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Algernon

Star Rats

It's always work, work, work in the science lab, but Algernon, being brilliant (well, for now), has figured out a few shortcuts through the walls of the maze.

Rows

  1. Illness in a Garcia Marquez novel • Eastern priest • Cathedral area
  2. Battery end • Fear Street author • Restaurant bigwigs
  3. Displays unhappiness • Population center • Like the gates to heaven, it is said
  4. Wave generator • It's based at the Vatican • Chanukah treat
  5. Three-time Pulitzer-winning dramatist • Do some high-tech surgery, perhaps • One who refuses to face facts
  6. Venetian blind parts • Given to mental lapses, maybe • Part in a play
  7. Twitter listing • Head of France • "Otherwise…" (2 words)
  8. Eightsome • They might make finding an apartment difficult • Swear
  9. Off-kilter • Some Latin dances • Hombre de la casa
  10. Trunk • Hits repeatedly, as with a snowball • R.E.M.'s lead singer
  11. Some nobles • Tree also known as the "weeping fig" • Cones' partners
  12. Wedding participant • Word repeated after "que" • Potato type
  13. Anatomical pouches • Bathroom fixture • Many Scottish fabric patterns

Path

  • Picture accompaniment, often
  • 🐁 One who refuses to go along with the plan
  • They know what's coming
  • Most sentences have at least one
  • 🐁 Little extra, in a hotel room
  • Nut used in a pie
  • Throws with difficulty
  • Philadelphia hockey player
  • 🐁 Assassin in the Daredevil comics
  • Negative particle
  • Playful river mammals
  • Changes the words
  • Ms. LaBelle
  • Not by force
  • 🐁 Cellist and composer Pablo
  • Foam up, as a wave
  • Convictions
  • Even Steven
  • Like many new cars, in terms of purchasing one
  • Bode
  • Put a tea bag in hot water, say
  • 🐁 Stability enhancer, on the water
  • Give it another go
  • Despair
  • Layer of paint
  • 🐁 Tiny pointed bits
  • Vinegar and so forth
  • Actors Stiller and Schwartz
  • 🐁 Around the hearth
  • Diplomat's asset
  • Leftover amount
  • 🐁 One of the Friends friends
  • Gave some help
  • Gnats and mosquitoes

Shortcuts

  • Accessories for a Wild West costume (8)
  • Art form in which you might employ palm fronds (8)
  • Delta rival (8)
  • Opening of many plays (8; two words)
  • Percussion instruments that come in pairs (9)
  • Politician's goal (8)
  • Sister in a Grimm fairy tale (7; two words)
  • Some Renaissance Fair tavern workers (8)
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