SB_December_22_2025

Page 13 The Sun Bay Paper December 22, 2025 ACROSS 1 They may be split 5 Short gaiters 10 Historical region of Syria 14 It s ___ blur 15 Bullfight procession 16 Casa room 17 Actress ___ Taylor, of Dog fight 18 Syrian president 19 ___ Sikorsky, helicopter pioneer 20 Popular vacation spot 23 Vader as a boy 24 A shot in ___: stimulus 25 German steel city 27 Gladden 30 Poem part 32 Just a wee doch-an ___ : Lauder 34 RR stop 35 Ingrid, in Casablanca 39 They often follow applause 41 Prince William, in his teens 43 Speach impediment 44 DDE adversary 46 Compass 47 List of mistakes 50 Early church pulpits 51 Pool table material 54 NFL Hall of Famer, Dan 56 Xanadu rock band, for short 57 Popular vacation spot 62 Novelist Grey 64 Means of mass communi cation 65 ___ la Douce , Wilder film 66 Oscar winner Jannings 67 . . . and ___ to find the happiness I seek . . . 68 Before Wed. 69 Key objective 70 Endings for road and gang 71 6th Greek letter DOWN 1 Buddies 2 Director Kazan 3 ___ Want for Christmas 4 Popular vacation spot 5 Gush 6 Onetime Middle East offi cials 7 Classifies 8 Roger Maris, to Mickey Mantle 9 Cream or club 10 ___ was saying . . . 11 Shankar s music 12 Unaccompanied 13 California county 21 Neither our nor your 22 ___ who? 26 Popular vacation spot 27 Henry James biographer Leon 28 Anderson who played Jayne Mansfield 29 Segments of a circle 31 Nathaniel, familiarly 33 Char 36 Beloved, in Berlin 37 Mens sana in corpore ___ 38 Formicary residents 40 Most sordid 42 Russian athlete ___ Smirnova 45 Straphanger, eg. 48 Low or hi follower 49 More bohemian 51 Chamfer 52 San Antonio mecca 53 Classical order of architec ture 55 Muslim prayer leaders 58 Friends in Paris 59 Faithful 60 ___ a man who wasn’t there . . . 61 Astronauts agcy. 63 The E in BPOE this issue’s puzzle is called ‘YOU’RE A SAINT!’ Last weeks solution on page 11

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