Crosswords

Flowery Ladies

ACROSS

1 Posts
6 Fly ball in the infield
11 Suitcases
15 “___ Once You Love Her”
16 Geological formation
17 Color similar to almond
18 Novella by Henry James
20 Scottish quick bread
22 Loving Latin word
23 Show biz star
24 Made a racket?
25 New
27 Looney Tunes cartoon character
30 One-sided score
32 “I Claudius” attire
33 Truck grille covering
36 Elevator pioneer Elisha
38 High mountain
39 32-card game
43 Mother of the 35th U.S.President
46 Oil-yielding rock
47 Live-in nanny
48 “Either he goes ___ go!”
49 Relating to an irrational fear
50 Firewood measure
51 The Black Prince author
53 Adult female chickens
54 NASDAQ purchase
55 Red Skelton TV character
56 Wanna___
57 Ghost costume
59 In addition to
61 “Laugh-In” comedian who played Ernestine
66 Born fools
70 Have _____ (be compassionate)
71 Truncates
73 Wise advisor
74 Specter
75 Academy Award-winning
actress for The Piano
78 Sizeable holes in the ground
79 Shaquille or Tatum
80 Runway figure
81 Greek letters
82 Chili con ___
83 Long-winded

DOWN

1 Lady of the house
2 Texas shrine
3 Troy story
4 Cobbler’s tool
5 Hoggery
6 Satisfied (with “up”)
7 Ship’s lower deck
8 Shotgun shot
9 Multipurpose truck
10 Unit-cost word
11 “The ___ yet to come!”
12 West African capital
13 Aggregation
14 Muslim sect member
19 More infinitesimal
21 Chicken predecessor … or not
24 Suddenly go crazy
26 Tyro
28 Like a warty-skinned critter
29 Not beautiful
31 Element #50
33 Full of chutzpah
34 Atlas line
35 Town near Snowmass
37 Swimmer’s breathing apparatus
39 In pumps, for instance
40 Shish_______ (alt. spelling)
41 Wonderland girl
42 Computer repairmen, for short
44 Organs with drums
45 “___ tu” (Verdi aria)
46 Hide from view
49 Put into print
51 Bit of information
52 Thick mass of hair
54 Wild guess
57 It can cause burnout
58 Soil-breaking farm implement
61 Big dog, for short
62 Wishful words
63 Perfectly acceptable
64 1945 Conference locale
65 Atari founder Bushnell
67 Show up
68 Logic or family diagrams
69 Ill-humored
72 Mayberry’s Gomer
75 Ad ___ committee
76 ___ roll (winning nonstop)
77 Officiate at the plate

BRAINTEASERS

Inner Circles

Each answer contains six letters and will be entered either clockwise or counterclockwise into the hexagonal boxes surrounding the entry’s clue number—one letter per box. All entries overlap by some letters, so the shared letters will help determine in which box an entry starts and in which direction it reads.

1. ________ Oats
(breakfast food)
2. Vibrate tremulously
3. Compelled
4. Bring about
5. Five-cents coin
6. Entertain lavishly
7. Distress mentally
8. First-aid fluid
9. Form a mental image
10. Extreme scarcity of food
11. Triangular sail type
12. Pick up
13. Evening party
14. Medicinal amount
15. Exact satisfaction from
16. In the distance (two words)
17. Rub out
18. From that place
19. Subdued chuckle
20. Military gesture of respect
21. Liquid unit of capacity
22. Oklahoma fellow
23. Caterer’s gig
24. Trolley conductor, for one
25. Perceived to be (two
words)
26. Coyly mannered
27. Sorter
28. Set on a sill, as a pie
29. Goat coat
30. California wine region
31. Having a lustrous surface
32. Rugged and uneven
33. Was afraid of
34. Mount Fuji locale
35. As much (two words)
36. Deal with simultaneously
37. Mutual-assistance group

Two-Way Street

When completed, this grid will contain two series of words— one reading from 1 through 50 and the other from 50 through

1. Work from both sets of clues to complete the puzzle.

OUTWARD

1-6 Big buildup
7-14 Mosque attachments
15-21 “Starpeace” musician (two words)
22-28 Contrite
29-35 Jimmy and Rosalynn
36-39 “Holy moly!”
40-43 Local theater, slangily
44-50 System of jurisprudence
on judicial precedents (two words)

INWARD

50-46 Cardiff is the capital
45-35 Protective wraps (two words)
34-27 Goes back over
26-21 The Joker portrayer Cesar
20-17 Breakfast-eating area
16-11 Bivalve mollusk
10-5 ______ Farm (Orwell classic)
4-1 Winnie, the bear

PUZZLE ANSWERS

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