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CROSSWORD BY THOMAS JOSEPH
ACROSS
1 Bowlers and derbies
5 Use four-letter words
10 Foreboding sign
11 Not as well off
13 Kelly of morning TV
14 Highly decorative
15 Breast-bone
17 Grier of “Jackie Brown”
18 Places for laces
19 Alias letters
20 “— a deal!”
21 Storage spot
22 Digitizes, as a page
25 Pebble or boulder
26 Breathing organ
27 Big snake
28 Spanish gold
29 Connoisseur of fine food
33 Light touch
34 Investigate
35 Flammable gas
37 Persia, today
38 More profound
39 Mysterious loch
40 Attire
41 Merriment
DOWN
1 Neigh sayer
2 Friendliness
3 Sioux shelter
4 Becoming tangled
5 Teapot parts
6 Some bait
7 Long, long time
8 Plains people
9 Captured anew
12 Newly fashioned
16 Brooklyn team
21 Glossy bird
22 Was inclined
23 Like museum exhibits
24 One more
25 Diner order
27 Alternative to briefs
29 Heredity units
30 Cook’s mushroom
31 Make blank
32 High-strung
36 Gorilla, for example
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