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WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — Greetings, my fellow puzzleheads! Deb Amlen here, sitting in for my illustrious colleague, Sam Corbin, who is recovering from a mild mystery illness in an undisclosed location. She will be back next week with even more puns, if you can imagine. I don’t know where she gets them all.

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1A. The clue [Bub] and its answer, MAC, are old-timey ways of saying “pal,” especially to someone you don’t know. 4A. Not a tricky answer, per se, but for those who are unfamiliar with him, JA RULE is the [Rapper with back-to-back triple-platinum albums in 2000 and 2001].