Across
- 7. This has laid its hand on Daddy Murphy’s shoulder through the years
- 9. Occasion for a dance
- 11. State setting
- 12. He can make Happy Birthday sound scary
- 14. Alice’s investment in Billy
- 16. Daddy Cane is often missing this garment
- 18. Appliance in need of repair
- 19. Daryl’s newest pen name
- 21. “__________ look what you’ve done to me”
- 23. Mayor Dobbs’ stooge
- 24. Identity clue
- 29. Alleged letter writer
- 31. The only solution is a legal and completely anonymous ___________.
- 33. Asheville ___________ Journal
- 36. “I have been blinded, ___________ fell on me”
- 39. Chore Alice despises
- 41. Awkward book store patron
- 42. Soldier
- 43. BIlly and Lucy had a bit of a ______________ at the Shiny Penny.
- 44. Gives Alice a pep talk
Down
- 1. “All you ever do is ___________”
- 2. Site of Alice and Jimmy Ray’s reunion
- 3. “Closeness”
- 4. Newborn conveyance
- 5. She’s not a lady on a Friday night
- 6. Daryl feels so fine because of this
- 8. Mrs. Cane
- 10. How about a rum and _________ ________
- 13. The number of years it’s been since Billy and Margo kissed
- 15. She sneaked rum in her tea
- 17. “Truth walks beside us like a ________ and one day it merges with us”
- 20. “I caught a few typos and retyped it on _________ ___________.”
- 22. This is a wonderful school
- 23. Billy’s been pronouncing this word wrong
- 25. Wrote a mystery novel with the word “brassiere”
- 26. Margo’s stand-in kissing partner
- 27. Name of the hall of records clerk in Raleigh
- 28. He’s a smart guy
- 30. You don’t have to drink it slow
- 32. Alice wants to cozy up to some of these
- 34. Billy hails from here
- 35. Alice’s hometown
- 37. Steve Martin’s writing partner Edie ____________
- 38. “So _________, like I knew ya”
- 40. Mr. ___________ P. Toad