“The Myth of Sisyphus” writer Crossword Clue

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“The Myth of Sisyphus” writer Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SISYPHUS (noun)
1. (Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
WRITER (noun)
1. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
2. a person who is able to write and has written something

Hint 3: Anagram

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5. Buyer be where?

9. Rugged cliff

13. Whodunit discovery

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20. Cor anglais kin

21. Expressive dance

22. Tickled

23. Censorship-fighting org.

24. Give the cold shoulder to Dr. McCoy?

26. Butterfly, e.g.

27. Top competitors, often

29. Baseball great Lefty with a namesake bridge near Oracle Park

30. Pays attention

31. Something usually doubled

33. Revenuers, e.g.

36. Garage sale caveat

37. Loses heart

38. Cowled contingent

40. Aristotle’s “waking dream”

44. Will of Arrested Development

46. Use a Shop-Vac instead of a rake?

49. “Walk on the Wild Side” singer

52. Ices

55. Fascinated

56. Places for vows

57. Toe treatment, familiarly

58. Trilled in the heights

59. Roles for stars

60. No Exit playwright

62. Without

63. Tennis great Arthur

64. Beard for Daffy, e.g.?

66. Island nation with a Coral Coast

70. Like boars and bucks

71. Rejects with disdain

72. Group of Scouts

73. Chilled

77. Author Wiesel

78. Indian loincloths

79. Forward surge

80. Country singer Ronnie

83. Neighborhood west of Encino

84. Snippet of a Motown hit used in another song?

86. Evening event

88. First-year law student

89. "Nice burn!"

92. Spanish turnover

96. Talks incessantly

99. Bread boxes?

100. Where cell phones don’t work

101. Fairbanks in films

104. Place for a barbecue

106. Backgammon piece

107. Skillful

108. “Drive carefully—90% of humans are caused by accident,” e.g.?

112. Sheepskin boots

113. Threaten

114. Boris Godunov, e.g.

115. Crown

116. Fedora material

117. Many a Degas

118. French door part

119. Otherwise

120. Phone bill listing

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1. Discontinued, with 'out'

2. Epoch that saw the first early primates

3. Finds new tenants for

4. Moral Majority march?

5. Criminal patterns, for short

6. Couldn’t stand

7. Registering the most decibels

8. Carson's successor

9. Anger

10. Bleed

11. Pub potable

12. Krypton, e.g.

14. Emirati’s neighbor

15. Impertinent remark at a 12-step meeting?

16. Ad Council ads, briefly

17. Trucker's rig

18. Ideal site

25. In shape

28. Trap setters

30. Item on a to-do list

32. Uses the good china

34. Puck, e.g.

35. Algonquian tribe

39. Some colas, briefly

41. Almond outline

42. Le Pew of cartoon fame

43. Abbr. on a town’s welcoming sign

45. Bounce your booty

47. Currency of (and part of the name of) a West African nation

48. Goals

49. Refrain bit

50. Flamenco cries

51. Jazz setting

53. Many flat screens

54. Snoopy and the Red Baron, say

57. Clip

58. Bhutan bovines

60. Do some pouting

61. Name on a WWII bomber

62. Auld Lang __

64. Russian country house

65. Faucet faults

66. Glaciers and icebergs?

67. Tiny bit

68. Enlist in

69. Res ___ loquitur

70. Assemble in great numbers

72. Attire, informally

73. Middling

74. Soon, to a bard

75. In alignment

76. Top-notch tyrant?

78. Agcy. that pioneered the internet and GPS

80. Dash abbr.

81. "Casablanca" role

82. Mardi Gras follower

83. Play breaks

85. Forest growth

87. Like some unhealthy attachments

90. Current amount

91. H.S. exam

93. Orbital extreme

94. Widget plugged into a computer

95. Bikini trials, informally

97. Rabbit chaser of fiction

98. Dev of 'Slumdog Millionaire'

101. Like many a cellar

102. Ancient theaters

103. Coffee dispensers

105. Category

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110. Whiff

111. Born in Bordeaux

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