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1. Scored on the serve 5. Gun, as an engine 8. Kitties 12. Speaking part 13. Respect 14. Trade 15. Flamenco dancer’s instrument 17. TV’s Alan

____ 18. Overpriced 19. Eternal spirit 21. Hog’s home 23. Break 27. Snarl 30. Sprain result 33. Shad ____ 34. This moment 35. Work dough 36. Blemish 37. Eden inhabitant 38. Just manages to earn 39. Memo error 40. Debris 42. Hem’s partner 44. Atop 47. Intelligence 51. Punch 54. Wherever 56. Took a taxi 57. Decorate a cake 58. Glass container

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1. Circle portions 2. Cloak 3. Otherwise 4. Hate 5. Made a getaway 6. Mas that go baa 7. Presidential refusal 8. Biblical song 9. Nocturnal bird FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS | FCNP.COM

PUZZLE NO. 83

ACROSS

1. Expression of regret 5. Heidi’s mountain 8. Splendor 12. Harness piece 13. Gooey stuff 14. Object of adoration 15. Boring 17. Slangy no 18. Get a bead on 19. Divided equally 21. Office tables 24. Uproar 25. Applies frosting to 26. Secret place 30. Not he 31. Ran easily 32. Lumberjack’s tool 33. Mixed 35. Operatic melody 36. Fair 37. Not salty, as water 38. Football shirt 41. Disfigure 42. Rewrite text 43. Hair coloring 48. Decorate again 49. Wiggly creature 50. Saturate 51. Recognized 52. Christmas

____ 53. Sound pitch

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1. Sculpture, e.g. 2. Orchid necklace 3. Breeze 4. Slinks 5. Part of a molecule 6. Felon’s flight 7. Acted as chairperson 8. Fiesta decor 9. Garlic feature 10. Sulk 11. Asked urgently 16. Female sib 20. Did farm work 21. Part of CD 22. Repeated sound 23. Look to be 24. Become ready to pick 26. Nectar gatherer 27. Silver follower 28. Center of rotation 29. Slangy affirmative 31. Inhabit 34. Give as a gift 35. Stop 37. Blower 38. Soda ____ 39. Garden of

Genesis 40. Take a bus 41. Stubborn beast 44. Gun a motor 45. Additionally 46. Sunbather’s color 47. ____ out (barely make)

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SPORTS QUIZ By Ryan A. Berenz

1. Nicknamed “Hefty Lefty,” this quarterback tallied four completions for 28 yards for the Super Bowl champion New York Giants in 2007. Who is he?

2. Who holds the NBA record for technical fouls in a career?

3. Name the novelist who wrote “Beartown” and “Us Against You,” which both take place in a small, hockey-obsessed community in Sweden.

4. The Tim Hortons Brier is the Canadian men’s championship in what sport?

5. In 1930, Chicago Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett caught a baseball dropped 800 feet from what?

6. What Yale football player and coach became known as the “Father of American Football” for creating many of the sport’s rules?

7. Baseball historian and author Peter Nash (aka Prime Minister Pete Nice) was a member of what early 1990s rap music group? Last Weeks answers!

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