For once, I hope you don't catch on
By MATT JONES | November 5, 2008
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1 Pre-1995 NFL player now based in St. Louis
6 Teensy
9 The Mars Volta guitarist ___ Rodriguez-Lopez
13 Actress Massey of "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man"
14 Newbie's Internet pages
15 Little thoroughbred
16 Major League Baseball commissioner Bud
17 Hair color that makes you look like former NFLer Doug?
19 The urge to go to a school dance?
21 Green prefix
22 Helper (abbr.)
23 It's taken on a trip?
26 "___ and the Power of Juju" (Nickelodeon cartoon)
29 What Spider-Man slings
31 Burn on the outside
32 Frappe need
33 Diarist Nin
36 Knock-off board game suffix found after "Dino," "Dog," or "Ocean"
37 Get in the way of a log ride?
40 Swindled
41 Letter flourish
42 Milk source
43 Prefix used with some hormones
44 Abbr. after a phone number, on a business card
45 Weather vane dir.
46 Armenia or Azerbaijan, once (abbr.)
47 Make it through
51 "Now I get it!"
53 Tragic Greek figure with stomach acid problems?
59 The blue liquid used in diaper commercials, perhaps?
61 Animal hunted by Sarah Palin
62 Pizzeria fixture
63 Sea eagles
64 It really gets boring
65 "No sweat!"
66 Abbr. describing British pounds
67 Moves heavily | Down
1 Have trouble with "sisters," maybe?
2 Ray, Jay, or A, e.g.
3 Nestle caramel-filled chocolate candy
4 "Princess Mononoke" genre
5 Imaginary item that fixes everything
6 When doubled, a Washington town or onion
7 Shaffer play currently on Broadway
8 Rob of "90210"
9 Cartel that includes Iraq and Venezuela
10 First draft of a McMansion, maybe
11 "Is it ___ wonder?"
12 Deli bread
14 Really, really loud, on sheet music
18 Passbook abbr.
20 To ___ (incessantly)
24 Smoked fish
25 What there's not one of during a tearjerker movie
26 Contributes 10%
27 Unlike this entry
28 Typing instructor's concern
30 Barry White, notably
31 Sgt.'s underling
34 Suffix meaning "follower"
35 Hurting
36 In uncharted territory, so to speak
38 ___ Lingus
39 "WALL-E" production company
47 Printable format
48 Fox News Channel CEO Roger
49 Gush
50 Taking to court
52 Run ___ of the law
54 "___, meeny, miney, moe..."
55 1960s campus protest gp. restarted in 2006
56 LGBT-themed network owned by CBS
57 Like lots of items posted on Craigslist
58 Generation ___ (1970s babies)
59 Friend's counterpart
60 Actress Gardner |
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