JUST ANOTHER MORNING

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ACROSS

1. Waterless
5. Be an accessory to
9. Hot pot
13. Heelless shoes
18. Chess ending
19. Desperate
20. Fabled racer
21. Corporate department
22. Support beam
23. Grimm beast
24. Like some vaccines
25. Visibly astonished
26. Ump’s call
27. ’60s hairdo
29. Triton
31. Restrained
33. A slope or incline
35. ____ 51, Nevada
36. Discourage
37. Solitary
38. Outpost group
41. Home in Montreal
44. Sunglasses
48. Stringed instrument
53. Queen’s residence
54. "Give it ____ !"
55. Artist’s stand
58. Watch word?
59. Outrage
60. Eyeglasses
62. Police raid
63. Annoyance
64. Breakfast grain
67. Ready and willing’s partner
69. Opposing
72. Pigswill
74. Underway
75. In the paper, online or on TV
76. Taste tester
79. Knock out
80. Microwave option
84. Make lower or quieter
85. Islamic leader
87. A woman of refinement
91. One of the five W’s
92. Bit of high jinks
94. Conclusion
96. Sprinted
97. Retain
98. Stay dry
100. Sorority letter
103. A family coat
104. Lord
107. Nonexistent
109. Gorge
112. Admiral Halsey’s concern
113. Talk radio calls
118. Road work vehicle
120. Throw off
121. We the Living author
122. Meet with
123. Gossipmonger
124. Flu symptom
126. Clothes presser
128. Miniature map
130. Start
131. Know-it-all
132. Make, as a putt
133. Cheap showy jewelry
134. Vote into office
135. Part of a process
136. Nervously irritable
137. Do as directed

DOWN

1. French romance
2. An Indian side dish
3. "____ show time!"
4. Confine
5. Beautify
6. A prejudiced person
7. Miss the mark
8. Adolescent
9. Bathroom fixture
10. An incrustation that forms on the teeth
11. Tide competitor
12. Healthy
13. A style of dancing
14. Honest and truthful
15. Quartz variety
16. Become narrower
17. Husky burden
22. Morning run
28. Charges
30. Clear the boards
32. Hollywood favorite
34. Take a nap
39. Middle of March
40. Ottoman ruler
41. Very smart
42. Put on the payroll
43. Eternally
45. Chance
46. Bronze ____
47. MD
49. Mischievous
50. Nasty
51. Breastplate
52. Sound off
56. Flowering
57. It’s for the birds
60. Gin flavoring
61. Wildlife expedition
65. Sparkle
66. Everyone
68. Young lad
70. Disease cause
71. Amazement
73. Home built in a day?
74. Related (to)
76. Thin strip
77. Tip-top
78. TV remote option
81. Porcelain piece
82. "Excuse me"
83. Spinners
86. Grinder
88. Branch
89. Pinch
90. "Go on…"
93. Everlasting
95. Hard worker
97. Mustard family member
99. Hefty volume
101. In any way whatever
102. Any day now
105. Safeguard
106. Facial application
108. Part of a rainbow
109. Angler’s basket
110. Door part
111. Room at the top
113. A pointed projection
114. Suit pocket accessory
115. Topic for discussion
116. Poor
117. Congeal
118. Suddenly change direction
119. Small pieces of cloth
125. Kind of instinct
127. Clear
129. Catch in the act

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THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

ANSWERS

"AAA" LOCATIONS

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ACROSS

1. Atlantic catch
4. Home of Montgomery
11. Vegetarian’s no-no
15. Real heel
18. Spoil, like milk
19. Well-liked
20. _____ and sciences
21. Star
22. Creative
23. Germless
24. Stuff to be crunched
25. Pen point
26. Respectful deference
28. A Muslim form of salutation
30. Fleet
32. Battery terminal
33. Loads
35. Wild swine
37. Postproduction task
38. Lobster-like
39. Advance
41. Dance partner?
42. Small freshwater fish
43. Absorbed, as a loss
44. In _____ of
46. Window cleaning equipment
49. Sink feature
52. Beast’s partner
54. A financial advisors concern
58. Swelled head
59. It comes from the heart
60. Corpse
61. Ward (off)
64. Mark for life
65. Eagle’s claw
68. Stalactite site
69. Assist
70. Frighten
72. Robust
74. Lair
75. Exhausted
77. Not old or stale
79. Male deer in the U.K.
80. Improve
82. A quick reply to a question or remark
84. More than plump
86. Bubbly beverage
87. Main course
88. Comment
90. Evil one
92. Forgiver
94. Battery fluid
96. Picnic crasher
99. Main web page
102. Kind of bean
103. From the beginning
105. "_____ rang?"
106. Bone-dry
107. Carpenter’s groove
108. Dismal
110. Up and about
112. Vim’s British partner
114. Like some energy efficient cars
117. Being deepest within the self
118. Volcano output
119. Scrubbed
121. Type of exercise
124. Teen fav.
125. "_____ to worry"
126. Chinese dynasty
127. Daily grind
128. Domesticate
129. Unspecified number
130. Musical composition
131. Tearless
132. Hurricane’s center

DOWN

1. A small crown
2. Old-fashioned
3. Wood nymph
4. Cathedral area
5. Realtor’s offering
6. Big lug
7. Erupt
8. Assumed name
9. Shopping plaza
10. Atlas stat
11. Cash set aside for an emergency
12. Tide competitor
13. Fragrant oil
14. Nicholas I or II
15. North of the U.S.A.
16. Like vinegar
17. High school team
18. World’s largest hot desert
27. Salon supply
29. More or less
31. Movement and en route care of wounded on the battlefield
33. Rested
34. Four quarters
36. Bio stat
40. This and that
41. Crouch
45. Depth charge targets
46. Posed
47. Colossal
48. Stopping point
50. Minister abbr.
51. Got mellower
53. Goof
55. Circumvent
56. Snow White’s crew
57. Style direction
59. Bad spots?
60. Kind of analysis
61. Cavalry sword
62. Link up
63. Conform
64. "No problem"
66. Palin’s backyard
67. Tackle box item
71. Following
73. Brown rival
76. Underwater projectile
78. Cozy
79. _____ Royal Highness
81. Chess pieces
83. Where the buoys are
85. Saloon
86. Right-hand person
88. Drivers who obstruct others
89. Representative
90. Informer
91. Recurring task
93. Some trial evidence
95. Garage contents
97. Morally hurtful or noxious
98. Shelled reptile
99. Cigar and classic car city
100. Prayer
101. Powerful
104. Computer network
107. Sag
108. Filthy
109. Glorify
111. Strike down
113. Golden rule word
115. A lyric poet
116. Kind of admiral
117. Like some drinks
120. African antelope
122. San Francisco/Oakland separator
123. Curling surface

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THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

ANSWERS

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ACROSS

1. Princess tormentor
4. On the peak of
8. Follower of Mary
12. Way to the top
16. Database command
17. Deep sleep
18. Moisturizer additive
19. Pooh bear’s treat
21. Assist in crime
22. Rod attachment
23. Coagulate
24. Instead
26. Pinpoint
28. Computer science rule (acr.)
30. Bargain
32. Bonus
33. In the near future
34. Russian pancakes
35. Auction action
36. Atlantic catch
39. Standing by
41. Peddle
43. Affectionate
47. Announce
49. Thingamajig
53. Café noir
55. Affaire
57. Served on the side of tikka masala
58. Acquire
59. Spider Man creator, Stan
60. Soft food for infants
62. Outbreak
64. Keyboard key
66. Compiled statistics
69. Tranquil
70. Poetic adverb
72. Met offering
73. Poseidon’s domain
74. Urgent request
78. An insane person
80. *NSYNC member Bass
85. Dorm partner
88. Napkin’s place
89. Moo chew
91. Welt
92. Sashimi offering
93. Princess topper
95. An extravagant story
97. Oktoberfest souvenir
99. Usher in
102. Baby enclosure
103. Found’s partner
105. Ruckus
106. Big _____ Conference
107. Disney dwarf
110. Mouthwash brand
112. Information
114. Thicket
119. Mandela fought against
121. Post production task
122. Announcer of important news
123. Make soiled
124. Unloading site
126. Connecting point
128. Actor Pitt
129. Jean fabric
130. Sandwich man?
131. Like a sad sack
132. Gross
133. Stare at
134. Cut down
135. Hogwash
136. Café alternative

DOWN

1. Address abbr.
2. Put up
3. Fragrant oil
4. Piece of property
5. Nail holder
6. Last of a series
7. A retraction in an ode
8. Curt
9. “Is _____ that ?”
10. A lunar ray
11. _____ nut
12. Seat of power
13. Yachting
14. Pro’s foe
15. Doctor’s order
16. Closing deal
20. Sasquatch
25. Traffic stopper
27. Silent
29. Left
31. Forfeit
37. Obama’s office
38. Barren
40. Pretentious talk or writing
42. A restaurant patron
43. Fringe
44. Ill-tempered
45. Leave out
46. Fork feature
48. _____ v. Wade
50. Identical
51. Central
52. “_____ bitten, twice shy”
54. Perceive
56. Move upward
60. Public
61. Sports stadium
63. “Agreed!”
65. Wander
67. Neighbor of Ger.
68. Warmed the bench
71. Off-pitch
73. Carve
74. Fine things
75. Display of sulkiness
76. Southern dish
77. Computer correspondence
79. Rink surface
81. Lopsided
82. _____ tide
83. Was present
84. Spirit
86. Move with stealth
87. Something to lend or
bend
90. Handout
94. Tending to cure or restore to health
95. Business get-togethers
96. Trip the light fantastic
98. Nose part
100. Senior
101. Not working
104. Plot
107. Smidge
108. Newspaper page
109. Small part
111. Organ parts
113. Castaway’s site
115. Elliptical path
116. Sear
117. Quench
118. Whirling water
120. Circus site
122. Rope fiber
125. Victorian _____
127. Batman and Robin, e.g.

