03.10.14 — Handyman's Tote

Monday, March 10, 2014

Puzzle by Kelly Clark / Edited by Will Shortz

Mr. FIX IT (handyman) and TOOL BOX (40A. Handyman’s tote), along with FILE, NAIL, HAMMER and LEVEL found in SINGLE FILE (17A. One-by-one formation, as in walking, FINGERNAIL (64A. Manicurist’s target), MIKE HAMMER (11D. Spillane detective) and ON THE LEVEL (29D. Honest), constitute the interrelated group of this back-to-work Monday crossword.

Other — BALLETS (51A. “Swan Lake” and others), DIME (16A. Coin with F.D.R.’s image), INDIA / INK (34A. With 30-Across, black writing fluid), PECK (22A. Briefest of kisses), TACT (54A. Skill needed when being asked “Does this dress make me look fat?”).

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03.09.14 — The Story of Ain't — the Acrostic

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911.

Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.

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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Acrostic, Puzzle by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

Edited by Will Shortz

This Sunday’s acrostic draws a quotation from The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published by David Skinner.

The Story of Ain't describes a great societal metamorphosis, tracing the fallout of the world wars, the rise of an educated middle class, and the emergence of America as the undisputed leader of the free world, and illuminating how those forces shaped our language. Never before or since has a dictionary so embodied the cultural transformation of the United States. ~ amazon 

The quotation;  ETIQUETTE BOOKS IN THE TWENTIES LICENSED THE USE OF SLANG IN POLITE COMPANY …, MODESTLY ADMITTING THAT ‘EVEN ‘SWELL’ AND ‘SWEETIE PIE’ ARE CORRECT IN CERTAIN MOODS,”  IN… BUSINESS, HOWEVER, … “O.K.” AND “ALL RIGHTY” WERE NOT TO BE USED …

The author’s name and the title of the work:  DAVID SKINNER, THE STORY OF AIN’T

The defined words:

A. Excessive, a bit much (2 wds.), DE TROP
B. “Some people think I’m gay … which I think is AWESOME” (Daniel Radcliffe)
C. Hopping, buzzing, lively, VIBRANT
D. One’s unique way of talking, IDIOLECT
E. Gradually shrink in size or number, DWINDLE
F. Pinking and pruning tools, SHEARS
G. Give the main address for, KEYNOTE
H. “Snap” in a game of the dozens, INSULT
I. Yum-Yum’s beau in “The Mikado” (hyph.), NANKI-POO
J. Genre for the mystically inclined (2 wds.), NEW AGE
K. Of indeterminate sex, EPICENE
L. Sound from the bushes, maybe, RUSTLE
M. Second-rate, cheesy (hyph.), TWO-BIT
N. Outbreak of evanescent bumps, HIVES
O. Regard with respect, ESTEEM
P. First hotel chain with an automated electronic reservations system (1958), SHERATON
O. Decoration once made of extruded silver, TINSEL
R. “Awake and  Sing!” dramatist, ODETS
S. Entertainer in a top hat and tails, RINGMASTER
T. Nodding acquaintances? (2 wds.), YES MEN
U. Kind of muscle worked by side planks, OBLIQUE
V. Norman Mailer coinage for a piece of info, FACTOID
W. Trippy drug commonly smoked in a joint (2 wds.), ANGEL DUST
X. Fossilized footprint, ICHNITE
Y. Illustrator of “Treasure Island” (3 wds., two of which are inits.), N C WYETH
Z. Go for a drive; play on a fife, TOOTLE

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03.09.14 — No Zee

Original watercolor based on an antique photo of a sailor named Dutch who was tattooed by Percy Waters from Detroit in the early 1900’s ~ Electric Tiger Tattoo

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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Nosy Nonsense, Puzzle by Brendan Emmett Quigley

Edited by Will Shortz

Eight common phrases (with no “sy” [or “zee”] sound at the end of the first word) add the sound to become uncommon ones with risible clues in this plodding Sunday crossword:

