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Thursday, April 4, 2013
The Rhinoceros Times Greensboro
The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
No. 0331
SPECIAL FEATURES By Caleb Madison / Edited by Will Shortz
Across
1 One-on-ones
6 Justice Dept. branch 9 Gyllenhaal of “Brokeback Mountain”
13 1983 film debut of Bill Maher 18 Documentarian Morris
1 9 I t ’s f o u n d i n l a m e r
20 Cerberus guards its gates, in myth 2 1 Wi p e o u t 22 Lower
23 Movie about … an intense blinking contest? 25 It comes from the heart
26 Steaming beverage
27 Atoms in some light bulbs 28 … a housecleaner? 30 … a sled racer?
3 2 C h i l d r e n ’s a u t h o r Silverstein 3 3 “ Yi k e s ! ”
3 4 “ Yo u b e t c h a ”
RELEASE DATE: 4/7/2013
3 7 Ye a r “ T h e Wo n d e r f u l Wi z a r d of Oz” came out
3 8 C h i n a ’s C h i a n g _ _ _ shek 41 Part of a pound
44 … a bee during a downpour? 51 Up
For any three answers, call from a touch-tone phone: 1-900-285-5656, $1.49 each minute; or, with a credit card, 1-800814-5554.
53 Part of E.M.S.: A b b r.
1 0 0 … a k i n g ’s brilliance?
5 4 Wa l l S t . J o u r n a l listings
108 … a harvester?
5 6 … a c t o r J a s o n ’s f a n club?
11 4 W h o w r o t e “Wherever Law e n d s , Ty r a n n y begins”
55 Handles
59 Least volatile, perhaps 60 Some patches
61 Expert despite little training 63 Brainy person, and proud of it
11 2 G e t h o t
11 3 K i n d o f b e a n
11 5 H i d d e n D V D feature … which can be found, l i t e r a l l y, i n t h e answers to the italicized clues
64 One might have a ball
11 7 C i t y s o u t h o f Brigham City
67 Senate vote
11 9 N o n s t o p
6 6 P u b l i c h e a l t h a g c y. 6 8 Ve r d a n t
72 Device Professor X wears over his head in “X-Men” 74 Pop singer Bedingfield
76 Low-maintenance potted plant
8 0 … J e r r y G a rc i a ’s b a n d ’s p o r t r a i t s ? 84 ___ water 85 Air
8 6 I t ’s w e s t o f t h e International Date Line 87 High clouds
8 8 … a p a re n t ’s e d i c t s ? 92 ___ Zone
93 “Gag me!”
94 Certain extraction 95 One-named R&B singer 96 Pitches
98 Stripped
Beep (Continued from page 8) a competitive thing like maybe why other farmers are traveling with the manager out to the farm to agree that they are selling things they aren’t growing. Is that maybe a conflict of interest, or just trying to get a monopoly in the farmers’ market, that and the hippy farmers? So, let’s support Mike Faucette and they don’t keep…. %%% They say the sign of somebody having not good sense is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different answer. Well, this is Sunday. Saturday Obama flew out to Illinois, Chicago, or somewhere to pour some more money into the green energy. Now, we’ve got green energy places stacked up real tight on a piece of notebook paper that’s went broke. And, of course, he says he’s going to take the money for drilling oil and that’s how he’s going to pay for it. The healthcare bill stacked up is taller than Obama is. Looks like people would have enough sense to know – I can’t call. I called yesterday. %%%
11 8 P e p t i c _ _ _
120 Lucy of “Kill Bill” 121 Object
122 Wherewithal 123 Part of N.B.
124 Back-to-school mo. 125 Laurel and Lee Down
1 Starts of some games 2 ___ Outfitters, clothing retailer
3 Mythological figure often depicted holding a kithara
4 1945 Best Picture w i n n e r, w i t h “ T h e ” 5 Album holder 6 Evaluate
7 Prefix with fluoride 8 Recurring Stephen King antagonist Randall ___ 9 Vi s e p a r t s
10 ___ Lovelace, computer pioneer
11 “ T h e Wa y Yo u L o o k To n i g h t ” c o m p o s e r 12 De bene ___ (legal phrase) 13 Music genre of Possessed and Deicide
1 4 H o l l y w o o d ’s R u s s e l l 1 5 Tw o - t i m e E m m y winning actress for “ Ta x i ” 16 Observatory subj. 17 Bill
20 English king who was a son of Wi l l i a m t h e Conqueror 24 Smelt ___
29 Noted American w r i t e r i n Yi d d i s h 3 1 S i g n s o ff o n
35 Computer used to predict the 1952 presidential election
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41 Airplane area 42 Sentient
