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March 2014 Crossword Puzzle Answer Key

Across

1. “Wow!”

5. Georgetown ___ (North Bethesda campus)

9. Give off

13. Part of a play

19. One of many in the Caribbean

20. Newman’s Own rival

21. Nudge with a stick

22. Chest’s location

23. They get wedding-day jitters

26. Second try at a movie script

27. Where cranberries grow

28. Gross, to a kid

29. Longtime Masterpiece Theatre host Cooke

31. “Oy ___!”

32. Destiny

34. Only country in the world whose name starts with an O

35. Bro or 60 across

36. Viral internet phenomenon

37. The Big Lebowski catch phrase

42. Does cobbling work

44. He wrote of “sour grapes” and “the lion’s share”

45. Mimicking

46. T-shirt size: abbr.

48. Lee who directed Life of Pi

49. “(I Can’t ___) Satisfaction” (Rolling Stones hit)

50. Eye problem

51. Caspian and Black

52. Apply paint, perhaps

55. Map within a map

57. Close, as a purse

59. Hold in high esteem

60. See 35 across

62. Weaver’s item

64. Fun in a bathing suit

66. Erin Burnett OutFront channel

67. Water, in Quebec

68. Like Bono and Enya

70. Yes, for sailors

71. Direction away from WSW

72. They lift all boats, it’s said

75. Put money away

77. Ben Franklin innovation: abbr.

78. Turns over

79. Lesley of 60 Minutes

81. Gas-station name

83. Sets of 52

84. Flower of the future

85. Cookie with its own name on it

87. Uses a scythe

91. ___ Maria (coffee liqueur)

92. 2013 Spike Jonze movie

93. Feather pen

94. Fails to be

95. Indicate

98. Where ski resorts are built

101. Multiple-choice options

102. Lummox

104. Total wrath

105. “Whoops!”

106. 551, once

107. Up-and-down

109. Arm bone

111. Plague-carrying creature

114. Tire type

116. What this puzzle’s theme entries might be called

119. Gertrude who swam the English Channel

120. “___ you come in?”

121. Lugosi or Fleck

122. Singer Bareilles

123. Talked back

124. Highfalutin

125. Wisconsin sausage

126. Sensed

Down

1. Surname in the Bee Gees

2. Norway’s capital

3. High-scoring baseball game

4. “___ So Shy”

5. Compared costs

6. Private or admiral

7. Like good French toast

8. British bar

9. Hair-removal brand

10. Matthew ofFull Metal Jacket

11. Eisenhower and Turner

12. Tries out

13. ___ Called Quest (hip-hop group)

14. One-named superstar

15. Brady or DeLay

16. You see tourists carrying them on the Mall

17. ___ When It’s Over (1960 comedy)

18. Some daisies

24. Conceptualize

25. Manny with 21 career grand slams

30. Buenos ___

33. Handsome god

34. Do what you’re told

36. My friend, in France

37. Game requiring no equipment

38. Donkey’s bray

39. Remove slowly

40. Is ___ (probably will)

41. Detectives

43. Stable gear

47. Stare in wonder

51. Health resorts

53. Sportscaster Musburger

54. Longtime Zairean dictator Mobutu ___ Seko

56. Metalworks waste piles

58. “In my dreams!”

59. Up to now

60. Criticize in a petty way

61. Gardener’s supply

63. Big school exam

65. Pocket pasta

66. “Darn it!”

67. Doesn’t broadcast past

69. Enjoy Joyce

73. Similarly

74. “Interesting . . .”

76. Fast way to Penn Station

77. Dooms

80. Lazed (around)

82. The Pelican Brief author

84. Shipping danger

86. Baptism, e.g.

88. Resident of a country wedged between France and Spain

89. Scary Edgar

90. 16th and 18th, e.g.

93. Characteristic

95. San Diego squad

96. Second half of a Beatles title

97. Drove (around) aimlessly

99. Agatha Christie title word

100. Diet

103. Islamic order

107. ___ of tears

108. Norse god

109. Computer owner

110. Showgirl in a Barry Manilow song

112. Farm unit

113. Spring event

115. It awaits your return

117. Go back

118. Inquire

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