SUDOKU

THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

ANSWERS

AT THE GYM

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ACROSS

1. Days of ______
5. Court order
9. Stockpile
14. Shrub
18. Musical composition
19. Despise
20. Dashboard feature
21. Put ______ words
22. Main idea
23. Baker’s need
24. Tonal pattern
25. Skirt feature
26. Chip in chips
27. Overmodest
29. Jogging machine
31. A strikingly beautiful woman
33. Stop working
35. Cuckoo
36. Fathers
37. Circumvent
38. Body decoration (Abbr.)
39. Energy
42. Not bold
45. Guide
48. Robust
52. Imitator
54. Barrel part
55. Lawn work
56. Airport pickup
57. Czar’s decree
61. First and third quarter lunar event.
64. A geometric pattern
67. One of nine in a baseball game
70. White Castle subject
71. Tender and considerate
72. “Likewise”
73. Gloomy
74. Track event
77. Appearance
78. Betrothed
82. Gallery hanging
84. French sugarcane spirit
86. Chip’s partner
87. “Go on…”
88. Put down
91. Put under water
94. Quaint dance
96. Fantastic
98. Cliffside dwelling
99. Hospital unit
100. Get older
102. Ear or eye ______
104. Is in the past?
106. Comes after cut
109. Like most sonnets
110. House of worship
113. A type of court
116. VW bug
118. Word-of-mouth
120. Stationary bike class
121. Keenness
123. Captured
124. Modeled
125. After-bath powder
126. Severe spasm of pain
127. Object of worship
128. Head start
129. Friend
130. Doglike mammal of Africa
131. Fake
132. Smell offensively

DOWN

1. Eastern discipline class
2. Offer one’s two cents
3. Out of practice
4. Favor
5. Mystery story
6. Fray
7. Big-ticket ______
8. Like some professors
9. It often follows you
10. Abuse
11. Be sweet on
12. Fries, maybe?
13. ______ bean
14. Bi on the periodic table
15. Pitch-black
16. Circus prop
17. In a heated manner
24. Type of rock music
28. Minister: Abbr.
30. Courtroom evidence
32. Greek salad ingredient
34. Bad day for Caesar
38. Betrayal
39. Ill-gotten gains
40. Arab chieftain
41. Fast feline
43. Fungi in London
44. Bother
46. Darn
47. The Three Faces of ______
49. Amongst
50. Prospector’s fi nd
51. Still-life piece
53. Shut away
58. Assists
59. Barber’s motion
60. Script direction
62. Electric cord part
63. Rant
65. Windshield feature
66. An old dining set
68. Desire
69. Score unit
73. Take exception to
74. Rigging support
75. Window fi ller
76. Carnival attraction
77. Seaweed substance
79. Dress
80. “Who ______ ?”
81. House title
83. Wimple wearer
85. “It’s no ______ !”
89. The administration of drug
90. Do damage to
92. Occurring twice a week
93. Cold cuts, e.g.
95. Dormancy
97. Entrance hall
98. Practices great self- denial
101. Hair goop
103. It has a crust
105. After workout task
106. Noodles
107. Dismay
108. Nothing to cry about
109. Harden
110. A clumsy mistake
111. Chip away at
112. Very big
114. Plaster base
115. Sore
117. Kind of list
119. Scallion
122. It may be high in the afternoon

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THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

ANSWERS

IT’S ON THE TABLE

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ACROSS

1. Type of flooring
5. Ring up
9. Locks in a barn?
13. Ancient alphabetic character
17. Pressing need?
18. Hideous
19. Passing mention?
20. Remove the pits from
22. Purely academic
23. Backside
24. Shoe part
25. Boss
26. Attract
28. Error
30. “Has ___ seen my wallet?”
31. A range of mountains
32. One in a suit
33. Glean
35. Angler’s basket
36. Spool
38. A female mythological aquatic creature
43. Top performer
47. Have or possess
48. “___ bitten, twice shy”
49. “Get out!”
53. Just manage, with “out”
54. Perpendicular to the keel
57. Canadian $1 bird
58. Needy
59. A form of rummy
60. Pants part
61. Copper
62. Foil
65. Grizzly
66. Car accessory
68. Rat-a-___
69. Draft regulator in a chimney or furnace
71. Disconnect
73. Legal org.
76. Soap ingredient
77. Horse farm newborn
79. Do it yourself beer
81. Creepy
85. “Scram!”
86. Ignited
87. Calendar span
88. ___ reflection
89. Truancy
90. Corrode
91. Substantial
92. Laugh fest
93. Napkin’s place
94. Marine rock-clinger
97. Halloween time
99. Shopaholic’s delight
101. Pungent
105. Property
107. Took the cake?
110. Picturesque
112. Free
116. The smallest planet in our solar system
118. Furniture wheel
119. Gorge
120. Number for one
121. Craving
123. Wee bit
124. Repay
125. Scorch
126. Dignified manner or conduct
127. Stair part
128. A ___ pittance
129. Auctioneer’s closing word
130. Hide
131. Pulled apart

DOWN

1. Era
2. Like some humor
3. One who takes spoils
4. Complete
5. Catholicon
6. A woman’s secret
7. South American animal
8. Song text
9. Castle defense
10. Wear away
11. One twentieth of a dollar
12. Old anesthetic
13. Stringy
14. Annul
15. Broadway brightener
16. Border
20. Rungs
21. Copier need
27. Coffee whitener
29. Antivenins
34. Prayer leader
37. Take away
39. Spy
40. Any minute
41. Screen symbol
42. Say it isn’t so
44. Bean or pea plant fruit
45. Cut corners
46. Midmorning
47. Stetson, e.g.
49. Petty quarrel
50. Fizzy drink
51. Defeat decisively
52. Usher’s offering
55. Humdinger
56. Bring in
61. Summon
63. Inactive
64. Aye’s opposite
65. Creek
66. Stewed
67. The partner of 50 down
70. Reverberate
72. Ampoule
73. Vicinity
74. Tuckered out
75. Wrong
78. Devoted
80. “See ya!”
81. Mark’s replacement
82. Colossal
83. Tooth part
84. Get ___ shape
85. Absorb, with “up”
86. Meadow
89. Stag
91. Muhammad’s birthplace
93. Tenant
95. Fellow
96. Newborn
98. Life form
99. Not mono
100. Antenna
102. Hold out
103. Completely
104. Someone who is trying to lose weight
106. Stockpile
108. ___ card
109. Nest of an eagle
111. Small very thin pancake
112. Unit of weight
113. Four-star review
114. Claim
115. Food sticker
117. A funny guy
122. Toothpaste type

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THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

ANSWERS

POWER ME UP

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ACROSS

1.______ farm
5. Male undergraduate club
9. Low in pitch
13."______ does it!"
17. Square footage eg.
18. Airport pickup
19. Run off together
21. Circle overhead?
22. Coward of note
23. Frogman
24. Divvy up
25. Consequently
26. Showing affection and kindness
28. Heat from the earth
30. Take it easy
31. Overly slick
33. Outrage
34. Unkempt Scooby Doo character
37. Parking ticket
38. Ghastly
42. Pointed tool for writing
43. Mug
44. "Que sera, ______"
45. Twisted strand of wool
47. Big dipper
48. Unwelcome forecast
49. Bucket
50. Buck’s mate
51. Televise
52. Blue hue
53. Amphitheater
55. Merchandise
57. Theater District
60. Alongside
61. A brass musical instrument
62. Pack it in
63. Quiet
64. Stockings
65. Take away
68. Add up
69. Afternoon parlor
73. October 31 option
74. Breakfast strip
75. Knitting stitch
76. Boar’s mate
77. Engine need
78. Hooey
79. Draw forth
81. Jonah’s swallower
83. Ration
85. Infinitesimal amount
86. Sty cry
87. Mountain lion
88. Manufacturing plant
90. Ivory source
91. Wedding catch
92. Buffoon
93. A quick run
94. His’s partner
95. One of five
100. A Christian gospel preacher
106. Reverse
107. At attention
108. Oscine bird
109. Stiff and sore
110. Big-ticket ______
111. Corporate department
112. "… happily ______ after"
113. Prepare food
114. Bouquet of flowers
115. Barbershop emblem
116. Dalai ______
117. "Trick" joint