43 Big snapper?
45 More wound up
4 6 Wo r l d b a n k i n g o rg . 47 Prefix with noir 48 [I’m not happy about this …]
49 Like some stockings and baseball games 50 Gridiron figure
52 Music related to punk rock
57 Aconcagua setting
Yes, can somebody tell me what the City of Greensboro car is doing out in Rockingham County 5:30 in the morning driving around through the streets all over? Do they live out here and use a company vehicle to go back and forth to Greensboro? What a waste of taxpayer money. But the car is riding around at 5:30 in the morning. What’s he looking for, a little action? Taxpayers be aware. %%% BJ, BJ, BJ. What happened? They broke out of your new jail that you wanted built with all of taxpayers’ money. Millions and millions of dollars. Where were your guards, sleeping? Who’s ultimately responsible? You are. What are you going to do? Thank you. Have a nice day. %%% Editor’s Note: It was the first jailbreak for Sheriff BJ Barnes, but it was not from his new jail. It was from the High Point jail. %%% I want to know what the status is of getting the state employees retiring list printed. You were trying to get it under the Freedom
58 Fund
59 Just what the doctor ordered? 6 2 Vi t u p e r a t e 65 Darken 66 Nook
6 8 We e k l y b a r promotion, maybe 69 ___ manual 70 Exactly
71 Allowed to enter 7 2 Wa s n ’t e x a c t i n g 73 Pond fish
75 Sam Spade, e.g., for short
8 9 C i t y S S E o f 11 7 Across
77 Once again
9 1 Yi e l d t o w e a r i n e s s
76 Île de la ___
78 Solo companion 79 Slew
81 Subject of the Pentagon Papers, informally 8 2 S u g a r s u ff i x
8 3 Wo r d a t t h e e n d o f many French films 8 5 F r. t i t l e
of Information Act. I hope you can get it. I think the taxpayers have a right to know what we’re paying retirees, and it should be a matter of public record. So, I hope you get it and print it soon. Thank you. %%% Yes, Steely Dan Fan Man. I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. John Pugh’s letter in the March 14 issue. And also Pat McCrory thinks he needs to raise his cabinet members’ salaries to equal that of these high-ranking bigwigs in corporations who are already grossly overpaid, I submit that some of these people maybe ought to quit living beyond their means. And, you know, live with a reasonable salary, something like what a normal person would make. And if it’s not good enough, let them go get in the unemployment line. All right, thank you. %%% According to President Obama and the speaker of the house, we do not have a fiscal crisis. Yet, military veterans’ educational benefits, White House tours, military training, and US border security programs have been reduced. Federal prisoners have
90 Son-of-a-gun 97 Stations
99 Poet Conrad 101 Mess up
102 Ones who wrote in the Ogham alphabet 103 New Mexico State athlete 104 Helping hand, paradoxically
1 0 5 Wo r l d p o w e r h o u s e in cricket 106 Knoxville sch. 107 Fake-book material 108 Down
109 Part of a play 11 0 M a n y a g e s 111 i P o d _ _ _
11 2 H o m e o f Ty p h o n , in myth 11 6 _ _ _ f o r l i f e
been released. How could this be? Or do our lying eyes deceive? Obama promised to transform the US, now he’s keeping his word. %%% Yes, I’d like to know what the deal is about voters having to be required to have a valid picture ID. If you’re 16 years and older, and you do not have a valid picture ID, there is something wrong. You are hiding something, and I just don’t get it. I don’t understand it. Talking about it is going to hurt the poor, or the elderly, or African Americans, I don’t understand it. You can’t go out and buy a couch without having a valid picture ID. So, someone needs to, please, explain to me why everybody is – the Democrats especially – so bent out of shape requiring people to have picture IDs to vote. I don’t get it. Never will get it. %%% This world has become so under the watchful eye of Big Brother that eventually we are going to microscope ourselves out of existence. Just you wait and see. (Continued on page 49)