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CROSSWORD BY THOMAS JOSEPH
ACROSS
1 Plague
6 Some stingers
11 Superfluous
12 Kick out
13 Rose feature
14 Téa of “Madam Secretary”
15 Road sealer
16 Young fox
18 Little rascal
19 Avenue tree
20 Some amount of
21 Summer sign
22 Bounty
24 Ivy League school
25 Books reviewer
27 Bottle plug
29 Some chocolates
32 Writer Radcliffe
33 Yacht spot
34 Bar concern
35 Long-running CBS drama
36 PC key
37 Before, to bards
38 Door part
40 Crooner Mel
42 Defeated, but barely
43 Leading
44 Lab work
45 Work breaks
DOWN
1 Improve
2 Sigh, say
3 Sailors heed them
4 Slip
5 Beer holder
6 Writer Eudora
7 Woodsman’s tool
8 Movie review cautions
9 Some calligraphers
10 Like loafers
17 Book parts
23 Penguin’s cousin
24 “The Bells” writer
26 Tiller puller
27 Mark of
distinction
28 Like some kicks
30 Rockies rodent
31 Wins every game of
33 Future flowers
39 Acquire
41 Early hour
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(August 6, 1809-October 6, 1892)
Poet Laureate
Ring out the old, ring in the new, ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; ring out the false, ring in the true.
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