VOLUME 2, ISSUE 5 | February 2008
Couples Imagined
By Graham Meyer
Across
1. Car in a Beach Boys song
6. Wax collector?
10. From ___ Z
13. Hero Murphy
14. Russian and Kazakh river
15. Tater
16. If a Bond girl married fashion designer Geoffrey, she’d be Eva . . .
18. Until
19. Research scientist, maybe
20. Possible hat hanger
22. If a Desperate Housewives actress married Saints quarterback Drew, she’d be Marcia . . .
25. Decouple
30. It makes you puke
31. Like some goofy smiles
32. Little shaver
33. Recipient of many conservatives’ donations
36. Possible source for Wile E. Coyote’s head lump
37. Show ___
38. Bar event?
40. Weed whacker?
41. Get it
42. Afternoon snooze
43. Hodgepodges
46. Bivouacked
47. If a costume designer married heartthrob Tab, she’d be Edith . . .
50. ___ army: golfer Palmer’s fans
51. Home of the College Baseball Hall of Fame
57. Aeneas left her in Carthage
58. If a soccer player married Chief Justice Warren, she’d be Mia . . .
61. ___ out a living: scrapes by
62. Rochester’s love
63. They usually sit by the violas
64. Rebel Without a Cause actor Mineo
65. Oft-hunted animal
66. Corrects an bad correction
Down
1. Mitt Romney’s eldest son
2. 1973 Gore Vidal novel
3. First part of an invention?
4. Nothing, in Nantes
5. Mark of overconfident parking
6. Strange
7. What’s past due?
8. Saturday author McEwan
9. Like punch?
10. If a singer-songwriter married Red Sox outfielder Coco, she’d be Fiona . . .
11. Educational charge
12. Latrine inhabitants
15. Kama ___
17. Tom Sawyer’s sweetheart
21. Tonight Show network
23. Most unctuous
24. Hyperactive one, slangily
25. State with the lowest per capita liquor consumption
26. It’s forbidden
27. If the lead singer of Hole married composer George Frideric, she’d be Courtney . . .
28. “Is ___, Lord?”
29. Blue Jackets’ org.
34. Children’s book detective: ___ the Great
35. Plated
37. Has-___
38. ___ Maria
39. “Stand” band
41. Did a librarian’s job?
42. Use an S.O.S. pad
44. “Hasta la vista!”
45. Elle, in English
47. The underworld
48. Traffic actress Christensen
49. Bugs’s rival
52. Super Bowl XXXVII champions
53. First name of the author of Less Than Zero
54. Leer at
55. Gaul, for instance
56. Barbra’s A Star Is Born costar
59. Sure, at sea
60. GI’s portable grub
To generate the theme entries in this month’s puzzle, my wife and I sat down and brainstormed long lists of well-known people with convenient names. Good couples time together for a puzzle in an issue about couples.
It also made us think about our own last names. We didn’t change our names when we married, but if we’d decided to hyphenate, and um, spoonerize as well (just roll with the premise), we’d be the Mint-Flyers.
Answers on Page 24
