April Fools Crossword: The Answers!

So...I'm sure you've all been losing sleep wondering what the answers were for Wednesday's April Fools Crossword puzzle. Well, quality REM time will once again be yours now that the answers lurk below.

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1. "GL was once her foe, then became her beau." 

That would be the Golden Age villainess HARLEQUIN, who later reformed and, many years later, married Alan (Green Lantern) Scott.

2. "DC's comical criminal duo: Punch and _______" 

JEWELEE. A comical criminal duo who originally debuted in the Charlton line of comics, then migrated to DC with the rest of the Charlton stable of characters.

3. "Siegel and Shuster's six-issue flop." 

Siegel and Shuster's short-lived original creation was FUNNYMAN, a humor-themed hero patterned after then-popular comic actor Danny Kaye.

4. "Oswald Hubert Loomis" is none other than 

THE PRANKSTER, one of Superman's lamest, least-threatening, and worst-dressed foes.

5. "The Police Comics pal of Woozy Winks" was, of course, PLASTIC MAN...who made his debut in Quality's Police Comics.  Woozy Winks was his rotund sidekick.

6. "Ledger's legacy" refers to the JOKER...the best thing about The Dark Knight!

7. "Nuisance to the Knight" is the BAT-MITE, the magical imp who routinely tormented Batman and Robin throughout the Silver Age of comics!

8. "Jack Napier's infomercial product" is the deadly SMILEX gas the Joker in the 1989 Batman movie (Jack Napier was the Joker's real name in that particular story).

9. "Hails from Zrff" could only be the other annoying magical imp: Mr. MXYZPTLK, a 5th dimensional pain-in-the-S for Superman.

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1. "Alias of the Joker's Daughter" was actually the (one time) daughter of Two-Face,DUELLA DENT...who wanted to join the Teen Titans to atone for her father's evil deeds!

2. "The Devil's Fool" was a veiled reference to the JESTER, a member of Daredevil's rogue's gallery.

3. "Native of the Planet Poppup" was the shape-changing IMPOSSIBLE MAN, who occasionally drives the Fantastic Four crazy.

4. "Marvel's electroplasmic cartoon clown" referred to a little-known character named SLAPSTICK.

5. "Birthplace of the Joker: _________ Chemical Company." The ACE Chemical Company was the place where a villain named the Red Hood fell into a vat of chemicals...and emerged as The Joker!

6. "The god of mischief"  

Who else but Thor's evil half-brother LOKI?

7. "The imperfect Man of Steel" points to BIZARRO, the distorted creature who has all the power of Superman, and none of his brains!

8. "James Jesse's alter ego" is the TRICKSTER, whose wacky gadgets have plagued the Flash for decades!

9. "Ex-Arkham Asylum psychiatrist" was Dr. Harleen Quinzell, who fell in love with the Joker and became his equally-demented henchwoman HARLEY QUINN.

Comments

[Pat Curley]

Ah, here I was thinking that you had contracted the Scarecrow's real name to "Johnny Crane". I knew something was wrong with that, but couldn't quite figure out what.