• DAISY TRADER (26A. One unsatisfied with a “She loves me, she loves me not” result?), e.g., DAY TRADER
• CHOOSY TOY (28A. Picky little dog?), CHEWY TOY
• EASY COMMERCE (52A. Business transactions free from government regulation?), E-COMMERCE
• BREEZY CHEESE (73A. Carefree dairy products?), BRIE CHEESE
• ROSY HOUSE (101A. Optimistic theater audience?), ROW HOUSE
• BOISE WONDER (103A. Marvel from Idaho’s largest city?), BOY WONDER
• HAZY SAILOR (36D. Barely remembered seaman?), HEY, SAILOR
• DOOZY POINT (44D. Sports score most likely to be on the highlight reel?), DEW POINT

Other — BIZET (47A. “L'Arlésienne” composer); DANTE (64D. “De Monarchia” writer); ELITIST (6D. Supporter of the 1%, say); EUROMART  (86A. Continental free trade group); HOLY WRIT (5D. Sunday reading); IPSWICH (91D. County seat of Suffolk, England); ISOTONER (84D. Brand of gloves and slippers); LARYNXES (16D. Talking points?); MINORCA (90D. One of the Balearic Islands); MOSHERS (87D. Concertgoers who are into the hits?); OCEANIA (115A. Winston’s home in “1984”); ÊTRE and ODOR (75D. “Fumes” is a form of it; 79D. Fumés may produce one); OPHELIA (23A. She “speaks things in doubt, / That carry but half sense”); RIALTO (74D. Venice’s oldest bridge); STEPTOE (8A. Isolated hill surrounded by lava).

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03.08.14 — The Saturday Crossword

The mimosa (technically, the Silver Wattle) is the symbol 

of the celebrations of Women's day in Italy and Russia.

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Saturday, March 8, 2014 — International Women’s Day

Puzzle by David Steinberg / Edited by Will Shortz

Across — 1. Cooler idea?, JAIL BREAK; 10. Home to the Great Mosque, MECCA; 15. It included a moonwalk, APOLLO XII; 16. Spirit of St. Petersburg?, STOLI; 17. One stocking bars, CANDY SHOP; 18. West African capital, DAKAR; 19. Old sitcom sot, OTIS; 20. Pimienta’s partner, SAL; 21. Many instant message recipients, AOLERS; 22. “Sketches” pseudonym, BOZ; 23. Bad-tempered, BILIOUS; 25. Compress, as a file, ZIP; 26. Turn the air blue, SWEAR; 28. Where many games can be viewed, ESPN; 29. Prefix with data, META; 30. Motor problems, TICS; 32. Fat-derived, STEARIC; 34. Havana highball, MOJITO; 37. Recite mechanically, INTONE; 38. Swank, OPULENT; 40. Word before red, BEET; 41. Beech house, NEST; 42. Quarter of zwölf, DREI; 44. Tables in western scenes, MESAS; 48. Word after red, ANT; 49. Like time, inexorably, GOING BY; 51. “ERE I forsook the crowded solitude”: Wordsworth; 52. Walters portrayer on “S.N.L.”, RADNER; 54. Dance piece?, CHA; 55. Thé addition, LAIT; 58. Produce sentimental notes?, CROON; 57. Big-name Web crawler, GOOGLEBOT; 59. “The Asphalt Jungle” revolves around one, HEIST; 60. Like Francisco Goya, ARAGONESE; 61. “Breaking Away” director, YATES; 62. She “made a fool of everyone, in song, SEXY SADIE.

