Crossword Puzzle
Pointing a Female Lens on Purim
1. Purim luminary
7. Pillbox, e.g.
10. Wallop
14. Plato dialogue
15. Greeting before "I didn't see you there!"
17. "Call Me Back" podcast host Dan ___
18. Purim cookies sometimes interpreted as "erotic": var.
20. Other, in Italy
21. Just ___ on the map
22. Decorative vase
23. Lacks energy
25. Modern matriarch whose eyes looked to the future
29. They have their day in court: abbr.
32. Star Wars program, initially
33. River nymph
34. Fencing blade
35. Calendar abbr.
36. Purim's leading lady, b'ivrit
38. Feminine side
39. Author who called the actions of 47-across “a first stand for woman’s rights”
41. Where bad is good?
44. What U.S. pres. George (#41) is sometimes incorrectly labeled
46. A paperback publisher founded the same year as the State of Israel: abbr.
47. Defiant Purim figure
51. The Globe, for one
53. Silky synthetic
54. ___ canto
57. Like wild horses
60. Expert
61. Hoppy brews
63. "Très ___!"
64. Author Beigel
65. Dusk, to Donne
66. Complicated and involved situation, in Yiddish
70. Lucky gangster
71. ___ tai
72. Aquatic plant
76. Then: Fr.
77. She played 1A in a 1960 film
81. Dole's 1996 running mate and kin
82. "What's gotten ___ you?"
83. Work boot feature
84. French summers
85. Body art, for short
86. Scatters all over the place
1. Hebrew dry measure roughly equivalent to a bushel: var.
2. Certain herring
3. ___ shanter
4. Toffee bar choice
5. Press run: abbr.
6. Capitol feature
7. Former Egyptian leader Mubarak
8. Sound of getting in a warm tub
9. Not just "a"
10. Guatemala neighbor
11. Scientific tendency toward chaos
12. Siren luring sailors to shipwreck
13. Crushed underfoot
16. First
17. Coll. entrance exams
19. Secret rival
24. First name and last initial of onetime Laker with a three-pointer record
26. Name that means "Lord of Lords" in southern India
27. Capturing in a trap
28. Like mortarboards or corn
29. Black-box analyzer: abbr.
30. Ballerina's attire
31. Some July babies
37. Where Velvet won a race
40. Monogram of the 27th U.S. president
42. C.S. Lewis's magical world
43. Thin Mint-selling org.
45. Son of Jacob, or a sandwich
48. Extravagant publicity
49. Ripped
50. Knowing, as a secret
52. Talking unicorn, on an iPhone X
54. Small Minnesota town named for a large body of water
55. Officer's shoulder ornament
56. Cosmetics brand touted by Penelope Cruz and Julia Roberts
58. Fond ___, Wis.
59. Comedians Bob and Chris
62. Lines descending from a common ancestor
67. Back talk
68. "___ making this up"
69. More healthy
73. One of the Ten Plagues
74. Vex, with "at"
75. Nile biters
78. Can. province
79. "Now ___ theater near you!"
80. One's fate or fortune
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