310 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles
Across
- “Couldn’t have said it
better myself” - There’s no accounting
for it - Turkish topper
- Amount spent
- Greek alphabet starters
- George’s musical
brother - Nature personified
- Con’s sheet
- Zeta-theta connection
- Courage
- Cheer for the matador
- Assemble
- Owing on one’s
payments - Negligent
- Clinging part of a
climbing plant - Start to dominate?
- Cartridge holder
- Mortar rounds
- Bygone
- Weaselly critters
- One way to follow a
pattern - ___ mater (brain
membrane) - Long, long time
- Type of reaction
48. Pizza sauce enhancer
50. Respectable
53. Shuffle
55. Has down pat
57. Butting bighorn
58. Molded, frozen dessert
60. By way of
61. Slugging stat
63. A bit too serious
66. Valdez cargo
67. 40th president of
the U.S.
68. Player’s stake
69. Tarzan film character
70. Improve, as a text
71. Angler’s prize
Down
- Heights of perfection
- More debatable
- Elvis’ Graceland, for
example - Unspecific degree
- Poi source
- French historian de
Tocqueville - New World colonizer
- Imperil
- Gormandize
- Combat supplies
- Historical time
- Laser gun sound effect
15. Like many a sheep
18. Napoleon’s realm
23. “___ and the Swan”
(Yeats)
25. Guy who cries foul
27. Back out
28. Frost
29. Give me a brake?
31. Star close to Venus?
34. Word with “fraternity”
or “hair”
36. Olfactory perception
37. Tackle box item
38. Without much cheer
40. Night light
41. Chump
44. Indian tourist site
47. Comaneci
accomplishment
49. Museum suit
50. Abase
51. Repeated Catholic
prayer
52. Ironic turns
54. Eat more than one’s fill
56. Eats more than one’s fill
59. Group marching,
perhaps
61. Scottish hero Roy
62. Short life story?
64. Rock singer Bobby
65. Capture a crook
Puzzle 142: Cover Your Rear
Treacherous