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Edited by Will Shortz

PUZZLE BY WEIRD AL YANKOVIC AND ERIC BERLIN

CELEBRITY CROSSWORD

This puzzle is a collaboration by the singer/

songwriter Weird Al Yankovic, working together

with Eric Berlin, a writer and puzzle editor from

Milford, Conn. This is Eric¡¯s 40th puzzle for The

Times.

More information about the making of today¡¯s

puzzle appears in the Times¡¯s daily crossword

column (column/wordplay).

ACROSS

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1 Imperfection

7 Shouts

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made

with the waving

of white hankies

Yo-yo

___ Brothers, duo

who sang ¡°Wake

Up Little Susie¡±

Part of a bottle

Skin art,

informally

Satirist Tom

Prefix with

cultural

Airport info, for

short

Cheesy 1992

military drama?

Aid and ___

Fish with tiny

scales

Earned a ticket,

maybe

Cheesy 1987

thriller?

Supply for Wile E.

Coyote

Many

promgoers: Abbr.

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Singer/

songwriter

Bareilles

Mediterranean

building material

Jousters¡¯

equipment

Rock that rolls?

___ G, Sacha

Baron Cohen

character

Contents of a

vein

Cheesy 1993

legal drama?

___ beans

Summertime

setting: Abbr.

Cluster at many

a highway

interchange

Cheesy 2001

animated film?

The CW

superseded it

Roman moon

goddess

¡°Easy-peasy!¡±

Locale for a

bathysphere

Poker stake

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4/4/18

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John famous for

¡°silly walks¡±

¡°___ dead, Jim¡±

Something you

might slip on

¡°Wait a minute ¡­¡±

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12

13

21

DOWN

1 It¡¯s

22

Resuming the

previous speed,

in music

Glossy fabric

Custer¡¯s ¡°last¡±

thing

Hoses down

Kind of cuisine

with stir-frying

Times of day in

classifieds

Like the wire in

clothes hangers

Question for

Brutus

Songwriters¡¯ org.

Valuable

collection

Certain lily

Coach ¡­ or what

a coach is part of

Mr. ___

Cheesy stuff

Leprechauns¡¯ land

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47

Goes out with

Just firm enough

Follower of John

Rug you don¡¯t

walk on

Shenzi, Banzai

and Ed, in ¡°The

Lion King¡±

Acre¡¯s land

Inexpensive

writing

implement

Reduce to a pulp

Certain shot in

hockey

Adjust, as a piano

Nonmetric

measure

The Big Easy

Gas option: Abbr.

Spanish bear

Editor Bradlee of

The Washington

Post

48

SE of Penn.

34

23

49

2 Wall-E¡¯s love

65

3 Dismissive

24

interjection

50

ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE

4 Typos, e.g.

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54

5 Curly musical

T I T H E

F U S S E S

A R R

symbol

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A R I E L

I N T H A T

L E O

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6 ¡°Pericles, Prince

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N E T F L I X Q U E U E

G A G

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of ___¡±

G N U

I C E U P

X A N A D U

7 Wild equine

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Y E S Y O U

O O F

M Y E Y E

8 Tolkien elf played

61

in film by Orlando 32

A T S

T R O P I C

Bloom

62

A V E R

L E S A G E

A L S

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9 Beige-ish

63

D E A D S E A

M A R Y K A Y

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S E T

C R U S T Y

O A T S 10 Result of driving

on ice, perhaps

40

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E M I

B U T W H Y

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