X-Word 5-Minute Mystery


X-WORD
BY MERL REAGLE

REVEALING
RESPONSES
May 24, 1997

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News Story: A city council in Florida has voted to ban the selling of roadside hot dogs by women in revealing T-back swimsuits because of accidents caused by gawking drivers.

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1 Digestion enzyme (anagram of SIP ALE) 1 Oscar song of 1937, 'Sweet ___'
7 Reporter Lane 2 Bound to get a whuppin'
11 Lure into committing a crime 3 Arts funders, in Rome
17 Passes (a law) 4 Had a pain
18 Post-talk sess. 5 British gun
19 Of the sea, in Latin 6 Keyboard abbr.
21 *Start of one dissenting councilman's actual response to the vote mentioned above 7 'Ed Wood' costar Martin
23 Mythical girl of boar hunt fame 8 A single time
25 Actress Sophia 9 Uganda 'Dada'
26 Miami's county 10 Actor Mineo
27 Derisive 11 Rise (from), as fumes
28 Small amount 12 Hardy's 'The Return of the ___'
29 'He shall rule them with ___ of iron' (Rev. 2:27) 13 Swapper
30 Greek cheese 14 Make angry
31 Cut in two 15 The Santa ___ winds
33 L.A. trial judge 16 George Will types
34 Noted diarist 18 Singer-actress Suzi
35 *Response, part 2 20 Famous 50
39 Berlin standard, 'Say ___' 22 Playwright Clifford
41 Battery terminal 24 Hut or igloo, e.g.
42 En ___ (as a group) 27 Dispatch
43 Bejar bear 30 Aperture setting on a camera
44 Key of a J.S. Bach Mass 31 Negative-minded ones
45 Diamond stats 32 Detroit 11
47 *Response, part 3 35 Map-within-a-map
56 Billionaire candidate 36 Thin layer (or a beast rising?)
57 Lowly workers 37 Gives off
58 La Douce and Rombauer 38 Obi, for one
59 Swab 40 Not ___ (mediocre)
61 'Out!' 44 Drunk as a skunk
62 River mouth 45 Butter?
63 London streetcars 46 Lesage hero Gil
64 Andersen portrayer 47 Facto preceder
65 Approvals 48 Kisses in the car
66 'I ___ choose to run' 49 Refuse
67 Slatted container 50 Overturns
68 City in Nigeria 51 On a lower deck
69 *Response, part 4 52 Hank Williams and U.S. Grant, at birth
73 Caged travelers 53 Love poetry Muse
74 Lampreys 54 Insect's final stage
75 Carnival city 55 'Happy Birthday ___'
76 Impact sound 60 Nuisance
79 Take care of 62 Bungler
81 First mate on the 'Pequod' 63 1939 New York WorldÕs Fair symbol
86 *Response, part 5 64 Stick food
90 Palindromic name 66 Because of
91 Torn-up T-shirt 67 King Minos was one
92 Brown portrayer 68 Relatives of burrows
93 Actor Auberjonois 70 Colorful fish
94 Staircase descender? 71 Della of 'Touched by an Angel'
95 Big ___ house 72 Wipe out
96 Type styles 76 Over-shoulder part of a purse
97 Faithful 77 Moon stages
98 Medicine amounts 78 One who inherits
99 Baseball's 'Charlie Hustle' 79 Mail separators
101 *End of the response 80 Morning fare
104 Less agitated 81 Olivier_Caine film
105 Toward Tierra del Fuego 82 Principle
106 Loosen, as a shoe 83 Rare
107 Devourers 84 Marching rhythm
108 Road 85 Israeli legislature
109 Hole in your shoe? 87 Corporate raider Pickens
88 Less sparse
89 Sex authority
94 High-minded
96 Worry
97 Track habitue
98 Declare false
100 Significant time
101 Snake
102 Snake
103 Shade


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