Puzzles

Crossword: 'nerdful things'

Books Stephen King almost wrote

By MATT JONES | March 8, 2006

Jonesin' 3.10 - 'Nerdful Things'

Across
1 Detective novelist John Dickson ___
5 Pointing thing
10 Octagonal order
14 Sundance Film Festival locale
15 ___ Doone cookies
16 Drive-___
17 Stephen King book about a group of long-winded people?
19 Smell real bad
20 Pub projectile
21 Posh pup
23 Trip to Tanzania, maybe
26 Lawful quality
28 "Hostel" director Roth
29 Big bird
31 Feminine suffix in San Juan
32 Preppy top
34 Vicious and more
36 If's partner, in programming
37 Entertainment center component
39 Weapons wielded in many Chuck Norris films
41 Poisonous coilers
43 Joe Perry's band
45 Day planner abbr.
46 Oust competitor
47 Gp. that often funds PBS
48 Like snarky comments
51 He died with his Branch Davidians
53 Does some early 1990s special effects
54 "Slackers" star Devon
55 Long division word
56 Stephen King book about a guy who does nothing but complain?
62 Concert souvenirs
63 Play continuation
64 Scrape spot
65 "Jane ___"
66 Butler who ended with "damn"
67 ___-ball (bowling-like game)

Down
1 New reporter
2 ___ standstill
3 Scott Joplin song
4 "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff
5 Secretary of State before Powell
6 Word after ginger or square
7 Watchdog's warning
8 Number that "Sesame Street" was not "brought to you by" for many years
9 Nest residents
10 Chemical element #38 (also part of the name of a pre-Police Sting/Stewart Copeland band)
11 Book about a geeky niche publication whose readership went from 10 to 0?
12 Pitcher Hershiser and namesakes
13 Blows chunkage
18 Cab collections
22 Milo's movie pal
23 Mo. number nine
24 Hi, in HI
25 Book about some dork with the uncanny ability to create computer documents?
26 Uniforms that can be "throwbacks"
27 Says
30 They may be bitter
33 How some things are done "accidentally"
35 Stops along the Information Superhighway
38 Suffered sudden setbacks
40 He ran from Iran
42 "Family Guy" creator MacFarlane
44 "Realized how ___ was..." (Animals lyric)
48 Do in, Biblical-style
49 Pink Floyd song in 7/4 time
50 "You're ___, baby!"
52 Private and others
54 "M*A*S*H" Emmy winner
57 Basic structural shape in Organic Chem
58 Printemps follower
59 Calligraphy need
60 Maiden named
61 "How about that"