Solution to Payroll

by Cindy Keeler and Seth Kleinerman

The answers to the clues are words that can be pronounced (sometimes if you squint a bit) as a string of the names of English, Greek, and/or Hebrew letters: for instance, ROSY is "rho Z" and SHINNY is "shin E". Fill those letter strings into the crisscross grid (keeping in mind that some Greek and English letters look the same, and therefore are treated as the same letter for the purpose of filling the grid—so, for instance, in the grid, the letter N can be read as "nu" in one direction but as "en" in the other direction). The result is this:

The letters in the shaded cells in the grid, read off in order, are JAZ DRIVE MAKER. This clues the answer to the puzzle, which is appropriately IOMEGA.

The answers to the clues are below.

Famous sporter of a cowlick City of a Thousand Minarets Israelites' Promised Land Red hot chili pepper Addictive subject of a late Bach cantata Puzzlemaker Stewart who specializes in polyhedral dissections Argue Flightless bird Partner of rank Get a cab Like Wyclef Jean Transmogrify Computer tyro Character in a 1992 Disney musical Scene recapitulating the Madonna and Child Firebug, informally Sinewy Sanguine Spin Actor Atkinson Climb up a flagpole Station with "ani-Mondays" Sing like Jessie the Cowgirl Nothing	alfalfa cairo canaan cayenne coffee coffin debate emu file hail haitian mutate newbie newsie pieta pyro ropey rosy rotate rowan shinny SyFy yodel zero	AA XP Knun XN kafE kafN Dbet EM phiL heL he shin Mtet NB NZ PH piP PP PZ Ptet PN shinE psiphi yodL ZP
Smuggler of illegal immigrants Term of endearment Behead It's seconded, in a 1967 song Kosher turkey brand Matriculate Destruction by the elements Waiting to ___ (1995 film) Die Passionate Be pre-symptomatic "Rock in a Hard Place" track Nabokov autobiography "Speak, ___" Speech One way the census categorizes people Pi, for one Where a calf may be caught Lockjaw Herzl movement Austrian chemist who won the Nobel for his work on colloids	coyote cutie pie decapitate emotion empire enroll erosion exhale expire fiery incubate jailbait memory oration racially ratio rodeo tetanus zionism zsigmondy	XOT QTpi DKtet MOshin MpiR NPL EPshin XheL XpiR phiRE NQbet JLbet memRE OreshN reshLE reshEO PDO tetNS zayinSM sigmaND
Flight Going off course Henry Higgins specialty An American in Paris, perhaps? Beheading, for example Process of forming suicidal thoughts, e.g. Zimbabwean, formerly	aviation deviation elocution europhile execution ideation rhodesian	AVAshin DVAshin LOQshin UPphiL XEQshin IDAshin PDZN
One who spruces up Public finger-pointing Gauntness Subject of two executive orders, 1862-3 Henry Higgins specialty Full of information about, e.g., fMRIs and action potentials One obsessing over resolutions?	beautifier denunciation emaciation emancipation enunciation neurosciency videophile	BUTphiR DnunCAshin MACAshin MNCpeshin EnunCAshin NPpsiNC VDOphiL