The WSJ Daily Crossword | Edited by Mike Shenk
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WRAP IT UP! | By Kimberley Lay
Across
1 Cratchit who
works for
Scrooge
4 “Sleep in
heavenly ___”
9 Corn coverings
14 Time for lastminute Christmas
shopping
15 Baked, so to
speak
16 Like draft beers
17 Wrapping for a
college student?
19 Sporty Mazda
model
20 Jason’s ship
21 Wrapping for a
state fair
competitor?
23 Lustful looker
25 “Let earth
receive ___ King!”
26 Mount up
29 On this
occasion, unlike
all others
33 Uncovers
34 Picked up the
tab
36 “Tiny tots with
their eyes all
aglow ___ find it
hard to sleep
tonight”
37 Neighbor of Arg.
and Braz.
38 Wrapping for a
Twitter user?
41 “Tom & ___”
(1994 movie)
42 Mary Lincoln’s
maiden name
44 Prejudice
45 Adler who
outwitted
Sherlock Holmes
47 Vehicles that
may have jingly
bells
49 Attacks from
the side
50 Dove’s call
51 Saintly quality
53 Wrapping for an
old-time
investor?
57 Manger fill
61 Sits at a traffic
light
62 Wrapping for an
orchestra
musician?
64 Intended
65 Conjunction
with a slash
66 Important age
67 Authorization
68 Classroom sights
69 Stocking stuffer,
often
s
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Down
1 Second Greek
letter
2Finished
3 Castoff from an
ice shelf
4 Champagne cork
sound
5Facilitate
6 Present for the
teacher
7 ___ d’Alene, Idaho
8 To be, to Bizet
9 More comfy
10 Bert has one on
“Sesame Street”
11 Wild guess
12 The Green
Hornet’s valet
13 Reach across
18 “A Visit from St.
Nicholas” poet
22 Valerie Harper
series
24 Talk effusively
26 Borders on
27 Christmas song
28 Not appropriate
for younger ears
29 Could be correct,
as a crossword
answer
30 David of “The
Bishop’s Wife”
31 Champagne
glasses sound
32 Busy bunch
leading up to
Christmas
34 Twenty-third
Greek letters
35 Cry after an
epiphany
39 Detest
40 Having a valuable
coat
43 Creator of
Cratchit and
Scrooge
46 Synthetic fabric
48 Attends
49 Not be under the
weather
51 “Common Sense”
author
52 Music players
introduced in
2001
53 The tiny Cratchit
boy and others
54 Notion
55 Potter’s medium
56 Spot between
shows
58 Aid illegally
59 Bull, in Barcelona
60 Influence
63 1040EZ org.
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The contest answer is TWINS. Five pairs of
identical clues (17A/11D; 38A/48D; 41A/63A;
51A/44D; 1D/29D) lead to words that share all
but one letter; the differing letters (like SHIFTY –
FISHY = T) can be anagrammed to spell the
answer.