04.26.08 -- Egg

Bishop: "I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones";
Curate: "Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent!"
"True Humility" by George du Maurier, originally published in Punch, 1895.
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

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Puzzle by Brad Wilbur, edited by Will Shortz
This is a nice-enough crossword for a Saturday -- a quick countdown and then I’m out of here!
Ten letters: IAMACAMERA (5A. Play for which Julie Harris won the 1952 Tony for Best Actress); MRSMINIVER (16A. Title housewife in an Oscar-winning film); CURATESEGG (18A. Something damned with faint praise, in British lingo); ONARAMPAGE (51A. Like King Kong in New York City); MADAGASCAR (56A. Its currency unit is the ariary); PLOTTWISTS (58A. O. Henry specialty).
Nine letters: WAXPOETIC (30A. Rhapsodize); CESTSIBON (37A. Song title followed by the lyric “Lovers say that in France); SCHEMATIC (1D. Techie’s drawing); PHONELINE (2D. Cell’s lack); CODENAMES (3D. Indicators of intelligence?); TAILSKIDS (31D. Some airplane runners); ISLEOFMAN (32D. Douglas is its capital); CLOWNCARS (33D. High-occupancy vehicles?).
Seven letters: MENIALS (22A. Drones); ENTITLE (24A. Call); STPETER (44A. Titular author of two books of the Bible); NILSSON (47A. Swedish soprano noted for her Wagnerian roles); MISFILE (11D. “Lose” at the office); TREERAT (38D. Small, furry African climber).
Six letters: ALARUM (27A. Old-style call to arms); CURLEW (43A. Cousin of the sandpiper); IMCALM (5D. Response to “Don‘t panic“); CIDERS (43D. Some like them hot).
Five letters: AXIAL (28A. Kind of skeleton or symmetry); TIMED (29A. Like Olympic races); HEROS (35A. Torpedoes); PHILO (40A. Gunsmith Remington); RAVEN (42A. Croaking flier); ARUMS (6D. Green dragon and skunk cabbage); EVERT (12D. Winner of six U.S. Opens); REGAL (13D. Splendid); ARGUE (14D. Get into it, so to speak); EXXON (24D. Replacer of the Humble brand in the early 1970s); AARON (28D. One of a pair of biblical brothers); WEBER (30D. Max who wrote “Politics as a Vocation”); STOMP (44D. Jazz Age dance); TONAL (45. Like much music); PRADO (46D. Home of “The Garden of Earthly Delights”); NAGAT (47D. Plague).
Four Letters: ADAR, CHOW, FRAU, HIVE, HODS, LAMP, LAUD, MACS, MADE, MSRP, NIPS, PIMA, PULE, SPCA, SSNS, TORE.
Three letters: AMA, ANE, ASL, AWS, CIT, ENE, HRS, INE, IRE, KFC, MAW, PAS, PSI, SAT, TAO.
As puzzle‘s go, I suppose one might say that parts of it are well-rounded, egg and all!
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Across: 1. Pound sign letters; 15. Galley output; 17. Burdens on some shoulders; 19. Navigation abbreviation; 20. Desktop accessory; 21. Married woman abroad; 34. Ending like -like; 36. Syst. of unspoken words; 48. Rent; 49. Synthetic; 55. Gila River native; 57. Time of Ta’anit Esther; 59. Hyphenated figs. Down: 4. Sounds of feigned sympathy; 7. Letters on a new car sticker; 8. Overseer of some practices: Abbr.; 9. Summons: Abbr.; 20. Give a glowing review; 23. More than upset; 25. Defeats narrowly; 26. Process of nature by which all things change; 39. Gathered dust; 40. Whimper; 41. Timecard abbr.; 52. Rep.; 53. Cavernous opening; 54. Telepathy, e.g.; 55. Announcement carriers, for short.

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