Puzzles
Dallin
The Halloween Crossword
Thirty-five answers, half Dallin and half Halloween, with more crossings than a first crossword has any right to. See how much of this issue stuck. Play it right here, or print it out and work it by hand at the kitchen table. Type one letter per box; click a clue to jump to it.
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Across
- 1. Bad luck across your path here; good luck across it in Britain and Japan (8)
- 3. Rock spire, county, and fall festival, all in one word (6)
- 6. Melanie ___, booked for a monthly set at the new Second Helpings (5)
- 7. Full-moon problem, best handled with silver (8)
- 9. Police Chief Tony ___, charged in the coverup (5)
- 11. Belfry resident (3)
- 14. A sheet with eye-holes, or something less friendly (5)
- 15. Where the stones are, and the shift nobody wants (9)
- 18. What Dinah's becomes after the gavel: a piano bar with a monthly guest set (14)
- 20. Carved grin that started out as a turnip in Ireland, long before anyone thought of a pumpkin (12)
- 22. ___ Crossing, three weeks of lights and one formal poll on the way (6)
- 24. Three words at the door, and a threat nobody has followed through on in decades (12)
- 29. Count who leaves no reflection and no forwarding address (7)
- 30. Birdie ___, who keeps the sighting log one checkout line at a time (8)
- 31. Field guard with straw for brains and no complaints (9)
- 32. Best in Show, in a referee vest (6)
- 33. Detective Braidy ___, on heritage, respect and what this paper won't print (4)
Down
- 1. A witch's ride, parked by the cauldron (10)
- 2. Cynthia ___, the Los Angeles columnist Dyson's camp asked this paper to keep out (8)
- 3. He signed the note about the backer who walked, and said the paper isn't for sale (8)
- 4. The reporter an unsigned envelope was addressed to, by name (7)
- 5. The one asking 'who' from the cottonwood (3)
- 8. Striped candy from the 1880s, loved and loathed in about equal measure (9)
- 10. ___ Holdings, LLC: a post office box, no employees, three years of 'consulting payments' (7)
- 12. Surname on two of the three men federal agents walked away on auction day (9)
- 13. Irish spirit whose wail means somebody's time is up (7)
- 16. German for 'noisy ghost': the one that throws things (11)
- 17. What two crashes at one blind curve have residents demanding, and the county calling premature (9)
- 19. One syllable, meant to be said suddenly (3)
- 21. You're holding it, or you're reading it on a phone at the grocery store (9)
- 23. Dr. Lauren ___, whose column this issue is not for the squeamish, and whose dog outranked the pageant (8)
- 25. What you wear to be someone else for a night (7)
- 26. ___ Road, where the traffic count isn't high enough to matter, according to the county (6)
- 27. Broomstick rider, cauldron stirrer (5)
- 28. Vernon ___, four generations of Coyote Crossing stories and counting (6)