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1. Epic 5. Fellow 9. Carpenter’s tool 12. Milky gem 13. Wallet items 14. Hawaiian gift 15. Valley 16. Minerals 17. Sun-bronzed 18. Monsters 20. Cover with cement 21. Gives 24. More achy 25. Provoke 26. Armed conflict 28. Gruesome 30. Treatment 34. Imitated a serpent 36. Anguish 37. Bricklayer 40. Baby birds of prey 42. Choir voice 43. Artist’s stand 44. Infant’s sound 45. Angel’s headdress 46. Remotely 50. Country hotel 51. Constant 52. Burrowing animal 53. So-so grade

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1. Lay turf 2. Act like 3. Maiden 4. Deal out 5. Entrances 6. Turmoil 7. Poor grades 8. Superhero’s chest letter 9. Sacred table 10. Zigzag 11. Ocean cruiser 19. Halloween creature FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS | FCNP.COM

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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 55. House addition 56. Large number 57. Correct 58. Asian sauce

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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.

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NOVEMBER 4 - 10, 2021 | PAGE 21

PUZZLE NO. 108 PUZZLE NO. 109

STRANGE BREW JOHN DEERING

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1. Vintage 4. Switch 8. Trademark 12. Very small 13. Caesar’s garment 14. Sleeping 15. Dawdled 17. Curved roof 18. Olive ____ 19. Make holy 20. Marzipan flavoring 23. Slapstick prop 24. Juvenile 25. Collection of clothes 30. Rowboat necessity 31. Farm towers 32. Is allowed to 33. Comes before 35. Mud 36. Head of a suit 37. Corrected text 39. Separate 42. Camp bunk 43. Flag site 44. Stammers 49. Alternative word 50. Dislike intensely 51. Posed, as for a portrait 52. Gateway 53. 24th letters 54. Have a look-see

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1. Night bird 2. Luau welcome 3. Bear cave 4. Beer mug 5. Global 6. Vital statistic 7. Shoulder enhancer 8. Soup server 9. Clarinet’s cousin 10. Valued minerals 11. Keats poems 16. Thug 19. Auction calls 20. On the summit 21. Shakespeare’s

“King ____” 22. Nothing more than 23. Bring to trial 26. Brewery beverage 27. Forget 28. Unadorned 29. Saw 31. Religious faction 34. Calling 35. Catcher’s catcher 38. Loves excessively 39. Copied 40. Game played on horseback 41. Likewise 44. “____ Done

Him Wrong” 45. Impose a tariff 46. 19th letter 47. Sharp knock 48. Barnyard pen

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SPORTS QUIZ By Ryan A. Berenz

1. Which former NBA star was named head coach of the Chinese Basketball Association’s Beijing Royal Fighters in June 2019?

2. Friar Dom is the mascot for what college team’s athletic programs?

3. What institution, located in Ormond Beach, Fla., instructs professional and amateur baseball umpires?

4. Westfalenstadion (officially Signal Iduna Park) is the home stadium of what Bundesliga football club?

5. Before becoming the Toronto Maple Leafs, what name did the NHL team have from 1919-27?

6. Name the Iowa Hawkeyes running back who was selected by the New York Jets in the third round of the 2009 NFL draft.

7. Name the journalist and sportscaster who co-hosted ESPN’s “Highly Questionable” from 2013-17 and had an ESPN Radio show called “The Right Time” from 2015-17?

Last Week’s Answers

Answers 1. Brian Scalabrine • 2. The Chicago White Sox. 3. Terrell Suggs • 4. Althea Gibson. 5. The Lady Byng Memorial Trophy • 6. The Minnesota Timberwolves. 7. The University of Wisconsin Badgers.

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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

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