Crossword

By Brendan Emmett Quigley (www.brendanemmettquigley.com)

I n the spirit of kicking back on those Sunday mornings with coffee, doughnuts and the crossword puzzle, we offer you the Phish Crossword Experience. This puzzle was created by Quigley. We warn you in advance, it is on the order of a challenging weekend puzzle and it not exclusively comprised of Phish questions.

ACROSS

1

Ben Hunter’s nickname

6

“Reba” lyricist

10

during “Cracklin’ Rosie”

Word formed by Fish’s cymbals

13

Biol. and chem.

16

The ___ Theater (Cleveland, OH

venue)

17

Granada greeting

18

Give the high sign

19

“___ Puffy AmiYumi” (Cartoon

Network show)

20

Most-performed song by Phish

23

Higher Ground proprietor Crothers

24

Auto svc. site

25

“The ___ Home Place”

26

Houston Rockets superstar, familiarly

27

1994/95 New Year’s Eve keepsake

34

“Water in ___”

36

Part 4 of “Fluff’s Travels”

37

“I got an ache in my left ___”

38

“Splinters of ___”

39

State where 59-Down took place:

Abbr.

40

8/9/1998 encore

46

Motorists’ org.

47

Overseas title: Abbr.

48

Smart columnist Marilyn ___ Savant

49

Shred

50

Kin’s partner

51

Military acronym

53

Hanks Steve McConnell impersonated

54

sequel

Song that inspired a once-performed

56

Years Eve 1993

Phish favorite previewed on New

59

Bas-relief medium

60

name

Jamband with a period after their

61

Sentences

62

“Dies ___”

63

“Aboard a craft bereft of ___”

64

Historic opening?

65

Prefix with dermis

68

the Clifford Ball

One of the guest “Brother” tandem at

69

Mike and Fish’s band circa 1984

75

“Look ___, no hands!”

76

“A ___ One”

77

Calendar spans: Abbr.

78

Oscar ___ Renta

79

“Venerable” historian

81

nicknames

One of Jon Fishman’s many

86

Baylor’s home

87

Esther felt a “tiny tugging at her

88

Nosh

89

Greek salad cheese

90

Site of the first Phish camping

weekend

98

Cabinet dept.

99

Song first roadtested by Anastasio,

Lawton and Markellis

100

Tennessee footballers

101

“___bucket full of thoughts”

102

S.A.T. company

103

Bee follower

104

Brave

Monster that rescued Rutherford the

105

First song back on 12/31/02

DOWN

1

Late-night name

2

Actor Tognazzi

3

__-TURN (road sign)

4

Uno + due

5

Grocery chain

6

Jeff Smith’s “Bone” heroine

7

Drum legend Haynes Page McConnell

jammed with at the 2008 Jammys

8

Kind of beetle

9

“Whoopee!”

10

Certain lymphocyte

11

“___ Lang Syne”

12

Mag mogul beginning in the ‘50s

13

“Paul and ___”

14

in the Fall of 1995

Goal of fans at the Greenpeace table

15

Number of times Phish played

H.O.R.D.E.

19

Veronica of “Hill Street Blues”

21

Best-selling album of 2001

22

Staff note

26

Spare

27

Home mortgage stats

28

Robert of “The Sopranos”

29

Writer Ephron

30

East German inits.

31

Col.’s superior

32

Some degs.

33

Paintings

34

Lao-tzu principle

35

“Uh-huh”

38

With it

41

Swears

42

Smut

43

“___ It Again”

44

familiarly

Baseball’s $252 million man,

45

Not bold

46

Helper

50

“Send me a ___ by wire”

51

“Your ___ light / your eyes heavy”

52

Yankee great, familiarly

53

Café alternative

54

Physicist Ohm

55

Worse, as excuses go

56

Relix editor Budnick

57

Dashed

58

Soaks (up)

59

Groomed Ink played

Festival where MC Neoncellgap and

62

Some desktops

63

“Army of ___”

65

It’s almost pointless

66

Brazilian soccer legend

67

Writer Dinesen

69

Lover of Aeneas

70

Many a state name in D.C.

71

Word repeated in “___, ___, rocco”

72

“... ___ mouse?”

73

Naval inits.

74

Cutting tool

76

‘70s Renault offering

80

Paul Languedoc’s alma mater

81

The ___ Ampitheatre, WA

82

__ Speedwagon

83

Brewer’s need

84

Rage

85

“Let ___!” (“Go ahead!”)

87

Real

89

rerelease

Song left off the “Lawn Boy”

90

Fox competitor

91

Morgantown campus

92

Dearie

93

QB Manning

94

Yellowfin tuna

95

Time out?

96

Alphabetical sequence97 Laugh syllable