- IDA Lupino was used yesterday.
- Titan II was an ICBM discontinued in 1987.
- I know KAL Penn by face and resumé (He's Kumar!), but didn't know his name.
- EL AL does indeed have planes with a blue stripe.
- "Cos. with many connections" is ISPS, which is droll, but I had a hard time reading "cos." as "companies."
- Singer SARA Evans is someone I don't know.
- You manufacture plows? SNO-Way!
- Red ADAIR was an innovator in fighting oil well fires.
- The shaded answers all end in an invisible pipe.
- The three big answers WATER TOWER, OIL PLATFORM, and GAS STATION almost have a theme going between them, but not quite.
- Who ever heard of a LAP CAT? I put *KITTEN at first.
- I never heard of the events of ARGO as "The Canadian Caper." It's because the rescuers used fake Canadian passports.
- PHEASANTS: "they're game."
