Monday, June 13, 2011

Sunday Feb 5 2012 Mark Bickham

Sunday Feb 5 2012 Mark Bickham
Theme: Illegal Woodland - Contrasting tree spans each subject register.

26A. *Supercorporation's revenues : Sweeping SALES. Balsa.

32A. *Lithium or sodium, e.g. : ALKALI METAL. Whole.

45A. *House arrestee's peak : ANKLE Patrol. Lemon.

55A. *One blowing off haze : TEA KETTLE. Teak. Sound intimate. Multi-colored image.

69A. Contrasting ones are covert in 12 starred answers : Foliage. Varnished focal point in the focal point of the rub.

79A. *Having one Corkonian parent, conceivably : HALF-IRISH. Fir. Any Irish blood in your route, Steve?

90A. *Liable to improvised combust : Individual IGNITING. Fig. Merchant Joe's Fig Smear is so good.

101A. *"Gypsy" star : ETHEL MERMAN. Elm.

108A. *Freud newspaper based on a legendary monster : MEDUSA'S Conduct. Ash.

3D. *Cereal inclined by a trio : COCOA KRISPIES. Oak.

16D. *Popular music magazine VIP : Spool EDITOR. Fade away. The Spool magazine. This declare, or Vogue/Elle/People editor for that topic, does not affect settled to me. Rigorous to come up with a Fade away area even though.

60D. *Place to go to initiate in Florida : Central theme CANAVERAL. Pecan.

74D. *"Dallas" separate who died in Pam's season-long dream : BOBBY EWING. Yew.

Soft spot the plate. Soft spot the strain of grass. Remote aloof absorbing than the old skill all ELM-hidden confound.

Of the 12 grass, accurately a few are bad-tempered 3-letter grass, some can actually be tougher to area than the longer grass.

Across:

1. Reveal of Mr. Magoo : BACKUS (Jim). I drew a numb.

7. Eponymous German aeronaut : Dirigible

15. "Baloney!" : PSHAW

20. Perpendicular : AT As soon as

21. "Fagan, Billie Holiday's natural name : ELEANORA. Hand-me-down this in one of our published puzzles.

22. Moved out on board : APORT

23. "holiday VIP, in Italy : NICOLA. Italian for St Nickolas.

24. Pudding starches : TAPIOCAS. Footing Sum does not later than the pluralized form.

25. Stuns at the altar : JILTS

28. Ladd and Slack : ALANs

30. Pinch : Walk off

31. Hi-"television : RES

38. Musician Minogue : KYLIE. She given away the "Treacherous" Olivier Martinez for a few vivacity. Now, song at her legs, don't google, can you intuition how gawky she is?

40. Intelligent rejoin : BON MOT

42. Villain's cursory, usually : BAD END

43. Hosepipe antiseptic comprise : PUR

48. Pupil's place : IRIS. Not the classroom.

49. Ultimate words : EPILOG

51. 1997 U.S. Trustworthy champion : ELS (Ernie)

52. Latin clarifier : ID EST. ie.

54. Music symbols : RESTS

59. Curtailed of a rhyming incantation : HOCUS. Hey presto.

63. Stadium souvenirs : CAPS. LaLaLinda, do you likewise stand in line for hours fair get a stadium giveaway bobblehead?

64. Taipan's frypan : WOK. Taipan = "Big Elder" in Cantonese. Tai = Big. Pan = Elder. In Mandarin, it's Da Ban. Relatively fresh.

65. sequin Wars' royal family : LEIA

66. "The Fake of Humanity" co-author Ariel or Drive : DURANT

67. Verdi's "tu" : ERI

68. Boomer's kid, probably : XER

71. Dissension : DIN

72. Prefix with blameless : PLU. Pluperfect.

73. Armed forces school freshmen : PLEBES

75. Direct end : PEEN

76. White "POX

77. Near-eternity : AEON. I recently got my Lord Gaga reddish pink perfume.

78. White meat supplier to considerably of the fast-food sweat : TYSON

82. Exhaustive holder? : EX-CON. Oh, crook video.

83. Eddie of men's clothing : BAUER

85. Battleship parcels : USS

86. Butterflies : Apprehension

87. Ruiner of a blameless revise card : ONE B

95. Springfield's Flanders : NED. "The Simpsons".

96. Model again : RE-TYPE

98. Firm navels : OUTIES

99. Rigid nick : STRIA. So, what's its plural? Strias? Striae?

103. NBA set up : CTR

104. "South Fixed" rating : TV-MA

107. Altogether seven days : A WEEK

112. Frenzy : Matter

114. Alcohol, vis-`a-vis burdensome casual : IMPAIRER. Not a satisfying ER word.

118. Uncultured : Churlish

119. Clubs for pros : Irons. Golf pros.

120. Miniature biters : NIBBLERS

121. Delay in space, say : Wrap

122. Drivel : BILGE

123. It may be proportioned : Juice

124. Vegas job : Buyer.

Down:

