Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds”
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Cryptic Crossword by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, edited by Will Shortz
Here’s what I came up with…
Across: 4. Sequence of words wears on the ears (6), PHRASE (frays); 7. After starters, courteous cry for dessert (3,5), ICE CREAM (nice scream); 8. How “Aura Lee” is pronounced? (6), ORALLY; 9. Fuel lying around Pennsylvania (7), PROPANE, (PA + prone); 10. Tarantino snarled, %$#@!, TARNATION (anagram); 12. Carry on large merry-go-round (8), CAROUSEL; 13. On a pig diet, at first (6), ABOARD (A.D. +boar); 17. New pistons mesh in Homeric saga? (3,8), THE SIMPSONS (anagram); 20. Two of the Spaniards vow at the altar and dance in a square (2-2-2), DO-SI-DO; 22. Set of records failed at recombining (4,4), DATA FILE (anagram); 24. Pare m.p.h. back in blackout (4,5), DEEP SLEEP (peel speed); 25. Green pellets bug farm worker (7), PEASANT; 26. Setback for a musician in entering “Rent” (3,3) TIN EAR (“in” in “tear); 27. Three articles (mom hated one) (8), ANATHEMA (an, a, the, mom); 28. Overheard a freckly tribe member (6), APACHE…
Down: 1. Party recalled in two-star comedy (9), DEMOCRATS (reverse star comedy, no y); 2. “Precious” certainly kept in step (9), TREASURED (tread sure); 3. Cell door admits me (6), GAMETE (me + gate); 4. Leader of Persia (shah’s land) owns snappy fish (8), PIRANHAS (Pasha in Iran has piranhas?); 5. Kin share when catching train in Chi (8), RELATION (el + ration); 6. Guy’s name for what better observers do aloud? (7), SEYMOUR; 7. Rascal behaved as though hit (8), IMPACTED; 11. Where Davy fell and Ed turned in (1,2,4), A LA MODE (Alamo + Ed); 14. French emperor is aloof, wearing off-white (9), BONAPARTE (“apart” within “bone”); 15. Like Captain Hook’s men, says Hook at first? (9), ASPIRATES; 16. Loss of faculty upset dean I met, DEMENTIA (anagram); 19. Very close friend to Samuel Wilder (4,4), SOUL MATE; 21. Dance on steep ground (3-4), ONE-STEP (anagram); 23. Tag on some cheap pen drawings (6), APPEND…
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