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october crossword puzzle

GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES
THEME: GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 Construction sign word
2 Face in the crowd
14 15 16 3 Stop!
4 Premature call
17 18 19 5 Fast food dough?

20 21 22 6 Falls reactions
S E L 7 ___ clear
23 24 25 26 8 30s ‘Laughing vamp’
G C 9 Notice on TV
27 28 29 30 31 10 Eddie’s green unit
T

O R 11 Got along, sort off
32 33 34 35 36 37 38 12 Desert Fox Rommel
I
I I 13 Look after
39 40 41 42 19 Tourist traps
Continued from page 48 N C 21 Rhetorical question
43 44 45 46 24 ‘Seams’ like circles
noirish, fast-paced newspaper G N 28 NYC terminal
dialogue has such an entertaining 47 48 49 30 Neglected work?

patter, while veteran director 50 51 A 52 53 I 55 56 57 31 Bugs, burns, hotdogs
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Kenton never misses a chance to get R D 32 ’65 Ford land barge
visually dramatic with the camera 58 59 60 61 62 33 George’s brother
angles and lighting; it all makes for O U N 34 Long weekend
a rather pointless if fun hour to frivol 63 64 65 35 Mehmet’s
away. After all, it is rather hokey – 66 67 68 37 Pint-sized
38 W. Euro kingdom
poor Connie Palmer is so terrified 41 ASA purchase
of felines that she is easily tortured 69 70 71 44 Long ago, long ago
for information just by holding the 46 Grain sieves
aforementioned pitch black cat in 48 Bowel disease
front of her. . . more reminiscent ACROSS ACROSS 50 Redact
of a Monty Python-esque sketch 1 Before ‘we go’ 42 Conveys eye color info 51 Owls prowls
like ‘the knights who say ni’, or the 5 Traffic tie-up 43 Miller ’64 hit 53 ___ de ___ Paix, in Paris
Austin Powers ‘ask three questions’ 9 Traffic flows 45 In the middle of nowhere 55 Mideast city and gulf
47 Esau’s father

56 A bill, or a flag
14 ___ fun – Will travel
bit, than anything resembling horror. 15 Downward prefix 49 Roman high fever 57 Stays the course
Somehow, this silliness actually 16 Twenty-something 50 Against the flow 59 Off course
helps make it worth the price of 17 Israeli port city 52 Learnin’ letters 61 Dreamless letters
admission. 18 See 21-Down 54 Jung, at the office 64 Yawn, your marks
20 Plugs 58 Haitian hoedown 65 Traffic sandwich?
In the end, it might just be that the 21 Van Gogh ‘props’ 60 Toots and jackhammers
best thing remembered about The Cat 22 Missed point 62 Which way? – Latin Roundabouts and rotaries
Creeps are the visually impressive 23 Net. non-profit grp. 63 With 4 and 21-Down Standardized in the UK in the 60s,
posters created to advertise the 25 Big bird of yore 65 Vermeer and Steen traffic circles (USA and Canada)
picture – featuring moody lighting, 26 Odysseus savior 66 ‘Fast’ food verb are designed to improve the flow
many of the key players, and you 27 Bearing of herring 67 A Met, for one of traffic and ward off the ‘impact’
guessed it, a creeping cat, it exudes 29 Curves 68 Lean on (Not the horn) of head-on or T-Bone collisions,
32 Confines
by estimates of about 75 percent.
69 Of a cooler company
more menace than the movie ever 36 Meat sub. – Yuck! 70 Uncle Houston? The city of Carmel, Indiana holds
did. So, explore this latter part of the 39 Threefold 71 Gives directions the ‘roundabout’ record with over
classic Universal horror catalogue if 40 Prefix to dye for 100 traffic circles. Round we go!
you dare, but be warned, there is a

cat onscreen in this very film. Puzzle by Douglas Taillon Solutions on page 63
Puzzle by Douglas Taillon