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1938

◆ · By John Cowlishaw · Published 2024-09-13T14:08:03.938Z

Constructor's Note
My birthday was this week, causing me to think about my birth year.
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  • kurtalert 🤓2:53 · 2024-09-13T15:34:24.176Z
    Great puzzle- happy belated birthday, John!
    • John Cowlishaw constructor · 2024-09-13T16:47:26.054Z
      Gosh, thanks.
    • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓2:27 · 2024-09-13T20:40:25.585Z
      Fun, thank you! And happy birthday!
      • John Cowlishaw constructor · 2024-09-13T23:40:16.227Z
        Thanks
      Play today's daily mini crossword
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      "Peek ___ ___"
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      Across
      1. 1A
        "Peek ___ ___"
      2. 5A
        "On a ___"
      3. 9A
        "___ ___ necessarily so" from the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
      4. 11A
        Unexpected victory
      5. 13A
        Hollywood icon Elizabeth ___
      6. 14A
        Bookkeeper's book
      7. 16A
        Lumberjack's tool
      8. 17A
        Poe poem that starts "Once upon a midnight dreary," with "The"
      9. 19A
        African antelope
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        Old Italian money
      11. 22A
        Accomplished
      12. 23A
        Exterminator's target
      13. 24A
        World Series winning team in 1938
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        Charon carried the deceased across the River Styx to ___.
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        Lives (at)
      16. 29A
        Seat at the bar
      17. 32A
        Thornton Wilder won the 1938 Pulitzer in drama for this, his best known, play.
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        Persia's name in 1938
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        NBC's weekend comedic sketch show
      20. 38A
        "___ ___ told often enough becomes the truth": Lenin
      21. 39A
        Copacetic
      22. 40A
        "___ belli" (war-provoking act)
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        "Floats like a butterfly" boxer
      24. 43A
        In September 1938, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France signed the ___ agreement that forced Czechoslovakia to give up its border regions.
      25. 45A
        "___ be the day!" (Buddy Holliday)
      26. 47A
        Veil material
      27. 48A
        In 1938, Howard ___ set a new record by flying around the world in just 90 hours.
      28. 49A
        Pin the ___ on the donkey
      29. 50A
        Swarm (with)
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        Neurological conditions that cause a lack of muscle coordination
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        Most famous German "soccer" team
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        In 1938, ___ was discovered in Saudi Arabia
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        "Want the light ___ ___ off?"
      5. 5D
        King George VI ___ the United Kingdom in 1938
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        Ready for business
      7. 7D
        Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized ___ in 1938.
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        Humans, birds, and (occasionally) apes are two-___ animals.
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        Opera's birthplace
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        Mechanic, hair stylist, electrician et al
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        Keyed up
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        Boring routines
      13. 18D
        Supernatural appearances
      14. 21D
        "Rubber capital of the world"
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        Carbo-loader's fare
      16. 25D
        Snakelike fish
      17. 26D
        That girl
      18. 28D
        City at the westernmost point of the Great Lakes
      19. 29D
        "The King and I" setting
      20. 30D
        "Rainbow" fish
      21. 31D
        Acorn, by another name
      22. 33D
        Kansas City suburb, SW
      23. 34D
        ___ Dafoe, much-awarded movie actor, who has played Vincent Van Gogh, Jesus Christ, and the Spider Man
      24. 35D
        Simon and Diamond
      25. 37D
        African region that one passes thru on the way from Khartoum to Timbuktu
      26. 40D
        251 in Roman times
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        Out of business (with down)
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        Dockworkers' org.
      29. 46D
        And finally, given my birth-year, my ___ must be 86.
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