290 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles
Across
- Mayberry’s Otis, for
example - It has a point
- Ambergris source
- ___ for the books
- Suggestion box fill
- A status symbol
- Asimov book that
became a sci-fi classic - Arena parts
- Pulitzer-winning
columnist Herb - Setting for many jokes
- “A” or “an”
- Pot-bellied pet
- PC key
- De Niro classic
- Smash into
- Jack Benny’s 39
- Abominable snowmen
- Commiserator’s word
- Floor models
- Relinquish
- One of Zeppo’s brothers
- Tiny Tim’s instrument,
briefly - Caviar, for example
- 1964 Best Picture
- Fifth sign
- Chinchilla’s coat
- Alarm clock, for
example
60. Tabloid aviators, briefly
61. Bass or treble, for
example
63. Sound beginning?
64. Film about a Little
League team
68. Noted billionaire
69. Virus carrier,
sometimes
70. Coxcomb
71. Surprise attack
72. Annie’s pooch
73. Spider’s parlor invitee
Down
- Feature of the word
“car” but not “cake” - Broadcasting
- Basic principle
- Total disaster
- Pitched messages
- Track record?
- Worldly rather than
spiritual - Con’s preoccupation
- Bad way to be
convicted - Today, in Madrid
- Statue material,
perhaps - Word with “tender”
or “aid” - Exercise, as influence
- “What’s your sine?” subj.
19. One of seven, to Salome
24. Washday unit
25. Part of a blade
29. Biggest human bone
30. Former nuclear agcy.
31. Bit of a cheer
32. mode
33. Long-tailed South
American monkeys
36. Wedding promise
37. Come to understand
39. Operative
41. Sooners’ st.
42. Seal in the juices
45. Thrown aside
49. “ Lang Syne”
50. Papas and Castle
51. Twofold or a way to be
sure
52. Type of log
53. Fire, euphemistically
54. Frome
57. Type of car or nurse
58. Filmdom’s Flynn
59. Unpleasantly grating
62. Disaster relief org.
65. It may sting a little
66. Obi- Kenobi
67. Caesar’s first name
Puzzle 132: Classic!
Treacherous