Complete Clue List
Across
1. The room was QUITE noiseless
4. The new smokeless trend will PAVE the way for replacing tobacco
6. Learning the Greek alphabet ATE into my free time, as I could never remember the seventh letter
8. The airline was DEALT the prime slots at its Atlanta hub
10. Their raw talent KILLS the chances of the other team
11. EMO was the musical choice of the Simpsons' discontented bartender
13. We WERE out of water before I refilled the pitcher
16. When I die, BURY me with my red jeweled slippers
18. No need to quarrel about which AUGER to use when drilling
19. It FELT abandoned. It wasn't right
21. The animal rights organization wanted a TAPE recording of the keynote speaker
24. Sodium is AN alkali metal
26. Some DOZEN city blocks were set aside for commercial use
28. The chemist will HOP up the acidity of the solution by increasing the hydroxide concentration
29. We ARE in the dawning of a new age
30. Adam and Eve felt the NEED to put on clothes after being evicted from the garden
31. My thumb is SORE after pricking it on a thorny flower
Down
2. The lawyer will employ a new strategy to SUE the company
3. The squadron enjoyed a picnic with barbecued MEAT
4. No amount of superglue can SAVE the shattered flowerpot
5. My swollen HIP makes me look like the 21st letter of the Greek alphabet
7. "Y'ALL need a new friend?" asked the congenial Southerner (no apostrophe)
8. The poet wrote an ODE to the female deer
9. ELI, the Biblical priest, would never tell a fib
12. The church's broken keyboard instrument would only GROAN unmelodically
14. The EWE gave birth to a tiny lamb
15. The rodent got stuck in a pit of TAR
16. The talent agent charged PER booking (abbr.)
17. I always pick up the TAB, while my mate swats it my way
19. The enterprising woman, full of ZEAL, does not lounge around
20. The FIEND was issued a demand for payment by the court
22. The former Montreal baseball team fell victim to both cow and chicken POXES
23. EACH and every bone in my body was sore after running the marathon
25. The noble RAJA left the door partially open
27. My neighbor, NED, turned a room in his house into his "man cave"