ADD-A-LETTER
Movies:
1.a. Floret or Fiorillo (4,5) ... 1987, DK
xxb. Child’s chest (4,5)
xxc. Whisk (4,5)
2. Get implants (3,2,7,2,9,7,6,6) ... 1967, RM
3. Oh, my God! Asphalt for dinner! (5,6,7,3) ... 1973, RN
4. Shankar and a colleague compete (5,4) ... 1977, HF, CF, MH
TV:
1. Consequence of impotence (8,10)
2. Accurate stopwatches (4,6)
3. Treason (6,8)
4. Win a boxing match against Dempsey (2,4)
5. Annoying 19th-century President (4,5)
6.a. Keeps your pole up (4,4)
xxb. Wrestling-match timer (3,5)
xxc. Tuft of spouse’s hair (4,4)
xxd. Brain-freeze during algebra test (4,4)
xxe. Butcher’s hardware-store purchase (4,4)
7. I’m a son of a fish (2,6,3,4)
8. Transplantee’s acquisition (3,5)
9. Eighth in a series of untitled Met productions (5,1)
10. Dead letter from Greece (3,3)
11. Unpopular weekend entree (8,5,5)
12. Take a seat, but not here (3,9)
13.a. Late-morning buffet at Mike and Carol’s (3,5,6)
xxb. Suburban blended family solves kids’ dilemmas over cognac (3,6,5)
14. What’s in a divorce lawyer’s briefcase (3,2,5)
15. Some ensemble numbers from West Side Story (3,3,5)
16. How the folks clean a grimy pan (3,6,5,2)
Solutions
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DROP-A-LETTER
Movies:
1. Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson (1,3,3,3) ... 1992, JN, TC
2. Gorillaphobia (3,4) ... 1991, RD
3. Murder mystery aboard biblical ship (1,4,2,3,3) ... 1964, PS
4. Little bitty ghost (4,3) ... 1987, DK
5. Panamanian expertise (5,9) ... 1971, JN
6. 1/100 of a Susan B. Anthony dollar (4,2,1,5) ... 1992, AP
7. Blue-chips taking a dip (7,3) ... 1993, MD
8. Be satisfied with bogeys (6,4) ... 1995, BC
9. Ben and almost four dozen of his relatives (5-5,4 [usually written 2,4]) ... 1982, NN, EM
10. Control over one’s own actions (4,4) ... 1993, JJR
11. If a certain biblical character had built this, the dinosaurs might still be around (8,3) ... 1993, SN, LD, JG
12. Transportation to nearby celestial body (4,5) ... 1987, C, NC
13. In harmony with a force of nature (3,4,3,4) ... 1939, VL, CG
14. Dog stories (3,7) ... 1994, JT, BW, SLJ
15. A dirty, grimy Parisian street (3,4) ... 1969, JW, KD
16. Research facilities keeping mum (7,2,3,4) ... 1991, AH, JF
17. Transportation to extragalactic celestial body (3,9,5) ... 1971, AH, DW
18. Late fall, and winter (3,3,7) ... 1981, AA, CB
19. Seen on a pig’s Mother’s Day card (3,8,3,2,5) ... 1952, CH
20. How long high-fiber cereal will keep (3,4,2,4) ... 1979, EI
21. Historic encounter between Truman and Churchill (4,5,3,4) ... 1989, BC, MR
TV:
1. Your profile in the personals (2,5,3)
2. Mobile military hospital, after nuclear strike (3)
3. Dad did an Erhard seminar (6,5,3)
4. E.g., Hitler, Stalin, and Snidely Whiplash (6)
5. A bumbling marine private goes to college in L.A. (5,4,3)
6. Great rookie fighter pilots (5,4)
7. A-Team enforcer’s brother (2,1) (two equally good [or bad] answers)
8.a. Contemporary painting and sculpture (3,3)
xxb. Recent millinery purchase (3,3)
9. Eggs! (3)
10. Sex-ed cartoon superhero (logical double feature with #9) (7)
11. A quartet of tortoises that sailed with Columbus (7,6,4,7)
12. John, Abigail, and John Quincy (3,5,6)
13. Cartoon about a group of rock singers (3,10)
14. Dishonest sister (3,5,3)
15. Competition among X-15 pilots (3,4,4)
