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1. Real 5. High point 8. Medicine 12. Charged atoms 13. Hooter 14. Luxury 15. Long narrative 16. “____ More

Night” 17. Wineglass part 18. Reattach a label 20. Fearful admiration 22. Dad 25. Bert’s friend on “Sesame

Street” 29. Provided food 32. Yarn 33. Hearth residue 34. Unwanted breeze 36. Foot digit 37. “War and ____” 39. Fake 41. Moth-____ 42. Ripped 43. Solicit 45. Full of gossip 49. Woeful word 52. ____ a boy! 55. Yarn 56. Foolish person 57. Brief sleep 58. Constant

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PUZZLE NO. 118

ACROSS

1. Night hooter 4. Apiece 7. Sailing vessel 12. Big hairdo 13. “Where the

Boys ____” 14. Royal headwear 15. Blow upon 16. Disappointed 17. Transform 18. Tired 20. Anxious 22. ____ space 24. Riot crowd 27. Scenic view 30. Shade of green 31. Roused 32. Complainer 34. Wooden pins 35. Snatching 37. Newspaper spots 38. Lariat 39. Bakery worker 41. Morsel 45. Fine dishes 48. December 31, e.g. 50. Briny expanse 51. Cousins’ moms 52. Moral crime 53. Hazardous curve 54. Type of tea 55. Golf gadget 56. College cheer

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1. Not ons 2. Covering 3. Sole 4. Meadow 5. Memorable time 6. Exchange for cash 7. For men only 8. Easter flower 9. Cookie grain 10. Prospector’s find 11. Accepted standard 19. Cozy corners 21. Serious plays 23. Snarl 24. Skirt style 25. Bird of ill

____ 26. Titanic’s foe 27. Mama’s fellow 28. Amazed 29. Egg beverages 30. Toil 33. Vulgar 36. Least common 39. Involved with 40. Crate 42. Client 43. Flat hill 44. Pound 45. Beret 46. Tint 47. Pen and ____ 49. Contend

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ANSWER TO PUZZLE NO. 118

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SPORTS QUIZ By Ryan A. Berenz

1. Name the nonprofit organization that promotes youth football and cheer/dance programs for some 325,000 participants worldwide?

2. What boxer defeated Felix Trinidad Jr. to claim the undisputed middleweight title in a 2001 bout at New York City’s Madison Square Garden?

3. “Better to lose honorably in a British car than win in a foreign one” is a quote attributed to what motorsports legend?

4. Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team settled a lawsuit over its new Guardians nickname with another Cleveland team that played what sport?

5. What was the original name of the Extreme Football League (X League) women’s tackle football association when it was founded in 2009?

6. What outdoor sports television program, produced and hosted by Babe Winkelman, first hit the airwaves in 1980?

7. The Omloop Het Nieuwsblad is a road cycling race held annually in February in what country?

Last Week’s Answers

1. 40 • 2. Curt Flood • 3. Georges Vezina. 4. Sylvia Hanika • 5. The Harlem Globetrotters • 6. 11 7. The Statue of Liberty.

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