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ACROSS
1 Bird in a Sinbad tale
4 Shoe part
8 A president’s initials
11 What the poetry teacher
did on Labor Day?
13 “ yellow ribbon…”
14 What the taxidermist did
on Labor Day?
LABOR DAY LOLLING
15 Deadly snakes
16 Most dangerous, as winter
roads
17 Ending for access
18 The Grand Ole
19 in Black
20 Harden
22 Capri, for example
23 What the cowboy did on
Labor Day?
27 Middle of a simile
29 Cow feature
32 Yanks
33 Fashion designer’s monogram
34 Stop, as a horse
35 Picture puzzle
36 Grope (one’s way)
37 Former VP and others
38 One of Donald Duck’s nephews
39 Word after big or sugar
40 Freedom, for short
41 What the barber did on
Labor Day?
43 Talks and talks
45 Oldies band Na Na
46 Russian monetary unit: abbr.
49 Drive-
50 Had a hero, for example
53 Ford flops
55 Humble response
56 What the songwriter did on
Labor Day?
58 Props for Mickelson
59 What the dry cleaner did on
Labor Day?
60 Strange
61 Captain Hook’s henchman
62 Not tomorrow
DOWN
1 Tree goo used in varnish
2 “You haven’t seen the
last !”
3 Any interlocking word, as
in this puzzle
4 Nine digits of personal
info: abbr.
5 Director Preminger
6 Lascivious look
7 Nelson of Naughty Marietta
8 What the dramatist did
on Labor Day?
9 What the reporter did on
Labor Day?
10 Effortless
11 Vegas cubes
12 What exo means
13 New Mexico tourist stop
14 None too bright
21 Wrap, as an athlete’s wrists
22 Name tags, for example
23 Lion’s abode
24 Ancient kingdom on the Nile
25 Stickum users
26 Overhead trains
28 He’s on your side
29 Russia’s Mountains
30 What the lamp seller did on
Labor Day?
31 What the tavern owner did
on Labor Day?
35 Caviar, for example
36 The mood ring was one
38 Mormon-church abbr.
39 Expressionless, as a comic
42 School writing assignment
44 Purchases
46 Darn again
47 Ran, as colors
48 Trip requirement?
49 Jackson 5 member
50 Says further
51 Swarm
52 Behold, in Latin
54 Not good, not bad
57 Raw rock
Add a letter, then anagram—that’s
how each answer is formed as you
work down from the top of the pyramid (for example: o, no, son, nosh,
horns, herons, thrones, etc.). The
catch is that the clues to the answer
words are listed in random order.
WORD PYRAMID
ILLUSTRATIONS BY BRYAN CHRISTIE DESIGN
CLUES
Female farm animal
Top grade
Constructed anew
Carrying weapons
Like some corn or spinach
Cellist Yo-Yo
Male farm animal
Government program
How many words of five or more letters can you make out of September (We found 25.)
Words may be formed by starting on any
letter and moving to any contiguous letter in
any direction, even diagonally. Backtracking
(reusing a letter in the same word) is okay,
but double letters are not—except double e’s.
Only one form of each word is permitted. ;
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