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ribbing.”
    Rosco placed the screwdriver back in the display box and said, “Yeah, well, I guess now the joke’s on us.”

Angel in Disguise
    Sift together: ¾ cup flour; ¾ cup 30-Across sugar; ¼ cup cocoa
    Combine and beat until soft mounds appear: 1½ cups 46-Across; 1½ tsp. 25-Across; ½ tsp. salt; 1½ tsp. 18-Across
    Beat in until stiff: ¾ cup additional 30-Across sugar, 2 tbsp. at a time
    Sift in dry ingredients; then fold in: 1 cup 51-Across
    Gently pour batter into 10 inch ungreased 63-Across
    Bake at 325 degrees for 50 minutes
    This will serve 14, if your guests aren’t greedy …
    Angel in Disguise

    ACROSS
    Â Â  1 . Comic’s bit
    Â Â  4 . Place to wipe your feet
    Â Â  7 . Manuscript modifiers; abbr.
    10 .  Playwright’s monogram
    13 .  Three-match link
    14 .  Eggs; in biology
    15 .  Certain mushroom
    16 .  Knock on the door
    17 .  Giant baseball player?
    18 .  MAMA’S DESSERT
    20 .  Lengthen
    21 .  Electron tube
    23 .  Bug
    24 .  Beef & potato dish
    25 .  MAMA’S DESSERT
    28 .  Caesar’s 102
    29 .  The Caribbean is one
    30 .  MAMA’S DESSERT
    36 .  Ordinance
    40 .  Too much in France
    41 .  Façade
    43 .  _____ Cruz
    44 .  Miss Loos
    46 .  MAMA’S DESSERT
    48 .  French pronoun
    50 .  Sup
    51 .  MAMA’S DESSERT
    58 .  Jaw
    59 .  Surly
    60 .  Movie light
    62 .  Erase
    63 .  MAMA’S DESSERT
    65 .  _____ Magnon
    66 .  Pub pint
    67 .  Here in Paris
    68 .  Employ
    69 .  Argentine president Juan’s wife
    70 .  Drs.
    71 .  Born
    72 .  Salary
    73 .  Bro or sis
    DOWN
    Â Â 1 .  Fine
    Â Â 2 .  Prank
    Â Â 3 .  Crock’s cousin
    Â Â 4 .  Fan’s job?
    Â Â 5 .  Mickey’s wife of a year
    Â Â 6 .  Latin-American dance
    Â Â 7 .  Acclaim
    Â Â 8 .  River basins
    Â Â 9 .  Retreat
    10 .  Miss Garbo
    11 .  Cake maker
    12 .  Gush
    19 .  Eternity; abbr.
    22 .  Trick
    24 .  Remain active
    26 .  Petty quarrel
    27 .  Yank’s foe
    30 .  RR stop
    31 .  Coffee server
    32 .  Hawaiian staple
    33 .  Anger
    34 .  Holiday quaff
    35 .  H.S. subj.
    37 .  Allow
    38 .  “These _____ the times…”
    39 .  Had been
    42 .  Dainty
    45 .  Matterhorn; e.g.
    47 .  Hired coach
    49 .  Fir kin
    51 .  Tot
    52 .  Pelts
    53 .  James Hubert Blake, familiarly
    54 .  A general monogram?
    55 .  Rejuvenate
    56 .  Better
    57 .  Tennis shot
    58 .  Study & study
    61 .  Hockey score
    63 .  Can material
    64 .  Thin-rail link
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Nine
    L AWSON’S Coffee Shop didn’t seem like Lawson’s without Martha Leonetti there to sass her favorite customers. Oh, the bright pink vinyl banquettes were the same, as were the coral-colored formica tabletops, the other waitresses’ rose-hued uniforms, the chrome fixtures behind the counter, the chrome napkin dispensers arranged neatly upon it, and the chrome and leatherette swiveling stools, but a definite vitality was lacking. And not even the robust voice of Kenny, the fry cook—or “King Kenny,” as Martha liked to call him—could make up for her absence.
    Hunched over a copy of the “Angel in Disguise” crossword recipe that was spread before her, Belle surveyed the scene. “I don’t like this, Rosco,” she said.
    â€œWhat? The coffee’s no good because Miss Wisenheimer didn’t pour it? Or do you mean the grilled cheese, which you’ve hardly touched because you’re too busy filling in small white squares with a red ballpoint pen?”
    Belle’s response was to gaze past her husband, staring at the windows and the snow that was now tumbling from the skies in earnest. Outside, the world appeared to be