18 — PLUS! — Saturday. December 23. 1989 'The'ThinJcet'i By Fanny Bancroft ACROSS 1 Stumble 5 World War II vehicle 9 Moral precept 14 Prude 18 Church calendar 19 Biblical food 20 Virginia’s governor: 1727-49 21 Costa — 22 Christmas gift for Santa 26 Feeling persecuted 27 Lenya of "The Threepenny Opera" 28 Tore down 29 Robs of vitality 30 "I Pagfiacd" troupe-owner 31 Weighty book 32 Birthplace of St. Francis 35 Rara — 36 Maugham's Ale" 40 Mods' Christmas presents 41 Christmas gift for David Copperfield 45 — disant (self-styled) 46 "Don't throw bouquets 47 “— got sixpence..." 48 Gallery near the Thames 49 Pale blue-green 50 1 or 66 51 Christmas gift for Mike Tyson 56 Knocks for a loop 57 Bergen's Snerd 59 Skater Sonja 60 Sounds of laughter 61 Let up a bit 62 Hot sauce or hot dance 63 Relish 64 John Jacob or Mary 65 Number of Wise Men 66 Noel-singers 69 Trembly tree 70 Christmas gift for Superman 72 Goddess, to Caesar 73 Stadium feature 74 Explorer Vasco da — 75 Yalie 76 Visayan island 77 Varnish resin 78 Christmas gift for Harrison Ford 83 Between hie and hoc 84 Kind ol decorator 86 Lille's department 87 Odorous 89 Shea nine 90 Play midsection 91 Hoodlum's knife 92 Like Sue of song 94 Space-related 95 Spanish dance 99 Christmas gift for Pres. Bush 102 Orange peel 103 Pompeii tourist attraction 104 Call forth 105 Relatives of et al. 106 Signs, in a way 107 "Fiddler on the Roof" matchmaker 108 "South Pacific" sine qua non 109 British ballerina Marion — DOWN 1 Mouth, colloquially 2 Caesar’s base 3 Hur's highway 4 Freeloader 5 "Ball and Chain" singer Joplin 6 Novelist Bagno Id 7 Chang's Siamese twin 8 Last shah of Iran 9 Conceit 10 Jay Silverheels role 11 Table d —: menu offering 12 “— bin ein Berliner": Kennedy 13 Indian song from “Jam Session" 14 Pulitzer awards 15 Irritate 16 Rubbed out. gangster style 17 Shoot the breeze 19 Nearsightedness 23 Ribonucleic acids, briefly 24 Popular gin mixer 25 Not so exciting 30 Bird or Birdsong 31 Musical beats, from the German 32 Consternation 33 — voce (under the breath) 34 Christmas gift for Rodney Dangerfield 36 Jalopy 37 Christmas gift for Donald Trump 38 Sentence subjects 39 Cape of Good Hope discoverer 42 Blended 43 State firmly 44 Airy hotel lobbies 49 Dramatist Fugard 51 Plains animal 52 Tenth part of an ephah 53 "Lamb Chop" puppeteer Lewis 54 Paris appropriated her 55 Start of something big 56 "Stompin' “ locale 58 Spud 60 "—. the herald angels..." 62 Bundle of stalks 63 Indian antelope 64 Man from the Far East 65 Largest Lesser Sunda island 66 Pierre's "that” 67 Insurgent 68 Pert 69 Gudrun's husband 70 Columbus departure port 101 “Little" 71 Spyri girt Stowe 74 Sparkling girl 76 Small 18th cen. table 78 “Man is but —Pascal 79 Enrage 80 — home (out) 81 Bored 82 “Ain't it —?": Fats Domino hit 85 Corrects 88 Marcel Marceau, notably 90 You Glad You're You?" 91 Appease with liquid 92 “The — of Our Teeth" 93 Santa's eye signal 94 Not "ter” 95 “— sea to shining..." 96 Actress Naldi 97 Half of DCII 98 Hop-drying kiln 99 Actress Meyers of “Kate and Allie” 100 Regret ANSWER, page 21 DR. i CRyPTON’S CHALLENGE A brainy baby’s wisdom of words by DR. CRYPTON Three-year-old Isaac, the brillianty son of my old girlfriend Josephine, recently taught me that the physical arrangement of letters can communicate a phrase. For example, LAWPORKY could represent the phrase "mixing work and play” because the words “work” and “play" are literally mixed. Can you Figure out what Isaac meant by the following? 1. DECISION 2. SRWDRVER 3. NCLE SAM 4. SUI44LT 5. MK 6. WHEATHER 7. TRUSSLE 8. SLOW SNOW STOW 9. 1,001,000 10. XXXXX XDECX X31XX XXXXX Until next time, this Dr. Crypton. Yours in pursuit of truth. Copyright, 1989, United Feature Syndicate . ANSWER, page 21 QUOTE-ACROSTIC edited by Charles Preston HOW TO SOLVE: Define clues In Words column. Transfer letters to diagram. Quotation reads across: first letters of Words column form acrostic of speaker’s name and topic. CLUES A. WORDS Indo-Iranian “5913 100 “FT 99 48 38 10 30 106 language B. Playful -77154 36 146 136 18 51 46 54 Ci!^.Ven,: 132“52“25 44 125144“94“92 Dsnaake?2 wds. 135 150 4 67 35 126 60 75 26 E. Game of chance F. Forward G. Wink H. Elegance T2TT0TTT 6 66 21 148 140 108 13 86 40 20 107 22 62 42 33 82 133 16 116 103 28 TTO 3 91 96 31 84 58 137 'd^memed. 155 115 151 37 90 55 19 coll. J. Drug K. Avoid L. Wind storm M. Secret dungeon N. Delay O. Nikita------- P. Break Q. Beat it: 3 wds. R. Something strange “65 “98 “70 “FT l09 14 "T05 127153 “49 “23 145 85 T[“48122 130 102 “97 156 131 T 73 149 ”*59 "120 “78 *123 “53 “95 9 138 79 12 87 63 “50124 “721712 7 80 132 24 128 142131519118 8 “34 1113511 “54 7117137104 5 “89 57 74 11 68 158 113 T.Swaggered _____ - ^ ^ gg 13g ANSWER, page 21 S. Book of Old _____ Testament 143 7(> 29 88 56 134