02.04.10 -- Anagrams

Illustration of an anagram by Welsh poet George Herbert, c. 1625

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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Puzzle by Matt Ginsburg, edited by Will Shortz

A note prefaces this crossword: The answers to the combined Across clues are anagrams of each other. The order in which the answers in each pair are to be entered in the grid is for you to discover.

Well, that’s just lovely, isn’t it! Actually, it is! Seven sets of anagrammed across entries constitutes the interrelated group of this thrifty Thursday crossword:

• SEA SALT / ATLASES (1. With 8-Across, World records? * Natural seasoning);
• ABRIDGE / BRIGADE (15. With 16-Across, Division division * Cut);
• GRIEVED / DIVERGE (17. With 18-Across, Was sorrowful * Separate);
• THICKEN / KITCHEN (41. With 43-Across, Coagulate * Galley);
• PROTEAN / PATERNO (67. With 69-Across, Longtime Penn State head coach * Versatile);
• ANDANTE / AT AN END (71. With 72-Across, Moderate tempo * Done);
• MEANDER / RENAMED (73. With 74-Across, Like St. Petersburg in 1914, 1924 and 1991 * Drift).

“He ran through the hall Maniacally“, from Edward Gorey's "Glorious Nosebleed: Fifth Alphabet“, 1975, a book of illustrated and capitalized adverbs.

Other -- ADVERB (5D. Always or forever), CAFTAN (52D. Cousin of a boubou), KNEE BEND (42D. Quadriceps exercise), LIVE BAIT (10D. Worm, often), PALATE (50D. Vintner’s asset), SAYEST (32A. Declare, once), SCHLEP (49A. Lug), TRICES (9D. Brief moments).

Five-letter -- ABDUL, AD HOC, BLIPS, DEALT, ETHYL, FLOAT, HOGAN, IN TWO, LINER, MOTHS (27D. What some balls repel), PLEBS, PLENA, SAUCE, SCOLD, SIEVE and SOAVE, SWEDE, SYNCH, TONED, WEIGH.

Short stuff -- AGE and ATE, ANNE, ARIA, APEX, BABE, BANS, CODA, EBRO, EDGY, ERNE, ERR, GYM, HTTP, HYDE, IDLY, IKEA (39D. Unböring retailer), LGE, MAW (27A. Big mouth), ODES, OREM, RATE, SAGS and SARG, SEC, SEEM, SPAM and SPAR, TALC, TAN, TAXI, TEDS, TODD, YAP (56A. Big mouth).

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Remaining clues -- ACROSS: 19. Dry white; 20. Cheek; 22. Where Joe gets a six-pack?; 23. Be human; 25. Common people; 36. Lyrical works; 38. Meter reader’s place; 40. Bisected; 45. Indian shelter; 46. Radiate, as light; 48. Stevenson’s misanthrope; 51. Tailor’s chalk, typically; 53. Laid out a club, maybe; 54. Passed out on the table?; 58. Brief moment; 61. Short-lived phenomena; 63. Soda jerk’s creation. DOWN: 1. Gives a little; 2. River that was the ancient dividing line between Rome and Carthage; 3. “Summertime,” e.g.; 4. Strain; 6. Big: Abbr.; 7. Dr. Seuss, informally, and others; 8. “Spellbound” singer, 1991; 11. Gray; 12. America’s Puppet Master; 13. Unconventionally provocative; 14. Come across as; 21. Peak; 24. Deserve special treatment; 26. Mesh; 28. Literally, “for this“; 29. Heave up, as an anchor; 31. Blacks out; 33. Antiknock additive; 34. Dag Hammarskjöld, for one; 35. Fit; 37. Almost boil; unböring retailer; 42.Quadriceps exercise; 44. Without aim; 47. Link letters; 55. Tough hit for an infielder; 57. Legislative assemblies; 58. Hormel canned it in 1937; Congress, in 2003; 59. White-tailed flier; 60. End notes?; 62. Boom; 64. Utah city; 65. Jesus’ maternal grandmother; 66. One of the Palins; 68. Almost burn; 70. Eroded, with “away”.