| Like a nonstarter, for short |
New York Times |
03 Jul 2026 |
| "___ one-eighty" (turn around): 2 wds. |
|
|
| __ favor for (help out) |
Newsday |
07 Jun 2026 |
| ___ number on (deceive): 2 wds. |
|
|
| ___ good turn |
New York Times |
30 Apr 2026 |
| 1950 film noir |
Commuter |
09 Apr 2026 |
| "___ big favor" (really help): 2 wds. |
|
|
| 2005 Foo Fighters single which followed <i>Best of You</i> |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
01 Mar 2026 |
| "___ good deed" ("Help someone"): 2 wds. |
|
|
| Hopeless from the start, for short |
New York Times |
22 Feb 2026 |
| 1988 film thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan (1,1,1) |
Mirror Quiz |
13 Feb 2026 |
| "___ double take" (take a second look): 2 wds. |
|
|
| Classic 1950 film noir |
Commuter |
10 Jan 2026 |
| "___ number on" (deceive): 2 wds. |
|
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| "___ good deed" (perform a helpful service to someone): 2 wds. |
|
|
| Classic 1950 noir film |
Commuter |
10 Dec 2025 |
| 2005 Foo Fighters single with the line "Been a pleasure, but the pleasure's been mine, all mine" |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
07 Dec 2025 |
| Like a nonstarter, informally |
The Washington Post Mini |
25 Nov 2025 |
| "I'm sure you will ___ good job" ("You will be great at it"): 2 wds. |
|
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| ___ number on (deceive): 2 wds. |
|
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| "He is going to Italy to ___ course in pasta making": 2 wds. |
|
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| ___ double take (look twice): 2 wds. |
|
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| "___ big favor" (really help): 2 wds. |
|
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| "Your love life's ____", lyric from the Friends theme tune |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
29 Aug 2025 |
| 1988 film thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan (1,1,1) |
Mirror Quiz |
07 Aug 2025 |
| "___ number on" (deceive): 2 wds. |
|
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| "___ number on" (deceive): 2 wds. |
|
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| "___ number on" (deceive): 2 wds. |
|
|
| __ favor for (help out) |
Newsday |
22 Jun 2025 |
| Without a chance, casually |
|
|
| Morgue inits. |
|
|
| Doomed from the get-go, for short |
New York Times |
05 Jun 2025 |
| 1988 Dennis Quaid/Meg Ryan thriller |
|
|
| Film noir classic |
Thomas Joseph |
27 May 2025 |
| Going nowhere from the get-go, casually |
|
|
| Toe tag letters |
|
|
| 1988 Meg Ryan m.o.v.i.e. |
|
|
| ___ number on (deceive): 2 wds. |
|
|
| Classic 1950 film noir |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Apr 2025 |
| ER pronouncement: Abbr. |
|
|
| ___ double take (2 wds.) |
|
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| Like an idea that's going nowhere, informally |
|
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| __ good deed (2 wds.) |
|
|
| Vancouver punks (1,1,1) |
|
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| Dead on arrival, acronym |
|
|
| Dead on arrival (1.1.1.) |
|
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| "- good deed" |
Eugene Sheffer |
05 Dec 2024 |
| ___ 180:D::(2 wds.) |
|
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| ___ 180(2 wds.) |
|
|
| Somber ER pronouncement (abbr.) |
|
|
| - 180 (2 words) |
|
|
| __ double take (show surprise, 2 wds.) |
|
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| "___ big favor" (really help): 2 wds. |
|
|
| "I can't ___ thing with my hair!" (2 wds.) |
|
|
| Not viable from the start, for short |
New York Times |
01 Sep 2024 |
| Film noir classic |
Thomas Joseph |
05 Aug 2024 |
| Film noir classic |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Jul 2024 |
| Doomed from the start, for short |
New York Times |
