284 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles
Across
- Firewood, finally
- Beau Geste author
- Irrigation aid
- Commando’s mission
- Piece of
correspondence - Climb up on the
soapbox - Start of a mystery-
solving quip - Avoid ignorance
- Birth-related
- Pro-___ (certain
tournaments) - Love ___ Many-
Splendored Thing - Weaver’s apparatus
- Start of a mystery-
solving quip (Part 2) - That gentleman’s
- Hairy Himalayan
mystery - Tuck of legend
- Suffix denoting
residents of - Underwater detection
system - Taj Mahal’s town
- Twisted fastener
- Blueprint item
48. “If I ___ a Hammer”
49. Start of a mystery-
solving quip (Part 3)
53. Mock fanfare
54. Bauxite, for example
55. Farming tool
58. Slowly, in music
61. Tokyo’s entertainment
district
65. End of a mystery-
solving quip
68. Absolutely astound
69. Construction piece
70. Fit to be tried
71. Examinations
72. Presses for payment
73. Many of Joe Louis’s
wins
Down
- Nutmeg cover
- Umpire’s call,
sometimes - Casual greeting
- Boise-to-Portland dir.
- Book manufacturer’s
leather - Italian volcano
- Ve x
- Simmer down
- Old Testament craft
10. Peter Pan dog
11. Small matter
12. Ayres and Wallace
14. Greek order of
architecture
18. Far from bashful
19. Art colony in New
Mexico
24. They may be split in
casinos
26. Sorvino with an Oscar
27. Early form of bridge
28. Sudden snag
29. River to the Rhone
30. Palindromic Platte
River people
31. Capital of Belarus
32. Political wing?
33. Isaac’s mother
34. What they do on Wall
Street
39. Chip off the old flock?
41. Rue Morgue killer
42. Gambling mecca
45. Pequod crew
47. Welsh barker
50. “What’s the big ___?”
51. Like Funt’s camera
52. They hold their horses
55. Weight
Puzzle 129: Mystery Solved
Treacherous