DOWN

1. Decline
2. Vitamin supplement
3. Require
4. Chip’s cartoon chum
5. Unconvincing
6. Type of fastener
7. End of grace
8. A shelled reptile
9. Hound
10. Back street
11. Alone
12. Difficult position
13. By that means
14. Injury
15. Pond dweller
16. Shed item
20. Aboveboard
23. Lees
27. Quarrel
29. Diamond stat?
32. Occurring with no delay
34. Part of a flight?
35. Water power
36. Not some
37. Stimulate
38. Signified
39. Met solo
40. Atomic number 86
41. Waste away
42. Thick piece
43. Theatrical performance
44. Devote, as time
46. Egg holder
48. Chair
52. Twerp
54. Spin
55. "Oh, my!"
56. Something often twisted apart
58. Water color
59. Water carrier
60. Car
61. Carbonized fuel
63. Coffee order
64. Roll call call
65. "______ and the Ants"
66. Succinct
67. Mississippi’s ______ State University
68. "Yum!"
69. Fit snugly into
70. Utilization
71. ______ eclipse
72. Porcelain piece
74. Rude person
75. 1970s style of rock music
78. Organic matter energy source
80. Up heave
81. Not better
82. Shed
84. Frugal use of resources.
87. Freight
89. Body decoration (Abbv.)
90. Tell
91. Family subdivisions
93. Windshield attachment
94. Sheik’s bevy
95. Witty remark
96. "Do ______ others as…"
97. March time
98. Get ready
99. Big name in kids construction
101. Long live!
102. Deficiency
103. Clickable image
104. Brake part
105. Young ‘un

SUDOKU

THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

ANSWERS

IN THE WORKSHOP

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ACROSS

1. The reserve players on a team
6. Poison plant
11. Outdated
14. "What are the ?"
18. Be crazy about
19. Scoundrel
20. Pub purchase
22. Support, with "up"
23. Challenger
24. Roswell crash victim, supposedly
25. Many miles off
26. Smidgen
27. Snail mail requirement
28. Perfect rating
29. It’s hard to believe
31. Open-mouthed
33. Day to remember
35. Azria
36. Losing proposition?
37. Flora
41. A razor
44. Cast away
48. Come to light
49. Self center
50. Leg up
52. Pigeon sound
53. Mah-jongg piece
54. Stage hog
55. "Yes, !"
56. Baby’s toy
59. Country album?
61. Teaching
63. Practice
64. Hirsute
66. Coffee
67. Trim
68. Way out
71. Welcome
72. Snoozer
74. Milk purchase
75. Delivery vehicle
76. Kind of cake
77. Power glitch
78. Camper’s supply
80. Third of eight
85. Sign of affection
87. Feverish
88. Night before
89. In the buff
90. "We Family"
91. Sushi staple
93. King Kong, e.g.
94. Bay wreath
96. Early
99. Off-color
102. Put on a pedestal
103. An Inconvenient Truth presenter
104. Goose egg
105. Armor plate
107. Speak at length
109. "The played on"
111. Grp. concerned with law
112. Milk source
117. Mediocre
118. Exploiter
120. Steel girder
122. Superman player
123. Declare
124. Sir’s partner
125. Snare
126. In-box contents
127. Formally surrender
128. Like some smiles
129. Lost cause
130. Wheeled camera mount

DOWN

1. Night clubs
2. Clean up someone else’s writing
3. Exploding star
4. Study for finals
5. Serving
6. Winter sports equipment
7. Except if
8. Primary
9. Fifth, e.g.: Abbr.
10. Fractional monetary unit of Brazil
11. Australian gem export
12. "That’s "
13. Chain letters?
14. Narcotic
15. Plummet
16. Shower with love
17. Jacuzzi
21. A workout guide
30. Terminate
32. Salon supply
34. Stain
35. Molten rock
36. Grooved on
37. carotene
38. Fail to mention
39. Be a snitch
40. Geometry calculation
42. Foolhardy
43. Have sovereign power
45. On the go
46. Hair curler
47. Yuletide
51. Like some wines
54. Roll call reply
55. Database command
57. Hang on
58. Animal catcher
60. Portions
61. Babe, e.g.
62. Bat excrement
65. Kitchen pest
67. "Understand?"
68. Rigidly conventional
or old-fashioned
69. Tank top?
70. Storm
71. Dirt or soil
72. Right-minded
73. Strong cleaner
75. Type of consonant
76. Tear down so as to make flat with the ground
77. Sign of healing
78. Relations
79. Floral leaf
81. Border on
82. Not common
83. Peach or beech
84. Bridge site
86. Chest protector
92. Bring into play
93. Tolerating
94. Hawaiian garland
95. Made certain of
97. Give the cold shoulder
98. Jersey call
100. Bed-and-breakfast
101. Knock down
106. Player
107. Wander
108. Not new
109. Tolerate
110. brat
111. Quite a stretch
113. Floor model
114. Bargain
115. Black hearted
116. Bank (on)
117. Small pouch
119. Perceive by sight
121. Stadium cry

SUDOKU

THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

ANSWERS

BACK AND FORTH

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BY GREG BRUCE

ACROSS

1. Run off
6. American
10. Frighten away
15. Recess
19. Long
20. Loyal
21. It may get you to first base
22. "High" time
23. Plume source
24. Name
25. Deadly snake
26. Castaway’s place
27. Encode
29. City in Arizona
30. Throughout
32. Hang on
35. ABC’s
38. Down and out
39. Not a through street
41. Deaden
42. Sole supporter?
44. Small field
45. "We Family"
47. Popular jeans
49. Lean white flesh fish
53. Soda
54. Not fast
56. Stop working
58. "My boy"
59. Check for fit
61. green
62. Slender gull
63. Ready for picking
64. Sonny boy
66. MasterCard rival
70. Absorbed, as a loss
71. At this point
72. Arctic transport
75. Indy entry
77. Screw shaped
79. Michelin product
80. To boot
82. Elusive creature
83. Lighter?
84. Presently
85. Cheer
87. "i" lid
90. Traditional Sunday fare
94. Cincy player
95. Golf club carrier
97. Certain shark
99. Low card
100. Clover like
102. Blue hue
104. Great deal
105. Popular side
106. Pool division
107. Support
109. Dissipation
111. Train stop
114. Very skinny
118. Carpentry tool
119. Strikingly unusual
121. During
122. Very old Greek money
124. Smooch
125. Silklike fabric
127. Surfing need
128. Tsar’s decree
132. Matter for the gray matter
133. Fall off
134. Emphatic agreement
135. Carpenter’s tool
136. Duration
137. Manufacturer
138. Losing proposition?
139. Fantasize

DOWN

1. Watch closely
2. Trouser part
3. Boat paddle
4. To lead
5. Complete
6. Hunger
7. Desiccant
8. Beat to the tape
9. Wranglers alternative
10. Winter beginnings
11. Stopped lying
12. Citified
13. Swe. neighbor
14. Duffer’s challenge
15. Liqueur flavoring
16. Sheriff’s helpers
17. Firm
18. Other side
28. Prison-related
29. Charades, essentially
31. Battery terminal
32. Adjust
33. Interior finishing’s
34. A malicious woman with a fierce temper
36. At the proper time
37. Casual top
40. Plummet
43. Horse gear
46. Lamb’s mother
48. Tennis match part
50. Willow tree twig
51. Dried coconut meat
52. Prepare to be knighted
54. Catch
55. Hot rock
57. Get misty-eyed
60. Bygone
63. African horned mammal
65. Disembark a rail car
67. Frosty
68. Perceive by sight
69. Make a move
72. Kick off
73. Passenger ship
74. Wear away
75. Crucifix
76. Assists
78. Engine sound
81. Lots
86. Idiosyncrasy
88. Not at home
89. Think or believe
91. Rand McNally product
92. Metalworkers tool
93. Dry (off)
95. Mammal of South and Central America
96. Makeup
97. Troop group
98. Put into law
101. Floating wreckage of a ship
103. Middle-
105. An offensive odor
108. Sandwich filler
110. "They be finished by now"
111. Ledger entry
112. Give off
113. A model
115. Eskimo hunting boat
116. Ham it up
117. Flood embankment
120. Study for finals
123. Confined
126. Attorneys’ org.
127. Roll
129. Road map abbr.
130. Yellow, for one
131. Nightmarish street

SUDOKU

THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

ANSWERS

BORN TO RUN

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

BY GREG BRUCE

ACROSS

1. Come together
5. Zest
10. Golden rule word
14. Asterisk
18. “What’s gotten you?”
19. Opinions
20. Oyster’s prize
22. Wedding reception centerpiece
23. Gravitate (toward)
24. Hog sound
25. This place has Seoul
26. Main line
27. Photographic equipment
29. Deal maker
31. An American wireless network
33. Germ-free
34. Itty-bitty
35. Realize
36. Sensed
38. Top dog
41. A salt or ester of hydriodic acid
45. Animal skin disease
49. Campaigned
51. Ancient
53. Pulled off
54. Fluish feeling
55. Nightspot
57. Manicurist’s tool
58. What golfers aim for
59. Acrobatic move
61. Bearish
63. Depend (on)
64. Male possessive pronoun
65. Garden tool
66. What’s left behind
68. Earlier
70. Like some small towns
73. Wordplay
74. Proxy server
79. Cassowary cousin
80. Place of worship
83. Some trial evidence
84. Exchange blows
85. Swell
88. Earnest
90. Dessert of the heavens
93. Battery contents
94. Glazier’s item
95. Bleacher feature
96. Cybercafé patron
97. Nudge
98. Indented 100. It may be tapped
101. Done with money
102. Historical records
104. Happens to bars?
107. Bill Clinton’s birthplace
110. Conk
111. Thumbs-down
112. Accepting the facts
117. Hair curler
120. Bring back
122. Beguile
123. Region
124. Insect stage
126. Playful animal
128. Scheme
129. Pessimist’s word
130. Understood
131. Informal term for money
132. Of sound mind
133. “So what is new?”
134. Mexican money
135. Gas additive
136. Water pitcher

