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Today’s cartoon, by Harriet Burbeck:

A man and a woman sit around the table solving a crossword puzzle.

“O.K., if twenty-down is ‘no cap,’ and nine-down is ‘six seven,’ then fifteen-across has to be ‘drip.’ ”

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