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Crossword: Pythagorean puzzle

Crossword-answers

In print | February 26, 2009

ACROSS

1. Slays, Soprano-style
6. Stocking rip
10. Egyptian goddess of fertility
14. Senator Spector
15. Skiing stick
16. Try again
17. Sierra _____
18. Halfwit
19. It may be dropped
20. It’s written in terza rima
23. Sugar suffix
24. Acne unit
25. “la la” preceder
26. 2nd Amendment org.
29. “Golden Girl” Arthur
30. Battery terminals
32. Drink popularized by Sex and the City
36. Pundit Colmes
38. Sn on the Periodic Table
39. Hot to ____
40. Bank bailout beneficiary
45. Type of officer
46. Always, poetically
47. ___ Cone
48. It may be “of innocence” or “of con- sent”
50. Apply calamine lotion, e.g.
51. Largest city in Neb.
54. President Clinton’s reelection strategy and a hint to the circled letters in 20-Across, 32-Across, and 40-Across
58. Site of Jean Paul Marat’s death
60. Phillies, e.g.
61. Synthetic fabric
62. Active ingredient in most lotions
63. Austen novel
64. La Vie Boheme, e.g.
65. California county famous for its wine
66. Henna et al.
67. Lymphoid organs

DOWN
1. Many may wonder where he is
2. Lengths x widths
3. Dolly, e.g.
4. County on the Thames
5. Warrants a “God Bless You”
6. Banana _____
7. Midday
8. Up high
9. Robert E. Lee, e.g.
10. Modern day Persia
11. Like alpha helixes or beta pleated sheets
12. Dictator Amin
13. Lay grass
21. Setting of “The King and I”
22. Indian royal
27. Gambling Mecca
28. Aide: abbr.
29. Beat poet’s prop
31. Aquatic mammal
32. Famously red haired comedian
33. Result of some ties: abbr.
34. Olive core
35. “Snakes _____ Plane”
36. Garage band equipment
37. It may be sub-prime
41. Hai ____
42. Nullified
43. Astronaut Armstrong
44. Hezbollah’s state
49. Foe
50. “Three Musketeers” novelist
51. Like some body builders
52. “Roger & Me” director Michael
53. Freud and Karenina, e.g.
55. Zeus’ mother
56. 50 Cent protégé, with “The”
57. Journalistic errur?
58. U.N. Secretary General ____ Ki Moon
59. In the style of