My time has just come, too
By MATT JONES | March 27, 2006
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Across
1 Word after Tootsie
4 Jackman who'll play Wolverine in a 2007 film
8 It touches Tanzania
14 Academic basics, casually
15 Dairy Queen Blizzard flavor
16 Tons and tons
17 John Cusack thriller where the main characters are to turn 30 soon
19 Beach Boys title girl
20 Office ___
21 American author who published his first short story at age 30
23 President's tenures, so to speak
24 "OK, now where ___?"
25 Teacher's union, for short
26 Response to "You enjoy the game?"
28 Hip scooters
32 Charlemagne's dad, known as "The Short"
33 "Se ____ espanol"
34 Blur frontman who sings "And the mind gets dirty / As you get closer to 30"
37 Company that makes high-end audio and home theater equipment
38 Point-and-click shopping, e.g.
40 Volkswagen model
42 Baseball Hall of Famer Casey
44 IM makers
45 Wall Street events: abbr.
47 "___ be in England..." (Robert Browning)
48 He once boasted he would become a millionaire by age 30
52 Kinda dirty-sounding South American monkeys
53 Dazed
54 What G. B. Shaw said you have if you aren't a capitalist by age 30
56 Went off like a smoke detector
57 Corrida beast
58 When the dog days hit the Dordogne
59 Fall flowers
60 Doctor-to-be's subj.
61 Distress call | Down
1 Lion packs
2 Yell behind the lunch counter
3 Ready for anything
4 Better than sexy, in Internet slang
5 Alleged mentalist Geller
6 Start to boil
7 Their fight song proclaims: "There goes old Georgetown"
8 1980 text adventure that introduced the line "You were eaten by a grue"
9 Zwei cubed
10 "Pet me!" to Fluffy
11 Phallic fruit
12 Far-from-mainstream labels
13 Yoga position called the "one seat"
18 Eyeglass frame attachments
22 Competitor
24 Timothy Leary's goddaughter Ryder
27 Small change?
29 Field formerly home to the Brooklyn Dodgers
30 Webzine based in Seattle
31 "They're out to get me" feeling
33 Solo on the big screen
35 Like tag players, most often
36 Loose-fitting sleepwear
39 Allowed access for
40 Sets in balance
41 100% wrong
42 Response to an early returner
43 Part of a boxer's stats
44 Half of Ethiopia's capital
46 Five, in combinations
49 Gait resembling a canter
50 Theater follower
51 They're represented by "&"
52 Gait slower than a canter
55 Two cups that don't make a pint |
©2006 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)
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