Hemispheres Magazine

ACROSS

1. Suite spot 6. Gardener’s need 11. Home paper 15. Kind of aerobics 19. Something in the air 20. Some lions’ features 21. Land measure 22. Get wind of 23. Former CIA director George 24. Room at the top 25. Not us 26. “ bitten, twice shy” 27. Money drawer 29. Tiny part 31. Like some humor 33. Government building 36. Not so hot 37. Shopping place 38. Manual calculator 39. Traffic stopper 40. Ointment ingredient 43. Clever comment 44. Object 46. It’ll knock you out 48. Tendon 50. A deadly sin 52. Grow old 53. Symbol of strength 54. Listlessness 55. Little piggy 56. Hidden means of support? 57. Scattered 60. Make, as money 61. Kind of cake 63. Song holder, once 66. Little bit 67. Unbending 70. Small jar

71. Not often 73. Shock’s partner 74. Eating place 77. It’s a snap 79. Arm or leg 81. Cold dessert 82. Sanction 83. Venom source 86. Slow mover 88. A small dinner 89. Mongrel 90. Type of fish 92. Catlike 93. Matter of debate 96. Tiny creature 98. Kind of testing 99. Make bigger 101. Roam 103. Outstanding 105. Pressing need? 106. Eagle’s nest 107. Side glance 108. Pour out 111. Snail mail requirement 112. Instrument for Orpheus 113. Claim 114. Choir part 116. Unexpected sports outcome 119. Extreme 123. Oversee 124. Rod attachment 125. Gulch 126. Tartan 127. Forms of creative beauty 128. Sailing vessel with two masts 129. Leg part 130. Ballroom dance

DOWN

1. Pillbox, e.g. 2. Mine find 3. Large amount 4. Nauseant 5. An imaginary line 6. Like some talk 7. Wheel of Fortune’s Sajak 8. Picnic crasher 9. Defroster 10. One that got away 11. No longer in 12. Repeat performance? 13. Poetic conjunction 14. Abase 15. A hyphen 16. Carnival sight 17. Apiece 18. The hunted 28. Give the slip to 30. In perfect condition 32. Became an issue 33. Send the kids for the summer 34. Scrub 35. Place for a barbecue 36. Radial, e.g. 37. Sell 39. Some lumps 40. Car dealer’s offering 41. Present from birth 42. Kind of network 45. Foal’s mother 47. Cowboy’s companion 49. Breezy 51. Sandwich shop 56. Memory unit 57. Prepare for surgery 58. Stop 59. Black ink item

62. Play part 64. Certain horse race 65. Graze 67. Lively dance 68. Pang 69. Stay 70. Marine 72. Expression of pride? 75. Name 76. Not always a home 77. Feather in one’s cap 78. “Take this!” 80. Table game 84. Alternative to a convertible 85. Lose one’s cool 87. Live and 89. Hamster’s home 90. Chapter 11 91. Like some beds 94. Carbamide 95. Winter head warmer 97. In use 100. Club 102. Baby bottle part 104. Spanish dish 106. Castaway’s site 107. Adjust 108. Spreadsheet numbers 109. At any time 110. Small change 111. Fret 115. Grazing area 117. Total 118. Relative of an ostrich 120. Beachgoer’s goal 121. Fix 122. Hoopla

SUDOKU

THE NUMBERS GAME // BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

ASSOCIATIVE PROPERTY

SOMETIMES IT REALLY IS WHAT YOU KNOW // BY NOAH TARNOW

1. CONFUSED CUISINE

Each item features the name of a well-known international dish, but as an anagram (the letters are scrambled). It is accompanied by three of its ingredients. Name the dish. For instance: a conceited truffle (pasta, butter, Parmesan), is fettuccine alfredo.

A. Entices zen whirl (veal, lard, bread crumbs)

B. Nasal comics (mollusks, bacon, lemon juice)

C. An okapi spat (spinach, olive oil, feta cheese)

D. Unique rec rooms (bread, ham, Gruyère)

E. A phat id (rice noodles, peanuts, fish sauce)

F. Ahem—I lack a knit sack (chicken, tomatoes, yogurt)

2. THREE DEGREES OF MUSICAL SEPARATION

Name the artists behind each of the three popular songs. Clue: Their names are phonetically linked. For example: “I Believe I Can Fly” / “Since U Been Gone” / “I Got You Babe” results in R. Kelly / Kelly Clarkson / Sonny and Cher.

A. “Mellow Yellow” / “Runnin’ with the Devil” / “Freebird”

B. “Love Is a Battlefield” / “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” / “The Real Slim Shady”

C. “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)” / “End of the Road” / “The Safety Dance”

D. “Gangsta’s Paradise” / “Wonderwall” / “We Are Family”

E. “Holding Back the Years” / “Give It Away” / “When a Man Loves a Woman”

F. “Tainted Love” / “My Heart Will Go On” / “Runaround Sue”

G. “This Land Is Your Land” / “Joy to the World” / “Sister Christian”

3. ETIQUETTE FLASHBACK

Fill in the blanks from these quotes lifted out of an etiquette book—from 1963.

A. “During the meal at an informal dinner party, are usually offered. At formal meals they never are, no matter how much food there is.”

B. “An occasional game of bridge, canasta, backgammon, or even poker can be enjoyable, but the best after-meal entertainment is stimulating.”

C. “In summer, the is one of the most popular forms of entertaining and one in which the men of the family shine.”

D. “Tea is never, never served in the kitchen and passed on a tray, and it should never be made with. These little horrors do a great disservice to tea.”

E. “For the toast at the bachelor party dinner, the groom rises and with him all the men at the table. He raises his glass and says, simply, ‘To the.’”

ANSWERS

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