Consider a few clues in today’s crossword, constructed by Adam Shapiro.
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New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2026
Sheerazie, lead gardener at Pasadena’s Arlington Garden, has studied permaculture and designed and constructed a number of swales at the garden and elsewhere.
Assume a 10% per year rate of return (compounded annually), roughly the gain for the S & P 500 over the past three decades, before accounting for inflation.
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Zev Fima,
CNBC,
12 Oct. 2026
The euthanasia drug, pentobarbital, must be pure and non-compounded.
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Dr. Jacob Appel,
New York Daily News,
8 Oct. 2026
The phone encounters were conceived before the pandemic, but once quarantine began, the idea of entertaining people through interactive phone plays really began to pick up steam.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2026
It was conceived for American apple brandy but works with Calvados (the French kind).
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