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Cornelliana

Sesqui word play.

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By Adam Perl ’67

Across

1. *Astaire wear
7. *Nonsense
17. National rival
18. Something that’s hard to
put down
19. Combat zones
20. Small number
21. Morse bit
22. Hook’s hand
24. Had a little lamb?
25. Salt, chemically
28. Civil war president
31. Rights org.
35. Big part
37. *”Chariots of Fire” star
40. Pinch pennies
43. Shakespearean term of address
45. Outstanding
46. Hibernia
47. Protest singer Phil
49. “How ___ Your Mother”
51. See 95 across
57. Account
58. Twistable treat
59. Unexciting
60. Wing it?
63. Some tributes
65. Aslan’s home
67. *Facebook feature
69. Miles of film
70. Extended family
71. Melee
74. Film-rating grp.
77. Infirmary sight
80. Charged things
82. New Deal pres.
84. Have some humble pie
89. Needle work?
92. Words of consolation
93. It multiplies by dividing
94. *Green Bay Packers fan
95. Words which can, in order,
precede the first and second parts
of the answers to the starred clues

Down

1. Loathsome sort
2. Senator Hatch
3. Michelangelo masterpiece
4. Sugar substitute?
5. In the style of
6. Hardy heroine
7. Some recesses
8. Wears out the carpet?
9. Ryder Cup org.
10. Court cry
11. James of jazz
12. Bird feeder fill
13. Unpaid debt
14. Start to form?
15. 100 yrs.
16. Work unit
23. Like some scientists?
26. Customer
27. NASA moon lander
29. Shortened: Abbr.
30. Reason out
32. Shipping letters
33. Sch. in Baton Rouge
34. Take advantage of
36. Ill-fated mission of 1967
38. “Give me an example!”
39. 1988 Best Actress
40. Triple ___
41. Union inits.
42. Elementary education, briefly
43. ___ mai (dim sum dish)
44. Playground retort
48. Does housework
50. Women’s shoe style
52. Lord Grantham, e.g.
53. Return letters?
54. Actor McKellen
55. Excessive detail, briefly
56. Vote for
60. U.S. fraud watchdog
61. “___ Abner”
62. Soprano Sumac
64. Call, in cards
66. Provide heat?
68. Repeat performance
69. ___ Trapp family
72. Crowning touch?
73. Lugged
75. Following
76. Acrobat developer
78. Singles
79. Head of France?
81. Try
83. Kind of trip
84. List ender
85. Hot tub sound
86. Driving need
87. Theater admonishment
88. ___-haw
90. Ethel Waters’s “___ Blue?”
91. Dress (up)

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