COMMON BONDS
You and your uncle bridged the generation gap quite nicely, thanks to
all of your similar interests: spending hours of hard work to scrounge
up a miniscule amount of money, your love for cryptic
crosswords... the list goes on and on.
After solving, stack the indicated entries as they appear in the grid.
Across
1 Oil conglomerate chairman retiring around the second of April
4 Order to attack boards
8 In chemistry, pour calcium chloride, for example
11 Hot liquid swallowed by doctor
12 On a battlefield, moving in strict order
13 Bugs hunter with sound of indecision on the far side of tree
14 Turn around uncool Greek
15 Cross through Georgia (the country)
16 Is allowed to ring clinic
17 Confused, eats a novel
20 Holly's debut, in "The Piano"
21 Director is one who does battle for others
24 Suggested title for a Stephen King book
25 Retreating lines left our rear exposed
26 Soda bottles beginning to hiss and lose air
28 Television network's unusual pens
29 Empty copper had some doughnuts
31 Absorbed by Kevin Kline film shown backwards
33 Like grains falling in an hourglass
34 Captured by half-crazed Trojan War figure
35 Pound sign, used by Zorro, gives period a break
36 Principal feature of Roman doorways
37 Slimy fish with hint of dill inside
38 Pluck the strings of a Jamaican musical instrument
Down
1 Conclusions reflected intelligent pattern of behavior
2 Southern State University begins with a pop
3 Slide made from photograph at hearing
4 Catch forty deer by listening
5 Made up Dutch export
6 One candle moved a nation
7 Bowl heated in the oven before most of ice cream melted
8 Tightly grasps Pontiac's tail-lights
9 Renovated worn key to the city
10 Futuristic movie centered around chromosome sample
18 General disorder, at worst
19 Andy's partner holds Tad's father up to get tiny swimmers
20 "The Sound of Music" set against "Air Supply"
22 Spoken language: Polish
23 Maniac blamed for pandemonium
24 I also address this to a center of activity
27 Initiated laughter with Britishism
30 Marines discussed part of a nuclear reactor
31 It's how you find a website describing a river in Europe
32 Cure sickly color
