Crossword: To All the Purple Pigs I’ve Loved Before By Sara Slocombe-Almekinder (Answers on Page 24)
For the fifth year, Naples will welcome visitors to the Purple Pig Music festival the weekend of August 18th, 19th & 20th. This puzzle is inspired by pigs, food, and music. *For an extra bonus, the clues with an asterisk include the names of 4 bands that will play at the festival. Learn more about them and other acts on Facebook.com/ thepurplepigmusicfestival/
Across 1. Me, myself, and _. 2. Evidence; Measure of alcohol content 6. Literary symbolism * 12. A small bump on the eyelid 15. Action taken by a first person narrator as a boat comes ashore 61. According to playwright George 17. Clanged musically, as bells Bernard or local Christmas tree farmer 19. Slang for money and outdoorsman, Don (2 words) 21. That which belongs to us 64. There’s a museum dedicated to his 22. Dragons, collies, and men are work in Spain. Fittingly, his last name sometimes this means “I look” in Spanish. 23. Shrubbery chimps circumnavigate in 66. If “The Situation” had a traveling pursuit of polecats * show to flaunt his assets, he would be on 25. Landscape fixtures, prevalent in one of these Alaska, Texas, and other “boring” sites? 67. Abbreviation for the unit Ice-T works 26. Three letters used to indicate the date for on Law & Order. when a town was first settled. 68. Frequent top prize on The Price Is 27. Start of a request for a response to Right an invitation 70. We are __ route to our destination 28. Tip for keeping cool on a hot day 71. What low-tech, music-loving out-of29. Where NCS 7th graders go, shortly towners will use to navigate to Blodgett 30. Snack covered with cheese and Road later this month. toppings, as consumed by those with 73. Local wildflower; An endearment. impressive self-control (2 words) 76. Naples hosts one to celebrate a 33. Belonging to the cinders purple porker and another in honor of 35. Nickname for a harmonica in the key the grape of A (2 words) 79. One could say Pinterest passwords 36. Home security company are these because they restrict access to 37. A cry repeated to request silence beyour most sensitive DIY posts (2 words) fore courtroom announcement (2 words) 80. Bullfight cry; Name in lawnmowers 40. Required to board airplane or buy beer 81. It’s delicious cold and hard or hot 41. Be like a cat and take one and mulled 42. Bill Clinton is a known player 83. Fisherman with a rod and line 44. Its blossoms are an inspiration for a 84. The original drug war, it caused a local farm; Verb meaning to flatten. mid-19th century Anglo-Chinese conflict 46. Proclamation made by those who dis86. Protuberances either side of one’s head like wordless escapes from invisible boxes 87. Complete the pun: A group of Ds and 48. Mathematical homophone for Fs got into an argument with their mutual Monica or Jeni’s wares neighbor about their property lines, but 49. HDTV’s Chip and Joanna Gaines it was not about easement as it was a specialize in Fixer-_____. misunderstanding of what the __ ___. 51. Diapers & poison ivy both cause these 88. Like the poet Homer or the Owl that 53. It comes before “ay” and “ential” will perform at the Purple Pig * 55. Call them if you get locked out or busted down 57. Old McDonald refrain preceding O. Down 58. First name of an American humorist 1. Suffix used to define specific ideologies focused on foibles of suburban family life 2. Federal student loan grants 59. Violet-hued mascot for a local 3. Naples saloon closed for renovations musical event 4. Scent
5. Fuggle, Cascade, Simcoe, and Centennial (2 words) 6. Luxury Lincoln sedan 7. One place to sit; a single yellow fish (2 words) 8. Fruit sometimes used to make 81 across 9. Hindu god; Last name of a famous female spy 10. Aged cheddar (2 words) 11. Stinks 13. Patriarchs of the species Ben Franklin nominated to be our national animal 14. Best possible outcome if you go to the Purple Pig without adequate protection (2 words) 16. Her sorrow was such that I feared she would __ _ river and drown in her tears. (2 words) 18. Letters reserved for Wayne Chandler and other dental school graduates 20. Product if a local artist or our 16th president had taken up curing porcine cuts of meat (2 words) 22. Large and ferocious animals; the assumed natural enemies of beauties. 24. Like Tim Robbins in the Shawshank Redemption or Dominic Purcell in Prison Break 25. No longer alive * 26. Second vowel in the alphabet 31. Dwarfism; An ideology I made up to connote those dedicated to leavened, Indian bread (See #1 down). 32. A unit of time, abbreviated. 34. A song by J.J. Fad if Clam Chowda’ moved faster than the speed of sound? 35. To dote or love 36. One of the only things that would be correct in saying that the world revolves around it * 38. Ancient ruler of the city-state of Gazru associated with Amarna letters.
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39. According to Shakespeare, a female who needs taming 40. Not out 43. Mrs. Bundy is one; Pirates replace a leg with a wooden one. 45. A group of 4 * 47. A synonym for “my retribution” as pronounced with a southern drawl. (2 words) 50. Yes, in Spanish 52. You can engage in shopping or crime when on these 54. A gift from Adam to Eve; A Dinosaur favorite. (2 words) 60. The first presidential caucuses are here 62. Writer White of The Elements of Style and The Trumpet of the Swan 63. Fleet of ships * 65. Fiery funeral rituals do not inspire the dead as much as they do this to them (a pun) 67. A synonym for 59 across. 69. One largely preoccupied with appearances and social standing. 72. A new term I propose to connote a beer aficionado who prefers a bitter brew, but cares not if it is pale or red, Indian or Belgian 73. Everwilde wants to build one in Bristol. 74. Antlered animals of the North or members of a benevolent and protective order, as read by a dyslexic. 75. To abound or swarm * 77. Some theorize it weighs only 21 grams, but its fate is far weightier to believers 78. Verb referring to action related to vigorous past competitions 80. A small child or fried potato nugget 82. Respiratory Syncytial Virus, briefly 85. Abbreviated state that is home to Motown Records and the Henry Ford Museum.
The Neapolitan Record, No. 12 • August 2016