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Crossword 263: Teaser Rates

Augustus Leopold Egg, A Teasing Riddle
Augustus Leopold Egg, A Teasing Riddle

I confess that when I applied the title “Teaser Rates” to this puzzle, I wasn’t sure exactly of the phrase’s meaning.  Was it a sibling-behavior phenomenon studied by child psychologists?  Was it a metric for hair salon workers whose compensation is based in part on the size of their tonsorial creations?  It turns out that, like the title of Crossword 144, it’s just another dubious financial practice.  So it sounds more fun than it is—like so many things in life.  But not like this puzzle!

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