The Nude Maja, 1880, Francisco Goya

Down — 1. A.J. JACOBS, author of the best seller “The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”; 2. Director of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “This is 40”, APATOW; 3. Turn positive, say, IONIZE; 4. Some Yale degs., LLDS; 5. Nellie who wrote “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, BLY; 6. Martini accompanier?, ROSSI; 7. Uses a drunk meter, e.g., EXHALES; 8. Provençal spreads, AIOLIS; 9. 100-at currency unit, KIP; 10. It was run in the 1980s-’90s, MS-DOS; 11. Abbr. for listless?, ET AL; 12. Tab alternative, COKE ZERO; 13. Big name in allergy relief, CLARITIN; 14. It’s flown in, AIRSPACE; 21. AUNTIE Anne’s (pretzel maker); 23. Ultra BRITE; 24. Quick missions?, OPS; 27. Slightly biased?, ATILT; 29. Like some finishes, MATTE; 31. Hole in one on a par 5 hole, CONDOR; 33. “No ENEMY is worse than bad advice”: Sophocles; 34. Bahrain, Bhutan or Brunel, MONARCHY; 35. Clearing, OPEN AREA; 36. Popular line of footwear?, JUST DO IT; 39. Endurance race, briefly, TRI; 40. Cardiff Giant, e.g., BIG HOAX; 43. Cry for another piece, ENCORE; 45. Starfish setting, SEABED; 46. Some opera passages, ARIOSI; 47. Parlor piece, SETTEE; 49. Word on a restroom door, GENTS; 50. Loose, BAGGY; 53. Thing twitched on “Bewitched”, NOSE; 55. River known for the goldfields in its basin, LENA; 57. Sign on an interstate, GAS; 58. “LOS Tarantos” (1963 film).

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03.07.14 — Schadenfreude

'Taming the Donkey', painting by Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, 1868

Schadenfreude is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.  This word is a loanword from German. The literal English translation is 'Harm-Joy'. It is the feeling of joy or pleasure when one sees another fail or suffer misfortune.

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Friday, March 7, 2014

Puzzle by Matt Ginsberg / Edited by Will Shortz

THE NANNY / LOST / ALL MY CHILDREN clued as 15A. TV show that debuted on 11/3/93 (and start of a parent’s distressed cry?; 39A. TV show that debuted on 9/22/04 (middle of the cry); TV show that debuted on 1/5/70 (end of the cry), constitutes the interrelated group of this challenging Friday crossword.

Other across — 1. Cause for squirming, ICKINESS; 9. Container for Rip Van Winkle, FLAGON; 18. Furnishing in many a tearoom TATAMI; 17. Officer’s “gift”, CITATION; 18. Lemony, for example, CITRIC; 19. Roles, metaphorically, HATS; 20. SWEE’ Pea; 22. “The king of terrors,” per Job 18, DEATH; 23. Anklebones, TALI; 25. In the company of, AMONGST; 27. Guilty pleasure?, SCHADENFREUDE; 31. Poetic member of a Greek nonet, ERATO; 32. Having a gaping hole, say, RENT; 33. Org. in “Breaking Bad”, DEA; 36. Setting for “The Shining”, MAZE; 37. Bogart role, SPADE; 40. Corporate giant co-founded by Thomas Watson, IBM; 41. Jackie with acting chops, CHAN; 42. Sit on it, ROOST; 47. Greek hunter trained by Chiron, ACTAEON; 49. Language that gave us “slogan,” originally meaning “battle cry”, ERSE; 50. Dreaded sort?, RASTA; 51. Outside: Prefix, ECTO; 53. Noted septet, SEAS; 57. Trojan rivals, BRUINS; 59. Transfer, as wine, REBOTTLE; 61. Merlino, Suffolk and Dorset, OVINES; 62. Like Christmas candles, typically, AROMATIC; 63. “Says who?,” e.g., RETORT; 64. So-so, NOT GREAT.

