Hemispheres Magazine

LAND OF THE RISING SUN

BY GREG BRUCE

IF YOU FILL IN THE CROSSWORD PLEASE TAKE THE MAGAZINE WITH YOU SO IT’S REPLACED.

ACROSS

1. Woolen cap
4. Fairy-tale villain
8. Long
11. Consequently
15. Bouquet
17. A hot dog
19. “Aquarius” musical
21. Must have
22. Haley’s
23. Property divider
24. Sweetbriar
26. Adolescents
27. Newly elected prime minister
29. Carried
30. Old gold coin
32. Morning moisture
33. Double-reed woodwind
34. A meeting of a council, court or legislative body to conduct its business
37. Moisten
39. Slender tower with balconies
43. Hooter
44. Creative spark
46. Map abbr.
48. Poi source
49. A type of society
52. Irritate
55. Fraternity letter
58. Aggravate
59. Fortified
60. High-speed transportation
62. Express in words
63. Chanel
65. French farewell
66. A type of effect
68. Proportionately
71. Jewel
72. Part
74. Clergyman
75. A sound recording of the music in a film
77. Detective’s need
78. Chapeau
79. Patriotism
83. Trinidadian dance that includes a horizontal pole
87. It may be easily bruised
88. Commodities
89. Harp
90. Mogul
91. New money
93. Freshly painted
94. Pledge
96. Bran source
97. Backtrack
100. Smooth fabric of silk or rayon
104. Italian rice
107. Uninteresting
108. Big coffee holder
109. “It’s a breeze!”
110. Complain
112. Organic chemical compound
115. Highly skilled
119. A high point
121. Engrave in wood
122. Free-for-all
123. Gumbo ingredient
124. Peter the Great, e.g.
125. Link
126. Rigatoni, e.g.
127. Show’s partner
128. Chapter in history
129. Ninny
130. Provoke

DOWN

1. Heavy reading?
2. Improves
3. Yankee’s import
4. Ad-lib
5. Outstanding
6. Carry on
7. Make secret
8. Attention-getter
9. Madly in love
10. Engine need
11. Implore
12. Keep in check
13. Heredity unit
14. Poetic homage
15. Make a scene?
16. Delicacy
18. Attuned
20. Spiritual leader
25. Midday
28. Wonderment
31. Spring
33. Watch word?
34. Couch
35. Still-life subject
36. Urban blight
37. Get-out-of-jail money
38. Refuse
40. Dried grape
41. Wandering
42. Previously known as Edo
45. Cousin of an ostrich
47. Computer woe
50. Designer’s concern
51. Like fans
53. Wine holder
54. National
56. Gnat like insect
57. Blip
60. An automated program for doing a particular task
61. Apropos
64. Chocolate source
67. Doc
68. Annoy continually or chronically
69. Comeback
70. “All kidding …”
73. A Nightmare on Street
74. Cry of approval
76. Charges
80. Spa handout
81. It’s pumped in a gym
82. Mermaid’s home
84. Not worth debating
85. Water vessel
86. Not fooled by
90. Watered down
92. Being of a specified position in a numbered series
95. Three-pronged spear
98. Family member
99. Chin indentation
101. Black-and-white sea bird
102. Plot of land
103. Having an inset decorative pattern
105. Seafood entree
106. Cry of dismay
109. Type of engineer
110. Came alive
111. Pitch
112. Like some doors
113. Italian bread
114. Chocolate cookie
116. “So what … is new?”
117. Favorite
118. A type of ceremony
119. A clever remark
120. Exploit

THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

SOMETIMES IT REALLY IS WHAT YOU KNOW

BY NOAH TARNOW

1. HAPPY HOLIDAYS
There’s a common theme in the answers to each of these questions. The answer is in the bonus question.

A. The Grateful Dead and Adam and the Ants each employed two musicians playing what instrument?
B. A kilt and a T-shirt bearing the phrase “Hot Rod” formed the costume of what notorious pro wrestling villain of the 1980s?
C. In England, the Parliament Act of 1911 stripped most of the power from what legislative body?
D. What 1980s movie was set in the early ’60s at a Catskills resort called Kellerman’s?
E. During the 1996 presidential campaign, Bob Dole suggested that tobacco was no worse for you than what popular beverage?
F. FOUR-PART QUESTION: Figure out what type of waterfowl is being described.
1. Large, usually pure white and noted for its grace
2. Larger than a duck with a long neck and a feathered head, traditionally eaten for a holiday meal
3. A shorebird, stouter than a sandpiper and partially named for the yellow markings on its back
4. Long-winged with webbed feet, seen as a scavenger on shores; noted for its loud, plaintive call
G. What popular dish is referred to in its native country as pain perdu, literally “lost bread”?
H. First appearing in a 1984 black-and-white comic book, Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo were better know as what?
I. What musical TV comedy of the 1970s featured a stepmother and stepson playing actual mother and son?

BONUS: What well known song is the unifying theme of the answers to these questions?

2. SURELY YOU JEST
Name the stand-up comics famous for the following witticisms.

A. “There are four-hundred-thousand words in the English language, and there are seven you can’t say on television. What a ratio—they must be baaad words.”  
B. “It’s not easy being me. I was gonna jump off my roof, so they called a priest to talk to me. He said, ‘On your mark…’”  
C. “If you owe the taxidermist more than your annual income…. If someone asked to see your ID and you showed them your belt-buckle…”  
D. “My four-year-old came down for breakfast and asked for chocolate cake. But then I looked at the ingredients. Eggs, milk, wheat—that’s nutrition!”

ANSWERS

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