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Comics & Activities 09/16/2024

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Alien: Romulus

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1st Date Videogames

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The Other Schoolkids Are Fast AF

Joshua Davidson | Mercury Staff

Crossword and 9/03 Key

Across

  • 1 “___ as I say!”  
  • 5 Religious factions  
  • 10 Prickly seedcases  
  • 14 Yes-___ question  
  • 15 “Caveman” diet  
  • 16 Apple desktop  
  • 17 Tsp. or tbsp.  
  • 18 “What did ___ you?”  
  • 19 Doc who performs Pap smears  
  • 20 Household liquidation event  
  • 22 Accomplishment  
  • 23 Olive in Italy  
  • 24 Holds up  
  • 25 Taxpayer, e.g.  
  • 29 Web communications protocol  
  • 31 Bilingual Muppet  
  • 33 Less reputable 
  • 37 Cover story for an alien  
  • 39 Stored a backup copy on  
  • 40 Like an incel, perhaps  
  • 42 Transplant, as a plant  
  • 43 Rapper Missy ___  
  • 45 One-person performances  
  • 46 Yoga posture  
  • 49 Bingham of “Baywatch”  
  • 51 “Note to ___ …”  
  • 52 Invitation to enter  
  • 57 Biggest city on the Big Island  
  • 58 Chris of “Jurassic World”  
  • 59 Letter-shaped fastener  
  • 60 Fed. power dept.  
  • 61 Surrounding glows  
  • 62 The Bruins’ sch.  
  • 63 Full ___ (commit to 100%, in slang)  
  • 64 Weather stats… or (taking into account the location of this word in the grid) a feature of 65-across  
  • 65 Take a tumble… or a hint to the circled clues and their location/orientation in the grid  

Down

  • 1 Noggin  
  • 2 Some Minecraft blocks  
  • 3 Med school subj.  
  • 4 Cubs slugger Sammy  
  • 5 Sales pitch  
  • 6 Totally wipes out  
  • 7 Splits in two  
  • 8 Scandalous biographies  
  • 9 Only  
  • 10 Big goose egg  
  • 11 Hesitant agreement  
  • 12 Charged toward  
  • 13 Mary, Queen of ___  
  • 21 What may stop you from spilling the beans?  
  • 24 Doesn’t delete  
  • 25 Wilma’s mate  
  • 26 Smidgen  
  • 27 Future D.A.’s exam  
  • 28 Big name in modeling agencies  
  • 30 Close to  
  • 32 Cain’s brother  
  • 34 “American ___”  
  • 35 Cameroonian soccer player Samuel  
  • 36 Goes bad  
  • 38 “For real?”  
  • 41 Problem after an upper body workout  
  • 44 [Is this thing on?]  
  • 46 Campfire remains  
  • 47 River through Paris  
  • 48 ___ wrench  
  • 50 Credits as a source  
  • 52 Petty quarrel  
  • 53 Double ___ Oreos  
  • 54 Machu Picchu builder  
  • 55 Not sharp  
  • 56 List-ending abbr.

Sudoku and 9/03 Key

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