other Washington Post Sunday crossword, January 1 (contains answers)

Posted March 26, 2006 • Comments Off on Washington Post Sunday crossword, January 1 (contains answers)

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Title: Not All There
Theme entries: phrases with the letters ALL changed to OWL.

Example:
86A, Result of a barnyard collision?: fowl flat on one’s face

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

5A, ___ Julius Caesar: GAIUS (of course, this is the first Gaius I thought of)
59A, Tours’ river: LOIRE
77A, Parabolic helper: SAMARITAN
82A, “I Could Write ___” (“Pal Joey” song): A BOOK
11D, Landon title role: ANNA
25D, Food and drink: CHEER
36D, Clinton cabinet member: PENA
75D, WWI troop gp.: AEF
87D, Maine town: ORONO
89D, Plumed garb: SHAKO
I don’t usually do this, but check this out. What a great hat!
Wikipedia Commons F F6 Museemarine-Shakomarine

99D, Joe of “Hill Street Blues”: SPANO
100D, Uncle Tom’s wife: CHLOE (weirdly, the Wikipedia entry for the book doesn’t name her.)
111D, Ab ___: OVO (I knew the story of Leda and the swan, but I’m not sure I knew that’s where Helen came from.)

Overall:
I changed 4 squares and looked up 13 things.

This is the first puzzle posted under the new, faster system. I hope my huge audience for crossword puzzle analysis doesn’t feel slighted.