DOWN

1. Davis of jazz
2. Concerning
3. Played out
4. Echo sounder
5. Laugh nervously
6. “ the tape”
7. Urge (on)
8. Wine holder
9. Someone from Canada’s capital
10. Maintenance
11. Broadway brightener
12. Bakery product
13. Kind of deposit
14. Frightened
15. Kind of stand
16. Related
17. Take five
21. TV series that starred a collie
28. Epidemic
30. Solidify
32. Unskilled laborer
37. In alignment
39. Raise
40. WWII forces
42. Like some threats
43. Tuner
44. Tense
45. Hardly wimpy
46. Another time
47. Hospital cry
48. Acquire
50. Accomplished
52. Hibernation site
55. Dancers or singers who perform together
56. Popular jeans
57. Former French currency
58. Jumper
60. To It May Concern
61. Complete reversal
62. Breadwinner
67. Sea foam
69. Target
71. Observe
72. Cream-filled pastry
75. Fringe
76. Bring down
77. Arcade coin
78. Put forth, as effort
81. Reddish brown dye
82. Despise
85. A prince in India
86. Screen symbol
87. Endorse
89. Make up one’s mind
91. Near
92. Eight fluid ounces
98. Gin flavorer
99. Liveliness of mind or spirit
100. Lock feature
101. Scorch
103. Wear away
105. Entirely
106. Pouch
108. Cantankerous
109. Oceanic bird
113. Slip
114. Acquired relative
115. Teatime treat
116. Taxi ticker
117. From the same genetic stock
118. Reverend Roberts
119. Telescope part
120. Deal with
121. Mythological shield
122. Make an impression
125. Tourist’s aid
127. Egyptian boy king

SUDOKU

THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

ANSWERS

AFTER MONEY

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

BY GREG BRUCE

ACROSS

1. Old Italian coin
5. That girl
8. Huge hit
13. Junk email
17. Like some humor
19. Mouse’s place
20. Ottoman title
21. Pond organism
22. Washing clothes and bed linens
24. Not a liability
25. Watered-down
26. Harp’s cousin
27. Court call
29. Trainee
31. Big galoot
32. Any customary observance or practice
35. Sailor’s cry
37. Issue
39. Cereal grain
42. Fiber optic or coaxial
43. Egyptian king
44. Corduroy feature
45. Silver-gilt e.g.
47. Harness part
49. Retailers’ competition
53. Operatic solo
54. Filmmaker Spike
56. A large amount
57. Lubricate
58. Appoint
59. Bodily fluid
61. French way
63. Haze
64. Mellows
65. Trade stoppage
69. Unrestrained revelry
71. Lady’s man
72. Humdrum
74. Side road
76. A pariah who is avoided by others
78. Before long
80. Indian prince
82. Critical interpretor of a text
84. Cunning
85. Decade
86. Outrage
87. Church song
92. From the beginning
93. Have or possess
94. It may need massaging
96. Flightless bird
99. Chocolate cookie
100. Living in a particular place
102. Venus de Milo’s lack
104. Uncultured
106. Bottom
107. Car protector
108. Flush
110. Donkey
111. Not present
114. Sub station?
115. Maintenance
117. Yoga class need
118. Get into shape
120. Starbucks offering
122. Gelatin substitute
126. Armor plate
128. Blacksmith’s block
130. Serving to set in motion
133. Wallop
134. Put on
135. Not brilliant
136. Slender
137. Unite
138. Redhead’s dye
139. Squeeze (out)
140. Sew up

DOWN

1. Make lower or quieter
2. Kind of tube
3. Relieve from
4. High card
5. Helix
6. Manager
7. Lip
8. Hot springs
9. Team symbolic figure
10. Examine
11. Shake off
12. A very harsh letter
13. Toothed tool
14. Folds
15. Obviously surprised
16. Manufacturer
17. Feverish
18. Light beam
23. Russian cash
28. Usually expressed as a quotient
30. Toiletry item
33. Rocks, to a bartender
34. Follow
36. Track down
38. Adolescent
39. Track shape
40. Bird of prey’s nest
41. Barber’s job
44. Twist and squirm
46. Tourist’s aid
48. Plaintive piece
49. Inept
50. Bet
51. Prayer’s end
52. Lie
55. Pitcher’s stat
60. Female chicken
62. Concentrated, in a way
63. Vestibule
66. Disfigure
67. Conspicuous
68. Be in debt
70. “Are we there_________?”
72. Cartons
73. anyway
75. Adage
77. Get-up-and-go
78. Many miles away
79. _________ the wiser
81. Witty remark
83. “Fancy that!”
88. The sun
89. Kind of rug
90. Marked down
91. Forest growth
93. Miliaria
94. _________ of Sandwich
95. Holy _________
97. Grocery store
98. Push
101. Impression
103. A Russian artificial satellite
105. Three-way joint
107. Harmless
109. When a factory machine is functioning
111. Tiny organism
112. Deli item
113. Motionless
114. Parlor piece
116. Eucharistic plate
119. Poker pot starter
121. Adjutant
123. Olympian’s quest
124. Public hanging?
125. Bar stock
127. Farm pen
129. Grazing locale
131. Any doctrine
132. Ancient greeting

Sudoku

THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

AFTER YOU SAY ‘HIGH’

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

BY GREG BRUCE

ACROSS

1. Overcharge
5. Throw casually
8. Shape with an axe
11. Quick on the uptake
14. Venus de Milo’s lack
18. reflection
19. The night before
20. Time period
21. Apply
22. Castle defense
23. Famous Italian bike race
24. Hearing protection
26. Type of whiskey
27. Insect stage
28. Reindeer feature
30. Power system
31. Diplomat’s forte
32. Wrinkly fruit
33. Kingdom
34. Nitrous
36. Irreligious
38. Open
42. Cross
44. Binge
47. For one
48. The good life
49. Chompers
53. “I challenge you to a ”
54. Fatigued
56. Mudguard
59. Game piece
60. Aroma, in the U.K.
62. Zinger
64. Knowing about
65. Rare find
66. Look down on
68. Intense anger
69. Wander
71. Freudian topic
72. A periodically repeated sequence of events
75. Female antelope
76. Baseball’s nine
80. Objective
81. in a teapot
85. “Who we kidding?”
86. Navy commando
87. Hullabaloo
89. New Mexico’s state flower
90. Chicken
91. A forgotten office worker
93. Web site?
95. “Take !”
96. Reply to a knock
98. Allocate, with “out”
100. Bit
101. Hither’s partner
102. Fuel volume measuring tool
105. A drama set to music
107. The legal dissolution of a marriage
110. Educate
112. The soft tissue of the body
117. Pass over
118. Shot, for short
120. Catch
122. Record player
123. Wise men
124. Future fish
125. Winter tanning solution
127. Pavarotti solo
128. Support
129. Slip
130. Miner’s find
131. Luau souvenir
132. Dance partner
133. Nitwit
134. Hair colorer
135. Part of a price
136. Bristle
137. Deuce topper

DOWN

1. Brown or white maybe?
2. Express a thought
3. It comes from the heart
4. Small hill
5. Lecherous look
6. Egg cells
7. Shipping hazard
8. Coil
9. Learned
10. Happy dogs do this
11. Heavenly glow
12. Consciousness
13. Wobble
14. Person with a limb removed
15. Unsmooth
16. Syrup flavor
17. A symbol of disgrace or infamy
25. Foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention
29. Relative of an ostrich
31. Make fun of
35. Conscription
37. Study of celestial bodies
39. Fishing aid
40. terrier
41. One to grow on?
43. Secreted by certain snakes
44. Martial art
45. Ages
46. Protein
50. Fringe or border
51. Wedding cake feature
52. Fold over and sew
53. A Word file maybe?
55. Small boat
57. Some forensic evidence
58. Short composition for a solo instrument
61. Record holder
63. Review
67. Bank contents
70. Second to the Sheriff
73. Former Italian currency
74. Worked up
76. Caddie’s offering
77. Counter call
78. Cumberland
79. Lowlife
81. Humdrum
82. Lingering effect
83. Glance over
84. Tit for
85. Gibbon, for one
87. Give voice to
88. Mounted on
92. Melee
94. Elevator part
97. Swellhead
99. Wipeout?
103. Frightened
104. Computer storage
106. Back on board
107. Vaulted
108. Insect stage
109. Watch
111. Kind of tube
113. Smallest
114. It may get you to first base
115. Saint-Germain’s river
116. Hero sandwich
119. Being nothing more than specified
121. Apple variety
122. Wheel of Fortune choice
125. Absorb, with “up”
126. Kitten’s cry

SUDOKU

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

ANSWERS

AFTER YOU SAY ‘HIGH’

