Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker
Friday, June 29, 2007 Puzzle by Mike Nothnagel, edited by Will Shortz
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Across:
1 Sitcom character with a leather jacket that’s now in the Smithsonian
8. The New Yorker cartoonist William -- STEIG, one of the greats.
13. Taxing preinitiation period -- been there, done that.
15. Childish retort -- ditto.
17. Have no dinner companions -- fine with me.
18. Make -- Webster’s devotes a whole page of fine print to this word -- take your pick.
19. They’re numbered in golf -- mmm, is there an actual printed number?
20. Fasten firmly -- never used INFIX, ever!
22. Prefix with lateral -- ISO, new to me.
23. One prepared for church: Abbr. -- not person, thing.
24. Quintillionth: Prefix -- oh boy, give me a break!
25. Thai currency -- old crossword standard.
26. 2004 Brad Pitt film -- starts out good, ends up in shambles.
28. Agitate -- CHURN is an interesting twist.
30. Scream -- how many ways can RIOT be clued?
31. Felicitous - APT, so overused -- sometimes an city unit.
33. 1974 Chicago hit -- another "never-knew".
35. 2002 sci-fi role for Hayden Christensen -- who doesn’t know?
39. Teacher’s request of a publisher -- or a FREECOPY.
40. Capitol Records owner -- strictly from happenstance.
41. Dancer Limon -- ole!
42. Moves laboriously -- very subjective.
44. New York Cosmos’ sports org. -- happenstance (or “fill” as some call it)
48. Linear, briefly -- ONED = one-dimensional (more happenstance).
49. Send a high-tech message -- very today clue, I guess.
50. Kind of season -- well, either that or ETE.
51. They, to Therese -- desperate happenstance (or fill), no other way to clue it.
52. Classic arcade game character who hopped around a pyramid -- never saw the game. 54. “David _____” (1934 Will Rogers film) -- biopic.
56. Seat of Hillsborough County, N.H. -- on the way to Manchester and then the Lakes.
58. Nintendo game with exercises for mental acuity -- at least I’d heard of QBERT.
60. Treats similar to Mallomars -- never had either.
61. Local election campaign staple -- all over Long Island!
62. Basketball defense -- PRESS, goes well with 19A IRONS.
63. Some shorts -- SPEEDOS, the ugliest most useless ridiculous item of clothing ever conceived!
Down:
1. Believer - just take away the “a” from athiest.
2. One catching some waves? -- should have put three questions marks!
3. California air station where Nixon landed after resigning in 1974 -- again, ole!
4. Glazed desert -- FLAN, SMORES, Mallomars, someone has a sweet tooth.
5. Mouse catchers -- they catch other things too, but this way we think its CATS.
6. Latin leader? -- who wants CHE?
7. Crown -- after THEFONZ, what else -- Z as in ZENITH!
8. Garment worn over a choli -- just in case you never heard of a SARI.
9. Bygone carnivore -- ho hum.
10. “I should ___ die with pity”: King Lear -- long way to go for EEN.
11. Drawing medium -- and for tattoos.
12. Ends one’s travels -- well, hopefully GOESHOME.
14. Omaha and Spokane were once in it -- you thought cities?
16. Competitor in a harness - you thought jackalope?
21. Initial venture - maybe Wall Street, no -- think moat.
24. Ad directive -- for the buyer, ACTNOW!
25. Player of Dr. Kiley on “Marcus Welby, M.D.” -- another tv thing I never saw.
27. Ran on and on -- like this commentary.
29. Giants are in it: Abbr. -- who doesn’t know it’s going to be sports?
32. Snap -- oh, yes, clever!
34. Flight - on the…
35. Makes contact with -- nice straightforward clue and entry.
36. Glower? -- not pout or stare -- but shine!
37. One with a taxing job -- not difficult, dutiful.
38. Avalanche -- this definition was a little in left field.
43. Hollywood crowd? -- very good!
45. Not stout -- I remember now, the song: “Give me some men, some stout-hearted men” etc.
46. Ernie Bushmiller comics character -- not ROLLO.
47. Light measures -- straightforward.
52. Survey part: Abbr. -- not land, door-to-door.
53. Follower of the bottom line? -- in music.
54. Screen - not scan, not cinema, not interview, not bug-proof, not, not, etc.
55. “As I Lay Dying” character -- just happenstance “fill”
57. It ended when Francis II abdicated: Abbr. -- ditto.
59. Ernst contemporary -- ditto.
INDIAINK (11D Drawing medium)
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I'm actually not a Star Wars fan at all, but the name looked so good crossing KENTUCKY DERBY. I am a geek, but not of the sort that this puzzle might indicate. (If you are that kind of geek, here's to you.)
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