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1 As a Halfling, he made the jump from AD&D
to GURPS. He didn't really have a habit of passing notes,
though. (10)
10 He is the trivia master. That is his curse. (4)
14 If you read about one doing a jig, it's probably a Westlake,
but in cooking it often as not means that chocolate and hot peppers will
be combined. (5)
15 Where the eaten one escaped from the tombs. Taoist symbolism
and a bunch of islands. (8)
17 Blackjack meets Concentration meets divinatory satire. (3)
19 If a woman wants to be treated as an adult, sometimes she's gotta
show some. (2)
20 They're just one step away from being apologetic to poor Dave.
(3)
22 Okay, so you rolled a six and a one - but what does the brass
wheel refer to? Time to learn some Latin. (6)
25 Bandleader and clarinet player, one of the giants of jazz and
swing [Initials]. (2)
26 David Niven and Pierce Brosnan have him in common. Use a pencil.
(7)
29 When I'm writing, mine are half again the size of this one. (2)
30 Paulo and Tome look lonely without it. (3)
31 The concert held on her island was more jazz-blues than blues-jazz,
or was it the other way? (4)
32 Part of him was a decent guy, but tell that to Gwen. (7)
36 In GURPS Magic, they were Objects, but when a couple
of whole books were done, they for some reason reverted to this D&D
standard. (5)
38 Sucked again? Or maybe it's what happens when you get your jollies
with Buffy. (8)
40 If Lucas ruled the universe, terrain and climate would seldom
vary below this scale. (9)
43 What happened to Steve Dallas happened to him. (8)
45 Ordinary old destroyer; Guided missile destroyer. That's a lot
of one letter, isn't it? (5)
48 One was fucking Harry's wife. (7)
51 It was a risin', and the gin was a'gettin' low. (4)
52 When Jaimie titled his pamphlet about getting "vengeance
for the dead," he wasn't referring to one of these. (3)
53 If you want to be a little pretensious, fill this one in in lowercase.
(2)
54 The dead ones can apparently be detected by tracking devices
eerily reminiscent of the roofcaps of ritzy apartment buildings. (7)
56 Vey. (2)
57 One of the more polite-sounding ways of saying "10 Down."
(6)
59 Time in Paris. (3)
60 His real name was Bosco, and he preferred overland transportation.
(2)
61 A serving of my Ideal version has an ARat of 8 (what, you expected
a Ferengi clue?) (3)
63 On the sixth planet out in this system, you'll find the woman
who was just below "Earth." (8)
67 She looked hot in that futuristic white jumpsuit. Or was it that
white dress and rock necklace? I get them confused. (5)
70 Sometimes he's close to a cute but untrustworthy witch. Sometimes
he's close to a villain bent on world domination. It's not easy being green.
(4)
71 Mr. Spock serves aboard one, along with a rabbit and a groundhog.
(10).
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2 Hot item from Atlas, or the final resting place of the Thief/Acrobat?
You decide. (2)
3 Yes, I spelled it wrong, but I'm not about to go back and rebuild
half the puzzle over it. That'll teach me to trust people's websites when
trying to include clues for games I don't play! (7)
4 Roll against it to find out if you live. (2)
5 Dante felt that prices ending in nine was this. (5)
6 They still use that "sound of his master's voice" image
as their trademark. (3)
7 IE's little cousin, for reading mail. (2)
8 The romance between Brian's mom and Naughtius Maximus started
out this way. (4)
9 Maybe a physician; maybe something that stands between the hero
and a bullet. If it's a very expendable physician, it could be both. (2)
10 The less polite but far more common way of saying "57 Across."
(4)
11 It holds a lot. (3)
12 Where I was decidedly unkind to KOEI in a review. (2)
13 Scott's cool snowglobe was a promo toy for the video release
of this. (5)
16 It's an old joke to ask people if they enjoy doing this. The
joke is that they don't know. It's not much of a joke, really. (7)
18 One of the television's great fictional booksellers; he had a
thing for Molly. (4)
21 If I'm from Thimphu and dig archery, then I'm almost certainly
this. (4)
23 Ray Stantz had an unfortunate encounter with one of the ungrateful
yuppie kind. (5)
24 Lima beans, strawberries, and a name that sounds naughty to Paul
Bunyan's companion. (6)
25 Any relationship between this word and the preceding clue is
entirely coincidental. (4)
27 When stimulated by antigens, they become either memory cells
or plasma cells that form antibodies against the stimulating antigens.
(6)
28 He was President of Mexico during a chunk of the classic Call
of Cthulhu era [Initials]. (2)
33 In the mid-eighties, he hated "Ordinary fucking people,"
and we all got a kick out of it, but in Alien, he played this
guy. (5)
34 The FCC Office who's job it is to help create new opportunities
for competitive technologies. (3)
35 It's genuine crosswordese, one of those words you only find in
a crossword puzzle when the puzzle designer is stuck for a legitimate word.
Sounds greek, though, and it's an anagram for MY SEED. When I included
it, I honestly figured I could just look it up and write a reasonable clue
later on. Shows what I know. (6)
37 In every generation there is a chosen one. (6)
39 What Cthulhu does to humans who stray too close, don't know the
right rituals, and aren't either very fast or armed with a convenient ship
to ram him with. (7)
41 Twonky was this (and a bit dangerous) when they added the Big
Gun. (5)
42 Canada has this; here in the States we just have the old one,
and sometimes can't tell them from the Republicans. (3)
44 He's the one responsible for cramming GURPS Lite
attractively into such a small space. (4)
46 If you you're looking for a bottle of good ouzo at the source,
one will not be enough. (7)
47 Fantasy gamers know that the big wolves fit this
description. (4)
49 A word that some associate with their tennis, some associate
with broad-mindedness, others associate with bids and investments, and
I associate with with words and interpretations. (4)
50 Churchward wrote a lot about it, but Alley Oop lived there (he
just didn't spell it the same way as Churchward, if indeed he could spell).
(2)
52 The first of the trinity to lose a player. (5)
55 Some consider Surak its father. (5)
57 My favorite of these was Unspeakable. My other favorite involved
standing in front of a green lamp. Before I wrote this clue, it never occurred
to me that I had favorites. (4)
58 A simple but universal sign of trouble. (4)
60 Twonky is my favorite. I've mentioned Twonky twice now, 'cause
Twonky is the coolest of them all. (3)
62 The Bunnies & Burrows equivalent to a dragon. (3)
64 Again or about, at the beginning. (2)
65 Eisenhower appointed him to the Supreme Court; he kicked off
about two years after I kicked on [Initials]. (2)
66 Where Malcolm X and Fred Astaire were coming from. (2)
68 He discovered Niagra Falls, presumably because of the really
really loud noise it makes. (2)
69 The story typically goes that as soon as we develop this, it
develops itself from then on and then either enslaves us, kills us, or
(more recently) decides that we're an efficient source of power. (2).
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