ACROSS
| 1 | | Sounds from Annie's dog Sandy |
| 4 | | Annie's caretaker in full black tie, and stick diamond, all day |
| 11 | | First word of beautiful work by Melville, "Art"
"_ _ placid hours well-pleased we dream
Of many a brave unbodied scheme,
But form to lend, pulsed life create,
What unlike things must meet and mate..." |
| 12 | | When you put it in you are offering a probably unwelcome opinion |
| 15 | | Tiny coin of old-time French currency |
| 17 | | Adjective describing worms |
| 20 | | What an American soldier was called |
| 21 | | Principled columnist Maureen |
| 22 | | Prefix meaning below |
| 25 | | The only color of dress Annie ever wore, day in day out |
| 29 | | A long period of time |
| 30 | | Thomas Hardy's sturdy
Epitaph on a Pessimist
"_ _ Smith of Stoke, aged
sixty-odd.
I've lived without a dame
From youth-time on; and
would to God
My dad had done the same." |
| 32 | | Japan surrendered to the US on the deck of the Mighty one |
| 33 | | Form of address that didn't exist in Annie's day |
| 35 | | 1924 was the one in which Annie debuted in The New York Daily News |
| 37 | | Sounding like |
| 41 | | Frequent yell from Annie to whiners: "Oh, _ _ _ _ up!" |
| 43 | | As |
| 44 | | Second word of sailorman's song in the comics |
| 45 | | The constantly escaping Huckleberry Finn and Little Orphan Annie were not this |
| 48 | | Coat |
| 49 | | Abbr for a brain studying tool, now superceded by MRI equipment |
| 50 | | 5Abbr for Anglo-Saxon language |
| 51 | | Including Sandy, Toto, Fala, Checkers, Lassie, Lad, Rin Tin Tin, Sailor Boy, King Cole, and Veto |
| 55 | | Biblical figure whose conventionality made him set one son against the other |
| 57 | | In Ecuador, yes |
| 58 | | Bone |
| 59 | | Actually yes, in France |
| 62 | | International oil company |
| 64 | | Hangout for Napoleon |
| 66 | | Ground-surface equivalent of no-fly zone — abbr |
| 67 | | Private pension funds |
| 69 | | One of 18 countries (comprising 180,000,000 people) whose language is Arabic |
| 71 | | How most vacation property is bought or sold |
| 73 | | Friend of Daddy, bodyguard to Annie in crises, a scary type |
| 75 | | Of the four Little Women this one was the most unlike Little Orphan Annie |
| 76 | | Very scary Lugosi, movie actor of the 1930s and 1940s, whose typical proposal to Boris Karloff was to play chess for some hapless victim. If Karloff won he got to freeze her in an ice cube. If Lugosi won, he got to flay her because her skin appealed to him |
| 77 | | A sequence of binary digits |
| 78 | | Moving part in a battery |
| 79 | | Second word of the national anthem |
| 81 | | Unromantic Kettle family member |
| 82 | | Suffix meaning characterized by |
| 83 | | In the South, if someone suddenly takes one, they've set their heart on doing something that doesn't sound too great to the rest of us |
| 84 | | How many family members can help, by e-mail or telephone, to make the perfect celebratory puzzle? Ask us how it works. 952-925-2684 |
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DOWN
| 1 | | Waif in the comics, originally to be Little Orphan Otto, appeared as a girl |
| 2 | | Relationship of Daddy to Annie was this, though money-making kept him far away most of the time |
| 3 | | White crystalline component of plastic |
| 5 | | One of the two serious toughs that Daddy ordered to guard Annie |
| 6 | | Route de _ _ _, from which "Rotten Row" came, London's bridal path |
| 7 | | Food of starving children in fiction, for example, The Little Princess |
| 8 | | Symbol for calcium |
| 9 | | Weapon of choice of the Asp, kept in a breast pocket |
| 10 | | Home of the Badlands — abbr |
| 13 | | Something to do with VCRs |
| 16 | | Bear young, of sheep or goats |
| 18 | | Rounded-edged ax |
| 19 | | Useful gadget |
| 20 | | Inventor of Little Orphan Annie |
| 24 | | Chestnut horse with hair sprinkled with gray |
| 26 | | Annie's tended to be full of "Git! Or I'll set Sandy on ya!" her childhood acquaintance being largely thugs and cons |
| 27 | | Professional organization famous for looking out for its own, originally to keep quacks from bilking or killing people — abbr |
| 28 | | Italian composer. His name is used as octave warm-ups for choristers |
| 31 | | Magical character who entered Little Orphan Annie strip late. |
| 34 | | Moved in a serpentine way — like
the Asp
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| 36 | | Copycats |
| 38 | | Baby Dumpling was Dagwood and Blondie's |
| 39 | | Friends south of the border |
| 40 | | The scary ones are in-take ones in hospitals, the SATs for college, and violent sports, for courage |
| 42 | | A good Bordeaux |
| 46 | | Third stomach of a ruminant animal |
| 47 | | Those in southern Iceland, and in the U. S. Old Faithful |
| 48 | | Hard-working young Tillie, in same era as Annie was slugging it out in the streets |
| 51 | | University home of the Hawkeyes and sentient neurologist Antonio Damasio — abbr |
| 52 | | Mist lightly all over |
| 53 | | Nabokov's novel romanticizing sexual abuse of girl about Orphan Annie's age |
| 54 | | A construction-size shim |
| 56 | | Generally surrounding |
| 60 | | And do it very fast — abbr |
| 63 | | Boy friend of sturdy Olive Oyl who gave as good as she got |
| 65 | | The literary kind tells through story the best hopes and worst distresses of human behavior |
| 68 | | In greatest pro-war speech written, Shakespeare's Henry V says:
"He that shall live this day, and
see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast
his neighbours,
And _ _ _, ' Tomorrow is
Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve
and show his scars,
And _ _ _ 'These wounds I
Had on Crispian's day.'" |
| 70 | | Affected way of saying "I see." |
| 72 | | Norwegian king long thought of as ski jumper and yachtsman |
| 74 | | British submachine gun |
| 75 | | Classic exclamation to scare people |
| 76 | | _ _bidder: someone who goes to the auction for a friend and jacks up prices by "bidding in" |
| 77 | | You can sell everything from your socks to your neck on the e one |
| 78 | | Inside of |
| 80 | | One |
| 81 | | Proper form of address of Dagwood's boss Dithers, the President of the US, and all kids' favorite neighbor |
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