Sure sounded like it
By MATT JONES | February 6, 2008
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Across 1 Several
5 ___ off (gets lost)
9 Smackeroos
14 Length times width
15 Move to a higher level, like in Super Mario Bros.
16 "Morning Edition" co-host Montagne
17 Sacred beans used to make chocolate?
19 Utah city
20 The value of actress Fabray?
22 Bob who gets away with saying "just for shiggles" on "1 vs. 100"
25 U2 single released after "Mysterious Ways"
26 Jimmy Eat World's genre
27 Office of Air and Radiation parent org.
28 "As If I ___ Slept" (Idlewild song)
31 Max of "The Beverly Hillbillies"
32 Soft and puffy
35 "The Last King of Scotland" name
37 Command to opium plants that they leave the Flower Kingdom?
40 Sallie ___ (student loan company)
41 Went past the target
44 Show gloominess
47 Punished monetarily
49 "Psych" network
50 Thurman of "The Accidental Husband"
51 You get one when you come home
52 Anesthetized
54 The cheapest version of fitness guru Jack?
59 Full of spirit
60 Martial artist who practices on straw matting?
64 Chopin exercise
65 Dr. Frankenstein's go-to guy
66 Make into an ornament, perhaps
67 ___ tot
68 Sports award
69 Bulk | Down
1 Sound of relaxation
2 Big fuzzy 'do
3 Unagi roll ingredient
4 Brady in a Dave Chappelle skit
5 He played Obi-Wan
6 Turn toward
7 Greek group
8 100% accurate, like an impersonation
9 "Vanilla Sky" director Cameron
10 Brand of blocks
11 Blind singer Bocelli
12 Start of a tryst request
13 Mister, in Rio
18 Koko's pet All Ball, e.g.
21 Drew in
22 "Hey, wait a ___!"
23 "The Simpsons" character who works extremely long hours
24 "I don't believe it!" noise
28 One who aspires
29 "___ Day Now" (Joan Baez album)
30 Physicist Freeman ___
31 eBay attempts
33 Away's opposite
34 Bitter beer variety, for short
36 "___ Rosenkavalier" (Strauss opera)
38 "Gangsta Lovin'" rapper
39 Israeli prime minister Olmert
42 Suffix for sugars
43 Toni Morrison's "___ Baby"
44 Oscar category?
45 Mario Puzo book named for a code of silence
46 Eventually succeed
48 Neck and neck
51 Word on yellow trucks
52 Albuquerque college: abbr.
53 It comes straight from the horse's mouth
55 Kind of scene
56 Fades to the back of the pack
57 On
58 Survived with ___ a scratch
61 Display dishonesty
62 Keebler worker
63 NYC clock setting |
© 2008 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)
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