16. Those who inspired Rooney to act and Spillane to write (3,6,4,4)
17. The uncles (3,7,8)
18. Perfect pilaf (3,4,2,5)
19. Hey, little critter! Good to see you frolicking in the surf again! (7,4,5)
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CHANGE-A-LETTER
Movies:
1.a. Memoir of Junior’s first years (4,4) ... 1987, DK
xxb. Title character of “Change-a-Letter TV” #9.b. wears one on each foot (4,4)
2. Wisconsin farmers’ plea to Godzilla (6,4,3,3,7) ... 1960, DD, DN
3.a. How not to clean a computer-memory device (4,4) ...1991, SF
xxb. Eat your broth out of this (4,4)
4.a. Kansas farm girl and friends meet iguana (3,6,2,2) ... 1939, JG
xxb. Vat’s dis? Straw pipik here vants I should give a brain? (3,6,2,2)
5. Running after Reggie Miller (3,5,5) ... 1973, JH, TB
6. 1/32000 of “Sixteen Tons” (3,5,2,5) ... 1965, JA
7. Charge it to a feathered friend (2,4,1,11) ... 1962, GP
TV:
1.a. Dick Clark and scores of teens listen attentively at reading of contemporary U.S. poetry (8,9)
xxb. Clark & Co. are enthralled by flipped-over gymnasts (8,9)
2.a. Young lady from Boulder gives up alien for unsuccessful Supreme Court nominee (4,3,5)
xxb. Wacky extraterrestrial moves in with supermodel Crawford (4,3,5)
3.a. Young lady and her friends discuss life in online “room” (4,4)
xxb. Which young lady? (4,4)
4.a. Freddie Prinze forgets his sunblock, but is more fortunate than person in #11.b. (5,3,3,3)
xxb. Freddie does back adjustments for elderly friend (5,3,3,3)
5.a. American POW passes time by raising aquatic birds (6,6)
xxb. Imprisoned American colonel finagles fleet of Japanese warplanes, foils Nazis (6,6)
6.a. Mrs. Ricardo divorces me (1,4,4)
xxb. I find embroidered lingerie quite attractive (1,4,4)
7.a. Collect bucks from Bucky, who lives in your lodge (5,2,2,6)
xxb. Depend on “Tom Terrific” for clutch pitching (5,2,2,6)
8. One of a famous pair of explorers of American West, having reached the Pacific coast, keeps going and going and...
xxa. ...eventually, having made landfall, is ceremoniously bedecked with flowery garlands (4,3,5)
xxb. Then, at a luau, he samples several versions of a native dish made of taro root (4,3,5)
9.a. Shetland pony out west (6,5,2,3,7)
xxb. Baby Mickey out west (6,5,2,3,7)
10.a. Father Mulcahy gets his own show (4)
xxb. Hawkeye and friends get transferred to canine duty in the Klondike (4)
11.a. Sally Field’s portrayal of Baron von Richthofen (3,6,3)
xxb. Sally Field gets out of the habit of putting on sunblock (3,6,3)
12. This cartoon will air—when pigs fly! (3,7)
13.a. A black cow, a white cow, and a blonde cow are hip police detectives (3,3,5)
xxxb. A black, a white, and a blonde try their best to do detective work, but they keep falling asleep (3,3,5)
14.a. Wordsworth the slob meets Keats the neat freak (3,3,6)
xxxb. Felix and Oscar, now in their eighties, are still at it (3,3,6)
15. Herman & Lily, Eddie, and Grandpa amuse one another with clever wordplay (3,8)
16.a. A panel of celebrities lend their services in court to determine how much defendants owe (5,2,4)
xxxb. Celebrity panelists try to determine whether mystery guest prefers red or white (5,2,4)
17.a. Bermudas, briefs, hot pants, etc. (4,5,2,6)
xxxb. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (for Mold and Mildew Aficionados) (4,5,2,6)
Solutions
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