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1. Holepunching tools 5. Pod vegetable 8. Wool eater 12. Send away 13. Coat sleeve 14. Cockeyed 15. Nails 16. Chat 17. Slender 18. Sleep 20. Homework 22. Relieves 24. Fee 28. Fodder 33. On a boat 34. Feather accompaniment 36. Per 37. Pier 39. Keepsake 41. Slip-up 43. Practical 47. Slanted font 52. Angler’s tool 53. Approves, shortly 55. Filled tortilla 56. Storm 57. Great success 58. Across 59. Otherwise 60. Product pitches 61. Concocted

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1. Some vipers

2. At what time? 3. Advertising symbol 4. All right: hyph. 5. Costumed parade 6. Distinctive time 7. Walk leisurely 8. Blob 9. Nighttime hooters 10. Singing group 11. Sacred song 19. Final letter 21. Initial for Superman FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS | FCNP.COM

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PUZZLE NO. 96

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1. ____

Wednesday 4. Not this 8. Take off, as clothes 12. Service charge 13. Roomy 14. List of dishes 15. Roofing material 17. Breakfast flakes 18. Type of snake 19. Remorse 21. Bridge payment 24. Milky stone 26. Lacking moisture 27. Hunch 28. Zeroes in 30. Make ready to publish 31. Lodging house 32. Scored on serve 36. Brink 38. “The ____

Boat” 39. Finished dinner 42. Single 44. Unfold 45. Game tile with dots 47. To each his

____ 49. Yoked beasts 50. Salad-bar items 55. Ice arena 56. Female wool-givers 57. Noah’s transport 58. Wraps up 59. Printer’s term 60. Cheerful

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1. Fore’s opposite 2. Ocean 3. This lady 4. “____ the night before . . .” 5. African animal, shortly 6. Citrus beverage 7. Land 8. Urban problem 9. Got word 10. Become a member of 11. Powdery 16. Roof of the mouth 20. Popular street name 21. Hitch 22. Unusual 23. Hawaiian necklace 25. Group of judges 29. Parlors 31. Spurned 33. Dirty Harry, e.g. 34. Abel’s mother 35. Cozy place 37. ____ Quixote 39. Revere 40. Poison 41. Change, as text 43. Sing like the

Swiss 46. Signs 48. Sharp-witted 51. Admiration 52. Witch 53. Historical epoch 54. Heaven

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SPORTS QUIZ By Ryan A. Berenz

1. What Baseball Hall of Fame infielder, nicknamed “Old Shufflefoot,” won the American League MVP award in 1948 as a member of the Cleveland Indians?

2. What name did Muhammad Ali give to his strategy of tiring out an opponent by repeatedly absorbing or evading his punches?

3. Norm Chow, the Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator from 2005-07, was head football coach for what college team from 2012-15?

4. Who was the last active NHL player to have played for the Quebec Nordiques?

5. What is the name of the official mascot of the NBA’s Orlando Magic?

6. What sports equipment and sportswear manufacturer was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1906?

7. The United States led the medal table with a record 83 gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. What nation came in a distant second with 20 gold medals at those Games?

Last Week’s Answers

1. Jose Oquendo • 2. The New York Jets. 3. Arturs Irbe • 4. Scoonie Penn • 5. “Hard Knocks.” 6. The jammers • 7. “Centerfield.”

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