Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

CROSSWORD/BRAINTEASERS

Presidential Wisdom

BY TOM RICHES

ACROSS

1 Silly
5 Football position
11 1966 film with Michael Caine
16 Brain flash
17 Sanctioned
18 Caustic “Cheers” barmaid
19 Author of the quote
22 Celebration, in Salerno
23 Paramount
24 Forest member
25 Without defense
27 Grate
28 Calf ’s cry
31 Oil-can letters
32 Piggie, for one
33 In low spirits
34 Cider season
35 Firstborn
38 Added color to
40 Durable twine
41 FFA lessons
43 “Why ___ here?”
44 Piano key material
45 Start of the quote
49 Sao ___
50 London lav
51 Drag
52 An essential residue of octane
53 Circuitous trip
55 Mild cigars
59 More of quote
60 More of quote
61 Tahiti, for example
63 Lord of the ring, once
64 Fifth scale note
65 Op. ___
66 America, from overseas
69 Coffee-break time
71 Guys-only
72 Party throwers
73 End of the quote
77 ___ Davies, British blues harmonica player
78 19-Across’ middle name
79 Chihuahua tribesman
80 Final exams
81 Try to strike
82 Tarzan cohorts

DOWN

1 Scatter widely
2 Glands above the kidneys
3 Enjoyed a banquet
4 Aunt, in Paris
5 “My Mama Done ___ Me”
6 With hands on hips
7 Like Venice or Amsterdam
8 “___ Eleison”
9 Trotsky or Redbone
10 Tokyo before 1868
11 Sour in taste
12 Use soap
13 Secret order member
14 Under the weather
15 Gobble up
20 Auntie Em’s state (abbrev.)
21 Collar fastener
26 Perfume attained from petals
27 Salad slice
29 “___ flowing with milk and honey”
30 Colleague
33 Rig at a weigh station
34 Leg bone
36 Author Waugh
37 Yucca-like plant
39 Popular Internet company
40 1988 summer Olympics host
42 Esophagus
45 Prefix with meter
46 Innkeepers
47 Scooby-Doo, e.g.
48 Plane surface
49 Loud, explosive noises
54 Rain sound
56 Lift
57 Being long established
58 Baja naps
60 Performer in white gloves
62 ___ Beach, CA
65 Sagan and Reiner
66 Ancient Roman dress
67 Sounds that precede Canadian question marks
68 Master of marches
70 “Just for the heck ___”
71 Simmer
73 ___ the part
74 Bakery selection
75 Mag. staffers
76 Go bad

CIRCLE-A-WORD » Here’s a list of Antarctic explorers. Locate and circle them in the word puzzle. They appear either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. There are 14 unused letters, which spell the full name of another explorer. Place the unused letters in the boxes beneath the grid to spell the name.

SUDOKU » Fill in the grid so that every row, column and 2×3 box contains the digits 1 through 6.

STEP LADDER » Use the clues in the left-hand column to fill in the two-word phrases in the right column. The second word of the phrase is the first word of the answer to the next clue.