216 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles
Across
- 1 on the Mohs scale
- Former NATO
Mediterranean
headquarters - Gravy spoiler
- Black-and-white delight
- Therapeutic plants
- Translucent gem
- A car might have one
on it - Puts on the market
- 1995 Dodger phenom
Hideo - Massive
- Summer pest
- Chef’s catch phrase
- Thurston Howell III type
- Bonnie’s tie with Clyde?
- Secured, as a deal
- Base individuals?
- Apply paint hastily
- Spielberg soldier
- Poetic Dickinson
- Kachina fashioner
- Trial companion
- Become hazy
- Symbol for electrical
resistance - Site of the fabled forges
of the Cyclopes - Teamster’s truck
49. Hora’s featured shape
51. Brood overseers
53. Initials of a crack team?
54. Vent sound
56. Noche’s antithesis
58. Building location
61. Difficult tasks
67. Hole in a sweater?
68. Universally accepted
principle
69. Have ___ in one’s
bonnet
70. Inflammation suffix
71. Describing pitch
72. Blame bearer
73. Anthroponym
74. Antagonist
75. Denouements
Down
- Crossing cost
- Domingo piece
- Disconcerting look
- “1-2-3-kick” dance
- One-sided contest
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles’
cad - Entertainer Falana
- Acts the stoolie
- Thumbs-up
- Acts of desperation on
the gridiron
11. Conversant about
12. Cradle call
13. It sometimes thickens
21. “Y” wearer
25. Pitchblende is one
26. For this purpose only
27. Ruth’s mother-in-law
28. Super conclusion?
30. Jane of fiction
31. First name among film
villains
33. Lubricated
34. Fashionable feather
35. UAR component
37. High muck-a-muck
39. ___ the wiser
43. With no apparent
pattern
46. Fatima’s husband
50. What you will, perhaps
52. Knight, by definition
55. The “S” of WASP
57. Traditional truism
58. Wheel of Fortune option
59. Cyclops’s I?
60. Minimal haircut
62. Waiter’s place
63. Good soil
64. Dark, poetically
65. Library byword
66. They’re erected on
Broadway
Puzzle 95: Try It On
Tough