Quadruple Bypass ----------------- Monday, March 30, 2009 Puzzle by Andrea Carla Michaels, edited by Will Shortz This back-to-work crossword features four 15-letter interrelated entries -- SINGLE OCCUPANCY (17A. Small hotel room specification); DOUBLE INDEMNITY (27A. 1944 thriller with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck); TRIPLE LAYER CAKE (47A. Baked dessert with lemon filling, maybe); QUADRUPLE BYPASS (62A. Serious heart surgery). Mid-size entries -- ACCEPTS (46D. Opposite of refuses); BIG BABY (4D. Chronic whiner); DECAY (32D. Go bad, as teeth); IDEAL (30D. Like a score of 10 for 10); NINJA (31D. Japanese fighter); I PLEDGE (44D. Start of a daily school recital); REASONS (10D. Deduces); SPENCER (40A. Princess Diana’s family name). Five-letter -- 9A. ARMED and dangerous; 38A. Ad ASTRA per aspera (Kansas’ motto); 43A. Eagle’s next, AERIE; 58A. Oliver’s love in “As You Like It”, CELIA; 68A. Words to live by, CREED; 27D. Probe persistently, DIG AT; 33D. Singer Turner’s autobiography, I TINA; 16A. Late hotel queen LEONA Helmsley; 28D. Stream critter, OTTER; 20A. Modern workout system TAE BO; 34D. Drug that calms the nerves, slangily, TRANK; 29D. Wombs, UTERI; 65A. Brink, VERGE; 35D. New Haven collegian, YALIE. Short stuff -- ALS, ANNI, ASIA and ASIS, AJAX and APEX, BOA, CLUE, DAY, EDIE, EMIL, ENCS, ESAI, ETTU, EURO, EXES, GOO, GTE, HARE, IAL, INCH, ISNT, ITTY, JAMB, JEST, KERN, LAOS, LAT, LOCI, MANE, MEOW, MONO, OMAR, QVC, RED, RENO, SAC, SEEP, SELA, SHE, SOS, SSTS, SUER, TACK, TONI, WHIR, XENA. ...and now on to those five days ahead! ----------------- For today’s cartoon, go to The Crossword Puzzle Illustrated.
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Remaining clues -- Across: 1. Side of a doorway; 5. 1928 Oscar winner Jannings; 14. Actor Morales; 15. Western locale called the Biggest Little City in the World; 21. Fan sound; 22. “He-l-lp!”; 23. Capone and Pacino; 25. Sticky stuff; 36. ___ -bitty; 37. Falco of “The Sopranos”; 39. Former AT&T rival; 42. Suffix with president; 45. Trojan War hero; 46. Years, in Latin; 50. Partner of long. In a G.P.S. location; 51. Small pouch; 52. “___ sells seashells by the seashore” (tongue twister); 54. Bulletin board fastener; 66. Continental money; 67. Author Morrison; 69. TV’s warrior princess; 70. Former jets to J.F.K. Down: 1. Words said in fun; 2. Where India is; 3. Lion’s hair; 5. Before, poetically; 6. Cat’s plaint; 7. 1/12 of a foot; 8. Graph points; 9. Swiss peak; 11. Not stereo; 12. Letter attachments: Abbr.; 13. When the sun shines; 18. Laze about; 19. Impulse; 24. Ooze; 26. Poet Khayyam; 40. Actress Ward; 41. Old flames; 48. “___, Brute?”; 49. Bordering on pornographic; 52. Litigant; 53. Tortoise’s race opponent; 55. Peak; 56. Word in many a Nancy Drew title; 57. “Show Boat” composer Jerome; 59. Neighbor of Vietnam; 60. “Money ___ everything”; 61. Sale tag caution; 61. Shopping channel; 63. Scarlet; 64. Feathered neckwear.
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