Puzzle #17
Across
- 2. Call at a speed dating event, perhaps
- 4. Grim guy with a scythe
- 7. In the song "Mr. Big ____", Jean Knight addresses a ladies' man with means, letting him know that she's not going to fall for his charms and isn't impressed with his fancy clothes or big fine car
- 8. In the ____ Dead's song Truckin', the line "Busted, down on Bourbon Street" refers to an incident on January 31, 1970 when members of the band were arrested in a drug bust in New Orleans
- 10. The ballad "Best of My Love" was the first US #1 hit for this band
- 11. Proposal-accompanying jewelry
- 13. Short-term romance
- 14. Whitney Houston appeared on its cover in 1981
- 15. Something to do in one's boots
- 16. Exact look-alike
Down
- 1. "The First Cut is" this?
- 3. John Lennon's 1971 song "____ Inside" could be challenging us to be true to ourselves
- 5. Van Morrison hit with the line "A fantabulous night to make romance"
- 6. Pragmatist's opposite
- 9. About 350,000 insect species
- 12. Late 1970s Goth band did "Bela Lugosi's Dead"