Crossword: ''Whackronyms''

Familiar phrases, incidental initials
By MATT JONES  |  September 5, 2007

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Across
1 Salad with bacon and eggs
5 Witchy woman
8 Jerkface
14 Perlman married to Danny DeVito
15 Benzoyl peroxide brand
16 Bubonic, e.g.
17 "Zounds!"
18 Hardaway or Rice
19 Petro-pumper
20 Inadequate (whose initials spell "testicles")
23 Palindromic ex-Cambodian leader Lon ___
24 Glass edge
25 Hall-of-Famer Mel
26 20th-cen. conflagration
29 Variety of Antarctic penguin
31 Pontiac muscle car
32 Julie who talks to HouseGuests
33 What a rapper raps into
34 Hairdo
35 Stink up the room
36 Interrupt (whose initials spell "honk a horn")
39 Eric of "Munich"
40 Opposite of 12-down, in Germany
41 Poem full of praise
42 "___ Movie" (2007 satire)
43 Self-help movement of the 1970s
44 Citrusy soft drink
47 Bubble ___
48 Smith biopic
49 Spider egg container
50 Took place
51 Nuisance (whose initials spell "a kind of bread")
54 Bach's front
57 HAL's earthbound counterpart in "2001"
58 Swiss abstract painter Paul
59 Smack ___ the head
60 "___ remember correctly..."
61 Fix text
62 Good, long look
63 Short version of "How's it going?"
64 Puts on
Down
1 Actor Richard of the "Rambo" movies
2 "That's terrific"
3 Frenzy for a foursome
4 "Tyrone" singer Erykah
5 Person with sex appeal
6 Self-evident truth
7 Where trainers train
8 Tell everyone what you think
9 Eleanor of "The McLaughlin Group"
10 Two quarters
11 Store supervisor: abbr.
12 Opposite of 40-across, in France
13 Brain scan: abbr.
21 Obnoxious guy
22 Thought
26 Book that makes you look
27 Band with the live album "Paintin' the Town Brown"
28 It may be invisible
30 Light purple shade
31 "You feel me?"
32 Vulgar
34 Adds music to a scene, e.g.
36 Glasses fastener for a nerd costume
37 Monologue joke
38 Prop in a "Frankenstein" mob scene
39 Risk in Reno
44 Result of a punch, maybe
45 A ___ point
46 Balance sheet column
48 Cable network that airs "Criss Angel: Mindfreak"
49 Mistake whose name has military origins
51 Word stamped on invoices
52 Egyptian goddess
53 ___ out (attained with effort)
54 Moonshine container
55 ___-Locka, Florida
56 QVC rival

© 2007 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)

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