The Death of Actaeon by Titian 1559-75

Down — 1. It may come with a bite, ITCH; 2. Pet project?, CHIA; 3. “Etta KETT” (old comic strip); 4. Worked up, IN A STATE; 5. NAT Turner of pages in history; 6. Put on a key?, ENISLE; 7. Isolate, somehow, SNOW IN; 8. Burnsian “ago”, SYNE; 9. Govt. agency that supports competition, FTC; 10. Presented, LAID OUT; 11. See (to), ATTEND; 12. Thing often controlled by a remote, GARAGE DOOR; 13. Drops, OMITS; 14. Not in Germany?, NICHT; 21. Ending with dog or jug, EARED; 24. Flurry, ADO; 26. Word on a biblical wall, MENE; 27. Certain playoff game, SEMI; 28. Zodiac symbol, CRAB; 29. Requirement for special handling?, HAZMAT SUIT; 30. Swiss standard, FRANC; 34. To be in ancient times?, ESSE; 35. Subj. line alert, ATTN; 37. Chucklehead, SHMO; 38. Alexander who directed “Nebraska”, PAYNE; 39. Guiding light, LODESTAR; 41. Pledge, e.g., CLEANER; 42. Literary inits., RLS; 44. Marco Rubio, for one, LATINO; 45. Straight, HETERO; 46. Will Smith flick of 2004, I ROBOT; 47. Subject of a celebration on the last Friday in April, ARBOR; 48. Chisel, CARVE; 52. Lead-in to apple, CRAN; 54. Trix alternative?, ETTE; 55. Inter ALIA; 56. Ending with inter-, SECT; 58. Retired boomer, SST; 60. Texter’s “No way!”, OMG.

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03.06.14 — Soapbox

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Puzzle by Daniel Raymon / Edited by Will Shortz

The commercial soap brands of DIAL, ZEST, TONE and LAVA in single squares, along with SOAPBOX (37A. Platform … or something that appears four times in this puzzle?) constitutes the main feature of this Thursday crossword.

• [DIAL]ECT (19A. Cajun French, e.g.) with RA[DIAL] TIRE (10D. Traction provider)
• SEI[ZES T]HE DAY (23A. Doesn’t waste an opportunity) with BRON[ZE ST]AR (4D. Military decoration)
• PIS[TON E]NGINE (52A. Device that converts pressure into a rotating motion) with MOONS[TONE]S (29D. Opalescent gems)
• BAK[LAVA] (65A. Honey-soaked dessert) with BRATIS[LAVA] (42D. Capital on the Danube)

Other — BRUSSELS (38D. European city whose airport is the world’s largest chocolate-selling point); Double-CROSSER; IN HASTE (27A. Quickly); NETWORK (21D. Socialize professionally); NO-NAMES (20A. Ones little-known in their fields); PASADENA (6A. Annual parade locale); USURPED (47A. Assumed).

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03.05.14 — No Clue

Fast-growing NOAA active region No. 11112, crackling with solar flares, surrounds a sunspot group in the SW quadrant (lower right). On October 16, 2010, this region launched a CME, or coronal mass ejection, toward Earth. In addition, a vast dark solar prominence cuts across the sun's southern hemisphere and links with the sunspot group. This prominence (filament) is so large it spans a distance several times the separation of Earth and the moon. NASA Image

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Puzzle by Evan Bornholm / Edited by Will Shortz

The clueless HELL IF I KNOW; I’M STUMPED; BEATS ME; DON’T ASK ME and I HAVE NO CLUE (57A. Phrase that defines [and describes] 18-, 24-, 37- and 52-Across) constitutes the interrelated group of this amusing Wednesday crossword.

Other — ERSATZ (49D. Like Splenda vis-à-vis sugar), Terra FIRMA, HEY YOU (2D. “Pssst!“), POKEMON (10D. Late 1990s fad), STONE AGE (36D. Fred and Barney’s time), SUN SPOTS (11D. They have umbras and penumbras).

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03.04.14 — Electricity

Imaginative drawing of Ben Franklin and his kite.

