Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people. ~W.C. Fields
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RISKY BUSINESS, Crossword by Brendan Emmett Quigley, edited by Will Shortz
Gambling terminology, e.g., the risky business of OTB, HOLD‘EM, CRAPS, SLOTS, KENO, BACCARAT, ROULETTE and STAKE, punning as OTB IN ENGLAND (22A. London-based place to play the ponies?), HOLD’EM CAULFIELD (30. J.D. Salinger character’s favorite game?), CRAPS SUZETTE (48A. Game played with dice set on fire?), SLOTS OF LUCK (64A. One-armed bandits?), KENO SPEAKER (71A. Relative of a bingo caller?), BURT BACCARAT (88A. Card game played Reynolds’s way?), DON’T ROULETTE OUT (105A. “Please consider playing the wheel again”?) and STAKE PLATTER (118A. Pot with pile of chips?), constitutes the interrelated group of this win-or-lose Sunday crossword.
Eights — ANACONDA (46D. Tropical menace), AT BOTTOM, ATTENDER, ATTORNEY, BACK SEAT, CROAKERS and CROATION (48D. Frogs; 114A. Split personality?), DAY TRADE, HINTED AT, PARTISAN, RETURNER, RONDELET, SHINNY UP (4D. Climb, as a rope), SUNDANCE, TENDERED, UNSTATED.
Sevens — ASSENTS, AVENUE C, HORATIO (19A. Friend of Hamlet), PAN ARAB, PERGOLA, STRANDS, TOE PICK, UPSTART.
Sixes — “ All ABOARD!”, AGATHA (102D. Annual award for mystery writers), ASTROS, BAREST, Radio DISNEY, ERES TU, HONCHO, LATVIA, LEANTO, LEBEAU, LENORE, MCBEAL (3D. TV character with dancing baby hallucinations), MORRIE, N-TUPLE (100D. Mathematical sequence of unknown length), ORNATE, OROZCO (31D. The Epic of American Civilization” muralist), POP DUO, RANEES, SCOTTO, SUE ANE, THATCH, TOROID, UNPOTS, YOU TOO.
Fives — ABEAM, ADENI, BEEBE, C-CELL, DICTA, INNIE, KEYED, NICHE, NOONS, OGRES, OLAND, RIANT, SANA'A (21D. World capital almost 1 ½ miles above sea level), TASTE, TESLA, TOGAS and TOROS (70A. Participants in an annual run).
Short stuff — ABBA (and BABA), ACRE, AES, ALMS, ANNE, ARA and ARI and ARG and ART, BABA ghanouj, BACH, COMP, CTA, DALY, DINT, ECO, EDA and EDO, ELD, EON, ERIE, EROS (62A. Libido), HOT, IGOR, ISM, IRT, JON and JOT, KGS, LOA, LOEB (95D. Trial of the Century defendant), LORE, MATS, NENA, NOR, NUT, OHSO, ONO and ONT and ONTO, PET, PLAN and PLAY, REED (85A. Crumhorn, e.g.), ROT, ROUE, SAKI, SER, SSS, STAC, TAC and TAL, TBSP, TEN, THEE (5D. What you used to be?), TILE, TOAN, TREO, TSA, TUT, USA.
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Puzzle available on the internet at THE NEW YORK TIMES — Crossword Puzzles and Games.
Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Charitable contributions; 5. Bungalow roof; 11. Part of an ice skater’s shoe; 18. One of the Three B’s; 21. Film festival name since 1990; 24. Firm part; 25. Street bordering New York’s Stuyvesant Town; 26. “___ Athlete Dying Young” (A.E. Housman poem); 28. 8-point X, e.g.; 29. Laughing; 37. Golfer John; 38. Doughnut shape; 39. Asian royalty; 40. Letters on an Olympics jersey; 42. Busy; 44. Like Nasser’s movement; 52. “Mad Men” actor Hamm; 53. “99 Luftballons” hit-maker of 1984; 54. Spoilage; 55. Short and detached, in mus.; 56. Diva Renata; 59. One-third of a game win; 60. “I’m ___ you!”; 66. Arabian Peninsula native; 68. Sideways on a ship; 75. Insurer’s offering; 79 Author McCaffrey; 80. Antiquity, quaintly; 81. Mitch Albom title person; 82. Losing tribe in the Beaver Wars; 84. Psychologist LeShan; 87. Dearie; 93. Leaves high and dry; 95. Poe’s “rare and radiant maiden”; 96. On a roll; 97. “I’m not the only one?”; 99. Actress Langdon; 109. “Life of Brian” outfits”; 110. Stereotypical lab assistant’s name; 111. Alphabetically first inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; 112. Arriviste; 122. Offered in payment; 123. Vine-covered colonnade; 124. Emphatically; 125. Nods; 127. Gym gear. DOWN: — 2. 8-Down’s home; 6. Big gun; 7. The Iguazu Riv. forms part of its border; 8. 1960s chess champion Mikhail; 9. L overseer; 11. When repeated, an admonishment; 12. Mich. Neighbor; 13. Capital until 1868; 14. Like politics, by nature; 15. Hole just above a belt; 16. Flashlight battery; 17. Worked (up); 20. N.B.A. star nicknamed the Candy Man; 23. Bit in trail mix; 27. Part of a plot; 32. Stuff of legends; 33. Effort; 34. Begins to transplant; 35. “Lost” shelter; 36. Squishy place; 38. Art collector’s asset; 41. Snake’s warning; 43. Rock band with an inventor’s name; 45. Football special teams player; 47. Roadster’s lack; 49. Seven-line poem; 50. One who’s all there?: 51. Bygone geographical inits.; 52. Scribble; 57. Give for free; 58. Frequently, in brief; 61. Well-known Tokyo-born singer; 63. “The Open Window” story writer; 64. Talk to the flock: Abbr.; 65. Mau ___ (forever, in Hawaii); 67. School: Suffix; 69. Former Buffalo Bills great Don; 72. Hall & Oates, e.g.; 73. 1974 top 10 hit whose title means ”You Are”; 74. Canvases, say; 76. Coach Dick in the N.F.L. Hall of Fame; 77. The Altar; 78. Recess; 83. Prefix with warrior; 86. Do some quick market work; 89. Tacit; 90. Smooth operator; 91. Early smartphone; 92. Basically; 94. Neighbor of Swe.; 98. “Shanghai Express” actor; 103. Most meager; 104. Texas nine; 105. Mandates; 106. Meanies; 107. Common times for duels; 108. 0.5 fl. Oz.; 109. “Your safety is our priority”: org.; 113. Bit of theatrics; 116. “Taps” hour; 116. N.Y.C. subway line; 117. 1950s political inits.; 119. Actress Graynor; 120. Metric weights: Abbr.; 121. Big stretch?
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