Sure Things | Devil Cross (www.devilcross.com)
By Evan Birnholz, April 11, 2015
Across
1 Palacio de Miraflores locale
8 Whac-A-Mole weapon
14 Type of pit
18 PhD student's world
19 Did some screen writing?
21 It might have a theme
22 An affair to remember?
24 Flower also known as Primula
elatior
25 Big winds
26 Calcaneus
28 Texas Roadhouse option
31 Atlas dots
32 Dreaded visitor
34 Sushi roll ingredient, at times
35 You can see right through them
36 Like details, perhaps
37 Speech impediment?
39 Registers for
40 Melancholy tunes
44 Overhead
45 Takes down, in a way
47 "___ Ramsey" ('70s western
series)
48 AP Bio class topic
49 Tom Waits's vocal trait
51 Name in a concert program,
perhaps
52 Tale of woe
54 It produces the SPSS statistical
analysis software
56 Break down, in a way
58 Instrument featured in George
Michael's "Careless Whisper"
59 Debussy's "La ___"
60 Grizzlies, to Gustavo
61 Shitloads
63 & 65 Either one of two sure
things
67 City once known as Kristiania
68 One of the "Home Alone"
burglars
69 Ted Williams and Carl
Yastrzemski, for two: Abbr.
70 "Cool" quantity
71 Gullible type
73 Type
74 "Quit squirming!"
77 Royal proclamations
79 Exhibit partiality
81 "Allergic to Water" artist
DiFranco
82 Certain fat man's ejaculations
83 Incinerates
85 Wedding reception VIP
88 Fooled (with)
90 Biblical prophet
91 Slices
93 Dissonant intervals
95 Vampire enemy of Buffy
96 Janitor Stanley
Spadowski's
prized
possession in
"UHF"
97 Dreaded visitor
100 ___ Pye in the
Sky (helicopter
traffic reporter on
"The Simpsons")
101 Bank
102 Turn away from
the right side
103 Form of bondage
105 Elicit titters
106 Balance sheet,
e.g.
112 Places where
checks may be
delivered?
113 Did some cross
work, say
114 Spice Girls genre
115 Refuse to take a
hit, so to speak
116 Zooms along
117 Grand cousins?
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1 Kiss ___ (activity involving onscreen smooches)
2 Pocket Rockets component, in
poker slang
3 Real butter?
4 Flash creator
5 Michael of "Youth in Revolt"
6 Epic starring Djimon Hounsou
7 Veteran
8 Unstable particles
9 Cries from the flock
10 Drummer Ulrich
11 Steven Tyler's acting daughter
12 Weevil's real name on
"Veronica Mars"
13 Geek Squad employees
14 He lost to Lou Nova in the first
televised heavyweight fight
15 Bottom deck
16 "Mostly Ghostly" series author
17 Active leader?
20 Regards
21 Contentious arguments
23 Diminished
27 Gradually diminished
28 Appropriate musical anagram
of Agra
29 He vowed to hunt his enemy
"round perdition's flames before
I give him up"
30 Passing sign?
32 Pam of "Foxy Brown"
33 Seeks a seat
35 Defensive court tactic
36 Cheer heard at Fenway Park
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38 They help form zygotes
39 Boy's name derived from the
Hebrew word for "dove"
41 Return figure which sounds
disgusting
42 Register for an insurance plan
43 Permits
46 Positions
47 Certain forest creatures
50 Food container, at times
52 ___ change
53 As well
54 2001 film with a title derived
from a Seuss classic
55 Magician who was once
entombed in ice for 63 hours
57 Loud noises are produced
when they're struck
59 Diner menu items
62 Boxes surrounding Neo when
he meets the Architect in "The
Matrix Reloaded"
64 Defunct pigskin org.
65 Princess of note
66 ___ 9000 (super-computer in
"2010: Odyssey Two")
70 Gets stuck
72 "The Hunger Games" character
whose name sounds like a kind
of bread
75 1995 book that offered women
bullshit dating advice (for
instance, women should never
have short hair because "we're
girls! We don't want to look like
boys")
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76 Potassium ___ (photography
compound)
77 Laser printer component
78 The Bangles vocalist Hoffs
80 Brest bud
83 "Magnificent" singer
84 Statesman who organized the
construction of the Acropolis
86 Unstable organic compound
87 Award for the Best Upset
89 Fictional cop who responded to
the Zebra Three radio call
90 Racing leads
92 Fully explain
94 Squabbles
95 "These aren't the ___ you're
looking for" (comment from
Obi-Wan Kenobi)
97 Structural support pieces
98 Pay
99 Where to find dryers but not
washers?
100 Moved like a discus
101 "Tom Clancy’s Ghost ___"
(military-based video game)
103 Memo heading
104 Halliwell with the album
"Schizophonic"
107 Get a brief refresher, say
108 Is for several people?
109 "A bright torch, and a casement
___ at night, / To let the warm
Love in!": Keats
110 Total nonsense
111 Diamond coups: Abbr.