June 15, 1752: Benjamin Franklin’s kite flying experiment proves lightning and electricity are related. Maybe. The account of Franklin’s experiment wasn’t written down for another 15 years when the tale was placed into Joseph Priestley’s History and Present Status of Electricity. While the idea of old Ben standing out in a storm with a kite floating in the ominous sky, key attached, and the scientist in grave danger is pretty standard, if he did perform the experiment at all, he did not put himself in the path of danger. ~ Patricia Hysell, Go Fly a Kite!, Little Bits of History

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Puzzle by Bruce Haight and Peter A. Collins

Edited by Will Shortz

In this clever Tuesday crossword black squares form a figure of a kite in the upper right corner with the tail (or string) running diagonally across the center of the grid, flanked by" lightning bolts" on either side of the string/tail.  GO FLY / A KITE; BENJAMIN / FRANKLIN and DISCOVERING / ELECTRICITY complete the picture.  The coy cross-referencing and scanty clues add up to “person associated with the scene depicted this puzzle’s grid, what that person is often credited with and advice given to him by someone.”  A throw-in is FRANCE (37D. Site of 27-Across/32-Down’s ambassadorship) … OK.

Other —DR DOOM (1A. Archenemy of the Fantastic Four), DRESSING (3D. Order often “on the side”), IBERIAN (7D. Spanish or Portuguese); JA RULE (12A. Rapper with the 2002 #1 hit “Always on Time”), JELL-O (28D. Dessert brand once pitched by Bill Cosby), MARNE and YSER (9D and 57A. River of W.W. I); MISSTATE (54A. Say wrongly), OLD-TIMER (51A. Veteran), RAVISHED (2D. Enraptured); SENSEI (49A. Martial arts instructor).

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03.03.14 — N or No N ...

The Letter N by exekillan, deviant art

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Monday, March 3, 2014

Puzzle by Andrea Carla Michaels and Michael Blake

Edited by Will Shortz

Two-word phrases where the first word ends in "N" and the  second word  is identical, but minus the "N"(or vise versa)  comprises the interrelated group of this neat Monday crossword:

DIVAN DIVA (17A. Operatic singer on a sofa?)
PATTERN PATTER (28A. Chitchat about a dressmaking template?)
FREETOWN FREE TOW (37A. Complimentary road service in Sierra Leone’s capital?)
EASTERN EASTER (45A. Egg-hunting time in the Orient?)
LEARN LEAR (63A. Memorize lines for a Shakespearean king?)

Other — CHRISTIE (10D. New Jersey governor whose first name starts his last name), EAGLET (49D. “Bald” baby bird), “EENY meeny miney mo”, ESTROGEN (38D. Hormone in the pill), NATL (59D. The “N” of N.A.A.C.P.: Abbr.), ROSIER (41D. More optimistic), STANZA (4D. Lyric unit), "THE X Factor", TRUNKS (48D. Elephants’ feelers), WALSH and WELSH.

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03.02.14 — Oscar Double Features

Sunday, March 2, 2014

“Oscar Double Features” — Puzzle by Alan Arbesfeld

Edited by Will Shortz

Combining into seven phrases the titles of fourteen well-known films that either won the Oscar for Best Picture or were nominated constitutes the interrelated group of this timely and entertaining Sunday crossword:

• BRAVEHEART OUT OF AFRICA (23A. Nelson Mandela? [1995, 1985])
• ROCKY WITNESS (30A. One giving unreliable testimony? [1976, 1985* = Nominee])
• AIRPORT TRAFFIC (53A. Reason for missing a flight? [1970*, 2000*])
• CHICAGO TAXI DRIVER (68A. Part of a line at O’Hare? [2002, 1976*])
• GOING MY WAY BABE (86A. Cheesy pickup line? [1944, 1995*])
• NETWORK CRASH (106A. Reason why all the computers are down? [1976*, 2005])
• PICNIC ON THE WATERFRONT (118A. Seaside outing? [1955*, 1954])

Other — ADORES and AHORSE, DEPALMA (6A. Director of “Carrie” and “Scarface”), DISNEY Channel (“Hannah Montana” airer), FINAGLED (63D. Achieved through trickery), ONE BY ONE (5D. Individually), PIN PRICKS (81D. Small irritations), SENNA (109D. Medicinal plant), STILL LIFE (16D. Many a hanging).