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

BY GREG BRUCE

ACROSS

1. Son of Willy Loman
5. Some are for trading
10. Fleur-de-lis
14. Austrian peak
17. Elder
19. Loathing
20. Risqué
21. Sri Lanka export
22. Main course
23. Molten rock
24. Large unrestricted rooms
26. 4,840 square yards
27. China problem
29. Little pancakes
31. Reunion group
32. Movie
33. Righthand page
35. Canadian dollar feature
36. Grayish
37. Kind of rug
39. Egg cells
41. Pact
44. Trick
47. Marley’s music
49. VW vehicle
53. Leopard-like cat
54. Caviar
55. Marked by anxiety
56. Hide-hair link
57. Church bench
59. Flowing tresses
61. and cheese
62. Human limb
63. Scoundrel
65. Friendship
67. Way up the mountain
69. “If all fails…”
70. Catch fire
72. Unfulfilled or frustrated in realizing an ambition
74. Sage
77. Naysayer
78. To the point
79. Church part
83. Big fuss
84. Australian runner
85. A waterproof filler and sealant
87. Casting requirement?
89. Go a-courting
90. Let in again
92. Laid up
93. Eye part
95. Earn
96. Aimless
99. Intolerant toward others
100. Goalkeeper’s line
102. annum
103. Big name in kids construction
104. Move upward
107. Blacken
109. Exorcist’s target
111. Clobber
115. Up to, before the time
117. Camp craft
119. It’s the truth
120. Field of work
121. Heavy precious metallic element
123. Role player
125. “To do” list
127. Canal site
128. Trick
129. Committee head
130. Ease up
131. Ram’s ma’am
132. Not up yet
133. In a heated manner
134. Active one

DOWN

1. Place to sit outside of the principal’s office
2. Opening
3. Computer security feature
4. Enemy
5. Comedian
6. Type of connector
7. 18-wheeler
8. Slow
9. Wee
10. Magnetite, e.g.
11. The seizure of one’s property by force
12. Put away
13. In (harmonious)
14. Replaced by a GPS maybe?
15. Tether
16. A Midsummer Night’s love potion
17. Caribbean and others
18. Play
25. Cast member
28. Nail part
30. Itty bit
34. Stuffed oneself
38. Go back into business
40. Violent struggle
42. On the train
43. School session
44. Brother
45. It’s clicked on a computer
46. Hospital supplies
48. “Holy cow!”
50. Cash register part
51. Bruce and Robert E.
52. Fringe or border
55. Boston
58. Tree valued for nuts and wood
59. Copycat
60. Baby bird?
64. Fight (for)
66. “Welcome” site
68. Commuting option
69. It can be shocking
71. Severe food shortage
72. Properly nourished
73. Good-for-nothing
74. Dermatologist’s concern
75. Brainstorm
76. Long bath
78. Garden bulb
80. Nincompoop
81. Super-duper
82. Throughway
84. Arab ruler
86. Put on TV
88. Monopoly avenue
91. Trickery
94. “Bye!”
96. Red-faced
97. Student overseer
98. Clover
99. Alliance
101. Charge
104. Unit of money in India
105. Acquired relative
106. Goggle
108. Kind of motel
110. Get hitched
112. Dentist’s directive
113. Below
114. Legume
116. Old Italian bread
118. Sound in a cave
122. A small piece
124. Sylvester, to Tweety
126. Word on all U.S. coins

SUDOKU

THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

SOMETIMES IT REALLY IS WHAT YOU KNOW.

BY NOAH TARNOW

1. TRIVIAL PALINDROMES

Name the palindrome (a phrase that reads the same forward and backward) indicated by the clue. For example: “The largest city in Poland had yet to be cooked” gives you “Warsaw was raw.”

A. One single car by the largest Japanese automaker.
B. Coagulated soybean milk that comes from a flying saucer.
C. The brand-name pain reliever containing acetaminophen is without companionship.
D. Edible seaweed, made out of the metal that steel is alloyed from.
E. Sandler or Lambert formally introduces himself to a woman.
F. A question of whether water birds related to ducks and swans view the monotheistic deity.

2. HAIL TO THE FACTOID

In honor of Presidents Day, a few trivia questions about our past chief executives.

A. During the 20th century, President’s grandson married President ’s daughter.
B. What building toy was invented in 1916 and named for the 16th president?
C. Who was the only president born in Connecticut?
D. Who gave away the bride at the 1905 wedding of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt?
E. Who was older: Republican nominee John McCain on Election Day 2008, or Republican nominee Bob Dole on Election Day 1996?
F. William McKinley was the only president between 1870 and 1912 who didn’t wear what?
G. Which two U.S. vice presidents shot a man during their terms in office?
H. In 1884, Grover Cleveland’s first campaign for president was threatened when he publicly admitted to committing what scandalous act?

ANSWERS

1. A. A TOYOTA B. UFO TOFU C. LONELY TYLENOL D. IRON NORI E. MADAM, I’M ADAM F. DO GEESE SEE GOD? 2. A. EISENHOWER, NIXON B. LINCOLN LOGS C. GEORGE W. BUSH D. PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT E. DOLE (BY ONE YEAR) F. FACIAL HAIR G. AARON BURR, DICK CHENEY H. FATHERING AN ILLEGITIMATE CHILD.

EDIBLE CASH

BY GREG BRUCE

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

ACROSS

1. Chances

5. Shuts (up)

10. Unconscious state

14. Hang loosely

17. Codger

18. Authorized

19. Axiom

20. Kind of surgeon

22. Sandwich fish

23. Extreme

24. Quitter’s cry

25. Earring site

26. Self-centered person

28. Assists

30. Go public with

31. Cruise stopover

32. Push forcefully

33. Small cave

34. Santa’s lift

36. Small case into which an object fits

39. Leaves for dinner

41. Poke fun at

44. Consequently

45. Have a bawl?

46. Anticipate

50. Dimwit

52. Icon

55. Smooch

58. Misplace

60. Close

61. “All kidding ______…"

62. Period in history

63. ____ position

64. Braggart

66. Pick up with forceps

68. Quentin Tarantino’s _____ Bill

70. Chair part

71. Hospital unit

73. “Dig in!”

75. Salon supply

76. Beast of burden

79. Secondhand

81. Scotch’s partner

84. Below

89. Old gold coin

91. Clear the tables

93. The Dow, e.g.

95. Circle overhead?

96. Drop behind

97. Perched on

98. Andean animal

99. Believer

100. Displeased look

102. Did lunch

104. High point

106. Malcolm X director

107. Tympanic membrane

110. Entomb

112. Somebody not present

116. Horse of a certain color

118. Tabby’s mate

122. Pull an all-nighter for exams

123. Chance

124. Shoelace problem

125. Coleslaw ingredient

126. “S.O.S.!”

127. Be theatrical

129. Recovery

131. Prayer’s end

132. Toward dawn

133. Festive

134. Fairy tale character

135. A transparent optical device

136. 24-hour interval

137. Creative

138. Perspective

139. Speck

DOWN

1. Square dance group, e.g.

2. Flour and water mixture

3. Philanthropist

4. Position

5. Bunch up

6. Merry-go-round music

7. Pretend

8. Don’t believe it!

9. Step

10. Preserve

11. Bullock wagon

12. Surroundings

13. North, South and Central

14. Sound

15. Sprang up

16. Gone with the Wind Butler

19. Gather or bring together

21. Bad look

27. Cay

29. Gently and sweetly

35. Fresh

37. Mythological shield

38. Throw up

40. Kindergartner

41. “______Around the Rosie”

42. Creative spark

43. Diagonal

47. Ginger ________

48. Teeny bit

49. Ivan or Nicholas

51. Sphere

53. Goings-on

54. Characteristic carrier

56. Provoke

57. Remarked

59. Furniture wood

61. Mellows

63. Run for it

65. Adjoin

67. Kind of station

69. Wildcat

72. It’s outstanding

74. Hard work

76. Put two and two together

77. Ride the waves

78. Mark for life

80. Batman and Robin, e.g.

82. Some forensic evidence

83. Madison Avenue worker

85. Nice hot drink?

86. Hearty hello

87. Otherwise

88. Memorization by repetition

90. In the past

92. Have words (with)

94. Per

97. Curse

98. Citrus fruit

99. To release someone from military service

101. Cyst

103. A complete flop

105. Changeable

108. A drill that is used to shape or enlarge holes

109. Expel from a country

110. Often-unpaid worker

111. Preserve

112. Pain

113. Whole wheat e.g.

114. Mexican condiment

115. Drain

117. Blood line

119. Small part

120. Cut taker

121. Stretched tight

125. Poker action

128. Put to the test

130. Monopolize

SUDOKU

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

THE NUMBERS GAME

TIME BANDIT

BY NOAH TARNOW

SOMETIMES IT REALLY IS WHAT YOU KNOW

1. TRIVIA AROUND THE CLOCK

Fill in the blanks in these time-sensitive trivia factoids.

A. 6 A.M.: The time Bill Murray wakes up every morning in the movie ________.

B. 9:30 A.M.: The time when the bell rings at the New York ________ every day.

C. 11 A.M.: When it’s 8 p.m. in New York City during winter, the time it is on the island of _______ , the earliest place in all of the U.S. and its territories.

D. 4:12 P.M.: The time _______ the massive of August 2003 hit the Eastern Seaboard.

E. 10:10 P.M.: The time _______ was assassinated, which inspired a false urban legend that this is the reason so many watches in commercials are set to this time.

F. 10:30 P.M.: In the song “______ ,” the time when the masculine downpour is expected to start.

2. RHYMES WITH “TRIVIAL”

Identify the rhyming trivia couplet. For example: “One of the leading pasta brands sponsors an ice resurfacer” gives you “Ronzoni Zamboni.”

