Feb. 14 crossword solutions

Crossword #2: Books I was Supposed to Read in High School

By Margaret Roddy     2/14/18 1:20am

#	ACROSS	CLUE	#	DOWN	CLUE
1	IT DPT	Group that helps with technology, abbreviated	1	ITHACA	Final destination of The Odyssey
6	DR GAS	PhD in vapors	2	THE MOM	When you take care of everybody, you're "___ _____" of the group
11	BGT	Britain's Got Talent, briefly	3	DELPHI	Location of famous Greek oracle
14	THE AR	It's like spear but with a lisp and without a 'p'	4	PAL	Bestie
15	RUMBA	Sultry ballroom dance	5	TROY	Got tricked by a horse
16	ERR	Make a mistake	6	DRAMAS	Macbeth, A Doll's House, and Oedipus Rex
17	HELLO HAMLET	Wiess musical version of a Shakespeare classic	7	RUM	Jack Sparrow's favorite drink
18	LAY	As I _____ Dying	8	GML	Game maker language, for short
19	IMP	See 29*2 across	9	ABE	Nickname for Lincoln
20	ACIDS	Partner to bases	10	SATAN	A main character for 37 across
22	COHO	Rice faculty club, for short	11	BELIEVES	Imagines
24	FAHRENHEIT	Book burning, "_________ 451"	12	GRADIENT	Transition of color
28	AMISH	For these people, no electricity, no problem	13	TRYSTS	Multiple romantic rendezvous
30	SAYS	Utters	21	CHI	16th letter of the Greek alphabet
31	IVES	"It'll nearly be like a picture print by Currier and _____"	23	OSHA	Workplace safety organization
32	HER	Movie about IM-ing with AI	25	HARISSA	Hot chili pepper paste
34	RETE	A network of blood vessels	26	RYES	Dark wheat breads
36	ET	Wikipedia language prefix	27	ESTER	Acid with alkyl instead of hydroxyl
37	PARADISE LOST	Man's fall, or Genesis 2.0	29	HERA	Wife of Zeus
40	ARA	Constellation in the southern hemisphere	33	RAG	Worthless piece of cloth
42	AGES	Canterbury Tales time, the Middle ____	35	ELMS	Streets full of nightmares
43	RMC	Site of perpetual boba sales	37	PANICKED	How I felt writing this crossword at 2 am
44	LUNG	SCUBA or aqua-_____	38	DEAF	Scarlet fever left Helen Keller blind and ____
46	ASB	Volunteer spring break trip	39	OCHE	Throw line for darts
48	SHEBA	Acts stuck up, like the Queen of _________	40	ALABAMA	Most hated college football team
51	ANIMAL FARM	Allegory of Stalinist Russia	41	RUNAWAY	Huckleberry Finn, for example
54	EUA	USA, to the French	45	GMO	Genetically modified organism
55	BACON	Philosopher Francis	47	BRUTAL	Physics 102 final exam
56	USB	Memory stick you never know which way to insert	49	EU ASH	European tree
58	AMP	One coulomb per second	50	BAMBOO	Snack for pandas
60	AWK	Running into your screw date again	52	ANGLE	Either acute, right, or obtuse
61	GREAT GATSBY	"And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties, there isn't any privacy"	53	MSG	Sodium salt of glutamic acid
66	MAE	Lead actress of The DUFF	57	BATS	Flight form for vampires
67	LARVA	Baby beetle	59	PYES	Old-timey English version of a baked good
68	TAHOE	Large lake in Nevada and California	62	RAM	Mascot to the GOAT basketball team, see 65 down
69	AYD	Are you done? in texting lingo	63	ERA	Period of time
70	EMAIL	Form of communication used to awkwardly say thank you after an interview	64	AVI	Video or audio file
71	SR	Matriculating class that gives fewest shits right now	65	TAR	Best basketball team ever, GO ____ HEELS!!!!
72	OS	Snow Leopard, Yosemite, Sierra

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