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Crossword 170: Beastly Puns

John William Waterhouse, Circe
John William Waterhouse, Circe

When I test-solved this puzzle, I found I’d clued 35 Across “Jacob’s brother” and 55 Across “Seth’s son.”  This seemed like too many Biblical relatives, so I substituted two “hidden-in” clues, which are more fun anyway—not that modified homonym cliché-based animal pun phrases aren’t already more fun than anybody ought to be trusted with.


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170 Beastly Puns