Einstein's Intelligence Was A No-Brainer -- Albert Einstein's brilliance attracted so much attention during his lifetime, that he wanted none of it when he died. In fact, the mathematician/scientist left strict instructions that there was to be no funeral, no service, and no grave. His body was cremated and the ashes scattered over a river in New Jersey, where he died on April 18, 1955. All except his brain. That, Einstein had left to the world of science that he had single-handedly changed, nearly beyond recognition.
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Puzzle by John Halverson, edited by Will Shortz
Great little Tuesday puzzle (sort of "themed" with SKIN, BONE, MUSCLE, FAT) -- in any event it's a NOBRAINER (17A Super-easy decision), which shares the grid with BONEHEADED (Really, really dumb) in this nifty little Tuesday puzzle of contrasts, including STYLE (28D Flair) and STYES (39A Eyelid woes) intersecting dead center. MUSCLECARS (27D G.T.O.’s, e.g.) and FATTUESDAY (10D Big Easy bash), MANIFESTO (6D Unabomber’s writing, e.g.) crosses MOSES (27A Noted Charlton Heston role), STRESSOUT (36A Put too much pressure on) lays over STYES and CATCHCOLD (41A Get the sniffles), if one AILS (58D Suffers bodily woes) call for EMS (9D Grp. Called after an accident), YEA (23A Vote in a legislative body) opposes NOTSO (65A (“That’s a lie!”), a MINX (13D Flirt) SMILES (5D Beams) at a PIOUS (33A Reverent) PANSY (1D Garden bloom) giving AFROS (18D Hairdos for Jimi Hendrix and others) in a STYLE SALON (43A Place with a "do or dye" situation), SKINFLINTS (20A Tightwads) can’t SPARE (62A Score with two balls) SCRAPIRON (61A Recycled metal) no matter what it COSTS (48D Prices). Very brave to include REHASH (46D Same old stuff), which could provoke SMILES, but it's COOL (30D Hip).
TREX (22A Dino whose body was more than 30 feet long), STAN (32D “South Park” boy who’s always crying ‘Oh my God, they killed Kenny!”), PETE (1A Baseballs’ Rose), MATA (15A ____ Hari, infamous spy), NIECES (29A Aunts’ relatives) DORA (40A “Dumb _____” [old comic strip]), LENA (64A Singer Horne), MOSES (27A Noted Charlton Heston role), LEE (49A Gray general), LEONA (51D Hotelier Helmsley) and EDNAS (52D Author Ferber and others) are the creatures that share this puzzle -- invite them all to the same party and you’ll have a REDALERT (37D Enterprise warnings) and no SLEEP (43D Get some shuteye).
That's all folks!
For a read on the "theme" of this puzzle, check out guest-blogger Barrywep at Diary of a Crossword Fiend
For today's cartoon, go to The Crossword Puzzle Illustrated
Puzzle available on the internet at
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8 comments:
44 across should be scalar rather than scolar. Nice blog.
anonymous
Thanks! A bump in the road! It's been repaired! I don't think I've seen or used it before. Should've checked!
Thanks for the large print option. IMOO, the style of the type enhances legibility more than the size does. Any reason not to choose a type style and size for the main page that would make it easier to read yet retain the overall Goth theme?
I mean no offense by these remarks. I wish you well and I will be back.
Jo
Thanks for the plug. I hope you read my post on being nice to bloggers. I am following my own advice.
barrywep
I have read your post on being nice to bloggers and left the following comment in your April 14 Comments section of Diary of a Crossword Fiend -- would love your permission to publish your other comments here, as I think they were quite positive.
The Comment:
Barry,
Good post! I believe anyone leaving a Comment should feel free to say anything they want about the subject puzzle of a particular post. Also think that your "kindness" notation applies both ways, if a Comment critizes the blog it may not be intended as negative and the Blogger should be ready for a little rain when he/she sticks the head out the window into the open air.
That said, I am a sometime lurker who refains from commenting when I know its going to be taken as offensive in any way, or that it might raise the hackles sending the troops to the parapet in defense of the fort -- then I feel as though I were trespassing on private property and do not in the future Comment.
Perhaps that's why my bristles can't flare up when I get flack after spending hours trying to make a blog and then getting negative feed -- its OK, I don't take it as negative and appreciate that if one blogs and leaves open Comment section to the world, then it is certainly a community opportunity for whatever.
While it is great to receive a compliment once in a while, I am much more appreciate of constructive criticism and have taken each and every Comment of that nature to heart -- hopefully to improve the compositions I issue. I don't think we can always walk in another man's shoes, the sizes vary and so do the styles, sandals, boots, pumps and loafers -- and also the blogger is only identified by what is revealed in the blog -- so the pseudonyms and anonyms in this little corner of the electronic world can sometimes contribute to negative input and response. Simply put, who knows who's shoe fits who!
In the process of blogging the crosswords, I find I have learned a lot about the technical (e-tech?) end of blogging and many other aspects related to accomplishing one's publication. That alone is worth the time.
Back to the Comments -- can't tell you how many times I have visited even this particular blog -- Diary of a Crossword -- and left no Comment. So, here goes -- I appreciate Amy's fine publication and look forward to her hard-copy in July!
You've done her blog a good service!
Thanks for opening the subject!
Lurkingly yours,
Donald
Donald | 05.15.07 - 12:26 pm |
Jo
I instituted the large print option specifically due to a previous comment by you and a subsequent one by Vi. It is extra work, but at the moment I don't want to change the the blog's format as it would dramatically change emphasis of the content within the blog -- I'm looking for the visual more than the word -- although sometimes I just can't keep from going on and on and on!
I appreciate your comments very much, and look forward to them in the future!
Thank you for your kind consideration. May your tribe increase.
Jo
The New York Times is having a promotion for its new internet service called "Times Reader" -- which includes the daily crossword -- for free for 30 days (including the entire rest of the paper too, a 7-day file each and every day). I'm a subscriber, so it comes with the subscription.
I recommend trying it out -- if for nothing else, the crossword.
Go to:
NYTimes.com/TimesReader
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/timesreader.html
I know most of the visitors to the blog already do the puzzle electronically, but their friends may be interested in trying it out for free (it's not as complete as the crossword subscription, but covers the daily for today and the past week) -- also, the format and presentation of the newspaper is quite good!
I get the service already, as I am a home subscriber -- it comes with it!
Try it!
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