X-Word 5-Minute Mystery


X-WORD
BY MERL REAGLE

NEW POSITIONS
April 28, 1997

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PUZZLE NOTE: Some of the people in this puzzle are a little mixed up ...
if you get my drift.


ACROSS DOWN
1 Liberal pursuits 1 Mr. T's TV group
5 'Tell-Tale Heart' author's inits. 2 Durango lariat
8 Part of a '60s bonfire 3 Destruction worker?
11 They make a grating sounds 4 Quick cut
18 New position for Ann Priestley 5 Ruhr city
21 Level 6 Target for Tell
22 New position for Casper Menotti 7 Entreaty
23 Gunpowder inventors 8 Mac morsel
24 Toasted ___ cereal 9 Early U.S. auto
25 Bishop, for one 10 Get there
26 '___ little rusty' 11 Took back
28 Title giver 12 Otto's 'oh'
29 A chord, for short 13 Tomboy's injury
31 A, in Amiens 14 Like some institutions
32 New position for Nevil Gates 15 Varnish resin
34 '___ wouldn't say that' 16 Miss America's amrful
36 Editor 17 Hagar the Horrible's dog
39 New position for Gordon Weaver 19 Destroyed
44 1860s soldier 20 Get off your butt
45 It means 'both' 22 A Pep Boy
49 To have, to Henri 27 Long-vowel mark
50 'Hee Haw' roles 30 Iris in 'Taxi Driver'
51 New position for Doug Brady 32 Hit a clinker, e.g.
53 New position for Rose Purvis 33 Use as a reference
55 Dole's st. 35 Munich mister
56 Feel the same 36 Vacation spot, ___ San Lucas
57 Start of a G&S title 37 Gray, as a day
58 Photo ___ 38 Home: abbr.
59 'What ___ say' 39 Laundry
61 Sides 40 Egg
63 New position for Walter Ray Cooper 41 Faux pas comment
67 Baking company that 'nobody doesn't like' 42 Influenza
70 Understanding response 43 Rene of 'Ransom'
71 Abner's adjective 45 Boring tool
72 P.D. alert 46 Painter Chagall
75 'Hear my prayer, ___' 47 Author Harte
76 Addams Family cousin 48 Bad time for Julius
77 New position for George Bolt 51 Appearance insurance, in court
81 New position for Lena Blair 52 Look amazed
84 Like some columns 54 'Eater' ending
85 Match site 55 Patella
86 Missile site 60 Satisfied a craving
87 Made bigger: abbr. 61 Veronica Lake film, 'I Married ___'
88 New position for Mason Leghorn 62 Word seg.
90 They're out of here 63 Connie's ill-fated husband in 'The Godfather'
92 Portland-to-Seattle dir. 64 Ye ___ Pie Shoppe
93 New position for Bruce Davis 65 Funny Rudner
97 Reverence 66 Dr. Alzheimer
99 Painter Paul 67 Sad sounds
103 Sympathetic one 68 Jai ___
104 Japanese food 69 Winning streak
105 Daisylike flowers 72 Terse review of a great little film
109 Ellie in 'Seven Days in May' 73 Bill's Federico
110 Carbon-based 74 Flakes material
112 New position for Laraine Martin 76 Smitten
115 Start of a soap 78 Some bodies: abbr.
116 New position for Artie Beckman 79 Make
117 Spanish dough 80 Euripides, for one
118 Dash lengths 82 Actress Donna
119 Word on deodorants 83 Destroyed
120 What father knows 84 Female deer
88 E or G, e.g.: abbr.
89 Bandit feature?
90 Frustrated cry
91 Thread again, as a shoe
93 Reporter's coup
94 Chili con ___
95 Impulses
96 Memphis street
97 To go, non?
98 Droll
100 Strike settings?
101 '76 Wimbledon winner
102 Word before phone or ring
105 Claim to rights, kid-style
106 'How ___ doing?'
107 Round of applause
108 Swedish auto
111 '___ man answers ...'
113 War zone, once
114 Tina's ex


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