Jan. 31 crossword solutions

Crossword #1: Famous Faces in Rice History

By Margaret Roddy     1/31/18 1:37am

#	ACROSS	CLUE	#	DOWN	CLUE
1	AXMAN	Jason Voorhees	1	ABSORB	Take in
6	EGEST	Excrete	2	XL AREA	Big space
11	MUT	Egyptian sky goddess or misspelled mixed dog	3	MAMBAS	Speedy venomous snakes
14	BLARE	Loud harsh sound	4	ARM	I would give an ____ and a leg
15	MILKY	First bit of our galaxy	5	NECK	We do it different down in my ___ of the woods
16	ONO	Yoko	6	EMU DOC	Takes care of large birds
17	SAM MCGUFFIE	2018 Olympic bobsledder, Rice grad	7	GIF	Still don't know how to pronounce this
18	SBT	Build tool for Scala	8	ELF	"I'm a cotton-headed ninny-muggins!"
19	ORB	Sphere	9	SKI	Your rich friend does this
20	AQUA	Romans drank this	10	TYE	Nautical rope
21	REAR	3rd row in a soccer mom's car	11	MOSQUITO	Zika carrier
23	ROBERT CURL	Rice Nobel Prize winner	12	UNBURDEN	To relieve someone
27	BASIS	Justification	13	TOTALED	Destroyed your car
29	CUTE	Rice student missed encounter descriptor	20	ACT	6*10+5 Across
30	TIDE	Pls don't eat this	22	RICE	Best form of starch
31	CIA	Director Mike Pompeo	24	BULWARK	Defensive wall
33	LCMS	Tbt to algebra and combining fractions	25	ETCH	Carve
35	TED	Theme: Bending Beliefs on Feb 20	26	REMIX	"It's the ___ to ignition"
36	PEGGY WHITSON	Rice grad, most days spent in space by NASA astronaut	28	SIGN	Leo or scorpio
39	FAR	Distance from Wiess to Brown	32	AGO	"a long time ___"
41	NOAA	Issues tornado warnings	34	STIR	Agitate
42	XII	Drummers drumming	36	PROM DATE	Awkward senior year photo partner
43	ATOP	Up on	37	YAMA	Hindu god of death
45	MRS	State school degree	38	SION	League of Legends champion
47	RODIN	The Thinker	39	FAJITAS	South servery staple, make sure to get extra guac
51	JAMES BAKER	Lawyer to Willy	40	AT AN ICU	Location where you get a broken neck fixed
54	NAME	Margaret or Josh or Walker or Nicky	44	PEI	IM architect
55	INDIA	2nd most populous country	46	SEGWAY	Most touristy method of transportation around a city
56	GOA	State in southwest India	48	DAMSEL	Can rescue herself from distress, tyvm
58	MGR	Administrator, briefly	49	IM GONE	Peace out
59	TIA	Aunt	50	NERNST	Find reaction potential in non-standard conditions
60	LUKE WILLSON	2013 Rice grad, drafted by Seahawks	52	SALAD	Woman laughing with ___
65	ACT	Standardized test	53	ROI	Gain on project, ask an ECON major
66	ANOVA	Analysis of variance	57	ALTO	Below soprano
67	TEENS	Youths	61	UNI	College to Australians
68	SUE	File legal action against	62	KOC	Coffeehouse employee
69	DICEY	Unpredictable	63	EVE	Night before
70	OWLET	Rice baby	64	LEW	Short for Lewis

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