Kyrgyz city on the ancient Silk Road / FRI 9-5-25 / Slugger Scott with eight Gold Gloves / Game with a 32-card deck / Sliding screen in a Japanese tearoom / Small semiaquatic mammal with 22 tentacles on its snout / Money wasted on poor decision-making, jocularly / Belle ___, real-life celebrity outlaw celebrated in film and TV

Constructor: Bryan Cheong Relative difficulty: Easy-Medium THEME: none   Word of the Day: Greg EGAN  ( 18A: Greg ___, author of the 19...