Random words, lest your language get stale
By MATT JONES | October 10, 2007
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Across
1 Pastry that looks like a little fruit cookie
8 Model's actions
13 Crowd with foliage
15 Out of fashion
16 It pairs with "Faith," in an Irish saying
17 Color without a rhyme
18 Ending for land or city
19 Intelligent design opponent
21 "Yeah, I bet you do..." laugh
23 Bill with Hamilton
24 ___-Magnon
25 Titillating
28 Doesn't partake
32 The White Stripes, e.g.
33 Be cautious
35 1973 Elvis concert that was the first broadcast live via satellite
38 Everything's always about her
39 Weather vane dir.
40 Pay out
41 Like many textbooks
42 Indian title
44 Had the most points
45 Actor Chaney
47 They symbolize gratitude
51 Human or ostrich, e.g.
55 In ___ (freaked out)
56 Measure of how high you are
58 Got new photos
59 Snoop
60 Show cohosted by Ryan Seacrest
61 It opens many doors | Down
1 Wozniak's cofounder
2 Opposite of sans
3 Watts intro
4 Word before hunter or wife
5 Jibe
6 Attack poodle's warning
7 One of Mario's friends
8 Gilpin of "Frasier"
9 Country on the Arabian Peninsula
10 They root in the KeyArena
11 Albino rocker Winter
12 "I ___ reason to..."
14 Question for an irritating person
15 Falling apart
20 Clocks again
22 Short distance in the city
25 Vitamin dosage, perhaps: abbr.
26 Word sung on 1/1
27 Make the carpet match the drapes, say
29 Sailing vessels
30 "Love ___ irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired" (Robert Frost)
31 "I don't reckon so"
33 Actresses Dawber and Grier
34 A, in Berlin
36 Yes, in Yokohama
37 Roadside bomb, for short
41 Bands together
42 Replacement in the trunk
43 Turn red, say
46 Passing notes
48 Feel in one's bones
49 Rivers in Mexico
50 Permission note
52 Play a prank on, to Ashton Kutcher
53 She played Carmela
54 Say it ain't so
57 Letters seen in airports these days |
© 2007 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)
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