A. The Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps on elephants could easily become aflame.

B. The world’s greatest escape artist, served in a cream sauce with grated cheese and mushrooms over noodles.

C. A Russian-born titan of 20th century ballet becomes bald and sponsors household cleaning products.

D. Kraft Foods introduces a new flavor of its meat-coating mix, based on a 2005 TV drama set in a correctional facility.

E. Native North American bird meat dried into chewy strips, then served in the largest city of a Southwest state.

F. In 1920s Boston, he ran a notorious financial scam, but in 1950s Milwaukee, he’s the coolest guy in town.

ANSWERS

1. A. GROUNDHOG DAY

B. STOCK EXCHANGE

C. GUAM

D BLACKOUT

E. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

F. IT’S RAINING MEN

2. A. FLAMMABLE HANNIBAL

B. HOUDINI TETRAZZINI

C. MR. CLEAN BALANCHINE

D. PRISON BREAK SHAKE ’N BAKE

E. ALBUQUERQUE TURKEY JERKY

F. PONZI FONZIE

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

BOYS OF SUMMER

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

BY GREG BRUCE

ACROSS

1. Old gold coin
6. Main web page
10. Massage locale
13. Support, with “up”
17. Broadcasting
18. Start a business
20. Mechanical man
22. Refer
23. Still
24. Willow twig
25. An impressive and stylish person
27. Drool
28. Like some cuts of meat
29. Diplomat’s forte
30. Food additive
31. Road map abbr.
32. Part of BYO
34. Bridle strap
36. Split—or not
39. Hitchcock classic
43. Prison compartment
45. Handle effectively
47. Meet with
48. Biddy
49. Some jazz
52. “A Boy Named ”
53. Be mistaken
54. Destroy
56. Formal dance
57. Depth charge targets
59. An object with a spherical shape
60. Improve
61. Musty
62. Valentine flower
63. Call on
65. Canned tomatoes necessity
66. Wise one
67. So out it’s in
69. Commotion
71. Kind of admiral
72. Remove offensive language
75. Hee
76. Canned
77. Baglike structure
79. Turns you green
80. Let up
82. Memorization method
83. Snoop
85. Ship worker
87. Corner of a diamond
88. Narrow street
89. Australian flightless bird
90. A thick flat pad used as a floor covering
91. Bard’s “before”
92. English
93. Neighbor of Ger.
94. Palace dweller
96. Like a fine wine or cheese
98. Ryan Zimmerman’s ID
100. Bowling spare target often
102. Netting
105. Roman holiday
107. 18-wheeler
108. “As if!”
110. Dregs
112. Calabash (Afr.)
115. Support
118. Hot and humid
120. Foolish month
121. Asian condiment
123. Fix
124. Military caller
125. Simple and unpretentious
126. Type of show
127. Palm reader, e.g.
128. Fury
129. Sow
130. Playful animal

DOWN

1. Just a buck
2. Loosen, in a way
3. Corrosive
4. Assists
5. Tire pattern
6. Student lodging
7. Select
8. Honey drink
9. Inscriber
10. Morning cut
11. Corn bread
12. In a fitting way
13. Lush
14. Prayer beads
15. Death notice, for short
16. Type of author
19. Whine
21. Taste
22. Make a scene?
26. Pedal
33. Dentist’s order
35. Hatchling’s home
37. Still-life subject
38. Like a well hit home run
40. Raise a formal objection in a court of law
41. Grasped
42. One’s partner
44. Craving
46. Hum
47. A range of mountains
49. Perry Mason, Ironside
50. A woodwind instrument
51. Quickly
55. On pins and needles
56. Tibia vara
58. Ventilate
59. Choice
60. A cowboy maybe?
61. Unruly crowd
64. Stellar
68. Be in the red
70. Lay to rest
73. “… happily after”
74. Combustible heap
78. Mountaineer’s challenge
80. Competent
81. Get-out-of-jail money
84. Crushed wood for paper
86. Big-ticket
88. The Ranger
89. Spectacles
90. Country estate
93. A pitchman
95. Purposeless or pointless
97. Set the boundaries of
99. Manly characteristics of energy and vigor
101. Mean
103. Break away
104. A double would be great!
106. Bar offering
107. Nursery verse
109. Body
111. Like a fox
112. Chitchat
113. Musical composition
114. Encourage
116. Needy
117. Fool
119. Hide
122. Prompt

SUDOKU

THE NUMBERS GAME

BY REIKO MCLAUGHLIN

DRAWING BLANKS

SOMETIMES IT REALLY IS WHAT YOU KNOW

BY NOAH TARNOW

1. SLANG DICTIONARY SILLINESS Name the term represented by the following amusing definition found in a standard slang dictionary.

A. Ten letters, (noun): “A devotee of heavy metal rock music, a style dating to the middle 1960s [taken from the frenetic reactions of such persons to the music]”
B. Three letters (interjection): “What has just been stated is emphatically not true.”
C. Two letters, two letters (interjection): “An exclamation announcing one’s arrival or some revelation [originally a two-note musical phrase introducing a performer]”
D. Sentence: “This cannot happen or have happened without more than one person; cooperation or connivance is indicated [name of a 1950s song].”

2. MOVIE MONSTER PERSONAL ADS Name the horror flick featuring these antagonists, who might search for companionship with the following heartfelt missives. To help, we’ve provided the date the film was released.

A. Mama’s boy in a house on a hill in search of a woman for ominous conversation. Let’s take an unforgettable shower. (1960)
B. Living representation of mankind’s destructive hubris seeks same. Long hair with streaks of white a plus. (1931)
C. Looking for that girl I met in the cemetery who said her name was Barbra. I don’t care about your looks—I’m interested in your brains. Sit tight in the abandoned farmhouse and I’ll find you sooner or later. (1968)
D. If you’re a special girl who recently moved to a former Indian burial ground in the suburbs, guess what? I’m here. Let’s watch some TV. (1982)
E. Searching for adventurous young filmmakers who enjoy long walks in the woods. Make me your project. No professional actors, please. (1999)

3. NAME ALL FIVE Can you name all five members of each exclusive group? We remove key words from the question and the answer.

A. Q: Which characters die onstage in _____? A: _____ , Gertrude, Claudius, _____ and _____ .

B. Q: Which actors made up The _____ Club? A: _____ Nelson, Ally _____, Anthony _____ Hall, _____ _____ and _____ _____

C. Q: What are the best-known marshmallow shapes of _____ cereal? A: Pink _____, _____ moons, orange stars, green _____, blue _____.

D. Q: Which baseball players have hit _____ or more home runs in one season?
A:
Babe Ruth, _____ _____, Mark McGwire, _____ _____ Barry Bonds.

ANSWERS

1. A. HEADBANGER B. NOT! C. TA-DA D. IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO. 2. A. PSYCHO B. FRANKENSTEIN C. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD D. POLTERGEIST E. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT 3. A. HAMLET; POLONIUS; LAERTES; HAMLET B. BREAKFAST; JUDD; SHEEDY; MICHAEL; EMILIO ESTEVEZ; MOLLY RINGWALD C. LUCKY CHARMS; HEARTS; YELLOW; CLOVERS; DIAMONDS D. 60; ROGER MARIS; SAMMY SOSA

ACROSS

DOWN

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

ACROSS

By Greg Bruce

1. Mouse action
6. Aberdeen native
10. Hair or tooth maybe?
15. Bookie’s quote
19. Marsh wader
20. Make lower or quieter
21. Indian coin
22. Gratis
23. Spin doctor’s concern
24. Farm measure
25. None of the above
26. Diplomat’s asset
27. A fruitcake or screwball
28. Impress on paper or metal
30. Bright thought
32. Acquire
33. Carpet layer’s calculation
35. Provide
39. Teatime treat
41. Flax fabric
44. Target
45. Thin out
46. Heavy fabric that resembles velvet
48. Coarse file
49. Bathroom cleaner?
50. Chipping choice
51. Not present
53. Nonwinner
54. Musical chairs goal
55. Not budging
57. Smooch
61. “___ magic!”
62. Priest of the East
65. Kuala Lumpur’s homeland
67. “ a chance”
68. African antelope
69. Honor thieves
71. Gave out
72. Rocks, to a bartender
73. Spoil
74. Country that borders Thailand, Laos and Vietnam
78. Game piece
79. 20-20, e.g.
80. Call from the flock
82. British midafternoon meal
83. Told a whopper
84. Beside
86. Mouthed
88. Italian car
89. Begin
90. Advance
91. For all to see
93. Ill health or ail
95. Cry like a baby
96. Stopped in one’s tracks
97. Lagoon surrounder
98. French brandy
100. Computer info
104. Café alternative
105. Ardour
107. Big to-do
111. A.T.M. need
112. Forum wear
114. Not quite right
117. Dead against
118. Country with more than 6,000 islands
120. Arabic for “commander”
121. Arrangement
122. Increase, with “up”
123. Cognizant
124. Cost of living?
125. Bunk
126. “Encore!”
127. “Calm down”