09 Jul 2024 |
| - good deed (2 wds.) ANSWERS FOR THIS PUZZLE CAN BE FOUND IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE |
|
|
| __ job on (deceive) |
Newsday |
21 Jun 2024 |
| Dead on arr. |
|
|
| Initially late getting there (3) |
|
|
| 1949 film noir classic |
Thomas Joseph |
15 May 2024 |
| ___ number on (deceive): 2 wds. |
|
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| ___ number on (unnerve): 2 wds. |
|
|
| 180 intro |
Newsday |
27 Apr 2024 |
| 1988 film thriller starring Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan |
Mirror Quiz |
17 Apr 2024 |
| ___ double take (react in a surprised manner): 2 wds. |
|
|
| Showed up extinct |
|
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| __ number on (2 wds.) |
|
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| Your love life's ___ (line from the Friends theme) |
|
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| - good deed (2 wds.) |
|
|
| Arrived lifeless (abbr) (3) |
|
|
| - 180 (2 wds.) |
|
|
| 1950 thriller set in San Francisco |
|
|
| Doomed to fail, for short |
New York Times |
18 Jan 2024 |
| Like a proposal in Congress that has zero chance of passing, in brief |
New York Times |
23 Dec 2023 |
| __ double take; look twice |
Commuter |
18 Dec 2023 |
| Every Boy Scout tries to ___ good deed every day (1,1,1) |
|
|
| __ number on; injure |
Commuter |
30 Nov 2023 |
| __ job on (deceive) |
Newsday |
20 Oct 2023 |
| Classic film noir about a man investigating his own murder |
LA Times Daily |
18 Oct 2023 |
| Film noir classic |
Thomas Joseph |
30 Jun 2023 |
| __ double take |
LA Times Daily |
23 Jun 2023 |
| 1950 noir classic |
Wall Street Journal |
03 May 2023 |
| ER acronym |
|
|
| Film noir classic |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Mar 2023 |
| 1949 film noir classic |
Thomas Joseph |
10 Feb 2023 |
| Hopeless from the start, for short |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Jan 2023 |
| ___ big favor |
Universal |
28 Dec 2022 |
| ___ number on |
Wall Street Journal |
01 Nov 2022 |
| Noir classic in the National Film Registry |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Oct 2022 |
| __ double take (show surprise) |
Newsday |
09 Oct 2022 |
| 1949 film noir classic |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Sep 2022 |
| __ double take |
Newsday |
09 Sep 2022 |
| Noir movie in the National Film Registry |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Jun 2022 |
| Film noir classic |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Jun 2022 |
| __ number on (psych out) |
Newsday |
17 Mar 2022 |
| Classic noir movie |
Wall Street Journal |
06 Nov 2021 |
| "— good deed" |
Eugene Sheffer |
28 Oct 2021 |
| Paramedic's acronym |
|
|
| "— good deed" |
Eugene Sheffer |
30 Jul 2021 |
| Classic noir film starring Edmond O’Brien |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Jun 2021 |
| __ number on (psych out) |
Newsday |
06 Jun 2021 |
| 1949 film noir classic |
Thomas Joseph |
18 May 2021 |
| Film noir classic |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Apr 2021 |
| — good deed |
Premier Sunday |
18 Apr 2021 |
| "___ number on" (deceive): 2 wds. |
|
|
| 1950 noir classic |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Mar 2021 |
| — number on |
Premier Sunday |
24 Jan 2021 |
| Foo Fighters single of 2005, follow-up to Best of You |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
27 Dec 2020 |
| ER tag |
|
|
| __ double take |
LA Times Daily |
22 Nov 2020 |
| __ double take |
|
|
| Classic film noir of 1950 |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Nov 2020 |
| ___ good deed daily (2 words) |
Family Time |
05 Oct 2020 |
| Hosp. records notation |
|
|
| Too late for the hosp |
Wall Street Journal |
20 Apr 2020 |
| Doomed from the start, for short |
New York Times |
14 Apr 2020 |
| Hopeless from the start, slangily |
New York Times |
