Jim Bernhard has constructed crossword puzzles for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times syndicate, and other media outlets. His books include Puns, Puzzles, and Word
Play: Fun and Games for Language Lovers, 2nd Ed. (Skyhorse Publishing Co., 2014) and Porcupine, Picayune & Post: How Newspapers Get Their Names (University of Missouri
Press, 2007). Bernhard also has held administrative and creative positions at leading theater and performing arts companies in Houston. He earned a B.A. in history from Rice
University and an M.A. in English literature from University of Birmingham (England), where he studied as a Marshall Scholar. Email him at fjb@sbcglobal.net.
For the solution, go to page 36.
Across
1. Non-pro
5. It knits up the ravell’d sleeve of
care, says Shakespeare
10. Govt. workplace org.
14. Light gas?
15. More sound
16. New ____: FDR programs in
the 1930s
17. New____: Yogi Berra or Joe
DiMaggio, for example
19. They may be wild
20. “3: 10 to ____,” 1957 movie
remade in 2007
21. Type of 35mm camera, for short
23. ____Dome, Indianapolis
stadium demolished in 2008
26. Univ. in Troy, N Y
27. Put away
28. “Ideas Worth Spreading” org.
31. New ____: small, freshly
harvested spud
33. New ____: JFK programs
35. Oldtime comedian Mabley
36. Hidden city in Czechoslovakia?
38. It’s 99 and 44/100 percent pure
39. New ____: Where to find Peter,
Paul, and Mary!
42. Sailing or confused
45. Arab country headed by a
sultan
46. Final word
50. New ____: a night for
celebrating
52. New ____: home of Clovis and
Alamogordo
54. Finish
55. Before in poetry
56. Title for Phi Kappa Phi member
Thad Cochran or Harry Reid
(abbr.)
57. Huffington Post owner
58. Drillers’ org.
59. “...unto us ____ is given.”
61. Khayyam who wrote 53 Down
64. New ____: Sydney’s home
70. New ____: film movement for
Truffaut and Godard
71. Follow
72. See 1 Down
73. Directors Ang and Spike
74. Harvests
75. Kill violently or amuse
immensely
Down
1. ____72 Across in a storm
2. Classical or conservative prefix
3. Rocky peak
4. Black
5. Pantene and Neutrogena
6. Hawaiian island
7. Member of B.P.O.E.
8. Big shoe to fill!
9. Rapidly, for Phi Kappa Phi
members Dave Brubeck and Ellis
Marsalis
10. 27 Down
11. Dead or Red, e.g.
12. Fedora or trilby
13. Gore and Sharpton
18. Domed Mongol dwelling
22. First head of U.S.S.R.
23. Measurement for LPs
24. Dove call
25. Money source, for short
27. 10 Down
28. Uncle in Uruguay
29. Always in poetry
30. Sweet alternative
32. Daisy-like flower
33. An old one might rekindle
romantic feelings
34. Entertainment fee levied by
some European governments
37. Range
40. Alleviated
41. Gets tangled
42. Affirmative for a sailor
43. Perfect gymnastic score
44. Blue
47. Farrow or Hamm
48. Author of “Foucault’s
Pendulum”
49. Onetime Cambodian prime
minister Lon
51. One end of a pencil
53. “Ah, wilderness were paradise
____!”
56. Words that sometime
precede “and begged”
58. Mars in ancient Greece
60. Dozes
61. Mascot for Rice and Temple
62. West of old Hollywood
63. Pennsylvania in Washington,
D.C.
65. “____ Summer,” novel by Phi
Kappa Phi member David
Baldacci
66. N. Amer. republic with 50 states
67. “That’s funny!” in a text
68. Important period
69. Porcine dwelling
Jim Bernhard has constructed crossword puzzles for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times syndicate, and other media outlets. His books include Puns, Puzzles, and Word
Play: Fun and Games for Language Lovers, 2nd Ed. (Skyhorse Publishing Co., 2014) and Porcupine, Picayune & Post: How Newspapers Get Their Names (University of Missouri
Press, 2007). Bernhard also has held administrative and creative positions at leading theater and performing arts companies in Houston. He earned a B.A. in history from Rice
University and an M.A. in English literature from University of Birmingham (England), where he studied as a Marshall Scholar. Email him at fjb@sbcglobal.net.
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