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Crossword: Putting On Some Weight

Here are the theme-related clues to this week's Sunday New York Times crossword.

ACROSS

22 Up to top physics standards?
32 Recumbent W.W. II general?
46 First game of a Chinese double-header?
55 Container for an iron or wedge?
68 "I'm not interested in having tea!"?
86 Where to pick up nuclear supplies?
96 Crucifix?
107 Traveler's aid in South Carolina?
123 Easily transportable plantation product?

The answers are encrypted. To decrypt them, select whichever ones you want to see, throw them into the Crossword Decrypting Widget below, and hit the red button:
THE ANSWERS
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Comments

1.

That's a cool encrypting/decryption widget right there. Where'd you get it from? Its way cool; helpful to avoid spoilers and all that jazz.

Cindy

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Hi, Cindy. Thanks. It's been so long since I did this that I don't remember precisely how it works. But if you go here -- http://www.dhamel.com/deblog/rot13trans.html -- and look at the source, you'll see information about where the code comes from.




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