other Washington Post Sunday crossword, April 16 (contains answers)

Posted October 1, 2006 • Comments Off on Washington Post Sunday crossword, April 16 (contains answers)

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Title: The Gods Must Be Crazy
Theme entries: familiar phrases with words replaced with homonyms that are the names of gods and goddesses

Example:
16D, Egyptian goddess’s cool treats?: ITALIAN ISIS
74D, Roman goddess’s sports classic?: WORLD CERES

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

22A, It’s near Provo: OREM, UTAH
27A, Metz Mrs.: MME [the item here is that a city called Metz is in France, while a city called Cologne is in Germany.]
51A, First earl of Avon: EDEN [a sad story: Nicholas Eden, the second earl, died of AIDS in 1985, and the title died with him.]
58A, Denver university: REGIS
70A, Waters off Borneo: SULU SEA
79A, Clunky shoe: SABOT
102A, Banned pollutants: PCBs
109A, Cubist Fernand: LEGER
118A, Roman goddess’s “I don’t have to explain!”?: JUNO THE DRILL [I thought Juno was male for some reason; maybe confusion with Janus]
14D, Dickens’ Little ___: EM’LY
28D, “Rienzi” composer: WAGNER
35D, “East of Eden” girl: ABRA
44D, Peterson of jazz: OSCAR
45D, Fan-tan, by another name: SEVENS
48D, Bring out: EDUCE
67D, Bridget Riley‘s genre: OP ART [interesting! I like the sample pictures on the right side of that Wikipedia page very much.]
80D, French chalk user: TAILOR
102D, “Sing Sing Sing” penner: PRIMA [marching band MP3 here; of course I know the song, but I didn’t know what it was called]
114D, C&W’s McCann: LILA

Overall:
I changed 6 squares (still getting another five wrong) and looked up a billion 20 things. This puzzle apparently sucked. I have no energy left to do more (I have nine more waiting to be blogged), and I’m still six months behind.