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Tom Allen (CBC personality, trombonist, storyteller} and Andy Creegan (founding member of the Barenaked Ladies, instrumentalist, comâ€" poser) will present an evening of music, wit and storytelling, Oct. 10 at Theatre & Company‘s King Street Theatre Centre. The perforâ€" mance will feature Allen‘s latâ€" est story "Glen, Now and Then‘. set to music composed by Creegan. Tickets are $15 and can be reserved by calling the box office at 57 10928 Next Level Theatre presents The Weir, Oct. 11â€"27 at the Church Theatre, 1376 King St. in St. Jacobs. For ticket inforâ€" mation, call the Centre in the Square box office at 578â€"1570, ON THE EDGE Theatre on the Edge presents live improv comedy every Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Waterloo Community Arts Centre. Admission is $5. For further information, call the arts centre at 747â€"5049. THEME WORDS B Bamey Foster Fowler Alvarez Moltzman Jimenez Koufax Blue Blyleven Bosio Browning Burke Busby Callahan Cicotte Corcoran Cowley Culver Davis Dean Dierker Dietrich Eason Enckson M Maddox Lush Last puzzle‘s Answer: ALL SHAPES AND SIZES An allâ€"star Stratford Festival cast will perform a cabaret evening in support of the Canadian Cancer Society, Oct 14 at 8 p.m. at the Festival Theatre. Entitled "A Grand Night", the event will be hostâ€" ed by Cynthia Dale, and will feature song and dance from the repertoire of famed musiâ€" calâ€"theatre collaborators Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein 11. For ticket information, call the box office at (519} 273â€"1600 or 1â€"800â€"567â€"1600. THE LONG WEEKEND Waterloo Stage Theatre {24 Kings St. S., Waterloo} preâ€" sents The Long Weekend, through Oct. 20. For ticket information, call the box office at 888â€"0000. Lighter Side Productions preâ€" sents A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Festhall through Oct. 13 at the Victoria Park Pavilion. JASPER STATION Theatre on the Grand in Fergus presents Norm Foster‘s Jasper Station through Oct. 20. For tickets, call the box office at 519â€"787â€"1981. Drayton Entertainment‘s proâ€" duction of Swingtime Canteen continues through Dec. 30 at the Schoolhouse Marquard Martinez "BASEBALL‘S NOâ€"HIT CLUB" Solution: 14 Letters (2 Words) HZWUORD Reuss Reynolds Ryan Saberhagen _T Sanders Seaver V Valenzueta Siebert Vance Smdth Vander Meer Kâ€"W Musical Productions presents Oliver!, featuring such classics as "Food, Glorious Food", "Consider Yourself" and "As Long As He Needs Me", Nov. 15â€" 17 at The Centre in the Square. For show times and tickets, call 578â€"1570. Canadian comedian Ron James will perform at The Centre in the Square Nov. 19 For ticket information, call 578â€"1570. TWO SENSATIONS Fiddler Natalie MacMaster and guitarist Jesse Cook will perform Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. at The Centre in the Square. For ticket information, call the box office at 578â€"1570. THE SINGING PRIEST Rev. Mark Curtis will introâ€" duce his latest recording, "The Call", in concert Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Saviour, 33 Allen St. E.. Waterloo. Tickets are $15, available at Words Worth Books. Spahn Stewarl Stoneman W Waish Ward YÂ¥ Young Witheim will perform Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. at The Centre in the Square. For ticket information, call 578â€"1570. Moist lead singer David Usher will bring his solo act to The Lyric Oct. 20. Tickets are availâ€" able at Ticketmaster outlets and at HMV in Waterloo. ALL THAT JAZZ Diana Krall will be at The Centre in the Square Oct. 22 at 8 p.m. For ticket informaâ€" tion, call 578â€"1570. ‘80s British rockers The Cult will be at The lyric Oct. 30. Tickets go on sale Sept. 21 at 10 a.m. at all Ticketmaster outlets and HMV in Waterloo, The Watchmen, with By Divine Right and Smoother, will perform at The Lyric Nov. 24. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster outlets and HMV in Waterloo. Circus Room, 729 King St. E., Kitchener, features an open stage with Waterloo singer/songwriter Matt ACROSS 1. Hamster kin 4. Womâ€"out horse 7. Kyoto beverage 11. European fish 12. Netherlands city 13. Apples & pears 14. Hypothesize 16. Vary between 17. Carole King‘s surmame 18. Skiing site 20. Dice throw 21. Hang on to 22. Unhappy 25. Family 27. Designed to fulfill a promise 29. Maid of Astolat 32. Solomon‘s 33. Rousseau‘s home town 34. Afternoon 35. Musical note 36. Singer Amold 38. Promise 41. Minister‘s home 43. Untamed 45. Call off a space trip 47. Footprint mold 49. Trousers 50. Coffee server 51. Poet Hughes 52. Very in French 53. Primary color 54. Historical period DOWN 1. Leave to luck 2. Legally of age 3. Indian tent attractions 6. Farm birds 7. Cleansing substance 8. Memory loss 9. Saint Bernard wears one 10. Compass dir. 13. Pop the seriousness 21. Works dough 23. Maria question 15. Fifth finger 19. Lack of 4. Travers and Ramsay‘s discovery 5. Newspaper 35 52 11 14 17 The Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo Chamber Music Society will present U.S. piano virtuoso Justin Kolb, Oct. 10 at 8 p.m. in the Music Room, 57 Young St. W., Waterlao. To reserve tickets, call 886â€"1678. The WLU Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paul Pulford, will perform Oct. 14 at 3 p.m. in the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall. Tickets are $10 and $5. The WLU Symphony 41 31 CROSSWORD 24. Singer Shannon 26. Thinks up 28. See the country 29. Bread ingredient 30. Director Spike pornpously 40. Put money on 42. Garfunkel & 31. Windflower 37. Have scrupies 39. Speak Linkletter 43. Pay for 44. Mythological mom of twins 45. Fitting 46. Kind of chart 48. Parent rock The University of Waterloo Art Gallery features Geometries of Creation, Conversations of the Heart by Ryszard Sliwka through Dec. 12. The Robert Langen Gallery at WLU features Interpreting the World, a mixed media exhibit by Carl Beam, through Oct. PASSING THROUGH KOR Gallery, 79 Joseph St.. Kitchener, features an exhibit by Karoline Varinâ€"Jarkowski entitled Passing Through, until Oct. 20. UW ART GALLERY Alarm, an exhibit of ceramic installations by Jane Adeney, continues through Oct. 18 at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery in East Campus Hall. The exhibition catalogue includes the essay Signs of Forced Entry by guest writer Linda Kenyon. An exhibit by Ed Pien entitled Deep Waters continues through Nov. 4 at the Kitchenerâ€" Waterloo Art Gallery, 101 Queen St. N., Kitchener. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK‘S CROSSWORD FOUND ON CLASSIFIED PAGE 23 40 10 24