FM Crossword

The times may be a’changing, but FM’s insatiable desire for word games remains strong. Her freshman year, outgoing FM chair

By Brendan E. Quigley

The times may be a’changing, but FM’s insatiable desire for word games remains strong. Her freshman year, outgoing FM chair Rachel E. Dry interviewed local crossword-writing maven, Brendan Emmett Quigley. Three years later, Quigley returns to our pages with a very special FM-related puzzle. Enjoy!

ACROSS
1. Insecticide target
6. “Say Hi to ___” (FM feature)
10. “Kudlow and Cramer” network
14. Dry Italian wine
15. List ending abbr.
16. AOL subscriber
17. “In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes” speaker
19. Beginner
20. Dog breed Shar-___
21. Put on
22. H. H. ___ (45-Across’s real name)
23. Subject for a 1962 58-Across made by 17-Across
28. Polite refusal
30. Leather punching tools
31. “Enter The Matrix” video game company
32. Southern states
34. Dated
37. Massachusetts Cape
38. Lead singer for the Velvet Underground (the band discovered by
40. “___ pasa?” (“What’s shaking?”)
41. “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” director
42. Pet store displays
43. ___ Cologne
45. “The Open Window” writer
46. Virgil epic
47. Subject for a 1967 58-Across made by 17-Across
52. Knocked for a loop
53. Finale
54. Finale, phoenetically speaking
57. Punishment for a naughty kid, maybe
58. Format in which 17-Across did most of his artwork
62. Shipping weight that’s not included
63. Hand cream ingredient
64. Dalai Lama’s land
65. 2003 AL MVP winner, for short
66. When tripled, a liar’s policy
67. Eye sores?

DOWN

1. Letters that mean “I needed this yesterday!”
2. Corn ___
3. Was on Easy Street
4. Wall covering at Harvard?
5. Drops on the ground?
6. 90s politico H. Ross ___
7. Prefix meaning “culture”
8. “___ Te Ching”
9. Architectural addition
10. Class clowns
11. “Bye Bye Bye” boy band
12. Yogi who stars in an Aflac ad
13. Sing softly
18. First man
22. Caribou relative
24. Crew team equipment
25. Letter distribution on base
26. Jazz instruments
27. Something that hurts, slangily
28. Salt, to a chemist
29. Oklahoma Native American
32. Started eating, say
33. Intense anger
34. Barely get past
35. BMW competitor
36. “High Times” subject matter
39. Tasting like certain wood
44. It starts in Enero
45. Did some straining
46. “No ifs, ___, or buts!”
47. Tropical ray
48. Screaming
49. Like mullets and parachute pants today
50. Wedge served at breakfast
51. Tuneful
55. A foot wide?
56. Tolkein tree creatures
58. Blue
59. ___ de France
60. Change: abbr.
61. Slowly, in music: Abbr.