other Washington Post Sunday crossword, August 14 (contains answers)

Posted September 5, 2005 • Comments Off on Washington Post Sunday crossword, August 14 (contains answers)

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Title: Hit Squad
Theme entries: start with words that are also the names of one-named recording artists.

22A, Pacific seafood: PINK salmon
27A, At one’s ____ (like a servant): BECK and call
35A, Paul Scott novel, with “The”: JEWEL in the Crown
58A, 83 Across [Ali] catchphrase ender: STING like a bee
64A, Britain’s Philip, e.g.: PRINCE Consort
88A, Drink with cream: BRANDY Alexander
96A, Shake hands: SEAL the deal

Things I learned, with web links so you can learn them too:

21A, Like an Eton collar: WIDE
25A, Sooner tribe: OTOE
81A, Dipolmat Silas: DEANE
9D, Mohs scale top: TEN
15D, Former poet laureate Dove: RITA
65D, Autogiro part: ROTOR
99D, “Well Did You ____?”: EVAH

Overall:
I messed up 3 squares in this one and got 1 letter outright wrong. This was an easy theme. 7 theme entries, 7 things I had to look up, both low numbers.