29 Mar 2020 |
| Arrived extinct |
|
|
| Doomed from the start, informally |
|
|
| Some hospital visitors, for short |
|
|
| 1988 Dennis Quaid movie |
|
|
| '— good deed' |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Nov 2019 |
| Arrived extinct, abbr |
|
|
| __ number on: confound |
|
|
| __ number on: confound |
LA Times Daily |
05 Aug 2019 |
| Doomed to fail, for short |
New York Times |
04 Aug 2019 |
| ___ double take |
Universal |
04 Mar 2019 |
| Classic O'Brien noir film |
|
|
| Classic O'Brien noir film |
LA Times Daily |
20 Jan 2019 |
| Film noir classic |
|
|
| __ number on: confound |
|
|
| Classic O'Brien noir film |
|
|
| Doomed to fail, for short |
|
|
| ___ double take |
|
|
| Film noir classic |
|
|
| 1988 noir remake |
|
|
| 1988 noir remake |
LA Times Daily |
17 Oct 2018 |
| Classic film noir |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Jul 2018 |
| Doomed to failure, slangily |
USA Today |
23 May 2018 |
| Classic Edmond O'Brien film |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Apr 2018 |
| Classic Edmond O'Brien film |
|
|
| 1988 noir remake |
|
|
| Classic film noir |
|
|
| Doomed to failure, slangily |
|
|
| With no chance of revival: Abbr |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Oct 2017 |
| 1988 Ryan/Quaid remake |
|
|
| 1988 Ryan/Quaid remake |
LA Times Daily |
10 Sep 2017 |
| 1950 classic starring Edmond O'Brien |
|
|
| ___ one-eighty |
New York Times |
24 Aug 2017 |
| Classic O'Brien 121-Across film |
|
|
| Classic O'Brien 121-Across film |
LA Times Daily |
20 Aug 2017 |
| Going nowhere, metaphorically |
New York Times |
09 Apr 2017 |
| 1988 Dennis Quaid thriller |
Wall Street Journal |
25 Mar 2017 |
| Morgue acronym |
|
|
| Classic O'Brien 121-Across film |
|
|
| Going nowhere, metaphorically |
|
|
| ___ one-eighty |
|
|
| 1988 Ryan/Quaid remake |
|
|
| ___ number on (psych out) |
|
|
| ___ good deed |
New York Times |
12 Dec 2016 |
| 1988 film noir remake |
LA Times Daily |
10 Dec 2016 |
| ___ good deed |
USA Today |
08 Nov 2016 |
| Morgue abbr |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Jul 2016 |
| 1950 film noir classic |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Jul 2016 |
| Film noir classic |
Thomas Joseph |
21 Jun 2016 |
| Classic 1950 film noir |
|
|
| Film classic in which a man reports his own murder |
Wall Street Journal |
18 May 2016 |
| Classic film starring Edmond O'Brien |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Apr 2016 |
| __ double-take |
Universal |
11 Apr 2016 |
| 1950 noir classic with a climactic scene shot in L.A.'s Bradbury Building |
|
|
| good deed (help out) |
Eugene Sheffer |
12 Jan 2016 |
| 1988 Meg Ryan remake |
|
|
| ___ good deed |
|
|
| 1950 noir classic with a climactic scene shot in L.A.'s Bradbury Building |
|
|
| 1988 film noir remake |
|
|
| ___ good deed |
|
|
| Classic 1950 film noir |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Dec 2015 |
| ___ double take (show surprise) |
USA Today |
20 Nov 2015 |
| __ job on (deceive) |
Newsday |
15 Oct 2015 |
| Quaid remake of an Edmond O'Brien thriller |
USA Today |
05 Sep 2015 |
| ___ good job |
New York Times |
28 Aug 2015 |
| Woodworker's groove |
New York Times |
20 Aug 2015 |
| ER chart notation |
|
|
| 1950 film noir in which a man reports his own murder |
|
|
| ___ double take |
New York Times |
01 Apr 2015 |
| Having no chance for success, as a proposal, for short |
New York Times |
05 Mar 2015 |
| __ favor for (help out) |
Newsday |
03 Mar 2015 |
| Joey Keithley band |
|
|
| 1950 film noir starring Edmond O'Brien |
|
|
| Having no chance for success, as a proposal, for short |
|
|
| ___ double take |
|
|
| ___ good job |
|
|
| Beyond help, in the ER |
|
|
| Bloodrock song that didn't make it? |
|
|
| 1950 film noir in which a man reports his own murder |
|
|
| 1950 film noir classic |
|
|
| __ job on (deceive) |
|
|
