5.8: A Shore Thing |
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If there's one thing Dorothy has learned in her travails thus far, it's that letters often double as numbers and vice versa. "The two are so intertwined, it's often so hard to tell where one ends and the other begins!" Unfortunately, this puzzle looks like it will only compound Dorothy's confusion.
Across
1 Clio or 2-Down
5 Attention-getting sound
9 Sorties into hostile territory
11 Carried out in silence
13 Flower of the genus Rhododendron
14 First-years, in short
15 A kinswoman of Flossie and Freddie
16 V X CXI
18 Those opposing
20 Deception, here
22 Frat party delivery
24 Ending for rock or disk
27 Official report on the Lewinsky scandal
29 Hurl
31 It's leapt in a children's game
32 Ar follower
34 Lions or Tigers or Bears (oh my!)
36 Gershwin brother
37 Comes
41 A sight for a sailor's sore eyes
43 "O Sole ___"
44 Unpaved trail
46 Pig ___ poke
47 Craving
49 Strangle or mangle
51 Third smallest inert gas
55 A small freshwater fish
56 LV A.D.'s emperor
58 Darlene portrayer
59 Often-donated item
62 Distress signal
64 15-Across, to Bert
65 Chalupa alternatives
67 Devotee
69 Shaka and others
70 In an odd fashion
71 Swinger's sin
72 Andre's rival
Down
1
Cosi fan Tutte composer2
See 1-Across3
Actor Mineo4
Checked out5
Treasury Department division6
Wouldn't leave alone7
MBA course8
Fog9
Tiger's weapon10
Polio conqueror12
"Stop, ___!"17
Squealer healer19
Skin stripe21
Vier - ein23
Caught, as a cold25
Faced with a dilemma26
"Yikes!"28
Say you're coming30
Rani's dress33
Junction line35
Verbal avian37
Surrounded by38
Beatles' metermaid39
Typical wise guy name40
Like SnO42
Metallica drummer Ulrich45
Get a move on48
Wave unit50
Tingle of the movies52
Like an 18th-century room53
Weaver, for one54
"...___, brutish, and short"57
Synonym of 63-Down60
France, once61
Often litigious organization63
Synonym of 57-Down66
Concorde, e.g.68
Exist