Monday, September 7, 2009 -- Labor Day
Puzzle by Andrea Carla Michaels and Ashish Vengsarkar, edited by Will Shortz This Labor Day crossword features a piscatorially interrelated group -- GO FISH (1A. Card game in which a player might ask “Got any 8’s?“); TAKE THE BAIT (20A. Fall for it); OPEN A CAN OF WORMS 41A. Start something that one shouldn’t start); GET REELED IN (57A. Be a sucker); MARINE GREEN (11D. Algae color); UNDER THE SEA (24D. Disney lyric repeated before “Darling it’s better / Down where it’s wetter”); 72A. Hook, line and SINKER. Mid-size entries include ALMOST (22D. “Close but no cigar”); CASSETTE (62A. Insert in a tape recorder); EDUCATE (21D. Instill with the three R’s); HASSLE (35D. Big inconvenience); HONKED (6D. Gave a toot); ONE-TWO (63A. Boxing combo); PALM TREE (18A. Coconut source); PEOPLE (23D. Us Weekly rival); PROTÉGÉ (31D. Tutee); PUEBLO (14A. Southwest Indian home); 69A. Hell-RAISER (rowdy sort); 17A. San SIMEON (Hearst castle); TIMELY (34D. Opportune); TUDORS (50D. English monarchs from Henry VII through Elizabeth I). Five-letter -- CARPS (38A. Complains); DUMPS (29A. Jilts); FREES (46A. Liberates); MANES (30D. Lions hair); MODEL (36A. Walk the runway at a fashion show); MOTET (45A. Sacred song); RESET (49A. Bowler’s button); SAMBA (10D. Latin ballroom dance); SINAI (55D. Egyptian desert); 5D. M.I.T.’s SLOAN School of Management; WRENS (53D. Birds in many birdhouses). Short stuff -- ACE and AGE, ALDA, ANN, APU, BAA, BELL, BLAH, CAB, COR, DEN (28D. Lion’s lair); EATS, ETON, ETUI, FEM, GAGA, GIA, GPS and GUS, HAW, IBET and ICET, IDLE, LAM, LEND and LENT, MIZ, NED, NEIN, NOUN, NYE, ORB and ORR, OUI, RAPT, RBIS, SETH, SLR, SNIT, SLR, SPF and SWF, TETE, TSK, WEE and ZEE. Labor Day -- I'm gone fishin'... ----------------- For today’s cartoon, go to The Crossword Puzzle Illustrated.
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Remaining clues -- Across: 7. Sluggers’ stats; 11. B’way’s “Les ___”’ 15. Alan of “M*A*S*H”; 16. Useful item accompanying a face card in blackjack; 22. “The Simpsons” clerk; 22. “The Simpsons” neighbor; 26. Raggedy ___; 27. Give away temporarily; 33. Brother of Cain and Abel; 40. Actress Scala; 44. Certain camera, for short; 47. Head: Fr.; 51. Steeple contents; 52. Hem’s partner; 54. Astronaut Grissom; 58. Bill the Science Guy; 67. What the rings signify on a tree; 68. Verb go-with; 70. Call to a shepherd; 71. State when one’s nose is out of joint. Down: 1. Navigational gizmo; 2. Yes, in Quebec; 3. Masc. alternative; 4. “Yeah, sure”; 7. Transfixed; 8. Unexciting; 9. Twiddling one’s thumbs; 12. Rapper turned actor; 13. New York’s Tappan ___ Bridge; 19. Bronzes at the beach; 32. Letters on a Coppertone bottle; 37. Escapee’s run; 39. Abbr. in personals; 42. Where streets meet: Abbr.; 43. Globe; 48. Grabs dinner; 57. Daffy; 58. School for princes William and Harry; 59. Decorative needle case; 60. Period of fasting; 61. No, in Nuremberg; 62. Taxi; 64. “Tut-tut”; 65. Itsy-bitsy; 66. Hockey’s Bobby.
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