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03.01.14 — The Saturday Crossword

Tidal Basin, Cherry Blossoms, 

and the Lincoln Memorial in background 

on Ohio Drive, Washinton, DC, 1922 postcard.

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Saturday, March 1, 2014

Puzzle by Ian Livengood and J.A.S.A. Crossword Class

Edited by Will Shortz

Across — 1. 1987 #1 hit with the line “Yo no soy marinero, soy capitán”, LA BAMBA; 8. Throwback, ATAVIST; 15. Samsung Galaxy Note rival, IPAD AIR; 16. Go-ahead for un hombre, SI SENOR; 17. Forward to some followers, RETWEET; 18. Curt chat closing, KTHXBYE; 19. Where Melville’s Billy Budd went, ASEA; 20. Hubble sighting, NEBULA; 22. Jesse Jackson, for one: Abbr., REV; 24. Like some double-deckers, OPEN TOP; 28. One’s own worst critic?, SUPEREGO; 32. Put off, TABLE; 34. Dayton-to-Toledo dir., NNE; 35. Subjected to venomous attacks?, SNAKE-BITTEN; 38. Four roods, ACRE; 40. Pawnbroker, in slang, UNCLE; 41. Travel safety grp., SADD; 42. Modern device seen on a bridge, GOOGLE GLASS; 45. L.A. law figure, ITO; 46. Take a little hair off, maybe, SINGE; 47. To date, UNTIL NOW; 49. Den Delivery, LION CUB; 52. Beats by DRE (brand of audio equipment); 53. One picking up speed, say?, SENSOR; 55. They’re game, FOWL; 59. Sack dress?, PAJAMAS; 63. Dish often served with a tamarind sauce, PAD THAI; 65. Disc protector, DVD CASE; 66. Carrier with a pink logo, T MOBILE; 67. Like some stockings, FISHNET; 68. If it’s repeated, it’s nothing new, SAME OLD.

Down — 1. Turkey tip?, LIRA; 2. Burlesques, APES; 3. Moderate, BATE; 4. Norton AntiVirus target, ADWARE; 5. Tina Turner’s real middle name, MAE; 6. Welcome message to international travelers, BIEN VENUE; 7. Danza, e.g., ARTE; 8. Invite to one’s penthouse, ASK UP; 9. Proof of purchase, TITLE; 10. Ghanaian region known for gold and cocoa, ASHANTI; 11. Needle or nettle, VEX; 12. Having five sharps, IN B; 13. SOY milk; 14. III, in Rome, TRE; 21. Novel groups?, BOOK CLUBS; 23. They make quick admissions decisions, for short, ERS; 25. Ink, TATS; 26. Come by, OBTAIN; 27. Openly admitted, as in court, PLED TO; 28. They sometimes lead to runs, SNAGS; 29. Straighten out, UNCOIL; 30. Italian brewer since 1846, PERONI; 31. Blood members, e.g., GANG; 33. Fund, ENDOW; 36. Spirit, ELAN; 37. Emmy category, informally, BEST DRAMA; 39. Food brand originally called Froffles, EGGO; 43. Photog, LENSMAN; 44. Cry with a salute, SIR; 48. Ignored, LEFT BE; 50. Fade out, CEASE; 51. Like loose stones, UNSET; 54. Decides, opts; 58. OHIO Drive, thoroughfare by the Lincoln Memorial in Washington; 57. Modern posting locale, WALL; 58. Produced stories, LIED; 59. .doc alternative, PDF; 60. Bird: Prefix, AVI; 61. The Clintons’ degs., JDS; 62. Cousin of “verdammt”, ACH; 64. Suffix with official or fan, DOM.

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