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It Is What It Is
august crossword puzzle
By Peter Collins
SIX WAYS FROM SUNDAY
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 ___ Attacks (‘96 sci-fi film)
2 Help a gambler?
hai Gilgeous-Alexander had 14 15 16
Sperhaps the greatest season 3 Easy answer
4 Beliefs, principally
this past year of any Canadian 17 18 19 5 Rhodes’ scholarly first name
athlete in major sports history. The 6 Eastern nurse
six-foot six Toronto native has 20 21 22 7 Walking encyclopedia
been dominating the professional 23 24 8 Follows hit (Get along)
basketball world for the past few 9 And the beats go on?
T
years. His dominance reached its 25 26 27 28 29 10 Up against ___ (Getting
peak in 2024-25 when he was voted nowhere fast)
30 31 32 33 34 35 36 11 Greetings to amigos
the league MVP, voted to the NBA I 12 Off to one side
first all-star team, won the league 37 38 39 40 13 Belonging to TUESDAY?
scoring title, his team won the NBA 21 Lettuce does it, with time
41 42 43 44
championship, and he was MVP of 22 Take your leave, for good
the playoff finals. This sounds like a 45 46 47 48 25 Start of worst pun ever -
Wayne Gretzky or Mario Lemieux “Call me ___ ?”
type of year. But unlike Gretzky or 49 50 51 52 53 54 26 Goes to the ankle
28 16 century period
th
Lemieux, SGA is not a household 55 56 57 58 31 Captain Bligh’s ‘resort’
name in Canada. Yes, he is referred 32 With the king of Siam
to as SGA by most of the basketball 59 60 61 34 ‘Tough’ Times SATURDAY
world because of his complicated 35 This, in Spanish
multi-syllable moniker. Just as 62 63 64 36 Seventeenth letters of the
amazing is the fact that he led his 65 66 67 Greek alphabet
team to the NBA championship, 39 Being an oblate spheroid,
it’s sorta round, sorta flat
despite playing for the small market 42 Perceived by touch
Oklahoma Thunder. Oklahoma is ACROSS ACROSS 46 Polite address to Perry
known for the Ozark Mountains, 1 Not so ‘easy’ MONDAY 38 Red “Never got ___” 48 Ridiculer
oil production, chicken fried steak, 6 Has ___ (Tries it on) 40 WEDNESDAY remains 49 Stayed int the shadows
and Brad Pitt, not necessarily in that 10 Morse, as in Inspector 41 The patter of tiny feet 50 Child’s ‘play’
order. If my wife made the order, it 14 Humble home 43 Anatomical layers 51 Composer Baron Cohen
would be Mr. Pitt first. Personally, 15 Heads for the flame 44 Bachman music grp. 52 Poet’s middle name?
16 ‘The thing with feathers’
45 Soldier’s ‘take’
54 Sleepy combining form
a delightful plate of chicken fried 17 Medieval violin 47 ‘What is it good for?’ 56 Of a maritime prov.
steak wins it for me. Only lately 18 Additional: Abbr. 48 FRIDAY’s. Just the facts 57 Chief trust officer: Abbr.
since the arrival of SGA have the 19 Mideast airline 49 ___ interferometry 58 Salesman’s time assurance
Thunder leapt into the basketball 20 As easy as ABC 53 THURSDAY ‘hammerer’
spotlight as a round ball power. 23 Cockney call 55 As hard as E = MC2 The New York Times crossword
Even though SGA flies under the 24 Follows ‘the king’ 59 Letters in Calvary puzzles start off easy on Monday
radar and is an anonymous Canadian 25 Bordeaux friends 60 Word on a sign of yore and get increasingly harder as the
superstar, do not feel bad for him. 27 Preceded, briefly 61 Type of race finish week goes along, Saturday is the
62 And others: Lat. phrase
week’s hardest puzzle. Contrary
29 NL box score team
He just signed a four-year deal for 30 Has the ability 63 Biblical ‘wise men’ to popular belief, Sunday’s puzzle
285 million dollars and will remain 31 Before lot, as in gab 64 Precedes surgeon has a midweek difficulty level.
in Oklahoma for the term of the 33 More than out of sorts 65 Six ways from SUNDAY It is simply a larger puzzle. This
contract. He may not be well known 37 Direct someone to 66 Zeros binary mates ‘completes’ the week, as they say
in Canada, but they certainly will the door 67 All’s Welles, in film - six ways from Sunday
recognize him when he is cashing
those cheques. Puzzle by Douglas Taillon Solutions on page 35
Puzzle by Douglas Taillon