| __ favor for (help out) |
|
|
| Quaid remake of an Edmond O'Brien thriller |
|
|
| ___ double take (show surprise) |
|
|
| Dreaded ER letters |
|
|
| 1950 film noir classic |
|
|
| Classic 1950 film noir |
|
|
| ___ barrel roll (Google Easter egg since November 2011) |
|
|
| '05 Foo Fighters hit |
|
|
| 1988 Quaid/Ryan movie |
|
|
| 1950 Edmond O'Brien film noir classic |
|
|
| Beyond the help of the ER |
|
|
| Tecmo fighting game, popularly |
|
|
| __ favor for (help) |
|
|
| ___ number on |
|
|
| Vancouver founders of hardcore punk |
|
|
| Foo Fighters "No one's getting out of here alive" song |
|
|
| __ number on |
|
|
| __ double take |
|
|
| __ double take |
|
|
| ER pronouncement |
|
|
| Morbid Bloodrock song |
|
|
| Dennis Quaid remake of a 1950 film noir |
|
|
| 1988 Dennis Quaid film |
|
|
| Morgue tag |
|
|
| 1950 film noir classic |
|
|
| "___ Good Turn Daily" (Boy Scout slogan) |
|
|
| 1950 noir starring Edmond O'Brien |
|
|
| ___ good deed |
|
|
| Showing up at the ER late? |
|
|
| 1950 film-noir classic |
|
|
| __ good turn (be helpful) |
|
|
| 1950 movie where a man reports his own murder |
|
|
| Classic Rudolph Maté film noir |
|
|
| Unable to be helped in the ER |
|
|
| 1988 noir remake |
|
|
| Foo Fighters "It's a shame we have to die, my dear" song |
|
|
| Coroner's abbr. |
|
|
| 1950 film in which Frank Bigelow investigates his own murder |
|
|
| Tragic E.R. status |
|
|
| Big name in hardcore punk |
|
|
| Arrived lifeless, for short |
|
|
| Beyond the point of needing an EMT |
|
|
| "In Your Honor" Foo Fighters hit |
|
|
| Foo Fighter song that didn't make it? |
|
|
| ___ number on |
|
|
| How a corpse enters an ER |
|
|
| Not a good way to show up at a hosp. |
|
|
| 1988 Ryan/Quaid remake |
|
|
| E.R. status |
|
|
| 1950 film-noir classic |
|
|
| Good deed preceders |
|
|
| ___ good turn |
|
|
| Toe tag abbr. |
|
|
| -- favor for |
|
|
| -- good job |
|
|
| -- job on |
|
|
| Classic film in which Frank Bigelow tracks down his own killer |
|
|
| 1950 noir film |
|
|
| 1950 film noir |
|
|
| ___ favor |
|
|
| Headed for the morgue, perhaps |
|
|
| ___ good deed (help out) |
|
|
| ___ good deed daily |
|
|
| 1988 film noir remake |
|
|
| 1950 Edmond O'Brien classic thriller |
|
|
| __ number on (psych out) |
|
|
| Arrived lifeless, briefly |
|
|
| 1950 film noir directed by Rudolph Maté |
|
|
| 1988 Dennis Quaid/Meg Ryan movie |
|
|
| 1950 film that opens with a man reporting his own murder |
|
|
| 1950 Edmond O'Brien suspense classic |
|
|
| Influential hardcore punk band |
|
|
| 1950 suspense classic |
|
|
| Dennis Quaid-Meg Ryan movie |
|
|
| 1988 Dennis Quaid thriller |
|
|
| ___ double-take |
|
|
| 1950 suspense classic |
|
|
| 1950 Edmond O'Brien suspense classic |
|
|
| ___ 180 |
|
|
| ___ number on (unnerve) |
|
|
| Beyond paramedic aid, in brief |
|
|
| 1988 remake directed by the creators of Max Headroom |
|
|
| Quaid remake of an Edmond O'Brien thriller |
|
|
| Beyond help, in a way |
|
|
| Classic Edmond O'Brien film |
|
|
| 1950 Edmond O'Brien film |
|
|
| Classic O'Brien noir film |
|
|
| Words before job or number |
|
|
| Words before job or number |
|
|
| 1950 Edmond O'Brien film |
|
|
| Regrettable E.R. status |
|
|
| Dennis Quaid thriller of 1988 |
|
|
| Morgue letters |
|
|
| __ job on: deceive |
|
|
| Morgue letters |
|
|
| Abbr. used by coroners |
|
|
| __ job on: deceive |
|
|
| Untreatable, in a way |
|
|
| __ good deed |
|
|
| Popular PlayStation fighting game, briefly |
|
|
| 1950 film noir classic |
|
|
| 1950 film noir classic |
|
|
| 1988 Meg Ryan film |
|
|
| Morgue acronym |
|
|
| __ double take (look twice) |
|
|
| Beyond medical help, for short |
|
|
| Hosp. designation |
|
|
| ___ double take |
|
|
| ___ number on |
|
|
| Edmond O'Brien film |
|
|
| __ double take |
|
|
| __ number on (clobber) |
|
|
| Words with "number on" |
|
|
| 1950 film noir directed by Rudolph Maté |
|
|
