other Washington Post Sunday crossword, February 26 (contains answers)

Posted May 13, 2006 • Comments Off on Washington Post Sunday crossword, February 26 (contains answers)

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Title: Double-Headers
Theme entries: phrases that usually start with “two,” changed to start with two of whatever there’s two of

Examples:
39A, Suburban amenity?: car car garage
92A, Something that goes in either direction?: way way street

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

27A, “Great” pope: LEO
45A, Attar source: PETAL
51A, North Dakota city: MINOT
56A, New Look name: DIOR [that link is a quick and nifty read]
57A, Horned goddess: ISIS
58A, Many a gapper?: base base hit
84A, Kroft colleague: STAHL [Oh, that Kroft. Is it weird that I think of him as the young guy on “60 Minutes”?]
99A, ___ judicata: RES
14D, Hydrocarbon suffix: ANE
52D, Twits: TAUNTS
62D, Williamson of “Excalibur”: NICOL [Read that bio, as it is awesome. It also should be noted that I accidentally learned about William Nicol in looking him up!]
85D, It may be kapok-filled: MATTRESS [here’s the tree]
90D, Cuts out: RESECTS

Overall:
I changed 9 squares (though I cleverly changed SEVILLE to HAMELIN with only three visible changes, so really it’s only six) and looked up 13 things.