Long-time crossword puzzle creator’s final puzzle in this week’s issue
By Brandon Reid
Assistant Editor
The Rock River Times (TRRT) regrets that long-time [ more ]
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1 Ear part
5 Tactless
10 Old PC monitors
14 Restaurant chain: abbr.
15 Plantain lily
16 Musical composition
17 Indian wrap
18 Watering hole
19 Iowa State [ more ]
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1 Submarine detection method
6 Dear me
10 Little troublemakers
14 Once ___ time…
15 Actors in a play
16 Without slack
17 Shabby
18 Gambling cubes
19 [ more ]
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1 Vigor
4 Cupid, in ancient Greece
8 ___ projection
14 Hard water?
15 ___ ex machina
16 Composer Debussy
17 First word of many titles
18 [ more ]
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1 Rockford product
6 Stash
10 Play beginning
14 Meal for a cold day?
15 Soft mineral
16 Before noon, in poetry
17 Torn asunder
18 Downwind
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1 Avoid capture
6 Speak off the cuff
11 “___ a real nowhere man…”
14 Opponent
15 Journal
16 Elec. current unit
17 Step compactor?
20 Went [ more ]
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1 4 on a phone
4 ___ Spiegel (German magazine)
7 Director Howard
10 Vagrant
13 Chap
14 Verse beginning?
15 Actress Gardner
16 Yoko ___
17 Bachelor’s [ more ]
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1 Mrs. Lincoln’s maiden name
5 Atlanta-based cable TV network
8 “Whoops!”
12 Tel ___
13 Wide-mouthed jug
14 Utah city
15 Front-fastening knitted garment
18 Mexican [ more ]
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1 Inquire
4 Ft. Worth neighbor
10 Pinnacle
14 Transgression
15 Lunar landing program
16 U.S. territory in the Marianas
17 Hawaiian dish
18 Cross between a [ more ]
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1 Worry
5 Jeweler’s unit
10 Pet protector: abbr.
14 Tackle box item
15 Public space in ancient Greece
16 Raven relative
17 P ___ puzzle
18 [ more ]
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1 Luminescence
5 Fables
10 Not many
14 Illinois neighbor
15 Capital on the Seine
16 Stare
17 Trio in a carol
19 Farmland unit
20 Looks after
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1 Sound of disapproval
5 Grab
10 Certain PCs
14 Length x width
15 Gawk
16 Margarine
17 It’s common in July
19 “So long”
20 Photographer [ more ]
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1 “That was close!”
5 Picket line crossers
10 Mexican snack
14 In this place
15 Tajik neighbor
16 Workplace watchdog grp.
17 Poetic foot
18 Official [ more ]
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1 Terse
6 WWW address part
10 Castle surrounder
14 Bumpkin
15 Sandwich cookie
16 Having the skill
17 Last Greek letter
18 Putting on ___
19 Price
20 [ more ]
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1 Shoestring
5 Cookie selling grp.
8 Potter’s medium
12 Magician’s opening word
13 Spoken tests
15 Layer of frost
16 Russian denial
17 French cap
18 Garage [ more ]
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1 Dec. holiday
5 Mechanical bankers: abbr.
9 Big name in hotels
14 Popular flower
15 Red root
16 French avante-garde composer
17 ___ Romeo
18 [ more ]
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1 Lower limb
4 During which, in Britain
10 Type
14 Arafat led it: abbr.
15 Where Monte Carlo is located
16 Single-named singer/actress
17 Hair-setting [ more ]
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1 Money, in slang
6 Pet protection org.
10 ___ partridge in a…
14 Prudential competitor
15 Rip
16 Bruce and Robert E.
17 Disheveled and [ more ]
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1 Cereal plant
4 Simian
7 Author Fleming
10 Shapeless mass
12 ___ Well That Ends Well
13 Taboo
14 Distinct: prefix
15 Rivers in Veracruz
16 Small [ more ]
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1 Old piece of cloth
4 Recline
7 Retort to “Am not!”
9 Tidiness
12 Summary
15 Pilot regulator: abbr.
16 “This American Life” network
17 Gun rights org.
18 Ending for mod or nod
19 Devour
20 Coll. or univ.
22 Paving [ more ]
By Jeremy T. Paine
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1 Clumsy
6 ___ effort
10 Catchall category: abbr.
14 Chinese gambling center
15 Heavy fog
16 Portuguese Man-___
17 Decorate
18 Run without [ more ]
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1 Milk choice
5 Dire
10 Some GI’s
14 Pocket bread
15 Misplaces
16 Weaver’s tool
17 Guinness, for one
18 Leaning
19 Cosmonaut Gagarin
20 Type of 42 [ more ]
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1 Ms. Lollobrigida
5 Band around a package
10 Bart’s sister
14 Perfect place
15 Long-legged bird
16 “It slipped!”
17 Take in a book
18 Hurry
19 [ more ]