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SUDOKU Edited by Margie E. Burke
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Copyright 2021 by The Puzzle Syndicate
HOW TO SOLVE:
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each column must contain the numbers 1 to 9;
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The Weekly Crossword by Margie E. Burke
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1 Up to the task
53
Petty quarrel
18
Foundry waste
5 Come from
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Fizzled fireworks
22
Blood clotting aid
9 Flat floater
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Divine for water
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Visibly
14 Stir up
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Linda Lavin role
embarrassed
15 Symbol of peace
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Astonishment
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Jungle dweller
16 One way to read
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Wood-turning
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Wish granter
17 Lingerie tops
tool
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Between differ-
19 Tossed over the
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Eye layer
ent religions
shoulder
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Rebel Wilson film,
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Old
20 Tavern perch
” It Romantic"
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Spoonful, say
21 Icicle former
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Gas additive
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Quite a while
23 Black
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Bothersome one
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Shocked reaction
24 Scale deduction
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Naval Academy
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clock
locale
28 Crispy cookie
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Slow-flowing
31 One-time link
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syrup
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Pendulum paths
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Invoice add-on
since 1973
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Wake maker
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Billy of "Almost
35 Braille bit
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VIP car
Famous" fame
36 Pekoe packet
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1920's-30's
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Took a bus
38 Colony members
lawman
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In need of
39 Candle topper
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Big fuss
scratching
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Foolishness
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Shopaholic's
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Declare firmly
delight
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Call it quits
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Surveyor's map
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Some four-year
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Plunge headfirst
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degs.
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Like Solomon
47 Step up the pace
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Bold poker bet
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Transmitted
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Traffic circle
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Small lizards
solver
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Sticky buildup
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Sushi selection
52 Perched on
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High-strung
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Slugger's need
Puzzle answers are available at www.flagpole.com/puzzles
A Comedy of Errors with Lo Talker
PLUS, MORE MUSIC NEWS AND GOSSIP
By Gordon Lamb threatsandpromises@flagpole.com
WELL, HI, L0: There’s been lots of buzz-buzz-buzz about the
debut album from Lo Talker, and now we’ve arrived at
the week of its release. Officially, the album—A Comedy Of
Errors—will be released Friday, Mar. 19, courtesy of notable
and award-winning Canadian label Arts & Crafts. Andrew
Shepard (Roadkill Ghost Choir), founded this debut album,
and it is just a joy to hear. Its indie-isms are polished within
an inch of platinum, and its melodies feel pulled from some
secret box of tunes. The band is filled out with Shepard’s
brother Zach on bass, Rhett Fuller on guitar,
Jeremiah Johnson on drums and Alec Stanley
on guitar and keyboard. Key standout tracks
are the Tommy Keane-ish “Automatic Love”
and the smoothly driving “No Champagne.”
Wake up early on Friday and greet the sun
with this one. Head to lotalker.bandcamp.com
to make your plans and, if so inclined, smash
that “like” button over at facebook.com/
lotalker.
LAST CHANGE: This is the last week that nomi
nations are open for the 2021 Vic Chesnutt
Songwriter of The Year Award. The nom
ination process is super easy: Anyone can
nominate anyone, within reason, and artists
may even nominate themselves. I explained
most of this last week, but here’s a quick
recap: There are two categories this year: those
for whom music is a career and those who
play for fun. There’s no hard-and-fast standard for either,
though, so the choice is yours. The winner of each category
gets $1,000, and all finalists will receive $250. The winner
of the Play For Fun category also receives recording time
courtesy of Amplify at Nufi’s Space, and the Career winner
receives a promotional package from Team Clermont. New
this year, with the first ones occurring this past January,
are the organization’s workshops and seminars, which
seem to have been fairly successful, even given our current
social restrictions. Also, per the organization’s website,
“Individual, one-on-one instructional sessions are still
available from all instructors,” even though the initial work
shops are over. You can find out more about those, nomi
nate some songwriters and more over at vicchesnuttaward.
com. The award was created and is administered by the
Rotary Club of the Classic City of Athens, and I encourage
you to look them up at classiccityrotary.org.
PHONE, HOME: Chances are good you’ve never seen your favor
ite local band or business skewered via memes with such
care and skill as done by Phillip Brantley (Palace Doctor,
Modern Skirts, Blue Blood, et al). When he’s not busy
with that jibber jabber, he’s making new music under the
project name Terminally Phil—which is itself a nice nod
to existentialism —and has a new four-song EP out now.
All four songs were recorded in his apartment and, as he
reports, straight into his phone. It’s named February 2021
(or stylized as Feb ’21), and the powers that be want you to
focus on the lead single, “Putz.” Admittedly, that’s a catchy
beat-box-based tune and totally fine in its own right, but
my tastes run more toward the gentle introspectiveness of
“Prospects Grim.” Word on the street is that this is just a
taste of things to come, and a full-length album is planned
for later this year. Check this out at terminallyphil.band
camp.com, and check in with the man himself at facebook.
com/terminallyphilmusic.
WAKE UP: Because it came out right smack dab in the middle
of our long winter’s nap, the EP titled Kind of Warm For a
Lonesome Home by Sleepy Co. slipped through the cracks.
Well, it’s been given another leg up, thanks to being asso
ciated with/re-released by/something to do with Athens
label Echobass Records. I’m gonna tell you right now:
This three-song record cooks on high. The crunchy and
Krautrock-ish opening track “One Season Between” kicks
things off loudly and a little defiantly, but things quickly
slip into fishbowl glassiness on the quieter but equally spun
“Naudical” before the crumbling and collapsing stomper
“Timeout Boy” finishes the whole thing off. Now that I’m
thinking about it, was Sleepy Co. possibly named after the
Olivia Tremor Control song “A Sleepy Company”? I dunno,
but it wouldn’t surprise me. Featured on this are John
Fernandes on clarinet and Emileigh Ireland on vocals on
“One Season Between.” Ireland is also credited in the notes
for contributing the “overarching album concept,” which
is a nice thing to mention. Listen for yourself at either aux
vids.bandcamp.com or echobassrecords.bandcamp.com. ©
Lo Talker
of Montreal: / Feel Safe With You, Trash (Sybaritic Peer) Self-released as a
double album, / Feel Safe With You, Trash is exactly the type of unhinged psyche
delic pop you would expect to hear from Kevin Barnes after a year of quarantine.
Several previous albums have been very forthcoming about musical influences;
over the past decade, we’ve heard the R&B-soaked False Priest, 70s folk-rock
tribute Lousy with Sylvianbriar, EDM-tinged Innocence Reaches and ’80s extended
dance-mix-inspired White Is Relic/lrrealis Mood. Written, performed and recorded
entirely by Barnes, the musically dense / Feel Safe With You, Trash dips its toes into
several different genres, yet remains cohesive through its signature frenetic pop
approach. The funky track “Fingerless GlOves’’ unexpectedly devolves into a metal
meltdown, while “Karlheinz ChOp Up Children’’ pays homage to the German electronic composer Karlheinz Stock
hausen through odd percussive loops. Lyrically, the tracks continue delving into a progressively more autobiograph
ical trend—with last year’s album UR FUN largely inspired by partner Christina Schneider of Locate S,1—but their
surreal, stream-of-consciousness nature often comes across as more opaque than relatable. Still, there are glimpses
behind the curtain, such as the identity contemplations “This is ExpOsed” and “Queer as Love.” [Jessica Smith]
MARCH 17, 2021 | FLAGPOLE.COM 15
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