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Crosword: Prioresses

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

ACROSS
23 Ridiculed someone as loudly as possible?
28 Piece of hay?
30 Comedic bits by guys sitting at a bar?
39 Astronaut's old wound?
53 Worked at an herb shop, maybe?
57 Change devices that divert trains to different tracks?
81 Ore refinery?
84 Large field of dirt?
99 Reaction upon being hit with a chair in WrestleMania?
108 What an angry robot might do?
111 What Buffy might be doing at the end of a long, hard night?
119 Increase in perfect basketball shots?

THE ANSWERS:

23 FPERNZRQ FPBEA
28 FGNOYR FGNYX
30 FGBBY FXVGF
39 FCNPR FPNE
53 FBYQ FNTR
57 FJVGPU FUHAGF
81 FZRYGVAT FCBG
84 FBVY FCNA
99 FUNZ FUBPX
108 FCVG FPERJF
111 FYNLVAT FYBJ
119 FJVFUVAT FJRYY

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:



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About the blogger: Debra is the mother of two preternaturally attractive girls and the author of Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. She writes and blogs from her subterranean lair in North Haven, CT. Read more.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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