Times Union Upstate Crossword Championship Puzzles 2018

Point and Solve

by Frank Longo

Europebased informal eatery

Fighting for a cause

Two plus one, in Trieste

"Shred" co-star of Dave England

Jump Emmywinning Perlman

Like much table salt

Really Bunting ardent needs Low-fat frozen dessert

Fear of heights

Stalk Frat letter

Each Fully ready Crystalgazers' words Touches up, as text

Thruster with a bell guard

Mandate

Hill helpers

Common postgrad

degs. Lead-in to blitz or frenzy Minor, later in

life

Fitting

Wring (out)

Had chops, perhaps

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By THOMASJOSEPH

ACROSS

30 Visionary

1 Mark Twain's 31 Diving bird

New York 32 Fiery crime

home

34 It flows past

7 Course cry

Albany

11 One-

40 Buffalo's

pointer in

county

horseshoes 41 City

12 Puts down

between

13 Cayuga,

Syracuse

Seneca, and

and Utica

others

42 PBS station

15 County of

of the

northeast

New York

New York

area

16 Job for

43 Least

Poirot

covered

18 Designer

Wang

DOWN

21 Enthralled

1 Hobbit

22 City on

helper

one of the

2 Floral

13-Across

garland

24 Guitar blaster 3 Fellow

25 Last letter

4 Eat

26 Light metal 5 Singer

27 New York

Della

county

6 JFK listings

named for an 7 Blond

inventor

8 Solid wood

29 Seat of

9 Site of

New York's

New York's

Rensselaer

Playland

County

park

10 Curvy letter 14 Dike's kin 16 "The

Stranger" author 17 The Big -- (New York City) 19 Stylishly quaint 20 Par -- (airmail label) 21 U.K. fliers 22 Mil. bigwig 23 One or more 25 Hero with a sword 28 China collection 29 More upscale 31 "-- Doone" 33 Elitist 34 Chop down 35 Ornate vase 36 Game cube 37 Compete 38 Mag. workers 39 Maze runner

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Eugene Sheffer Crossword

ACROSS 1 Corned beef recipe 5 Stetson, e.g. 8 Strike callers

12 New York canal

13 Discoverer's call

14 Actress Gilpin

15 Anger 16 "My Shot"

Broadway show 18 Soaking spot 20 Condemns 21 Goal 22 Pod veggie 23 Shrimp's kin 26 "A Whole New World" Broadway show

30 Corn spike 31 Author

Tan 32 Employ 33 "All That

Jazz" Broadway show 36 Monastery VIP 38 Top card 39 Compete 40 Marble cake pattern 43 Bed cushions 47 "If I Loved You" Broadway show 49 "Got it" 50 Exam format 51 100% 52 Flair 53 Emmywinning Daly 54 Pot brew

55 Type choice

DOWN 1 Basil or thyme 2 La Scala solo 3 Sediment 4 Donkey sound 5 [Yawn] 6 Melville captain 7 Male cat 8 Digital transfer 9 "Fly -- the Moon"

10 High school dance

11 Deadly septet

17 Concept 19 Can

metal 22 Layer 23 Chest

muscle

24 Fan's cry 25 "Exodus"

hero 26 I love (Lat.) 27 Fix the

soundtrack 28 Equi29 Court

divider 31 Bio stat 34 Singer/

songwriter King 35 Rights org. 36 Be sick 37 Conviction 39 Country estate 40 Kilt wearer 41 Cautious 42 Persia, today 43 Soccer legend 44 Norway's capital 45 Withdraw gradually 46 Faxed 48 Perched

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FOR RELEASE SATURday, SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

PREMIER CROSSWORD/ By Frank A. Longo

Capital Appreciation

ACROSS 1 Gorilla, e.g. 8 Cloud layers

14 It's hung and hit at a party

20 Appended 21 Abet

perjuriously 22 Like The Egg

or the Nipper statue in Albany, e.g. 23 Site of Albany's annual Tulip Festival 25 "Guys and Dolls" co-star Sam 26 Lecher's look 27 Albany skyscraper that's the tallest in upstate New York 29 Albany thoroughfare known for its art galleries 34 Here-there link 35 Iris locale 36 Pilot's milieu 37 I-87 through Albany, e.g. 40 Fruity green drink 46 Late innings 49 Founding Father's wife who was born and raised in Albany 52 Org. for cavity fillers 53 Roman poet

