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January 2014 Crossword Puzzle Answer Key

Across

1. The Great Gatsby headwear

8. “Absolutely,old chap!”

14. Goldoni (DC restaurant until 2012)

20. Tourist-office freebie

21. Like the Cherry Blossom Festival

22. Annie, for one

23. She may give an IV in ID, IA, or IN

25. Not for sale, asan apartment

26. Kick out of the country

27. “Save the ” (breast-cancer-awareness phrase)

29. “Don’t think so”

30. Western tie

33. Physicist’s particle

35. Caps, Rangers, etc.

37. Cold War side

38. Deplete

40. “See ya, Juanita!”

42. Ness known for uprightness

44. “I’ve seen better”

48. Whatever’s handy

51. Put in the microwave for a few

52. “I give up!”

53. Sunday shouts

54. Tic-tac-toe triumph

55. Argo, Fargo,or Key Largo

56. Layer

58. Rejecting words

59. Behave badly

62. She was wed to Ari

65. Music style named for a US state

67. Daybreak

68. Intending to shape things up around here

71. Evil count in the Lemony Snicket series

72. California congressman,1981-2013

74. Get power over

75. Failed to be

76. Mr. Mineo

77. Ragtag group

80. Shakespeare title character

82. Not working

83. Slurpee alternatives

84. The Big Apple

86. Bethesda complex, briefly

89. College cost to the student

91. It can take ten years to mature

94. Attacks

95. Word before things or point

96. “Over my dead body!”

97. Be disposed (to)

99. Similarly

101. Just okay

105. Life, Sorry!, or Settlers of Catan

106. Gun named for its creator

107. Cop-car feature

108. Company cofounded by Andrew Mellon

110. Kind of retailer

112. The new year—and the alphabetical places of this puzzle’s two theme letters

120. Make like an angel

121. Tunie of Law& Order: SVU

122. Shirt pair

123. Mary Lou of gymnastics

124. Way of doing things

125. Common reflexive pronoun

Down

1. Work on your arms?

2. Atlantic film critic Christopher

3. Green vegetable

4. Host (someone) at your country home

5. Visa rival, for short

6. Shire of Rocky and The Godfather

7. Like milk not worth crying over

8. Cleaning cloth

9. The at Little Washington

10. African beast

11. Ben-

12. Bites into

13. Upstate New York city

14. Highly unlikely to work, as a suggestion

15. Son of Aphrodite

16. 4th of 12: abbr.

17. NL East winners of 2012

18. Rushed

19. Quarterback’s specification, sometimes

24. Prefix with liberal

28. 1995 Sandra Bullock thriller

30. Dave in three Super Bowls with the Redskins

31. Arm of the Labor Dept.

32. Get some air

34. Half a fish

35. Element mentioned inThe Wizard of Oz

36. Bacon source

37. Japanese drama

39. CIA trick, for short

41. Ruckus

43. “Who’s there?” answer

45. 11th of 12: abbr.

46. Board for mystics

47. Make slight adjustments to

48. “I Rock”

49. Reagan biographer Peggy

50. Lose your edge

53. Cheering, as a crowd

55. Kind of bond, for short

56. “Stop” and “yield”

57. Boy Scout shelter

59. Throws in

60. Wine server

61. Play you might have seen at the Folger last spring

63. Pizza chain with branches in Gaithersburg, Rockville, and Falls Church

64. It’s all tied up

66. Didion or Collins

68. White House resident of the 1960s-’70s

69. Applesauce brand

70. Root or Yale

73. Mideast big shots

75. Ladies, in some feminist writing

78. Part

79. Lawyer’s cost

81. Ruin

84. “Haven’t thought of it that way before”

85. Pair in the water

86. Annandale college, for short

87. Thingy

88. “Take this”

90. Overstate, as an expense account

91. Sequel to Angela’s Ashes

92. Hosp. workers

93. Undoes

95. Big Green Monster’s park

97. Potato, e.g.

98. Online mag

100. Camp (venerable YMCA facility south of Annapolis)

102. Clumsy type

103. Move around, as liquid in a container

104. Eyes: Lat.

107. Song for one

109. Utah city

111. Halloween flyer

113. Printer’s measurements

114. Turner or Hentoff

115. A number of Italians?

116. Kind of 97 down

117. First lady?

118. Slick fish

119. Counterpart to 86 across

Previous Answer Keys:

December 2013

November 2013

October 2013

September 2013

August 2013

July 2013

June 2013