X-Word 5-Minute Mystery


X-WORD
BY MERL REAGLE

DOUBLE DOUBLE MEANINGS
May 19, 1997

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1 Network launched in '76 1 Less agressive personality
4 All-white-keys chord: abbr. 2 Pack animal
8 Barely lit 3 A VP's first name
11 Osmond country 4 ___ straws
15 Enjoy Osmond country 5 Rug on the stoop
18 Ranch assent 6 The time of your life?
19 Sauce brand 7 Kipling's '___ Stories'
20 'Meet me ___ the first cock crow' (Shak.) 8 Removal of restrictions: abbr.
21 Saint of oratorio fame 9 '___ that remark!'
22 Network launched in '80 10 Encounter
23 Texts on GIs* 11 Make whole
27 Genesis bone 12 Pole length: abbr.
28 'To ___ human' 13 Jason's ship
29 Certain magazine workers* 14 'He's just like ___'
31 Make certain reservations* 15 Semitransparent curtain
34 Sulzberger paper: abbr. 16 Game of Clue piece
35 Directed 17 Sacked out
36 '... could ___ fat ...' 24 Minn. maulers
37 Goalie's place 25 Part of a dance
39 It shows you the money 26 French edict city
40 Board member 30 Site of the Tupac Amaru siege
43 Courtroom concern* 32 Enjoyed home cooking
50 'Washboard' anatomy 33 Bergen boob
51 '___ you loud and clear' 38 Latin abbr.
53 On the beach 39 'Let me take ___ at it'
54 Actress Claire 40 Spoken fanfare
55 Baseball practice* 41 Eddie Murray stats
59 Lab medium 42 Letters on fighters
61 '___ as I'm concerned ...' 43 Tycoons
62 Bird or hand soap 44 Take ___ (drop sharply)
63 Span's partner 45 One-movement musical wk.
64 Part of the yard 46 Spiritual leaders
65 ___ and ahs 47 Latvia's capital
68 Author Zora ___ Hurston 48 Eat like a rat
70 Maker of the first portable electric saw 49 Make, as a profit
72 ___ of attrition 52 'Kookie' Byrnes
75 Cop alerts 56 Native New Zealander
77 'I came' 57 Montana's motto, ___ y Plata
79 Kin of 'me too' 58 Hit the road
83 Disparage 60 Assign as one's share
85 Money for pay toilets?* 63 Author Maurice
88 Bookstore sect. 66 'Greater love ___ man ...'
89 Attention-getting words of yore 67 Messy impact sound
91 Has a harsh sound 69 Absorb data
92 Univ. 71 Leb. neighbor
93 Riverside exercise* 72 Pop group or rhyme scheme
96 Otalgia 73 The Grateful Dead's Bob
99 Revelation reaction 74 Moises of baseball
100 A TX city, to TWA 76
101 ___ water (up the creek) 78 Brain gauges
102 Violin maker 80 Ancestor's opposite: abbr.
105 'A Christmas Carol' word 81 Musicians in a pit: abbr.
107 Stunt man's bit of dialogue* 82 'How ___, Doc?'
113 D.C. mail* 84 Well-pitched game
116 Called 85 Train hopper
117 Guy at first 86 Overturn
118 Special edition of 'Animation Monthly'* 87 Popular band of Japanese beer
121 ___ Aviv 90 Snide laugh
122 Exxon, before 94 Samuel Beckett play
123 Border line? 95 'The Sound of Music' setting
124 Olympic weapon 97 Lott and Milsap
125 Palmer, for short 98 Hammond book
126 One of the four saisons 101 Part of the foot
127 Parks on the bus 102 Severe and sharp
128 Ballet step 103 'Glengarry Glen Ross' playwright
129 Word with shoulder or soap 104 Poisonous gift for Snow White
130 Nogalcs number 105 '___ This House'
106 Foil introducer, 1910
108 Partners, trios, etc.
109 Circle segment
110 Yardbirds song, 'Still ___'
111 Spitting cobra's toxin type
112 Perfect places
114 'I see,' to Chan
115 Waterproof cover
119 Lead paint watchdog: abbr.
120 Grand Forks flooder, the ___ River


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