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59 Like a diet that allows only fats and protein 60 Creative thoughts 61 Bear’s home 62 Posts, as a letter 63 What children should be, and not heard, they say 64 High trains in Chicago
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DOWN 1 Overflows (with) 2 The “O” of O magazine 3 Ski jacket 4 “Almost finished!” 5 Dustin Hoffman’s role in “Midnight Cowboy” 6 Comparable (to) 7 “Game of Thrones” actress Headey 28 “Watch your 57 Velvet-voiced Mel ___!” 8 Prevent from 58 “So that’s your falling, perhaps 30 Electrical unit game!” 9 English rocker Hitchcock ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 10 Simon & H I V E P R O P E R T R A Garfunkel’s “I ___ Rock” A H E M R O X A N E W E T N E R O E V E R Y S O O F T 11 Typist’s stat, in brief D A M U S E S A T M F E E B R E A K S L E A R N 12 Hush-hush grp. R Y E B E E R S F E N C E D 14 Boo-boos A A R E V O T E R S E E S 20 Smoldering T H E A R T I S T remains C P R E N D U R E A M C S 21 Hammer’s end L O O K A T G E N E P O O L 24 Like some Greek I D L E D D E A D W E columns F R O T H S B O Z O E P I 25 Armor flaw B A D T O T H E B O B L O G A C E M Y E L I N B U S H 26 Like some promises and gas R E X E X M A T E C N E T tanks 17 Open the door for
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O CTO B E R Veteran television journalist Mike MatMemphis in May was canceled. thews announced his retirement. A video of Germantown businessman The health department did not Lloyd Crawford went viral as the man cancel Halloween events but did not was filmed telling a man holding a Black recommend them. 2 3 4 5 6 Lives Matter poster he was1not welcome The U.S. Department of Justice in the city. issued $2 million in grants to combat COVID-19 cases rose to 6,119. Deaths violent crime in Memphis. 13 14 totaled 133.
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59 Like a diet that allows only fats and protein 60 Creative thoughts J U LY 16 Officials announced a new radio station, 61 Bear’s home WYXR 91.7, would air in the fall. Bars were ordered closed. Restaurants 19 62 Posts, as a letter were ordered closed by 10 p.m. The State Capitol Commission voted to 63 What children move the bust of Nathan Bedford 22 Forrest theand Tennessee State Capitol building. should from be, The Cooper-Young Festival was cannot heard, celed. they The city council renamed a stretch say of Poplar Avenue to Black Lives Matter Avenue. in 31 32 64 High trains Shelby County Schools announced fall Chicago classes would be all virtual. 15
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28 Painstakingly sorts (through) 29 Tykes 31 Door fastener 32 “The Magic Flute,” for one 33 Planet between Mercury and Earth 34 Bugs Bunny or Wile E. Coyote 35 Muddy deposit 38 Splits in two 40 “… ___ the twain shall meet”
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54 Decade that spawned the slogan found at the starts of 19-, 31-, 40- and 51-Across 55 Cubes in a freezer
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Jennifer 27 Oswalt announced she was 28 leaving the Downtown Memphis Commission as president. 33 COVID-19 cases totaled 37,480. 34 Deaths totaled 571.
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N OV E M B E R 37 Tennessee voters turned out in record numbers (more than 3 million) to cast AU G UST ballots in the 2020 presidential election. 39 40 Operation LeGend brought 40 federal A federal judge sided with Tennessee agents to Memphis to reduce the city’s in an ongoing water-rights case from 42 violent crime rate. Mississippi. 43 State lawmakers passed bills to crack A council member filed an ethics down on protesters. complaint against another member 45to trans46 insults hurled during a The $200-million project for profane form the Mid-South Fairgrounds into meeting. a youth sports destination was branded St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 51 announced they may52 as Liberty Park. researchers have 53 figured out how the pandemic virus kills and how to stop it. 54 55 56 COVID-19 cases totaled 49,263. 57 Deaths totaled 672.
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