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Weekly crossword: Winter festivals
Caroline Ho
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ACROSS

1. Sleeveless garment

5. Inits. for employees
injured on the job

8. Red or Dead, e.g.

u. Pal, slangily

12. Anger

13. Cleopatra’s killer

14. Ancient Roman festival
originally on Dec. 17

16. Once around the track

17. Visual receptors

18. Secular holiday on Dec.
23

20. Day division

21. Banned pesticide

22. Yugoslavian
revolutionary

23. Pen contents

25. Cow's call

26. “The lady __ protest too
much...”

27. Iron, atomically

29. Festival celebrating
African heritage from
Dec. 26 to Jan. 1

32. Fantastic, in slang

34. Physicist Newton

36. Slip up

37. Meagre

38. Genuine

39. It starts on Jan. 1 (2
wads.)

41. Prefix meaning “two”

42. Conclusions

45. Charged bit

46. This American Life
broadcaster

49. Popular cookie

50. Large antelope

51. Stallion’s mate

52. The longest day of the
year

55. Desire

56. Drone

57. When one is gifted lords
a-leaping, according to
song

60. Sugary suffix

61. Cap

62. The Little Mermaid
protagonist

63. “And so on” (abbr.)

64. Opposite WSW

65. Authentic

DOWN

1. Riding resident

2. Flightless birds

3. Knight’s address

4.X%

5. Cunning

6. Monte __

7. “Get lost!” (2 wds.)

8. Barrage

g. Esau’s twin

10. iOS downloads

u. Jewish festival of lights,
Dec. 22 to 30

14. Presently

15. Rear of a ship

17. Vital energy force

19. Greek island, home of
Odysseus

21. Wear

22. Baker's quantities

25. Surname prefix
meaning “son of”

26. Naturalist Charles

27. Swampy area

28. Approx.

30. Tends to plants

31. Exist

33. Quebec festival held in
February

34. Roadside bomb (abbr.)

35- Phys or chem (abbr.)

37. State rep, for short

40. Second person pronoun

43. Stinging shrub

44. Uncertain victor’s
question (3 wds.)

47. Predator’s quarry

48. Soak flax

50. Hairstyling stuff

51. Demonstrate

52. Footwear

53. Remove from power

54. Give up

55. Edible seed

58. Distant

59. Uno + dos

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