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CROSSWORD BY THOMAS JOSEPH
ACROSS
1 Trite
6 Newborns
11 Superior to
12 On the ball
13 Board, as a bus
14 Math comparison
15 Take cover
17 Choreo-graphy bit
18 Glided
20 Ship’s trail
22 Sister of sorts
23 Leaves
26 Have a spat
28 Boring movie
29 “Snook-ums,” e.g.
31 In shape
32 Gumbo veggie
33 Sound
36 Tadpole’s home
38 Bakery come-on
40 Mariner’s place
43 Speech problems
44 “Republic” writer
45 Playwright Clifford
46 Rental choice
DOWN
1 Chips buy
2 White House nickname
3 Jack Reacher novel
4 Skirt
5 Give for a time
6 Butter unit
7 Sitka native
8 Jack Reacher novel
9 Lake near Buffalo
10 Cease
16 Ram’s mate
18 Small fastener
19 Lead on
21 Basilica part
23 Precious
24 Half of a sextet
25 Match parts
27 Scruffy
30 Travel aid
33 Cry of surrender
34 Ring of light
35 Like the Gobi
37 “Clumsy me!”
39 Braying beast
41 — loss
42 Dijon denial