THE REC ROOM Crossword
“EAT FIGURES”
By Brendan Emmett Quigley
Pearl’s Puzzle
Difficulty Level
★★
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Fill in every row, column, and 3x3 box with each of the letters exactly once.
D R O N E
B A I T
The highlighted letters read left to right and top to bottom will complete the quote:
“I want to get ______of myself on my _____y only 2” taller.” —Steven Wright
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES
ACROSS 1. Got the red out? 5. Prayer’s beginning 10. Chain that sells Shivers 14. Seep slowly 15. Stock descriptor 16. College whose radio station is WYBC 17. “___ and the Lost City of Gold” 18. Pseudonymous Italian author Ferrante 19. Thing in a play 20. Grain that glitters? 23. Gist 24. Yacht’s milieu 25. Title holder standing next to a purplish salad fruit? 32. Bite (down) 33. Sweater material 34. Letters on a 7” 35. Arm bone 36. Yank away with force 38. Place where missions are planned out 39. Patch of earth 40. God with a hammer 41. Kept from going public 42. Toast Dwayne Johnson’s derrière? 46. Soap opera actor Ramsey 47. Unfit for grazing 48. Reason one can’t stop thinking of linens? 55. Split the scene 56. Its president is Ariel Henry 57. Org. that busts many brackets 58. Nevado del ___ (Colombian volcano) 59. Apportion 60. Change jar change 61. Beast alongside a princess 62. Jobs to do 63. Calculations in the Lyft app: Abbr.
DOWN 1. Physiques 2. Circular path 3. High priest who reintroduced the Torah in Jerusalem 4. 1995 2Pac single about Afeni Shakur 5. Big lead at the Indianapolis 500 6. Book whose narrator describes the title character as “light of my life, fire of my loins” 7. Ready for business 8. Called up 9. Billiards stroke where the cue returns after striking the object ball 10. Universal recipient designation 11. Beloved, in Bologna 12. Inky mark 13. “Darn right, pal” 21. Georgia governor Brian 22. Bad guy in the wrestling ring 25. Daphnis’s love 26. CRV maker 27. Bring the ruckus to your tuchus 28. Cowboy’s calls, for short 29. Muse for bards 30. ___ salts 31. Bootleg-nabbing feds 32. Undemanding, as a job 36. “Don’t know the guy” 37. Bird of fable 38. 1989 #1 hit by Prince 40. Your family’s all over it 41. Mix things up 43. Pluck out, as eyebrows 44. “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” composer 45. Circles in space 48. Slimy garden creature 49. Person next in line 50. Roosevelt’s Scottie 51. Some museum pieces 52. Rapper who won a 2021 Best Metal Performance Grammy 53. Pop-pop’s spouse 54. Exams for tomorrow’s coll. freshmen 55. Frizzy do, for short
“More murders are committed at ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature. Over one hundred, it’s too hot to move. Under ninety, cool enough to survive. But right at ninety-two degrees lies the apex of irritability, everything is itches and hair and sweat and cooked pork.” —Ray Bradbury
35 VOLUME 25 ISSUE 31 / AUGUST 5, 2021 / THE SOURCE WEEKLY
©2021 Brendan Emmett Quigley (www.brendanemmettquigley.com)
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