DOWN

1. 2008 Olympic site
2. Madagascar primate
3. Boiling mad
4. Minor player
5. “Trick” joint
6. Concrete section
7. 1985 sci-fi movie
8. Not theirs
9. Head lock
10. Sis’s sib
11. Same old, same old
12. Type of battle
13. Squalid
14. “Try this!”
15. Frequently, in verse
16. Make last too long
17. Adequate
18. Couch
29. Computer offering
31. “All kidding …”
34. Apportion
36. Land on Lake Victoria
37. Type of government service
38. Soft diet
40. Court employee
42. Charge carrier
43. Victorian, for one
45. Remove impurities from
46. Battle of Hamburger Hill site
47. Wipeout?
48. 500 sheets
49. Miniature trees
52. Type of filled chair
53. Complete outfit for a new baby
54. Greek letter
56. “Spy vs. Spy” magazine
58. First
59. A formal association of people with similar interests
60. Knight mare?
62. Varnish ingredient
63. Passionate
64. Instant
66. Absorbed, as a cost
70. Caught
75. Renounce
76. Lion’s lunch or maybe a Chevy
77. Long, long time
81. Area of South Africa
83. Like composition paper
85. Big dipper
87. ’easter
88. Casbah headgear
89. Sweet liqueur
90. Delay
92. Betting group
93. “Is anything the ?”
94. Not out
95. Dried and flaked fish used in Japanese dishes
96. A printed note placed below the text on a printed page
98. Tiny part
99. Great divide
101. Dismay
102. It may be fit for a queen
103. Add on
106. Mascara site
108. “I’m you!”
109. Snowman prop
110. Like some doors
113. “A jealous mistress”: Emerson
115. Institute legal proceedings against
116. Operative
119. Amazement

SUDOKU

PLAYING THE NUMBERS

SUMMER SCHOOL

ACTUALLY, YES, IT IS WHAT YOU KNOW

BY NOAH TARNOW

1. THE MIXOLOGY MINDBENDER

Name the mixed drink, based on the ingredients and the cryptic clue.

A. Shake vodka and triple sec with lime juice and cranberry juice, and you can take a quiz to find out how spontaneous you are in the bedroom.
B. Blend several kinds of rum with apricot brandy, orange juice, lime juice, pineapple juice, passion fruit syrup, powdered sugar and ice, and you’ll be eating brains in no time.
C. Mix vodka, triple sec and lime juice with ice; strain, and die for the glory of the emperor.
D. Combine brandy with orange-flavored liqueur and lemon juice; shake with ice and strain, and you’ll be tagging along with the two-wheeler.
E. Float Galliano liqueur on top of vodka and OJ, and the imaginary rabbit will be pounding on the room divider.

2. INITIALLY KNOWN

Name the famous people who are primarily known by their initials—without the initials. For example, “Oanne Athleen, extremely popular fantasy writer” indicates Joanne Kathleen Rowling, a.k.a. J.K. Rowling.

A. Ohn Ierpont, iconic businessman
B. Hineas Aylor, huckster supreme and circus showman
C. Renthal Ames, decidedly controversial retired athlete
D. Olly Ean, English indie-rock musician
E. Eon Eonwood, Maine mail-order magnate

3. MOVIE + MOVIE + MOVIE = TV

Take one star from each film. Put them together, and you get the partial cast of what TV show?

A. Ace Ventura + Along Came Polly + Madagascar = ?
B. Revenge of the Nerds + 8 Mile + Good Night and Good Luck = ?
C. Die Hard + Taxi Driver + Better Off Dead = ?
D. American Pie + Harriet the Spy + Austin Powers = ?
E. Christmas Vacation + Coneheads + Pretty Woman = ?
F. Dodgeball + Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) + Are We There Yet? = ?

ANSWERS

© PUZPUZ PUZZLES CROSSWORD BY GREG BRUCE

ACROSS
1. Math, English or science
7. Designer’s concern
12. Dogie catcher
17. Not false
18. Leatherworker’s tool
20. A Japanese emperor
21. In motion
22. Shrek, e.g.
23. Bleacher bum’s jeer
24. Exaggerate
25. Knight’s need
26. A correspondence friend
28. Cousin of a bassoon
30. Aged
31. Cast
32. Flirt with
34. Count (on)
36. In the past
37. How low can you go?
41. School break
42. Winter bug
43. Disgrace
44. Comics’ shriek
45. Trams or trolleys
52. Hair colorer
53. Groupie
54. Plunder
55. Chills and fever
56. Mollify
58. Curtilage
61. Military academy freshman
62. Milk-Bone biscuit, e.g.
63. Celeb
64. Podded plant
65. Birch relative
66. Small pouch
68. Hogwash
70. Big galoot
72. Comics sound
76. Roswell sighting
78. See stars, maybe
80. Happen again
84. Often-missed humor
85. Brochure
87. Blackboard cleaner
89. Booty
90. A narrow channel
91. Victorian, for one
93. Scale down
94. All-knowing
96. Victoria’s Secret purchase
97. Counterfeit
98. Pool tool
99. Leaf shape, sometimes
101. Concerning
102. Arabic form of salutation
106. Harmonize 108. Kind of beam
110. Avoid 111. “Welcome” site
112. ___ tale
114. Ambrosia
119. A prejudiced person
120. Offer a higher amount than others
122. Topper
124. Up to snuff
125. Poker ploy
126. Big name in swimsuits
127. “___ rang?”
128. Dressing ingredient
129. “Come in!”
130. Conductor Koussevitzky
131. On the fence

DOWN
1. “Cut it out!”
2. Advocate
3. Make, as a CD
4. Rough terrain vehicle
5. Monthly bill
6. Low card often
7. Frogmen
8. Just manage, with “out”
9. Christmas ___
10. Strangely
11. Crucifix
12. Attack in speech or writing
13. Frost flower
14. Fulton’s power
15. It doesn’t hold water
16. Command
19. Unfinished business
20. Farm cry
27. Bit
29. Call’s companion
33. Length x width, for a rectangle
35. English exam finale, often
36. Took off
37. Gobs
38. Bonehead
39. Bush-league
40. Montana city
42. Like life in the Middle Ages
46. Circus swing
47. Pink, as a steak
48. Summon
49. Like fine wine
50. Bumpkin
51. Crystal ball user
53. Greek cheese
54. Single girls search
57. Hurried
59. Place to put the feet up
60. Crew need
61. Beeper
67. Eliminating game between teams
69. Amigo
71. Carbamide
72. Farm storage building
73. School ball
74. Nutcase
75. Dead against
77. Taxi meter reading
79. Forever
81. Type of chicken
82. Grammar topic
83. Any Seinfeld, now
86. Mountaineer’s spike
88. Catch one’s breath
90. Lowlife
92. Old clothing
95. Break up or dispel
96. Cotton seed-bearing capsule
97. Uncovered 100. Become of; happen to
102. Buffalo hockey player
103. Birdy
104. On the up and up
105. Emerged
106. Grayish-brown
107. Give voice to
109. Provide, as with a quality
111. Forest growth
113. Much ___ About Nothing
115. Actors
116. Alpine transport
117. Pond dweller
118. Casting need
121. Plead
123. Charged item

SUDOKU

DIGITAL UNDERGROUND // BY MITCH ROSE

ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS

ACTUALLY, YES, IT IS WHAT YOU KNOW // BY NOAH TARNOW

1. SAT ANALOGY FLASHBACK

Complete the standardized-test-style analogies

A. Four guys crossing a street is to The Beatles as a baby in a swimming pool and a dollar bill on a fishhook is to…
B. George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole are to Bill Clinton as Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern are to…
C. Being forced to swallow hemlock is to Socrates as poisoning, shooting and being thrown into a river are to…
D. A box with a rat is to Skinner as a dog and a bell are to…

2. CANDY IS DANDY
Name the popular candy bar based on its ingredients and the clue.

A. Chocolate + nougat + caramel: Galactically delicious
B. Chocolate + nougat + peanuts + caramel: It might make you laugh
C. Chocolate + crispy peanut butter stuff: Don’t drop it!
D. Chocolate + coconut: Baseball pitchers eat it?
E. Peanuts + caramel: Hit the bank

3. RETRANSLATED TV THEMES
Name the famous TV theme according to its lyrics. Warning: We’ve run the quotes through an internet translation program to transfer it to another language, then translated it back into English. We’re dealing with forces we cannot fully explain.

A. Love won’t hurt anymore It’s an open sneer on affable shore. Yes —suffrage love!
B. Ahoy, ahoy we’re the Monkery, and people tell mi jocko towards. But we’re he is too busy melody, yield work everyman whip.
C. Youngster, way Glenn Miller presented. Warbler this made hit Paraguay. Celibate like the us, we had it made. Those were Daniel.
D. Goodwill bye gray cloud hello blouses. There’s nothing to hold me when in hold you. Feels so right it can’t pray wrong. Coat duck role all weekend long.
E. Functioning down to south subordinate, gonna leave my suffering behind it. Big park day or night people shouting howdy neighbor.

ANSWERS

1. A. NIRVANA B. RICHARD NIXON C. RASPUTIN D. PAVLOV 2. A. MILKY WAY B. SNICKERS C. BUTTERFINGER D. MOUNDS E. PAYDAY 3. A. THE LOVE BOAT (“LOVE WON’T HURT ANYMORE.
IT’S AN OPEN SMILE ON A FRIENDLY SHORE. IT’S LOVE!”) B. THE MONKEES (“HEY, HEY WE’RE
THE MONKEES, AND PEOPLE SAY WE MONKEY AROUND. BUT WE’RE TOO BUSY SINGING, TO
PUT ANYBODY DOWN.”) C. ALL IN THE FAMILY (“BOY, THE WAY GLENN MILLER PLAYED. SONGS
THAT MADE THE HIT PARADE. GUYS LIKE US, WE HAD IT MADE. THOSE WERE THE DAYS.”) D. HAPPY DAYS (“GOOD-BYE GRAY SKY, HELLO BLUE. THERE’S NOTHING TO HOLD ME WHEN I
HOLD YOU. FEELS SO RIGHT, IT CAN’T BE WRONG. ROCKING AND ROLLING ALL WEEK LONG.”)
E. SOUTH PARK (“GOIN’ DOWN TO SOUTH PARK, GONNA LEAVE MY WOES BEHIND. AMPLE
PARKING DAY OR NIGHT. PEOPLE SHOUTING, ‘HOWDY, NEIGHBOR.’”)