56 "-- got mail" 100 Catch

57 Hot rod fuel

unawares

58 Albany's

101 "So that's it!"

newspaper 102 Coll. dorm

61 It starts at

supervisors

Albany and 105 Utah ski spot

ends at

106 Elec. coolers

Buffalo

108 "60 Minutes"

64 Agenda parts

regular who

65 "Where the

was born

Wild Things

and raised in

Are" author

Albany

Maurice

111 Albany's first

68 Fair grade

female mayor

69 Anatomical 119 "So that's it!"

sac

120 Like some

70 Albany sits

wailing cats

on it

121 Big shopping

73 Came to rest

complex

77 Unagi fish

just outside

78 Lasso loops

Albany

79 Online party 127 "-- lie to

summons

you?"

80 Nav.

128 Summit

destroyer 129 Tallinn's land

escort

130 Mahican in

that's now a

the early

museum ship

Albany area,

in Albany

e.g.

86 Name of

131 Yarn bundles

SUNY

132 Boardroom

Albany's

event

athletic

teams

DOWN

88 Small

1 Flea flicker?

rodents,

2 Viroid stuff

jocularly

3 Connections

89 Low dice roll 4 "Ho-hum"

92 -- 'Pea

5 Leaf-to-

93 Old PC

branch angles

screen

6 Basic belief

94 Home of

7 Lawn care

the Albany

tools

Symphony

8 -- -mo

98 "The Wind in 9 Hint of color

the Willows" 10 Seized

hopper

wheels

11 Miles away 12 Of two minds 13 Alan of "Argo" 14 Plymouth

voyager? 15 Rapper

who acts on 48-Down 16 De -- (afresh) 17 Afresh 18 Pitchfork part 19 PC brand 24 Trying trip 28 Mardi Gras city, for short 29 Kind of fringe for fanatics 30 Extreme eagerness 31 Christens differently 32 Kit -- bar 33 Iris locale 37 '16 Olympics city 38 Shih -- 39 Roof runoff site 41 Chop finely 42 Film director Kazan 43 Ltr. heads-up 44 "Explorer" of kids' TV 45 Organic compound 47 "Bonanza" brother 48 "Law & Order" spinoff, for short 50 Part of LBJ 51 One of LBJ's beagles 54 Affront 55 Conked out 59 Defib user

60 Walk- -- (little 91 Guess at

roles)

Albany Intl.

62 Winter fishing Airport

tool

95 Stretchable

63 Perpetually,

protein

to poets

96 -- Valley

66 Year, in Brazil (region that

67 Supermarket

includes

chain

Albany)

70 "Isn't -- bit 97 Suffix with

like you and

south

me?" (Beatles 99 Asian "way"

lyric)

103 1998 hit song

71 Syr. neighbor

for Sarah

72 Savvy pair?

McLachlan

73 "Selma"

104 Part of 122-

director

Down

DuVernay 107 Factions

74 He visited 108 Williams of

Albany

"Happy

two weeks

Days"

before his 109 Della of song

presidential 110 Opposite

inauguration

of east, in

75 Keep saying

Madrid

76 A student 111 Fuzzy fruit

might cram 112 Shortly, to

the night

poets

before it

113 Impact noise

77 Pick via

114 Start for port

polls

or pad

79 Pulitzer-

115 When tripled,

winning critic

"and so on"

Richard

116 Estrada of

80 Field officials

"CHiPs"

81 Albany, vis- 117 Optimistic

?-vis Albany

feeling

County

118 --

82 Ward of TV

Spumante

83 Mark for life 122 Driver's rte.

84 Biblical verb

displayer

suffix

123 Witty saying

85 Perlman of 124 DiFranco of

"Matilda"

folk rock

87 Pro --

125 Maya of

(acting)

architecture

90 Match shout 126 Fall behind

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