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Weekly crossword:
Cephalopods!

Caroline Ho
Assistant Editor

ACROSS

1. Apple desktop

2. Practically forever

g. Likely

12. Inception (2010) director

14. Is slack-jawed

16. Maiden name indicator

20. Broad-headed
cephalopod with a hard
internal shell

23. Myself, en francais

26. You, archaically

27. Spacious

30. 1,202

32. Lout

35. Southeast Asian sailboat

36. Ring-shaped island

37. Prefix for “mural” or
“venous”

39. Vinyl record

40. Outdoes (2 wds, hyph.)

42. Orca or otter, but not
octopus

45. Federal politician
(abbr.)

46. Openings for coins

48. City in northern Iraq

50. Light impact

53. ET’s vessel

54. Severely overweight

55. Fancy neckwear

57. Philly’s state, for short

60. Alias abbr.
61. Huge, deep-sea-
dwelling cephalopod (2
wads.)

65. Sea bream, in sushi

67. Boggy body of water

68. Nonsensical talk

72. Nocturnal raptor

73. Middle Eastern country
embroiled in civil war
since 2011

74. Number of limbs for
24-down

75. Conger or moray

76. Vend

77. Uttered, as a greeting

DOWN

1. Cephalopod defense
mechanism

2. Cow’s cry

3. In the style of (2 wds.)

4. Derivative subj. (abbr.)

5. Marble

6. Spanish sailing ship

7. Fencer’s weapon

8. Medieval labourer

g. Boat securer

10. Pod vegetable

u. Number of limbs for
20-across or 61-across

13. Hard-shelled, many-
limbed cephalopod

15. Agitate

21. Ordinal suffix

22. Absorb (up)

23. UFC sport

24. Round-headed
cephalopod

25. Symbol

28. Cephalopod, clam, or
other shellfish

29. Chatter

31. ___-de-France

33. Money dispensers

34. Monk’s title

37. “Time ____ the
essence!”

38. Extinct spiral-shelled
cephalopod

41. Grocery store checkout
code

43. Horde

44. On the briny

45. CEO’s degree, perhaps
(abbr.)

47. Uppermost layer of
earth

49. Meadow

51. Montreal university

52. Hawaiian taro dish

56. Monitor: Keep __ on

58. Same

59. Greek “N”

62. Votes against

63. Wheel covering (UK sp.)

64. Tiny amount

65. Foot digit

66. Shock’s partner

69. Grocery store chain

70. Highest degree

71. Summer, en frangais

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