X-Word 5-Minute Mystery


X-WORD
BY MERL REAGLE

THE SIDES OF MARCH

March 3, 1997
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1 Start of March and part 1 of this puzzle 1 Young fellow
5 Rap stars, Salt-N-___ 2 Retirement accts.
9 Red Skelton character, ___ Kadiddlehopper 3 Pen sound
13 Painter Veronese 4 Zip, to Zapata
18 Piece for Placido 5 Friend
19 Dendrite counterpart 6 Deplaned
20 Yawning fissure 7 Winnie, for one
21 Let 8 Klein of fashion
22 Ray Bradbury's '___ Wine' 9 Angels' boss
24 Picaresque hero 10 Certain Scandinavian
26 32-card card game 11 She, to Sophia
27 M.M. Kaye novel 12 III times DCCII
29 Weed need 13 Portable warehouse platform
31 Night flier 14 ' ___ want for Christmas ...'
32 Anger 15 Grab bag
33 Ragamuffin 16 Crazy as a ___
41 Pot emanation 17 Holds the title to
45 Comb-defying 20 Slowly ascending credits at the end of a movie
46 Moon lander, for short 23 Merman and Mertz
47 Qatar dignitary 25 Broadcasts
49 Mr. Hubbard 28 Gets a head?
51 Bouillabaise and vichyssoise 30 Direct or access ending
52 Bette, 'the Divine ___' 33 Pachyderm feature
54 Prop ending 34 By and by
55 Courtroom figure 35 Choice on a test
56 Dandling place 36 Elvis' birthplace
57 Checker, token or washer 37 Yale students
58 Rioting 38 Saloon quaff
62 'Exodus' author's first name 39 Brass-hat Bradley
64 Wings of bugs 40 '95 Super Bowl champs, briefly
66 Like blue moons 42 Israeli airline
67 Cream or crock ending 43 More rife with flourishes
68 Mickey Mouse, the Harlem Globetrotters and others 44 Hoods hide them
73 Blunder 48 Moistens with drippings again, as a turkey
74 River delta of St. Petersburg (Russia) 50 Abbr. on a letter to Manhattan
75 He fronted the Belmonts 52 Family vehicles
76 Nicholas was one 53 Certain Florida resident
77 Greek combo? 57 Carpenter's pin
80 'Aha!' 59 Mountain from which Moses saw the Promised Land
82 'Nuts!' 60 Wipe out
86 Stairwell effect 61 Swan lady
87 Home of 'All Things Considered': abbr. 63 Author Ferber
88 Basketballer Archibald et al. 65 He was Shane
90 Timex rival 68 Adorns
91 Lick and close 69 Annie's status
92 Evening, to Yves 70 'The ___ the wicked shall be put out' (Proverbs)
94 That girl 71 The talk of the town, couple-wise
95 Whence the Cajuns came 72 April 15, for most of us
96 Villain's expression 73 Barely gets (by)
99 Waffle 78 End of the earth
102 Extinct bird 79 French cheese
104 Word element in phone-firm names 81 European in the news
105 Initials of Pres. Ford's VP 83 Sally of space
106 Action-movie description 84 Related
114 '___ among men' 85 Exactly
118 Maker of the sporty, speedy Diablo 89 Time and ___ (pay bonus)
119 Beach parties 90 Bug on an amulet
122 Today it might be called 'Achilles' Wrath: The Poem' 93 Adjusts again, as a guitar
123 Cloth in the closet 95 Actress Gardner
124 Torte 97 Represent
125 Nabisco cookie 98 From the crowd, it's loud
126 Mat-covered, as moist ground 100 Comintern's creator
127 Inventor of the diving bell, James ___ 101 Consumption, in a way
128 All tied up 103 Acute subject?
129 End of March and Part 2 of this puzzle 106 Pickens
107 'Mission Impossible' theme composer Schifrin
108 Brest buddies
109 Bus. degrees
110 Foreign car name, Karmann ___
111 Event eliciting 'eureka!'
112 '___ homo'
113 81 Down, e.g.
115 London lockup
116 Gumbo stuff
117 Consider
120 Word on a door
121 Crying sound



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