FLEXERS XXI

NY Times Crossword
August 1, 1999
Randolph Ross
AWAY WITH WORDS

Answer each clue by matching it with one of the choices below. Wordplay is fair play.

1. Golfing
2. Walking the dogie
3. Re-arranges the lettuce
4. Two good NFL plays
5. Share a theater role
6. Go up against Ali
7. Angry place to live
8. Charming way to look at things
9. Hospital event to honor the best patient
10. What the NFL team might have done in the draft

CHOICES:

a. Split apart
b. Acute angle
c. Across town
d. Playing around
e. Taken aback
f. Leading astray
g. Fight about
h. Again and again
i. Moves ahead
j. Award ceremony

Answers:

1. d - Playing around
2. f - Leading astray
3. i - Moves ahead
4. h - Again and again
5. a - Split apart
6. g - Fight about
7. c - Across town
8. b - Acute angle
9. j - Award ceremony
10. e - Taken aback