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Them's the Brakes

◆ · By lahosken · Published 2025-03-18T02:42:21.489Z

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Careful; something tricky is going on with those "Pause" words
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    1A
    Pauses, e.g., the engine
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    1. 1A
      Pauses, e.g., the engine
    2. 6A
      Skill
    3. 9A
      Recklessly, negligently, or randomly
    4. 11A
      What a cow does
    5. 13A
      Nice atoll for post-WWII weapons testing
    6. 14A
      Act the toady: Bend the _____
    7. 15A
      He's a ___, but...
    8. 16A
      Pause while you think of a better idea
    9. 18A
      Pause, e.g., a project
    10. 19A
      Pageant prize
    11. 23A
      There are two of them to every story (but sometimes one is stupid)
    12. 24A
      Power of acute observation
    13. 26A
      Momentary pause of, e.g., good judgment
    14. 27A
      Early stage of maple syrup; or one who thinks the USA comes out ahead in a trade war with Canada
    15. 30A
      Stumble
    16. 31A
      Pause, e.g., enforcement
    17. 34A
      Irked
    18. 35A
      He wrote "If I should die, think only this of me: / That there's some corner of a foreign field / That is for ever England."
    19. 36A
      After Tue
    20. 37A
      "So you _____? You think you're really pretty?"
    Down
    1. 1D
      Taxi
    2. 2D
      Cubit or kilometer
    3. 3D
      Tot
    4. 4D
      Through thick and ____
    5. 5D
      Father and ___
    6. 6D
      Base
    7. 7D
      Corporate clown McDonald
    8. 8D
      Who can afford this many eggs these days?
    9. 10D
      A djinn might grant one
    10. 12D
      Palindromic tennis great
    11. 17D
      Exam; or the external shell of a sea urchin, TIL
    12. 18D
      Droops
    13. 19D
      Inclination
    14. 20D
      That's three __ _ ___
    15. 21D
      Desire to reach some goal
    16. 22D
      Torn
    17. 25D
      Alpert or mint
    18. 27D
      Orange air
    19. 28D
      Love in Lisbon
    20. 29D
      Long spear useful in roadblocks
    21. 32D
      I'm in my fitness ___
    22. 33D
      Small platform for a golf ball
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