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WVCW 12: MERCY! (AND HOPE FOR FORGIVENESS!)
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1 Dress
6 Muscle to bone or bone to bone connectors
12 Cherbourg cheese
14 Dire musicians who gave us “Sultans of Swing” and “Money for Nothing”?
16 Private who was saved—but at the cost of the lives of Wade, Jackson, Mellish, Horvath, and Miller
17 Laurence, creator of Tristram Shandy and Journal to Eliza; his skull was returned in 1969
20 Troop group
21 Can. telemedicine network that uses videoconferencing to care for more patients in its province
22 Recovery time for ___ ___ fracture typically takes 4-6 months to heal completely
23 Bacterium resistant to carpabenem antibiotics used to treat severe infections, for short
24 Bon words?
26 The one of nine who is the patron of lyric and erotic poetry, often depicted with her lyre
27 One sank the Titanic
28 Sound of one stone dropped into water
29 Scott, the National League’s Rookie of the Year in 1997
30 After dec, uterine membrane shed at parturition or menstruation
31 Abbreviation you might find in the OED after words like dint and kith
32 MLB sabermetric acronym related to slugging
34 Suffix denoting an inhabitant, perhaps, as in someone from Nazareth
36 Certain type of nurse, including, presumably, one who might not be licensed
37 Sign on London bathroom unavailable in winter, for short?
39 Highly irregular—but far more terse—way of writing the number of this clue in ancient Rome?
42 Medical prefix meaning dissimilar or unlike, as before coria, cytosis, or metropia
44 Peter Cetera’s collaborator on “The Next Time I Fall” and the star of Heart in Motion
47 By the end of Hawthorne’s 1850 novel, what the townspeople felt stood for Able
50 First Grand Slam event of the year, held since 1972 in Melbourne, for short
51 Short for Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr., titanium, or note twixt la and do
52 State emphatically
54 Bygone words overused by cruciverbalists?
55 Author of Q.E.D. and Fernhurst, friend of Picasso, Hemingway, and Toklas (who entertained wives)
57 Kudrow or Edelstein
58 Records in the databases of comp. reservation systems that contain itineraries of passengers
59 Romeo’s leader (and an acronym whose first letter stood for Anonima)?
60 Two locations many MD HS seniors might go for a summer vacation and then their college educ?
61 Kerala dish of white gourd, black-eyed peas, coconut milk, and ginger, served as part of Sadhya
62 Last word in the title of a Poitier/Steiger classic set in Sparta, Mississippi
64 What both Mitt Romney and Ritt Momney now call home
65 “___, you Baltimore Colts, and put that ball across the line”
67 What failed tricksters might regroup to do?
69 What the prepositional phrase modifies in the title of the theme song of Rocky III
70 Psyche or Ceres, to NASA rather than to Joseph Campbell, at least
71 “To be” a tu amigo
DOWN
1 What many Austrians might have had on March 12, 1938, when the Nazis invaded their country
2 Strayed received a student ___ ___ attend college; she repaid it after Wild, at the age of 44
3 It borders Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen
4 Cells in follicles produce and store it, breaking it down into T4 (thyroxine) and T3 (triiodothyronine)
5 Prynne in 47A and Devin, formerly a wide receiver and return specialist for da Bears
7 Uncertain reply to teacher’s query, “What motives drove the British East India Company in 1608?”
8 What the US’s public radio network, created in 1970, and the leading gun rights org. (1871) share?
9 ___ Claire, WI
10 Grimaced, maybe
11 Holders of lots of boots
12 Extreme north to extreme south?
13 Unwritten, maybe, as a contract
15 How to Puzzle Cache (Chap 11) might turn you into this, one who hides messages within messages
18 Slave, then freedman who published Cicero’s letters and speeches and maybe invented shorthand
19 A shorter 62A?
25 Comic deception
27 Comment vas-tu? Je vais ___ merci.
33 Many men have their first test of this kind at about 50
35 Turner who was the subject of Styron’s 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
38 Value too highly
39 Robot’s boast?
40 iPhone between 8 Plus and 11
41 Commoner born Dana Elaine Owens?
43 2009 Eastwood film about rugby, Apartheid, and Mandela
45 ICAO for Sandy Point Airport on Abaco Island in The Bahamas
46 Group that gave us “Head Like a Hole” and “We’re in This Together”—or Anais
48 Collarless pullover
49 Orgs.
52 One way to read
53 Since 2013, outside the US it’s been the Kuga (which means plague in Serbo-Croatian!)
56 Many a senior’s last march is to his “Pomp and Circumstance”
62 Racing fuel or Monster Beverage drink
63 199 Ford ___motor aircraft were made between 1925 and 1933
66 4th to be Unionized?
68 Sheeran with whom Swift recorded “The Joker and The Queen”
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