other Washington Post Sunday crossword, April 2 (contains answers)

Posted July 10, 2006 • Comments Off on Washington Post Sunday crossword, April 2 (contains answers)

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Title: Scrambled Headlines
Theme entries: newspaper-style headlines where every word is an anagram of the same set of letters

Example:
22A, Actress looks out for a monster?: Bates Abets Beast
30A, Explorer harasses the barefooted?: Hudson Hounds Unshod
97A, Actor saved baseball team?: Spader Spared Padres

Brilliant. Seriously.

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

28A, “Life Goes On” Emmy winner: LOWE [I never watched that show and had no idea he was on it]
59A, Pained look: MOUE
104A, Banned spray: ALAR [ah, now I remember this]
117A, Ancient Persian: MEDE
120A, Exile of 1302: DANTE [honestly, an interesting read; I had no idea]
21D, Attorney Gerry: SPENCE
100D, Bel ___ cheese: PAESE [98D was “pease”]

Overall:
I changed no squares (finally) and looked up seven things.