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Crossword 281: Bending Down

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Spring, Villa Borghese
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Spring, Villa Borghese

Were you ever told, perhaps in a “physical education” class years ago, to bend down and touch your toes?  I was, and I still  resent it:  I found the operation not only painful but undignified; and it just didn’t seem worth doing—there are obviously much better ways of accessing one’s toes, if that’s what one wants to do.

Anyway, if you want for some reason to perform a “bending down” exercise but lack the strength, or the agility, or the will to do it with your body, this puzzle lets you do it, like a rational creature, with your mind.


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