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Crossword: Compound Fractures

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

ACROSS
22 Eyewear providing hindsight?
29 Peanut-loving ghost?
32 Intermittent revolutionary?
43 Rare mushroom?
56 Give up smuggled goods?
71 High-school athletic star at a casino?
81 Noble Les Paul?
99 "Maybe" music?
101 Dreams that don't die?
108 Bug that never takes a ride?

DOWN
21 Like online medical advice for kids?
44 Vegetable that gives you an emotional release?

THE ANSWERS
ACROSS
22 ERGEBFCRPGNPYRF
29 RYRCUNAGBZ
32 FCBENQVPNY
43 CFLPURQRYVPNPL
56 PBAGENONAQBA
71 ERQYRGGREZNA
81 THVGNEVFGBPENG
99 CREUNCFBQL
101 SBERIREVRF
108 PRAGVCRQRFGEVNA

DOWN
21 JVXVCRQVNGEVP
44 PNGUNEGVPUBXR


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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