other Washington Post Sunday crossword, June 19 (contains answers)

Posted September 11, 2005 • Comments Off on Washington Post Sunday crossword, June 19 (contains answers)

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I found this one lying around. Sorry it’s so “late.”

Title: Order in the Court
Theme entries: awful puns, courtroom terms turned into food products.

22A, Veggie order in the court?: sweet pleas
38A, Appetizer order in the court?: claims casino
56A, Appetizer order in the court?: pickled hearing
75A, Cocktail order in the court?: subpoena colada [this cracked me up]
93A, Candy order in the court?: recess pieces
113A, Entree order in the court?: roast brief
15D, Appetizer order in the court?: soup du juror
66D, Breakfast order in the court?: hot oathmeal

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

6A, River to the Moselle: SAAR
59A, Beet varieties: CHARDS [I was pretty sure on this, but it still didn’t count as a word I knew]
96A, Job for Sutton: HEIST
9D, Legal matter: RES [I can’t find a good definition, but it’s a Latin word and Lin and I think it might mean thing]
14D, Ramble on: PRATE [which I guess is a relative of prattle]
32D, Bible volume letters: RSV
41D, Rival of Bjorn: ILIE [Nastase. Tennis of this era is a wee bit before my time; I know Bjorn Borg, but Becker, Lendl, and those guys are the first male players I really remember. As all little girls in the late 70s and early 80s, though, I was crazy about Chris Evert-Lloyd.]
55D, Azerbaijan’s capital: BAKU
63D, Day in Hollywood: LARAINE
90D, NASA wear: GSUIT
93D, Winter coats: RIMES [this is clear to me now, but wasn’t at the time]

Overall:
I messed up two squares in this one (for 48A, Sleeve insert, I put ARM, but it soon became clear it was ACE) and got no letters outright wrong, though I did leave two squares blank, at the intersections of 6A/9D and 59A/55D. This was a great theme, and the answers (especially subpoena colada and roast brief) seriously made me laugh out loud. This is my favorite kind of theme, where there’s a real payoff in comedy when you figure it out. 8 theme entries, which I now know is average, and 11 things I had to look up, which is embarrassingly high. I hate it when two answers I don’t know intersect. However, 21D, “Last Olds made” (ALERO), is my car, so that was cool.