Across
- 4. fat heads who assume that television tells the truth
- 10. millions and millions
- 11. how to make nurses jump every time you sneeze
- 13. another word for blockhead
- 15. what the aardvark says when it eats ants
- 17. a high-flyer, as in “to do an icarus”
- 18. a measure of electricity equal to one joule per second
- 20. to make a stupid mistake
- 21. a four-letter word for truth serum
- 26. where they manufacture smells
- 27. splendid, close to perfect
- 28. the past, from the female point of view
- 29. a cool-sounding constellation
- 31. the white sparkles in skyrockets
- 32. a type of insect never found in Kevin’s pants
- 33. what Grim says when surprised
- 35. a French gangster
- 37. what we all were before plumbing was invented
- 39. a vegan
- 40. when you presume to assume
- 41. out of this world
- 45. millions of septillions
- 46. a joke made by a jock
- 48. the study of small families
- 49. small, irritating children, also known as rug rats
- 50. the study of icky foods, for instance fish
- 53. another word for Max and Kevin
- 55. one who hates books
- 56. the bang in a skyrocket
- 62. the opiate of the massives
- 64. covered with dandruff
- 66. a nervous cockroach
- 68. another word for earthling
- 71. a mighty dude called Max, saved his pal from bad attacks, then they conquered the world, with banner unfurled, and time left over for snacks
- 72. Max’s handwriting
- 73. adolescent eruption, not to be confused with teenage volcano
- 75. to expel hot air in the form of words
- 77. what Sherlock Holmes said to Dr Watson about where the food disappeared
- 79. an excellent idea
- 80. to defeat in battle, preferably with dragons
- 82. an adventure in which you have to use your imagination
- 85. a unit of measurement equal to 70 centimetres
- 86. cool, excellent, what the Fair Gwencalls “far-out”
- 87. TABLE where King Arthur passes out the snack food
- 88. what Webster invented, Kevin perfected
- 90. beaming up into books
- 93. a measure of energy equal to ten million ergs
- 94. shoes big enough to fit Maxwell Kane
- 95. what you do after you zig
- 96. a person who chases after windblown hats
- 97. the language of Jabba the Hut
- 99. a word used by people with small minds
- 101. billions of billions
- 105. loyalty with an “F”
- 106. a needlessly confusing word for needlessly confusing
- 107. how a camel blends into the desert
- 108. a big word for mechanical bird
- 110. fuel for humans, preferably so-called junk or UFO
- 112. amusingly athletic
- 115. an eighth-grade English class
- 116. all at once
- 119. what you do before you zag
- 122. MACHINE your imagination
- 123. ignorance is bliss
- 124. what Max sees when he dreams of architects
- 127. a source of knowledge, fun, and rude jokes
- 128. how the Fair Gwen talks when she’s nervous
- 129. more than a billion, less than a quintillion
- 130. King Arthur’s bravest knight
- 131. a muscle that improves with exercise
- 132. inventing with numbers
- 134. one-billionth of a second
- 135. another word for falling down
- 136. see under food; the study of the Unidentified Frying Objects
- 137. the zing in orange
Down
- 1. what matters to energy
- 2. the past, from the male point of view
- 3. a horse who makes a point
- 5. NITRATE the blue in a skyrocket
- 6. a sweet lady of light
- 7. a land far away in Maxwell’s basement
- 8. a seed you plant in your head
- 9. rhymes with bright and fight and right
- 12. a measure of energy equal to one dyne per centimetre
- 14. son of Lancelot, finder of the Holy Grail
- 16. a finger-powered computer
- 19. what you say to a moose when you want it to leave
- 22. Kevin when he knows he’s right
- 23. the good old days
- 24. boring conversation about the good old days
- 25. Grim’s word for nonsense
- 30. a place where weird-sounding musical instruments are kept in cages
- 34. a cool-sounding moon that orbits Saturn
- 36. an improbable, imperfect creature
- 38. a knight who saw the Holy Grail
- 42. any disgusting food, as in muciferous tapioca
- 43. what happens when you open a book
- 44. what you taste when you bite into an orange
- 47. a place that always lies over the next horizon
- 51. a gentleman of the old school, before they tore it down
- 52. maths with a rock-‘n’-rock beat
- 54. a mechanical entity, sometimes endowed with human characteristics
- 56. the womp in a skyrocket
- 57. a robotlike suit worn by knights of old
- 58. so exciting it makes you vibrate
- 59. the study of mysterious relatives
- 60. an emotional display to be avoided
- 61. a know-it-all
- 63. one who can sneeze a hot dog through his nose
- 65. the Fair Gwen’s word for “everything is cool”
- 67. a sword with magic powers
- 69. a toxic waste of time
- 70. unit of energy needed to move a gram one centimetre per second per second
- 74. more than enough, as in “quantic amounts of carrots”
- 76. the horizontal truth
- 78. Max’s shoe size
- 81. versification by the quantum mechanic means numberless sum
- 82. imaginary sums of impossible numbers
- 83. something that should be obscene, not smoked
- 84. talking on paper
- 89. education that tastes good
- 91. a four-letter word for Max in a bad mood
- 92. a unique method of whistling the “Star Trek” theme
- 98. another name for Blade
- 100. whatever you want more of
- 102. too hot to eat
- 103. the science of designing and building robots
- 104. a unit of measurement equal to 190 centimetres and still growing
- 109. sneaker perfume
- 111. more than a quadrillion, less than a septillion
- 113. where they keep the truth serum, and the magic carpets
- 114. a silly-looking creature that eats ants
- 117. a way to improve on the human condition
- 118. a thick, vicious liquid W
- 120. the meaner your face, the worse your demeanour
- 121. a Z in England
- 125. a human sauropod
- 126. a peculiar kind of story that’s often pretty gory
- 133. you have nothing to fear but maths itself