Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

288 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles

Across

1. 1979 Roman Polanski
   film


2. Mil. training class


3. “A likely story!”


4. Eye nerve


5. Geometry calculations


6. Matter of self-interest?


7. Delaying strategy


8. Set aflame


9. One supporting a habit?


10. Company that bought
    Time Warner


11. Goes ballistic


12. Big game?


13. Leather cleaner


14. Assaults olfactorily


15. It comes before a
    dropped name


16. Lincoln, for one


17. It may whiz past one’s
    knees


18. Chaplin prop


19. Vietnamese holiday


20. Archivist’s material


21. Lively dance


22. Sought damages from


23. Begs


24. Guthrie Center founder


25. Moines, Iowa
    54. Polio fighter Albert
    55. Gracious winners, for
    example
    59. Elvis’s daughter
    60. Open, in a way
    61. It gradually increases
    in depth from mouth to
    head
    63. One way to make a
    bough break
    64. They may be ripped or
    crunched
    65. Virginia shipbuilding
    center
    69. Norma (Sally Field
    film)
    70. Challenged
    71. Assistant who handles
    letters
    72. Many AARP members
    73. Use an IBM Selectric,
    for example
    74. Vanquish

Down

1. Word in the title of a
   Steve Martin/Goldie
   Hawn film


2. Shoulder adornment


3. Bugs Bunny, according
   to Bugs Bunny


4. Kennel order
   5. Sweater style
   6. End of some e-mail
   addresses
   7. Japanese ceremonial
   drink
   8. Bedouin transporter
   9. Lend a hand
   10. Stir up
   11. Popular nightclub
   13. KGB counterpart
   15. Waterless
   18. Discouraging words
   23. It’s in the heart of
   Jerusalem?
   25. Read quickly
   27. Reader of secret
   messages
   28. Unhearing
   30. Winter transports
   34. Old gold coin
   36. Bit of brandy
   37. Wings on buildings
   40. Overhaul
   41. Sit-down occasion
   42. Jacksonville team
   43. Jail cell feature
   44. Women’s lip
   applications
   47. Site of the Eisenhower
   Library
   48. Renounces

Puzzle 131: Remote Target

Treacherous