| 1988 film remake starring Dennis Quaid |
|
|
| __ good deed |
|
|
| 1988 Dennis Quaid thriller |
|
|
| Edmond O'Brien thriller |
|
|
| 1950 film noir thriller |
|
|
| __ good deed |
|
|
| __ one-eighty |
|
|
| Film-noir classic of '50 |
|
|
| 1950 film noir classic |
|
|
| 1988 Meg Ryan thriller |
|
|
| Morgue acronym |
|
|
| 1988 Meg Ryan thriller |
|
|
| 1988 Quaid/Ryan thriller |
|
|
| Beyond help in the ER |
|
|
| -- double take |
|
|
| ER notation |
|
|
| 1988 Quaid thriller |
|
|
| 1950 film noir classic |
|
|
| "___ good turn daily" (Boy Scouts slogan) |
|
|
| 1950 film noir |
|
|
| ___ 180 |
|
|
| "__ Good Turn Daily" |
|
|
| "__ good deed daily" |
|
|
| ER pronouncement |
|
|
| __ double take (react) |
|
|
| Thriller of 1950 remade in 1988 |
|
|
| Classic 1950 film noir |
|
|
| Film noir classic of '50 |
|
|
| -- good deed |
|
|
| Film remade as "Color Me Dead" |
|
|
| Screen thriller of 1950, remade in 1988 |
|
|
| Coroner's abbreviation, perhaps |
|
|
| 1950 Edmond O'Brien classic thriller |
|
|
| 1950 film noir classic |
|
|
| 1988 Meg Ryan film |
|
|
| Unhelpable in the E.R., maybe |
|
|
| -- number on |
|
|
| __ double take |
|
|
| 1988 remake of a 1950 thriller |
|
|
| Dennis Quaid film |
|
|
| Film noir classic |
|
|
| Screen thriller of 1950, remade in 1988 |
|
|
| ___ double-take |
|
|
| ___ good job (perform well): 2 wds. |
|
|
| 1988 Meg Ryan film |
|
|
| 1988 Dennis Quaid thriller |
|
|
| "I can't ___ thing with my hair!" |
|
|
| "I can't ___ thing with my hair!" |
|
|
| Film-noir classic |
|
|
| 1950 film noir classic |
|
|
| E. O'Brien film |
|
|
| 1988 Dennis Quaid thriller |
|
|
| __ good deed daily |
|
|
| ___ double take |
|
|
| __ uey (turn around) |
|
|
| O'Brien thriller |
|
|
| ER pronouncement |
|
|
| '49 Edmond O'Brien film |
|
|
| Beyond paramedic help |
|
|
| 1988 Dennis Quaid film |
|
|
| 1950 noir classic |
|
|
| "___ good turn daily" (Boy Scouts motto) |
|
|
| ____ double take (look twice) |
|
|
| ___ double take (show surprise) |
|
|
| 1988 Meg Ryan film |
|
|
| Dennis Quaid/Meg Ryan film |
|
|
| Dennis Quaid thriller |
|
|
| Edmond O'Brien film classic |
|
|
| Edmond O'Brien film |
|
|
| Too late for the E.R. |
|
|
| ___ stretch (serve time) |
|
|
| 1949 film classic |
|
|
| First, it was an Edmond O'Brien movie |
|
|
| 1949 film noir classic |
|
|
| __ good deed |
|
|
| 1988 Dennis Quaid/Meg Ryan remake |
|
|
| ER note |
|
|
| Like some trauma patients |
|
|
| E.R. pronouncement |
|
|
| Coroner's abbr. |
|
|
| 1988 Quaid/Ryan remake |
|
|
| 1949 film noir classic |
|
|
| Film noir classic |
|
|
| __ good deed daily |
|
|
| 1988 Meg Ryan thriller |
|
|
| Classic Edmond O'Brien suspenser |
|
|
| Thrice-made film noir |
|
|
| ___ 180 (turn around, in slang) |
|
|
| ___ good deed (help out) |
|
|
| ER report |
|
|
| 1988 Dennis Quaid film |
|
|
| Classic Edmond O'Brien suspense film |
|
|
| 1950 film noir thriller |
|
|
| Edmond O'Brien film noir, 1950 |
|
|
| 1950 Edmond O'Brien film noir |
|
|
| 1988 Dennis Quaid remake |
|
|
| ___ number on (mess up) |
|
|
| 1988 Dennis Quaid remake |
|
|
| Edmond O'Brien film |
|
|
| E.R. letters |
|
|
| '49 Edmond O'Brien film |
|
|
| Edmond O'Brien classic |
|
|
| _____ good turn |
|
|
| ____ good turn |
|
|
| _____ stretch (serve time) |
|
|
| 1949 Edmond O'Brien movie |
|
|
| _____ good turn (help) |
|
|
| Edmond O'Brien thriller: 1949 |
|
|
| Edmond O'Brien film: 1949 |
|
|
| A 1949 film thriller |
|
|
| Quaid film: 1988 |
|
|
| Hospital info |
|
|
| Edmond O'Brien film |
|
|
| Fateful letters on a police blotter |
|
|
| "Send a boy to ___ man's job" |
|
|
| Initials on a police blotter |
|
|
| "___ good turn daily." |
|
|
| ___ good deed. |
|
|
| E.R. status |
|
|
| ___ favor. |
|
|
| ER pronouncement |
|
|
| ___ line (snort) |
|
|
| ___ barrel roll (Google Easter egg) |
|
|
| Latecomer to 35-Across |
|
|
| "___ good turn when you can." |
|
|