“GETTING AROUND”

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ACROSS

1. Charged
7. Carriage
12. Wallace of Reader’s Digest
16. Closed
17. Greek theaters
19. Director Kurosawa
20. Answer for
22. Bakery buy
23. End-of-the-week cry
24. Red ___
25. The Gondoliers girl
26. Understanding
28. Turn over, like a pancake
30. Hardwood sources
32. ___ Herman
33. Shiraz resident
34. Just about
35. Storyteller
36. Beetle Bailey creator Walker
37. Body decoration, for short  
39. Like some remarks
42. Dairy animal
43. She, in Italy
47. One Thousand and One Nights hero
51. Kite part
52. Suspend
54. NRC forerunner
55. Warrior princess of TV
56. Toothsome org. in Columbus, OH  
58. “I cannot ___ lie”
60. ___ of Langerhans
62. Cake decorator
63. ___ Grande, Arizona
65. Behind in the rent
68. It has a chain and a saddle
70. Venetian mode of transport
71. Broadcast
75. Beatty and Buntline
76. Salary
80. Aptly named English novelist
81. Turkic language
84. Luau souvenir
85. Battery fluid
86. Reply to a ques.
87. Japanese alcoholic beverage
90. ___ vera
92. Reprocess
94. Fable
96. Anita Brookner’s Hotel du ___
97. Hand protector
99. Suffix with Caesar
100. With competence
102. A single track train
105. The “P” in PB&J
108. Delicate
111. Trouser measurement
114. Good-looking
116. Before, for short
117. Ancient fertility goddess
118. Plain folk
119. Prefix with scope
121. European sea eagle
123. The Who’s “___ O’Riley”
124. Hem again
125. The root of perfume and some gins
126. Plum pudding ingredient
127. And others, for short
128. “___ record”
129. Twosomes
130. Streetcar

DOWN

1. Disgrace  
2. Paint thinner  
3. Canadian capital  
4. One of the parents  
5. Unconventional  
6. Agnus ___  
7. Log home  
8. Cousin of a giraffe  
9. Balloon filler  
10. Sing like Bublé  
11. Mandlíková of tennis  
12. Second of two  
13. Go over again  
14. Short-straw drawer  
15. Photographer Adams  
16. Big first for a baby  
18. Put down  
21. Effortless  
27. ___ cotta  
29. Lasso  
31. Famous  
33. “___ alive!”  
36. Extinct flightless bird  
37. Cab  
38. Baldwin or Guinness  
40. Restricting food intake  
41. Building extension  
42. TV Station  
44. Casa chamber  
45. Merlin, e.g.  
46. Hamlet has five  
48. Like some fish hooks or wire  
49. Italian lawn game  
50. “All in ___ work”  
53. Lass  
57. One who leads a Spartan lifestyle  
59. Animal with a mane  
61. St. Lawrence ___  
64. M*A*S*H star  
66. Common types of vipers  
67. ___ O’Donnell
69. Folk singer Burl  
71. Disney World transport  
72. Start of a counting-out rhyme  
73. Endure  
74. Not in the strike zone  
77. Move faster  
78. ___ monster  
79. Paradise  
82. Child’s play?  
83. Dormmate  
88. ___ the good  
89. Mary ___ cosmetics  
91. Develops  
93. Mantra  
95. Telephone part  
98. Opposite of WSW
101. Nonsense
103. Meet, as expectations
104. Sanford of The Jeffersons
105. ___ Lap (1983 film)
106. Chair designer Charles
107. Licorice-flavored seeds
108. Commuter boat
109. Plant louse
110. “Ick!”
112. Held off
113. Breakfast, lunch or dinner
115. State of mind
117. Amorite of the Bible
120. “La la” preceder
122. Same old, same old

SUDOKU

DIGITAL UNDERGROUND
BY MITCH ROSE

BOOK-CENSORSHIP BONANZA
Name the novels whose descriptions have been censored.

1. A diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic, but also a hymn to CENSORED. Bent as the crew is on CENSORED’s crusade, it is equally the image of a cooperative community at work.

2. A CENSORED is taken over by its mistreated CENSORED. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged tale that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

3. CENSORED’s daringly original literary vision and her groundbreaking philosophy, CENSORED, won immediate worldwide interest and acclaim. This instant classic is the story of an intransigent young CENSORED, his violent battle against conventional standards, and his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who struggles to defeat him.

4. A young Jewish artist trained in the art of escape, CENSORED has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague. His Brooklyn cousin CENSORED is looking for a partner to create heroes for the latest novelty to hit America—the CENSORED.

COMMON FACTORS
What word or phrase describes both of the following?

1. Rick Blaine in Casablanca, and one stroke over par in golf

2. A 1987 teen vampire movie, and resettled refugees from the Sudanese civil war

3. A brand of chewing tobacco, and a Danish toast to good health

4. The outer atmosphere of a star, and the top-selling import beer in the United States

POP MUSIC THESAURUS
Each question is the opening lyric to a popular song, reworded in fancier language. Name the song.

1. “Imagine that your body is in a watercraft on a liquid tributary, accompanied by orange-like arboreal growths and heavens of sweetened fruit paste.” (1967)

2. “At the time of the lunar body smacking your ocular orb in the manner of a significantly sized dish of sauce, cheese, bread and spices—such is affection in Rome.” (1952)

3. “Greetings, gentleman who smacks stretched skins over bangled frames. Perform a musical composition on my behalf.” (1965)

4. “Commence distributing the timely information as putting butter on toast. I am absconding during the present period of terrestrial rotation.” (1979)

BOOK-CENSORSHIP BONANZA
1. MOBY-DICK
2. ANIMAL FARM
3. THE FOUNTAINHEAD
4. THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY COMMON FACTORS
1. BOGEY
2. LOST BOYS
3. SKOAL
4. CORONA POP MUSIC THESAURUS
1. “LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS,” BEATLES
2. “THAT’S AMORÉ,” DEAN MARTIN
3. “MR. TAMBOURINE MAN,” BOB DYLAN
4. “(THEME FROM) NEW YORK, NEW YORK,” FRANK SINATRA

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Quiz

REFERENCE POINTS
ACTUALLY, YES, IT IS WHAT YOU KNOW // BY NOAH TARNOW

1. BREAKFAST CEREAL HAIKU

Name the popular brand of cereal indicated by each three-line poem.

A.
Small tan puffs of grain

A most loquacious breakfast
When you add the milk

B.
There are no Concords
Nor cashews, almonds, filberts
This name puzzles me

C.
You like something else?
Must consume bowls aplenty
Or just one of this

D.
Mute child enjoyed it
Then consumed Pop Rocks and Coke
He went ka-blammo

2. THE MENTAL PROVERB THESAURUS

Translate these common proverbs from fancyspeak to their more familiar form, including the authors’ names. FOR EXAMPLE: “Everything is decent should it come to completion in a decent fashion.” — Jiggle, pointed stick

“All’s well that ends well.”— Shakespeare

A. “The male deer comes to a complete halt at this spot.” — Verifiable Homo sapiens

B. “ Beyond this time period, all individuals will possess notoriety for a span of one ninety-sixth of a terrain rotation.” — Extended battle, aperture

C. “ Silly ones make haste in the spot at which celestial beings are apprehensive about leaving footprints.”— Catholic leader

D. “ Within this plane of being, zero had certitude with the exception of life-cessation and government-issued levees.”— Type of stove

3. THE URBAN LEGENDS CHALLENGE

Fill in the blanks in these modern tall tales.

A. “Some guy in Pennsylvania went to a flea market, right? And he spent $4 on an old wooden _____, and when he ripped it apart, he found an original copy of _____ hidden inside. And he sold it for, like, a couple million dollars.”

B. “There are big giant _____ living all over the place down in the_____ of New York City. They sneak in on cruise ships coming up from Florida.”

C. “Pia Zadora was on Broadway playing the lead in _____. And she was so bad, when the Nazis showed up, someone in the audience shouted, ‘She’s in the _____!’”

D. “This architect designed a new _____ for some university somewhere, but after they built it, it started sinking into the ground because this moron didn’t account for the weight of the _____.”

4. BONUS QUESTION:

One of these tales is true. Which one?

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ANSWERS

1.) A: RICE KRISPIES B: GRAPE-NUTS C: TOTAL D: LIFE
2.) A: “THE BUCK STOPS HERE.”—TRUMAN B: “IN THE FUTURE, EVERYONE WILL BE FAMOUS FOR 15
MINUTES.”—WARHOL C: “FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD.”—POPE D: “IN THIS WORLD,
NOTHING IS CERTAIN BUT DEATH AND TAXES.”—FRANKLIN
3.) A. PICTURE FRAME; DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE B. ALLIGATORS; SEWERS
C. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK; ATTIC D. LIBRARY; BOOKS
4.) BONUS ANSWER: A.