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FOR THE DOGS

By: Brendan Emmett Quigley

Across
1 “Iliad” figure
5 Follower of Mary
9 Dots on a map
14 Knock down
15 Boo-boo, in totspeak
16 Actor Mandel
17 Nobelist Pavlov
18 Towering
19 Sound off
20 Collie that’s into rastafarianism?
23 Bard’s preposition
24 Stetson, e.g.
25 Tell tall tales
26 Corporate officers: Abbr.
28 Investment
30 Unwanted e-mail
32 “Awright!”
33 Wriggler
35 Dieters’ units: Abbr.
36 Being, to Sartre
37 Short horror tales of a mystery dog shared on the Internet?
42 Naval base?
43 Shed tears
44 Natl. Adopt-a-Dog Mo.
45 Years and years
46 Top dog
48 Christian Pulisic’s team, for shor
52 Cineaste’s channel: Abbr.
53 Salon offering
54 Option for welfare recipients, briefly
56 Musical talent
57 Yellow slobbery dog in a Bond film?
61 Japanese dog
62 Part of BYO
63 Leon Uris’s “___ 18”
64 Wranglers rival
65 Like much music of the 90s
66 Rapper born Tracy Morrow
67 Sassy
68 Girl’s nickname
69 Like some sums

Down
1 Crops up
2 “Les Miserables” inspector
3 Flowering shrub
4 TV’s warrior princess
5 Plenty, casually
6 Looks for
7 Eight furlongs
8 Iconic office park where Lumon’s offices in “Severance” is filmed
9 Yonder items
10 “My bad!”
11 They served under Eisenhower
12 Like the first season of “Severance”
13 Observe
21 Pen filler
22 Hopes that one will
27 ___ Bridge (walkway to Citi Field)
29 Naval bases?
31 ___ del Carmen, Mexico
32 “The Second Coming” poet
34 Chinese fruit
37 ___ room
38 One whose work is walked all over
39 Chosen course
40 Basically decent
41 Sharp as a tack
47 Take off
49 Noble Italian family name
50 Caught
51 Compact
53 Big hit
55 Small feathered friend
58 “How sweet ___!”
59 A Chaplin
60 Jump over
61 TV ET


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The Toledo City Paper depends on readers like you! Become a friend today. See membership options

FOR THE DOGS

By: Brendan Emmett Quigley

Across
1 “Iliad” figure
5 Follower of Mary
9 Dots on a map
14 Knock down
15 Boo-boo, in totspeak
16 Actor Mandel
17 Nobelist Pavlov
18 Towering
19 Sound off
20 Collie that’s into rastafarianism?
23 Bard’s preposition
24 Stetson, e.g.
25 Tell tall tales
26 Corporate officers: Abbr.
28 Investment
30 Unwanted e-mail
32 “Awright!”
33 Wriggler
35 Dieters’ units: Abbr.
36 Being, to Sartre
37 Short horror tales of a mystery dog shared on the Internet?
42 Naval base?
43 Shed tears
44 Natl. Adopt-a-Dog Mo.
45 Years and years
46 Top dog
48 Christian Pulisic’s team, for shor
52 Cineaste’s channel: Abbr.
53 Salon offering
54 Option for welfare recipients, briefly
56 Musical talent
57 Yellow slobbery dog in a Bond film?
61 Japanese dog
62 Part of BYO
63 Leon Uris’s “___ 18”
64 Wranglers rival
65 Like much music of the 90s
66 Rapper born Tracy Morrow
67 Sassy
68 Girl’s nickname
69 Like some sums

Down
1 Crops up
2 “Les Miserables” inspector
3 Flowering shrub
4 TV’s warrior princess
5 Plenty, casually
6 Looks for
7 Eight furlongs
8 Iconic office park where Lumon’s offices in “Severance” is filmed
9 Yonder items
10 “My bad!”
11 They served under Eisenhower
12 Like the first season of “Severance”
13 Observe
21 Pen filler
22 Hopes that one will
27 ___ Bridge (walkway to Citi Field)
29 Naval bases?
31 ___ del Carmen, Mexico
32 “The Second Coming” poet
34 Chinese fruit
37 ___ room
38 One whose work is walked all over
39 Chosen course
40 Basically decent
41 Sharp as a tack
47 Take off
49 Noble Italian family name
50 Caught
51 Compact
53 Big hit
55 Small feathered friend
58 “How sweet ___!”
59 A Chaplin
60 Jump over
61 TV ET

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