Jonesin’ – Aug 21 2018
Published in Jonesin Crossword. Tags: ABEL, First Lady, HAIRDO, Harry Potter, OSLO, SCOLD, WAND, WREN.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Careless Whisper’ group (yeah, that’s the sax solo playing in your mind right now) | WHAM |
| ‘Criminal’ singer Apple | FIONA |
| ‘Fuzzy Wuzzy was ___ …’ | ABEAR |
| ‘I want catnip’ | MEOW |
| ‘It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am’ boxer | ALI |
| ‘Major’ constellation | URSA |
| ‘On the Beach’ author Shute | NEVIL |
| ‘Remote Control’ host Ken (or German for ‘upper’) | OBER |
| ‘Saved by the Bell’ character Jessie | SPANO |
| ‘The Facts of Life’ actress Mindy | COHN |
| ‘There’s no ___ sight!’ | ENDIN |
| ‘___ of Laura Mars’ | EYES |
| 1952 Olympics host | OSLO |
| 36-Down’s ‘Family’ | ADDAMS |
| 50-Across ‘Cousin’ | ITT |
| Acid-base indicator | LITMUS |
| Actor Rob, or either candidate named Ron who competed in a 2018 Kansas congressional primary | ESTES |
| Amorphous amount (and an ‘Arrested Development’ character) | GOB |
| Be shy | OWE |
| Beer named for a Dutch river | AMSTEL |
| Brown and Rather, for two | DANS |
| Bunches | ALOT |
| Cartman, to his mom | ERIC |
| Castigate | SCOLD |
| Casual ‘industry,’ formally? | EBIZABETH |
| Chunks of history | ERAS |
| City near Tulsa | ENID |
| Coif | HAIRDO |
| College courtyard | QUAD |
| Comedian/actress Butcher of ‘Take My Wife’ | RHEA |
| Cupcake decorator | ICER |
| D.C. diamond denizens | NATS |
| Decaf brand | SANKA |
| Desert of Mongolia | GOBI |
| Dress in Delhi | SARI |
| Echo responder? | ALEXA |
| Fail to exist | ARENT |
| First Lady of the ’50s | MAMIE |
| Formal attire | GOWN |
| George Eliot’s ‘___ Marner’ | SILAS |
| George Gershwin’s brother | IRA |
| Gives off | EMITS |
| Harry Potter accessory | WAND |
| Hashtag acronym popularized by a Drake song | YOLO |
| Hawaii’s ‘Garden Isle’ | KAUAI |
| He held over 1,000 patents | EDISON |
| Herd comment | MOO |
| His mother raised Cain | ABEL |
| Ibsen heroine Gabler | HEDDA |
| Inspiron computer maker | DELL |
| IRS collection, formally? | TAXIMILIAN |
| It comes twice after ‘Que’ in a song | SERA |
| It’s six of one … and six of the other | DOZEN |
| Light bulb measure, formally? | WATTHEW |
| Love on the Loire | AMOUR |
| Lumberyard tools | SAWS |
| Mass transit vehicle, formally? | AUBUSTINE |
| Mine vein | LODE |
| Nacho topper, slangily | GUAC |
| Newscast summary | RECAP |
| Orchestra needs | REEDS |
| Orchestral section | STRINGS |
| Overrun (with) | AWASH |
| Piece of Necco candy | WAFER |
| Poke ingredient, often | TUNA |
| Practical applications | USES |
| Preserve, as meat | CURE |
| Quartet member | ALTO |
| RBG’s group, for short | SCOTUS |
| Religious offshoot | SECT |
| Show with skits | REVUE |
| Small songbird | WREN |
| Stopped suddenly, as an engine | STALLED |
| Truffle fries topper | SALT |
| Turn into a puddle | MELT |
| Victorian expletive | EGAD |
| Zany, formally? | WACQUELINE |
| Zero, on some fields | NIL |