Verbiage

Sweethearts

By Graham Meyer

Across
1. Part of a dance?
4. Weasel’s sound?
7. It used to be known as Orchard Airport
9. Royal carrier
11. Sweethearts romance, part 1
14. Site of Vulcan’s forge, in myth
15. Gp. that gave Kenny Chesney its 2006 Entertainer of the Year award
16. They have keepers
18. ___ tai
19. “This is not a joke!”
23. First letter in Electra
24. End of a philosophy?
25. Word said through a megaphone
26. Don Rickles character ___ Sharkey
27. Trois et sept
28. Sweethearts romance, part 2
32. Like striptease
33. Increased, with “up”
34. Gets on
35. Oscar ___ Renta
37. Suffix with Mongol
38. They average about 28, among Americans
39. Beneficiaries of primogeniture
41. Part of a flirt’s skirt
42. Supermodel Taylor
44. He’s the man?
45. Sweethearts romance, part 3
52. Double Fantasy musician
53. Sweethearts romance, part 4
54. California roll ingredient, often
55. Slay
56. Took notice
57. Burt’s costar in The Killers
58. Slew
59. ___ ponticello: instruction for a violinist
60. Proof ender

Down
1. ___ Pet
2. 2001 computer
3. Stand as
4. Louvre pyramid architect
5. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” comes from one
6. Nickname for David Ortiz
7. Theaters in the round?
8. Nietzsche work with a title quoting Pontius Pilate’s “Behold the man”
9. Stemmed
10. Like Social Security numbers
11. Salted
12. She played Mia in Pulp Fiction
13. Uses a carrot
14. Oozes
17. Instruments for ‘Trane
19. Gall
20. Apocalypto civilization
21. Apple smash
22. Pull
29. Bad place for a run?
30. AP alternative
31. Postnatal activity
36. Jung’s term for the soul
38. Rap
40. Throws out of whack
41. It’s on the corner of a letter
43. Light bulbs?
44. 1988 Olympics site
45. Newport rival
46. Poop
47. P might mean this
48. Q followers
49. Big news topic
50. Wander
51. Trail none

Once there was a strong, sensitive young lad. While walking through the town square, a doe-eyed, ringlet-haired lass passing by caught his eye, and he fell instantly in love. Should he speak? Could his heart bear it? He dared, and the stars aligned — she was equally smitten with him. Her instinct to be coy succumbed to her certainty that, yes, this was love. The tide of their first conversation rushed them from strangers to joined hearts. Oddly, it took place entirely in messages taken from Sweethearts candy.

***

Home

Written permission of the publisher must be obtainedbefore any of the contents of this newspaper, in whole or in part, can be reproduced or redistributed.