CROSSWORD2-12-2008

Like crosswords? You’re going to love our new crossword puzzle – every week in the St. Charles Herald-Guide. Tell your friends and don’t miss a single great issue or puzzle. See answers below.

ACROSS

1. Talcum powder ingredient

5. Equals 100 pounds

8. Necessary thing

12. Non-written exam

13. Make hot and dry

14. Mist or steam

15. Austin Powers’ ____-Me

16. Greek muse of history

17. Incongruity between what

is expected and what occurs

18. Nominated again for playing Queen Elizabeth

20. Cotton ____, pl.

21. Metrical unit in poetry

22. Did it come before or after

the chicken?

23. Wall plaster

26. Clayton in “Michael Clayton”

30. What all Oscar nominees want to do

31. Concerning this

34. Load up

35. To accept without question

37. Between E and NE

38. Loathing

39. Baptism, e.g.

40. Undo a snap

42. High or low card

43. Malicious coward

45. Made heavy

47. Even (poetic)

48. Reject, as in advances

50. Dumbo’s were huge

52. “Ratatouille,” e.g.

56. #26 Down Oscar-winning movie

57. Furnace for firing pottery

58. 1970’s “____ Story” won only one Oscar

59. Ivy progression

60. “What’s the big ____!?”

61. Pitcher

62. Clothed or covered

63. Flanders of “The Simpsons”

64. Writer Ayn

DOWN

1. Restin place of unknown soldier

2. Seed cover

3. Oscar nominee Turner

4. Healthcare facility

5. Famous person

6. “Time ____ for no one”

7. Faster than a walk

8. Daisy-like yellow or orange flower

9. “Once ____ a Time in America”

10. Daughters’ brothers

11. “The old college ____”

13. Jerk

14. “Eastern Promises” nominee

19. Computer storage space

22. Orlando Bloom in “Lord of the Rings” trilogy

23. Sod

24. Shinbone

25. Used for measuring, pl.

26. “No County For Old Men” directing brothers

27. Nymph of springs and lakes

28. Derive or elicit

29. Republic on Arabian Peninsula

32. Tear violently

33. Half the width of ems in printing

36. Washed off

38. Verdi’s “La Traviata,” e.g.

40. Vase for ashes

41. Graduate

44. “The Tortoise and the Hare” author

46. Deer horn

48. Expressive of contempt

49. Heaped

50. ____ Grey

51. A in A=ab

52. Related

53. Hawkeye state

54. “Hot as an ____”

55. Ridiculed for studying excessively

56. Communications agency

 

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