©2006 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Turtle Publishing WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2006 ENTERTAINMENT THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN 17 crossword.2 ACROSS 1 Iridescent stone 5 Red Skelton character 9 Tackle moguls 12 Gambling game 13 Teensy amount 14 Frank McCourt memoir 15 Sherwood Forest cleric 17 Puncturing tool 18 David, e.g. 19 Too coincidental 21 The guy 22 Ersatz chocolate 24 Between assignments 27 Neither mate 28 Senseless? 31 Mauna — 32 Chic no more 33 Bill's partner 34 Ticklish Muppet 36 Crafty 37 Omit 38 Underwent a recession 40 Bell or Barker 41 FCC concern 43 Anise-flavored liqueur 47 Ostrich's cousin 48 Rodent in a tongue twister 51 Elmer, to Bugs 52 — moth 53 Online auction house 54 Mork's home planet 55 Perches 56 Logical DOWN 1 Slays, Sopranos style 2 Audition goal 3 Met melody 4 Detest 5 Give as an example 6 Boudreau of baseball 7 List-ending abbr. 8 Smith 9 Mate aboard the Pequod 10 New Zealand bird 11 Gilligan's home 16 Wish undone 20 Many millennia 22 Might 23 Bohemian 24 White House nickname 25 Benicio — Toro 26 Some politicians 27 Snoot 29 Miss Piggy's pronoun 30 Jazz style 35 — -Wan Kenobi 37 Beauty pageant IDs 39 Takes to the lanes crossword. 3 ACROSS 1 Diamond arbiter 4 Skirt length 8 Cop's protective garb 12 Carnival city 13 Valhalla VIP 14 Rainbow 15 February birthstone 17 Overly theatrical 18 Deadly 40 Singer Davis 41 Give an extreme makeover 42 Cupid's field 43 Handheld secretaries (Abbr.) 44 One of the brass 45 Volunteer's phrase 46 Terrier type 49 Overseas agreement? 50 Can. prov. 19 JFK info 21 Piercing tool 22 January birthstone 26 Ill-tempered one 29 Shriner's chapeau 30 Previous to 31 Own 32 Sherman called it hell 33 Picnic hamperer 34 Away from WSW 35 Card-table call 36 Rids of rind 37 December birth- stone 39 Scale member 40 Put into the mix 41 Hire 45 "Lion King" villain 48 September birthstone 50 1960s musical 51 Hodgepodge 52 Bottom line 53 Actress Ross- sum 54 Paper quantity 55 Pond fish DOWN 1 Eurasian range 2 Silent actor 3 Bard 4 Punk hairstyle 5 Pastoral work 6 Insult (Sl.) 7 Whole number 8 Wakefield cleric 9 Historic period 10 Scrooge portrayer 11 Recipe qty. 16 Macbeth's title 20 Bugs's "devil" foe 23 In the area of 24 One of HOMES 25 Change for a fifty 26 At the home of (Fr.) 27 Eastern royal 28 State with conviction 29 Bleacherite 32 Kind of chair or tie 33 Jackie Gleason role 35 Pantheon member 36 Cheerleader's prop 38 Tote 39 Old photo 42 Nexus 43 Sandwich treat 44 Bigfoot's kin 45 The lassie 46 Rotating part 47 Intention 49 Brewery product cryptoquip (answers on page 2) CRYPTOQUIP PK SFZ'CH XHBCYTPMA TPAT BMV DFL KFC GBGHC NFLHDX, YFZDV SFZ QH B QFZMNS TZMNHC? Today's Cryptoquip Clue: C equals R CRYPTOQUIP E O G L I H I L O K J Z E P H C R T H C T Q Z D P G H B L Z L O K G T T Q Z G D O H C R J Z E P H C R J G P P? "TPKGWK, WTGQK BK!" Today's Cryptoquip Clue: I equals D CRYPTOQUIP RB WLVILUI ZAIBIAW XL TSXI MRXCLJX QIXXRUQ VSAARIT, R WJZZLWI CI MSUXW UL ARUQW SXXSYCIT. Today's Cryptoquip Clue: Z equals P sudoku answers 1 2 (from page 16) 3