256 Part II: Tackling the Puzzles
Across
- Pincushion alternative
- Rajiv Gandhi’s
grandfather - Slightly open
- Former German capital
- In great haste, at sea
- Drawn fish
- Love-in-a-mist bouquet
- Hit the ground
- Lounging locale
- Love of life
- Club that sings
- Smoke detector
- Off the beaten track
- Veto
- Cast of characters?
- Stat that’s good
when low - “Stormy Weather”
singer - End, in the Bible
- Word with “base” or
“summer” - It’s removed by a
stripper - Cutty ___ (historic ship)
- Sure-footed creatures
- The Love Boat
employee - Old name preceder
48. Security feature
50. Cockscombs
52. Child’s reward, perhaps
53. Proper word, at times
54. Tableland
56. Muse of history
59. Humidified
63. Czech runner Zatopek
64. Term of endearment
66. Without self-control
67. Massey of old movies
68. You can stick with it?
69. Turns into leather
70. Fine and ___
71. Powerful emotion
Down
- Goes back to sea?
- Track tipster
- “___ Thee Oh Lord”
- Vocalize, as in James
Earl Jones - Veep under G.R.F.
- One who runs the show
- Heist tally
- Gifford’s successor
- Open, as a change
purse - Word games
- Reagan’s love
- Tahiti sweetie
13. Memorization method
18. Historic time
24. Telegram punctuation
26. One of the five W’s
27. Go over again
28. Do blackboard duty
29. Impromptu jazz
performance
30. Cookie flavoring
31. See 35-Across
32. Plume’s source
33. Confiscates
36. Guard on the deck
39. Morale builders
41. Sandwich with a crunch
44. Doo-wop syllable
46. Morsel
49. Greenhouse plant
51. “Stop it!”
53. “... with in sight”
54. Food group
55. 1816 Jane Austen novel
57. Singer Falana
58. Barge (interrupt)
60. To Live and Die
(1985)
61. Bunny tail
62. “Of I sing”
65. “Yippee!”
Puzzle 115: Toasty
Tough