other Washington Post Sunday crossword, March 5 (contains answers)

Posted July 3, 2006 • Comments Off on Washington Post Sunday crossword, March 5 (contains answers)

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Title: Potluck
Theme entries: foods with names reminiscent of jobs or characters

Examples:
23A, What Zorro brought: SWORDFISH
111A, What the banker brought: DOUGHNUTS

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

20A, Book after Joel: AMOS
67A, One-seeded fruit: DRUPE [I just learned the awesome word drupelet]
3D, Operatic prince: IGOR
9D, Ancient Hebrew kingdom: SAMARIA
31D, ___ Bay, Philippines: SUBIC [now that I think about it, I’ve heard of that navy base]
39D, Philosopher Georg: HEGEL [yes, I had Hevel, because I mistook Riga for Riva]
74D, Aphrodite’s mother: DIONE
81D, Silent butler’s pickup: CRUMB [I always thought a silent butler was one of these, but apparently that’s called a valet.]
100D, Bow-toting god: AMOR
101D, Pelee output: LAVA [interesting how similar a name this is to Pele]

Overall:
I changed 6 squares, got one wrong, and looked up 10 things.