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Paddle Puzzle
By Bill Ballard

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EXCUSES, EXCUSES!

  Across
1 Starting point
6 Burn’s partner
11 German pronoun
14 Top dog
15 Prefix for sun
16 Miss Piggy’s pronoun
17 Giraffe relative
18 Organic compound
19 First class soldier
20 Why you lost your last match?
22 Old US auto
23 Residue
24 Church seat
25 Bird famous for its long flight
26 Embroider
30 Long legged wader
32 Closes out a match
33 Why you lost your last match?
38 Pro puck pushers
39 Chair umpires do it
41 It might blind you
42 Why you lost your last match?
44 It often turns in a close match
45 Barn building
46 Back stiffeners?
49 Etta ---, of the old comics
51 Meadow
54 --- tai
55 Whatever
56 Why you lost your last match?
61 Weekend wackiness on TV
62 Mural starter
63 Fancy headpiece
64 Cry’s partner
65 The skinny
66 Hot and sticky
67 First follower
68 For wannabe redheads
69 Closing words
Down
1 The king’s middle name
2 He fought in the Battle at Beckett
3 Planning map
4 They were cool in the 1940’s
5 Musical direction
6 Problem in the 2000 election
7 Plan over
8 A town, a rocker - - a guy!
9 One way to set up for a ground stroke
10 Weeders
11 Opera manager
12 Do this for your partner as needed
13 Use a line like "come here often?"
21 Pi follower
25 First of three X’s, perhaps
26 Old Caddies had ‘em
27 Playback
28 Like some "legends"
29 Met
31 The top seed may get one
34 It’s mined
35 CCCP in English
36 He played Shane
37 Na and K hydroxides
39 Big-eyed raptor
40 Abuse of power
43 Little bird
44 Rare isotope
47 Doc’s lobby
48 She lost her 2004 case
49 Buckwheat groats
50 Boredom
52 Peggy O’Neill’s married name
53 Tire city
56 Kind of list
57 Hemingway
58 Kind of brand
59 Green land
60 Energy units

 

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