Mathcross #20: Calculus recommended, not required
by Mr. Hansen, 5/8/2006

Across

1. Firework that didn’t
4. Any of several Norwegian kings
8. Abbr. now often replaced by C.E.
10. 43
11. Submachine gun
12. Alleged Katrina fumblers (abbr.)
13. Outset (colloquial)
16. How to record a rejection of the Univ. of Illinois
19. Not earned
20. Spill the beans, with “up”
21. Omen
23. Mare’s morsel
24. Type of football
26. Org. that is often disliked by both the left and the right for filing suits involving constitutional law
27. Daughter of mathematicians Pythagoras and Theano
28. Greek who proved that the area of any triangle with side lengths a, b, and c equals the square root of s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c), where s = semiperimeter = (a+b+c)/2
29. Massachusetts town notorious since 1692
30. Original middle name of Elvis
31. Imitate
32. Emerald Isle
33. “How’s ___?”
35. Mild push
37. Senate majority leader [at the time this puzzle was written]
38. Description of a drag
40. Gridder Favre
41. Much ___ About Nothing
44. Do a do
45. Concur
47. Princess ___ , 1976 Olympic competitor
48. Service level agreemts.
49. Uric acid accumulation, usually in big toe

50. Imprisoned
51. Drink not completely replaced by Diet Coke
52. Defeat
53. Prune
54. Access to townhouse’s rear entrance
56. Chill out
60. Fitness routine based on martial arts (1989)
61. Govt. workplace safety agcy.
62. Type of intersection
63. Approx. 2.7182818284590
64. Pellet letters
65. Not a ___
66. Dress code warning letters, perhaps

Down

1. Pressure to pay
2. Novelist Iweala, STA alumnus
3. f, if f ' exists
4. “. . . that is what each ___ is here for.” (Oscar Wilde)
5. Tropical garland
6. “The brain is like ___ .” (Carl

Sagan)
7. Too easily accomplished; specious
8. “Political power grows out of the barrel of ___ .” (Mao Tse-Tung)
9. TV room
10. Fried pockets of dough in Chinese soup
14. Antiderivative of 1/(0.5x(x + 1/x)) dx, without the "+ C"
15. Run wild
17. Prefix for a wine lover (___phile)
18. Public-key encryption algorithm (abbr.)
22. Many a eucalyptus
24. Exclamation of vindication or attainment
25. Sales or marketing ___
26. River through Berne, Switzerland
27. Raised platform
29. Official direction indicators
32. TLD used by most colleges (not .com or .org)
34. Akin to rall. or meno mosso in a score
36. Norwegian grunts
37. Guitar feature perpendicular to neck axis
38. Round 2 loser to Texas in March 2006
39. French expression of admiration (alt.)
40. “. . . solitary, poor, nasty, ___ , and short.” (Thomas Hobbes)
42. lim sin(1/x) as x approaches 0
43. Renowned letters in Oxford lexicography
46. Rhymed (though ungrammatical) warning to speeder
47. River flowing out of Lake Thun, Switzerland
50. Feline
52. Cheapskate’s bev. request
53. Like, awesome
55. Wane
57. Four on the phone
58. 180-degree turn, slangily
59. Candy that did not give eBay its start, contrary to rumor


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