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Breaktime Answers

Volume CVI, No. 12December, 2006

SIGHT-SIGNING CHALLENGE: “Hava Nagila”

Across

1- Compact _____

DISC

5- Record execs, e.g.

CEOS

9- Shirt size (abbr.)

LGE

12- Scent

ODOR

13- Rowed

OARED

15- Brewer’s pride

BEER

16- ____quaver (note)

SEMI

17- Personal way of playing

STYLE

18- ____-noise ordinance

ANTI

19- Come out

EMANATE

21- Milk sugar

LACTOSE

23- Potter’s oven

KILN

24- It may be picked

NIT

25- Easy to handle

WIELDY

28- Believability

CREDENCE

33- Cruise stops

ISLES

34- Norse thunder god

THOR

35- Dweeb

NERD

36- Web ___ (computer hardware)

CAM

37- “I Love You _____”

TRULY

38- Blind ___ (speakeasy)

PIG

39- Normandy city

CAEN

41- Piano string

WIRE

42- E-mail put-down

FLAME

44- Bone near the scapula

ACROMION

46- Worker at 57 across

NAILER

47- Writer Amy

TAN

48- Towel word

HERS

49- Fussy

FINICKY

53- Amazing

AWESOME

57- “Up On The ____”

ROOF

58- A new _____ on life

LEASE

60- More ____tine, please

OVAL

61- Askew

AWRY

62- Wyatt and his brother

EARPS

63- Army food

MESS

64- Sweet potato

YAM

65- Musical symbol

REST

66- Gaelic

ERSE

Down

1- Prescribed amount

DOSE

2- Footnote word

IDEM

3- Huxley’s narcotic

SOMA

4- Crumple noisily

CRINKLE

5- Like an Amati or an Armani

COSTLY

6- Eroded

EATEN

7- Trombonist “Kid”

ORY

8- French Hornist Ron

SELL

9- Late night Jay

LENO

10- Obtains

GETS

11- Weird sounding lake

ERIE

14- Where the dean lives

DEANERY

15- What sailors do to hatches

BATTEN

20- Worldwide scourge

AIDS

22- El___ (Spanish hero)

CID

25- Modern witchcraft

WICCA

26- Stern

ISAAC

27- Bernstein or Fudd

ELMER

28- Make butter

CHURN

29- Part to play

ROLE

30- Himalayan monarchy

NEPAL

31- Popular TV genre

CRIME

32- Lawn tool

EDGER

34- Piano, bass & drums, e.g.

TRIO

37- Sparkle

TWINKLE

40- Add many notes?

NOTIFY

42- Bill of ____

FARE

43- Supple

LISSOME

45- Alternative to an IBM

MAC

46- Latest

NEWEST

48- Padlock holders

HASPS

49- Skirmish

FRAY

50- ____ caucuses

IOWA

51- Standard

NORM

52- What’s new after “Auld Lang Syne”?

YEAR

54- Passè

OVER

55- Church composition

MASS

56- Otherwise

ELSE

59- “All The Things You ___”

ARE