The Columbus Dispatch

CROSSWORD NO. 2 POETIC PUNS

- By Jim Leeds

ACROSS

1 “Whaddaya know!”

4 Like some grapes

8 Sample

13 “Innocent” baby

animal

15 “Black Beauty”

novelist Sewell

16 ___-oop

17 Western U.S. gas

brand

18 “Go ahead”

19 Hold responsibl­e

20 Cooked, like

tomatoes

22 Seedy fruit

24 Babysitter­s’

challenges

25 Incredulou­s reply to the “Ozymandias” poet?

28 Court cost?

29 Fish for which a

cape was named

30 Isaac’s oldest son

33 Human sponge

36 Word after “onion”

or “cheese”

39 Piece of land where the “Renascence” poet is popular?

43 Employ

44 Places for pencil

sharpeners

45 Honeycomb part

46 Inherited

47 “Yikes!” 50 What’s used to type the “Aeneid” poet’s works?

57 Southern corn

bread

58 See 2-Down

59 Swell in the wind

60 Speak

62 Unwelcome look

64 One may answer a

senator’s phone

65 Chipper

66 Strauss of jeans

67 Scottish dance

68 Came into

existence

69 Iditarod need

70 “It’s ___ for me to

say”

DOWN

1 Pane material

2 Third planet from

the 58-Across

3 Awards dinner host

4 Turn blue?

5 “Cloud Piece” artist

Yoko

6 Merge

7 Relation often written with a colon

8 Folder projection

9 Joined in battle

10 Closes forcefully

11 Lure

12 Looks at

14 Amount of Trix

21 Actor Wallach

23 Luxury belt brand

26 Cries out sharply

27 Late civil rights

icon Lewis

30 Flightless bird

31 Lisa Simpson, to

Bart, for short

32 Boston ___ (Samuel

Adams beer)

34 Apt rhyme of

“shriek”

35 Happen afterward

36 Currently owed

37 Out of sorts

38 Buddy

40 Work like ___

41 “Relatives” of

Bigfoot

42 Academic journal

reader

46 Parthenon builders

48 Liger or plumcot

49 Japanese sash

50 Campaign target

51 Course that rarely

has prereqs

52 Calm periods

53 Show respect to a

queen, say

54 Sci-fi staple

55 Event with calf

roping

56 Lived

57 Insect stage

61 Whiskey grain

63 Holiday precursor

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© 2020 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATIO­N.

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