Angry Anymore” singer DiFranco
37 English word meaning “to follow a winding course” that takes its name from a Turkish river with many bends
39 Oklahoma city
40 Fundraising org.
41 Back street
42 Leave with no escape
43 ___ of New York (Tama Janowitz book)
45 Emergency room task
47 Existentialist’s question
49 Close down, as a business
50 Completely fascinated
51 Most difficult to hear
54 Lacking color
56 Of Turkey’s 39 Olympic gold medals, 29 have come in this sport, traditional there since classical times
60 Common Sense author
61 Stubbs of the Four Tops
62 At any point
63 Declare
64 Gets an eyeful of
65 Burn indelibly
DOWN
1 Lobster eater’s protection
2 Sen. Klobuchar
3 Late gossip great Smith
4 Totally disorganized
5 Loosened
6 Thwarts, as evil plans
7 Latin word often seen pluralized in crossword puzzles
8 “Ditto”
9 Member of the fam
10 Unlike this entry
11 Turkish geographical feature mentioned in the book of Genesis
12 In reserve
13 Ed in Elf
18 Identify
21 Best Supporting Actor nominee for Warrior, 2011
23 Word before paper or metal
24 Stadium noise
25 Istanbul’s most famous building, from the Greek for “holy wisdom”
27 Two semesters
29 South African reds, say
30 Serving Murray
32 Part of IPA
34 Saying
35 Fall (off)
37 Palindrome with an apostrophe
38 Singer on stamps
42 The dots on lowercase i’s and j’s
44 Hidden, as a talent
45 Main point
46 Sign of disuse
47 Lunch options
48 Attacks
49 Jobs that created lots of jobs
52 Temple University team
53 For no money
55 Called at birth
57 “So ___ heard!”
58 Union for profs
59 “This is really aggravating”
Sudoku
Fill in all the boxes so that each row, column, and outlined square includes all the numbers from 1 through 9.
Difficulty: hard
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