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LAST WEEK’S RESULTS:
Title: “Quartet for Strings”
Prompt: This week’s races wordplay is a person in the news this week.
Answer: SERENA WILLIAMS
Correct entries: 641 overall, of which 626 were solo solves
Four nonsensical phrases in our grid last week:
17-A: [Clean someone’s teeth with a sci-fi weapon?] = LASER ENAMEL
27-A: [Result of the new Disney CEO disliking the word “Mickey”?] = MOUSE RENAMED
48-A: [Response to “Hey troubadour, what’re you doing underneath that balcony”?] = I’M SERENADING
63-A: [Coffee shop freebie in a French department?] = ISERE NAPKIN
Those each obfuscate the reports SERENA, indicating tennis legend Serena Williams, who retired on Tuesday without a very long (she turns 41 in a couple of weeks) and extremely successful career.
THIS WEEK’S INSTRUCTIONS:
This week’s races wordplay is a synonym for “threadbare”.
Solve well, and be not led off-target by words intended to deceive.
