October 2016 Crossword Answer Key

Across

1. Appreciated the applause

6. ___ St. Claire (Annapolis suburb)

10. Seattle clock setting: abbr.

13. Play the guitar

18. Kennedy Center performance

19. ___ Thompson (real name of TV’s Honey Boo Boo)

21. Water, in Evian

22. Clicking calculators

23. Capital on the Willamette River (Sabrina, the Teenage Witch)

25. ___-weekly (the Washington City Paper, e.g.)

26. Show interest in

27. Antlered animal

28. Cliffhanger star, 1993 (cartoons)

31. Steppenwolf author

32. Food that’s French for “lightning”

33. Roadside stops

34. Fit for a queen

37. Morrison or Collette

39. Its building is two blocks from the White House

41. Not just mine

42. Fallen figure (“Cinderella”)

51. Dude

52. Little house, in Mexico

53. Michael of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

54. Period

55. Good, in Geneva

56. Prepared for a siege

57. Cordoned (off)

58. Food in red wax

59. John on tractors

61. Take a pass

63. Leaves in the text

64. Comic work by Mozart (Pinocchio)

69. Sheep, llama, and goat

70. Queen ___ County, Md.

71. Much, casually

72. Part of 101-Down

73. Kitchen fixtures

75. ___ Madison Hotel

77. Feeling down

80. Wrath

81. Seven Days in May, e.g.

82. D.C. City Council member Silverman

84. Chef’s creation

85. Composer born in Hamburg (cartoons)

88. Part of a chain

89. Langley org.

90. Oversupply

91. Malevolent creature

92. Be the father of

95. “Same with me”

99. Packing

102. What something very impressive does (the White House)

106. Stomach “six-pack”

109. “Things just got interesting!”

110. Kellogg deg.

111. D.C. music venue since 1993 … and watch out! There’s one in each theme entry

113. Clothing fabric

114. One of 21 on a die

115. Like some languages

116. Japan’s third-largest city

117. Dag Hammarskjold or Mats Wilander

118. Long-handled tool

119. Edamame parts

120. Revealing paintings

Down

1. Speaker brand

2. Fire ___ (gemstone)

3. Lawrence with a band

4. Before

5. Distressed person of fairy tales

6. Bernstein and Sagan

7. “All Day Pain Relief” brand

8. Senate worker

9. The Dukes of Hazzard spinoff

10. Oyster’s secret

11. Chipotle choice

12. ___-frutti

13. Comic Mort

14. Georgia’s capital

15. Turn in

16. School that sounds like a Canadian territory

17. Part of the underground economy?

20. Old TV feature

24. Shtetl cries

29. Vaper’s cylinder

30. Out and about

31. Breakfast mix

34. Virginia governor, 1982-86

35. Munich unit

36. Best Picture winner for 1932

37. Weak, as an excuse

38. Feedbag piece

40. Part of a “wheel” in poker

42. MDX automaker

43. Wild party

44. Show set in Nevada

45. ___ Lodge

46. ___ luxury

47. Make up a cover story

48. Government for the U.S., Canada, or Switzerland

49. Muse of love poetry

50. Super Bowl XXXIV champs

56. No GOPers

57. Loaves sometimes seedless

58. Greek letters

60. Basque delicacy, when fried in olive oil

61. Opposite of “avec”

62. Period of history

63. Bilko and York: abbr.

64. Joe who managed the Yankees

65. Entered quickly

66. Covered in tattoos

67. In the ___ (live)

68. Hawkeye

69. Ragamuffin

73. Tons and tons of

74. “___ heard!”

75. Rattle off

76. Bear, in Bogota

78. Scandinavia’s third-largest city

79. At which point

81. 1011

82. Missy or Sam

83. Shaq’s alma mater

84. Conked out

86. Best way to serve vodka

87. They may clash

91. Alert level system for the U.S. Armed Forces

92. Campfire acts

93. Trailing behind

94. Riveter of WWII fame

96. Pizzazz

97. 2016 Republican hopeful

98. Place (over)

99. No better

100. Backgammon throws

101. Painter’s deg.

103. Low joint

104. Use a cleaver

105. Maryland Lottery game

106. Part of USNA

107. Oven setting

108. Metro stops: abbr.

112. Frankfort sch.