From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern)
Subject: AZPACONY: answers
Organization: NCAR/UCAR
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:47:46 GMT

Thanks to all who sent me comments about this puzzle.  I received six
replies to my "name that theme" contest -- the first only 5 hours after
I posted the puzzle!  Of these, only one (the third response, by Roger
Phillips) correctly identified all parts.  Most people got parts 1 and
2; one person partially got part 3 as well, and one person couldn't guess
the theme.  These are the expressions of the theme:

1) The title is made up of the postal abbreviations for four (US) states:
   AZ (Arizona), PA (Pennsylvania), CO (Colorado), NY (New York).

2) The four 7-letter answers in the puzzle, while clued according to their
   meanings as English words, are also names of cities in these states:
	11-A: Phoenix (AZ)
	 3-D: Reading (PA)
	17-A: Boulder (CO) [where I live]
	14-D: Buffalo (NY)

3) There are four clues which mention these state names:
	21-A: Arizona
	 7-A: Pennsylvania
	 2-D: Colorado
	18-D: New York
   In each case, the state name stands for its two-letter code.

Complete answers follow:

ACROSS
======
1. Come up repeatedly about a dog (5) 
	RECUR = RE (about) + CUR (dog)
4. Unwary stranger might land a plane here (6)
	RUNWAY = (anag.) UNWARY
7. Turkish royal planted tree in Pennsylvania (5) 
	PASHA = ASH (tree) in PA
8. Powder doesn't usually seem toxic at first (4)
	DUST = D+U+S+T (first letters)
9. Chablis, at first, is removed from wine barrel for request (3) 
	ASK = CASK - C
11. Ten after strange hope in mythical bird (7)
	PHOENIX = (anag.) HOPE IN + X
12. Subconscious instinct leads half of each thought (4)
	IDEA = ID + (half of) EAch
15. One in race causes destruction (4)
	RUIN = I (one) in RUN (race)
17. Rock sounds more adventurous (7)
	BOULDER = (sounds like) BOLDER (more adventurous)
19. It's cool to be quiet after greeting (3)
	HIP = HI (greeting) + P (quiet)
20. Avoid working for bread (4)
	LOAF (two meanings)
21. Mother in Arizona with eastern surprise (5) 
	AMAZE = MA in AZ + E
23. Stop in attempt to be fashionable (6)
	TRENDY = END (stop) in TRY (attempt)
24. Area behind circle creates gas (5)
	OZONE = ZONE (area) behind O

DOWN
====
1. Hit song genre? (3)
	RAP (two meanings)
2. Gambling establishment is a sin in Colorado (6)
	CASINO = A SIN in CO
3. Looking at books amid loaves of bread in green wrappers (7)
	READING = (hidden) bREAD IN Green 
4. Boston team replaced D. X. Rose (3,3)
	RED SOX = (anag.) D X ROSE
5. Reptile, headless after point by magician (6)
	WIZARD = W + LIZARD - L
6. Forcibly remove any bad king (4)
	YANK = (anag.) ANY + K
10. Fight curve, on average (4)
	SPAR = S (curve) + PAR (average)
13. Area unit in cardiac research (4)
	ACRE = (hidden) cardiAC REsearch
14. Standing on nothing, bluff a crazy animal (7)
	BUFFALO = (anag.) BLUFF A + O 
16. Sprite and beer run through the body (6)
	IMPALE = IMP (sprite) + ALE (beer)
17. British epithet is bad, old boy (6)
	BLOODY = (anag.) OLD BOY
18. Angry about New York's backward oxygen generator (6)
	DYNAMO = MAD around NY backwards = DYNAM + O (oxygen)
19. Pick up for stealing, taking away top (4)
	HEFT = THEFT - T (first letter = top)
22. I see, I say! (3)
	EYE = (sounds like) I

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