312 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles
Across
- Band of seven
- First of billions
- 16.5 feet
- Rocky villain
- Andean city
- Wax trapper
- Antic
- Yankee in the news,
informally - Four-stringed
instrument, for short - Doc wannabes
- Tadpole cousins
- Hobby-store buys
- Pumas’ pads
- Balsamic, cider, or
white - Seat for two or more
- Gain access
- Nullify
- Always, in verse
- Perfectly away from
either bank - Test starter?
- Polyphonic song
- Old photo tint
- Go back
- Thoroughly
- Rousseau novel
- Draped dress
55. Little one
56. Garb for the jet set
59. “___ Gotta Be Me”
60. Walk with weariness
61. Make-believe food
66. Fractional monetary
unit of Japan
67. Water drainer
68. Foreign Affairs Pulitzer
winner Lurie
69. Time of the 75th
meridian
70. Cultivated grasses
71. Identifying
Down
- The Wild Bunch director
Peckinpah - 1972 DDT banner
- Container of peas
- ICU specialty
- Big Bad John actor Jack
- Brown v. Board of
Education city - “With ___ of thousands!”
- Pub competition
- Baseball brothers’
surname - Area near the
Mediterranean - Get exes to become
ex-exes - Yellow ribbon bearer
13. Armoire kin
21. Most urgent
22. Snack or nosh
23. Time before anything
important
24. Jaws sighting
25. It does blowups
26. Appear to be
30. Scythe-bearing visitor
31. 180 degrees from NNW
34. 66, for one (Abbr.)
35. Conductor Toscanini
38. URL punctuator
39. Satisfy, as demands
40. Assumption
41. Subtracts
42. Clearly visible
45. Snoop
46. Kind
47. Supporter’s response
49. Folklore being
51. Jack Haley role
53. What push comes to
54. Executive’s staff
57. Leave helpless with
laughter
58. Toni Morrison novel
62. Not very bright, really
63. Chi–Omega connection
64. Accord ender?
65. Chang’s bosom buddy?
Puzzle 143: One Vowel Off
Treacherous