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from Falls Church News-Press 11-11-2021

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1. What it takes to tango 4. Lather 8. Poems 12. Torn cloth 13. Again 14. Phooey’s kin 15. Feel sick 16. Grand party 17. Plunged 18. Court response 20. Glass part 21. Gusto 22. Diamond or pearl 24. Cram 27. Painters’ stands 30. Interlace 33. Mix thoroughly 34. Happen again 35. Razors 37. One who drenches 38. Trim rind from 39. Social insect 40. Puncturing tool 42. Mischievous creature 44. Not bad: hyph. 48. Wander 50. Kind of duck 52. Succeed 53. Pitch 54. Jack rabbit

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1. Catch 2. Lament 3. Stare rudely at 4. Hang loosely 5. Disables 6. Sandwich mart 7. Bogs 8. Weird 9. Punter’s action: 2 wds. FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS | FCNP.COM

CROSSWORD PUZZLE ANSWERS ARTS&ENTERTAINMENTUSE AMERICAN SPELLING NOVEMBER 11 - 17, 2021 | PAGE 21

PUZZLE NO. 109

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1. Fashionable 5. Bring up 9. To’s mate 12. Painful comment 13. Lazily 14. Glass edge 15. Appeal 16. Representative 18. Merit 19. Type of antelope 20. Draft animals 21. Pool shark’s need 23. Mountain

____ 25. More mature 28. Tapering flag 32. How ____ you? 33. Part of a knife 35. Whack! 36. “The Little ____” 38. Slogan 40. Squid’s defense 41. Basketball site 42. Reach 45. ____ of

Reason 47. Observer 51. Nectar gatherer 53. Cherish 54. Pub brew 55. Woe is me! 56. ____ out (barely makes) 57. Chop 58. Pierre’s mom 59. Exam

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1. Contend (with) 2. Grass-skirt dance 3. Bakery worker 4. Luck 5. Chain of hills 6. First garden 7. Referred 8. Grain 9. Linen source 10. Church ceremony 11. Cafe sign 17. Hospital garb 22. Metropolitan 24. Competitor 25. Thrust 26. Fury 27. For every 28. Dwelling 29. Appropriate 30. Negative word 31. Couple 34. Pleasing 37. Coal source 39. Breakfast fare 41. Honking birds 42. Iranian ruler, once 43. Post 44. Freshly 46. Baggage 48. Ox’s harness 49. Nights before holidays 50. Snooze 52. Sweet root

ANSWER TO PUZZLE NO. 109

CROSSWORD PUZZLE ANSWERS USE AMERICAN SPELLING

SPORTS QUIZ By Ryan A. Berenz

1. Former NFL kick return specialist Mel Gray was named to four Pro Bowls in the early 1990s playing for what team?

2. U.S. Olympian Ryan Crouser won gold medals at the 2016 Rio Games and the 2020 Tokyo Games competing in what track and field event?

3. In the 1983 NBA playoffs, what member of the Atlanta Hawks bit Danny Ainge of the Boston Celtics in the finger during an on-court fight?

4. By what nickname is former Dallas Cowboys fullback and longtime TV analyst Daryl Johnston known?

5. What U.S. women’s soccer star scored three goals vs. Japan in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup final match?

6. The Platypus Trophy is an award presented in the college football rivalry between which two teams?

7. What South Carolina racetrack is known as “The Lady in Black”?

Last Week’s Answers

Answers 1. Stephon Marbury • 2. Providence College. 3. The Harry Wendelstedt Umpire School • 4. Borussia Dortmund 5. The Toronto St. Patricks • 6. Shonn Greene 7. Bomani Jones