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Light a Candle for Olympians

■ · By John Cowlishaw · Published 2024-07-19T17:22:26.982Z

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  • kurtalert 🤓2:23 · 2024-07-19T17:54:28.808Z
    Great theme puzzle, thanks!
    • John Cowlishaw constructor · 2024-07-19T19:11:00.114Z
      Thanks, Kurt. Funny thing, it just started out with three candle answers. But then the rest of the fill began to have more and more Olympics-related, that I worked on that end and finished by melding them.
    • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓1:40 · 2024-07-19T19:05:16.630Z
      Fun, thank you! (Did you want to tag the puzzle with midi-contest-07-24?)
      • John Cowlishaw constructor · 2024-07-19T22:11:13.138Z
        I dont know how to do that.
      • John Cowlishaw constructor · 2024-07-22T12:16:17.447Z
        Could be an entry in the July Midi-Contest
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        Conclusion
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        Across
        1. 1A
          Conclusion
        2. 4A
          Candle material in Roman times
        3. 10A
          Novelist Tolstoy
        4. 11A
          One of the three so-called ABC Dutch Caribbean islands
        5. 12A
          "The ___ comes on little cat feet." Carl Sandburg
        6. 13A
          "Red sky at morning," to a sailor
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          ___Bob SquarePants
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          The USA are medal contenders in all five ___ events in Paris this summer.
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          Planetary path
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          At any time
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          Remain unsettled
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          Olympian's quest
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          Track events
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          Persons convicted of crimes involving drugs, violence, or sexual abuse
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          Con artist
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          The last "w" in www
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          Immune response trigger
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          Tempe sch.
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          He could neither ___ ___ write his name when arrested.
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          ___ ___ in xylophone
        Down
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          Santa's little helper
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          Opposite of paleo-
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          Debuting as a demonstration sport in 1932 in Lake Placid, ___ teams are still Winter Olympic competitors.
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          "Means ___ ___ end"
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          Aging begins to limit one's get-up- ___- ___.
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          High-tech pointing device for lecturers
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          Number of weeks per annum
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          Nonprofit URL ending
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          Benign cyst
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          Slang for a breakdancing competitor in this, the only new Olympics event, in Paris
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          Candle material introduced c. 1850
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          Dreaming stage of sleep
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          She raised Cain
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          Candle material in the Middle Ages
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          QB's mistake
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          Six-pt. scores
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          "Unhand me!"
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          Poetic daybreak
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          Wanton look
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          Car fuel
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          Cellular messenger
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          A noun-forming suffix for brutal or legal
        23. 33D
          Spanish "that"
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          Clear restaurant tables
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