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The Puzzle Page

by Matt Gaffney

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

Find the solutions to all The Week’s puzzles online: www.theweek.com/puzzle.

Sources: A complete list of publications cited in The Week can be found at theweek.com/sources. ■

November 24, 2017 THE WEEK
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