“Don’t Blink” October 7, 2008

By Michael D. Sharp and Angela Olson Halsted / Edited by Amy Reynaldo

Across 45. Stand by 7. Northern Nevada 34. Stay above water

1. With 63-Across, 46. Some lodge city 37. Cargo loads
vice presidential members 8. Do poorly 41. Cracker with
candidate whose 47. Opposite, as a 9. Go through the “Natural,”
debate page bedroom window, “Sesame” and
performance 50. New Look perhaps “California Onion
inspired this designer 10. Fred Flintstone’s Dill” varieties
puzzle 51. Hearst kidnapping bowling nickname 43. Actor Aykroyd
6. Pekoe and Earl grp. 11. Sprint 44. Big hit
Grey 54. Persia, today 12. Mid-month time 46. Duck down
10. Course before 55. Duped 13. Understands 47. Pal of Rex or
calc 58. Social misfit 18. Actress Skye of Rover
14 Central Florida 59. Container weight “Say Anything...” 48. Yank who plays
city 60. Parisian waterway 23. Ticket info the hot corner
15. “Chocolat” actress 61. Lyric poems 24. Disc-flipping game 49. Give a darn
Lena 62. Headline 25. Arboreal ape 50. Animated explorer
16. Walk in water 63. See 1-Across 26. Passport marking 51. Big name in
17. Pale indigo 27. Mars follower power tools
19. He plays Fin Down 28. 4-Down’s fighting 52. Director
Tutuola on “Law & 1. Soaks (up) daughter Riefenstahl
Order: SVU” 2. Nails, as a test 29. Was nosy 53. Mideast’s Gulf of
20. Barrow-to- 3. Steak order 30. Go up ____
Anchorage dir. 4. “The Greatest” 31. Soothe 56. Cheerios grain
21. Signing gorilla 5. Sadie ____ dance 32. She played June 57. Teachers’ org.
22. James of 6. Toy truck brand in “Walk the Line”
“Gunsmoke”
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
24. Fey of “SNL”
25. “All right, I’ll do it!” 14 15 16
26. Like seawater
29. Police cruiser 17 18 19
33. “I approve this
20 21 22 23
message”
messages 24 25
34. Lady of the haus
35. Vogue rival 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
36. Like the desert
37. Michael Moore’s 33 34 35
hometown
36 37 38
38. Scrabble game
piece 39 40 41
39. Word with pepper
or rumor 42 43 44
40. “The Man Who
Fell to Earth” 45 46

director Nicolas
47 48 49 50 51 52 53
41. Some tomatoes
42. Command to 47- 54 55 56 57
Down
44. 1961 Tony winner 58 59 60
for Best Musical,
61 62 63
“____ Birdie”
© 2008, Rex Parker