Time After Time -- Clock © 2009 Loren Zemlicka
------------------ Thursday, October 8, 2009 Puzzle by Scott Atkinson, edited by Will Shortz TIME AFTER TIME (33A. Repeatedly … and a hint to the answers to this puzzle’s starred clues), DOUBLE PLAY (18A. *Baseball feat), HALF-LIFE (24A. *Physics period), GAME FACE (48A. *Brave front), AIR QUALITY (52A. *Asthmatic’s concern) are the interrelated group of this Thursday crossword -- double time, playtime, halftime, lifetime, game time, face time, airtime, quality time… COLISEUM and TIBERIUS (11A. Olympics venue, 33D. Caligula’s predecessor as emperor) take the solver back in time, leading other entries of length -- ALA CARTE (12D. Individually, in a way), IN SPURTS (34D. Not gradually), MINE FIELD (32D. Treacherous expanse) and OPEN FLAME (4D. Hazard around an aerosol can).
Seven-letter group -- DOYENNE (13D. Leading lady), I MEAN IT (25D. Follow-up to a parent’s command, maybe), NUMERAL (42A. X, e.g.), SLALOMS (27A. Winter Olympics races), 37D. Potassium SORBATE (preservative), THORIUM (26D. Metal that’s an effective radiation shield). Six-letter -- ACT ONE (44D. When Romeo meets Juliet), ANIMAL (2D Uncouth sort), CUPOLA (3D. Basilica feature), LEONID (45D. Russian playwright Andreyev), NATTER and RATTER (42D. Flap one’s gums, 43D. Vermin hunter), REPEAT (46A. Last word in shampoo instructions), SPOOFS (6D. Many Mel Brooks films), TORAHS (1D. They’re read at services), TULSAN (26A. Garth Brooks, by birth).
Five -- 7D. “Dedicated to finding A CURE” (diabetes foundation motto), 20A. AMONG friends, ARPEL (10D. Cosmetician Adrien), BRUSH (49A. Dentist’s admonition), DE-ICE (23A. Clear, in a way), DITTO (51A. “What he said”, EPCOT (15A. Florida tourist destination), ESQUE (47D. -like), GEICO (48D. Insurance giant), GLOVE (21D. Part of a hazmat suit), MACED (57A. Blinded painfully), ODORS (60A. Targets of some sprays), OSAKA (5A. Where Panasonic is headquartered), TAMED (36D. Like circus elephants).
Short stuff -- ACAD, AMO, ATL, AVE, DRED, EDUC, ERN, ESSE, ETON, FUL, IAN, KOBE, LENI, MOO, MTN, MUTE, NUN, OAHU, OBS, OED, OIL, ONUP, ORE, RIPE, ROLO, SINE, TACO, THC, TOE, TUTU, VET, VLAD the Dragon, ruler of old Wallachia, YDS.
Time after time, after time….
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Remaining clues -- Across: 1. ___ salad (dish with ground beef); 10. Nav. ___; 14. “Get ___,” 1967 hit for the Esquires; 16. Hershey’s candy; 17. Like many old gym socks; 22. Pay dirt; 28. Marijuana’s active substance: Abbr.; 29. Directional ending; 30. Old greeting; 31. Farm sound; 32. Not just turn down; 37. Kind of wave; 38. One of the Canterbury pilgrims; 39. Golden Globe-winning English actor McShane; 40. M.D.’s who deliver; 41. Palm product; 50. Do a background check on; 55. Town at one end of the Windsor Bridge; 56. Something a person may take a spin in?; 58. Filmmaker Riefenstahl,; 59. To be, to 33-Down; 61. Harriet Beecher Stowe novel. Down: 5. Work started by London’s Philological Soc.; 8. Japanese port; 9. The Falcons, on scoreboards; 19. N.E.A. part: Abbr.; 28. It may be pinched; 31. Range part: Abbr.; 35. Suffix with glee or sorrow; 41. Home of highways H-1, H-2 and H-3; 50. ___ the Dragon, ruler of old Wallachia; 53. “Yo te ___”; 54. Stat for an R.B.
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