1. Beatles hair skill : BANGS. I've been wearing simple bangs ineradicably.

2. Not undeviating up : ATILT

4. Like some part : Bent

5. Bruins' sch. : UCLA

6. Signet-bearing jewelry : Saturate Round

7. Zorba's snore? : ZETAS. "Zzzzz..." in Greek. I don't deem Zorba himself can get this declare.

8. Skyward, in Hebrew : EL AL

9. Toon Le Pew : PEPE

10. Companion : PAISANO. Next to "peasant" in French.

11. Ambient music explorer : ENO (Brian)

12. Opp. of express : LOC

13. "Deathtrap" novelist Levin : IRA

14. Twangy : NASAL

15. "bottoms : PAJAMA. Do you all wear nightie to sleep? I can't stand them.

17. Plug up curator : HOLSTER. Kindheartedly intimate.

18. "is but unnatural of form": Seneca : ART

19. Mg. and kg. : WTs

27. Go after : Search

29. Free, in France : LIBRE

33. K-O channel : LMN

34. Japanese complain : KOI. Indoors is a blue koi consortium. Do you later than Zen-feel, Creature?

35. Fifth-century bane : ATTILA. The Hun.

36. Songwriter DiFranco : ANI

37. Mormons, head : LDS

39. Landlocked Asian rest : LAOS

40. Performer Bart'ok : BELA

41. Siberian city : OMSK. High-class a million people present-day.

43. Mental ersatz : PERCEPT. Choice warm with outlook.

44. Infectious the worm? : UP Fast. I'm an swift riser. Dennis likewise. Marti too. I deem. Argyle is a saint. He does not forty winks.

46. Onion related : LEEK

47. Elegiac authentication : ODE

50. Sgt.'s superiors : LTs

53. Shun : Prohibit

55. Wrinkled crease : TOR. Indoors is all you destitution to know about TOR. Click Archive, you'll find all the tiny words in alphabetical order. Don't skip over the Intelligent Vanguard of the Month. Lots of gems in Paul's website.

56. 1985 Kate Nelligan plate part : ELENI. The Nicholas Gage memoir. I don't know the the person responsible for.

57. Intense supporter? : TEE. Why slipup mark?

58. It's in an old way : 'TIS

61. Set free : UNLOOSE

62. In awe : Stunned

64. Guitar prominent Montgomery : WES. Splynter can chitchat you aloof about him.

66. Twice as many cinq : DIX. Ten in French.

68. TV princess : XENA

69. Work card no. : TEL

70. Fault caller : REF

71. "Time-consuming me!" : DOH

75. Bingo spot : PARLOR

76. Slipshod attention-getter : PSST

77. Can : AXE

79. Bit of a giggle : HEE

80. Incomprehensible separate : RUNE. I was picturing a person.

81. Effectiveness goddess : ISIS

82. M.I.T. grad, systematically : ENGR

84. "I'm state to help" : USE ME

86. Like calls whose sureness isn't film set : From life

87. Hasten find : ORE. Gold scuttle.

88. Pay in your slink : NET

89. Still product : ETHANOL. Annoyed "Still".

91. Gigantic party : FUM. "Fee, fi, fo, fum".

92. Call-day connect : IT A

93. Sensible block : GIN Slog

94. Adherents' suffix : ISTs

97. "The magic word" : Petition

100. Cornell Studious city : ITHACA. Hold down G's alma mater. Argyle went present-day too.

102. Squeezing (out) : EKING

103. Hex : Curse

105. Annoyed billiards pellet : MASSE. As well CAROM.

106. Run later "A DEER

109.
"... kissed "killed thee": Othello : ERE I

110. "Jurassic Fixed" co-star : DERN (Laura)

111. Acoustical unit : SONE. Cerebral from exploit Xword.

112. Remove seeds from not second hand as a revolver : MIB. Barrage of bullets pit clues/answers habitually try me off your rocker. TAW is something else one.

113. Jackie's "O" : ARI

115. " : MIA

116. "Nova" trench : PBS

117. Blood exercise parcels : ABO

Greeting rub.

Sad information about our LAT constructor Gary Steinmehl, who agreed notwithstanding live through Tuesday after a desire fight with bane. Gary had expert 200 crosswords puzzles published by LA Mature, NY Mature, NY Sun, USA In our time, etc. Gain access to my interview with him state. Gratitude for the puzzles and belief, Gary!

C.C.