Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Puzzle by Will Nediger, edited by Will Shortz
The Ides of March slipped by unnoted this crossword season, but today’s gives a couple quotes from better times in ancient Rome. JULIUS CAESAR (54A. Speaker of the Latin quote hidden in the answers to starred clues … and the English-language quote hidden in the answers to the double-starred cues), e.g., VENI, VIVI, VICI found in EVENING DRESS (20A. * Soiree attire), VIVID IMAGE (27A. * Indelible picture in the mind), SID VICIOUS (48A. *Bandmate of Johnny Rotten) and THE DIE IS CAST found in THEIR (14A. **”His/her” alternative), ADIEU (16A. ** Parting word), VISIT (64A. **Sojourn), CASTE (6A. **Social grouping), constituting the interrelated group of this mad little Wednesday crossword.
Other — A SNAP (1A. Child’s play), ATM and ENTER (1D. Device with a 69-Across key), PERCHANCE (36D. Possibly), PROVIDENT (5D. Forward-thinking, in a way), SWIM CAPS (39D. Some pool attire), TEENAGER (8D. One sexting, maybe).
Mid-size — ADIEU, ADORNS, One of A KIND, AMIGOS, DEVIL (18D. Participant in a Faustian bargain), DIPSO, DRAG ON, DUE TO, ELITE, ENTER, EPONYM, ETHNO, EVOKED, GOT OUT, KAREN, MALTS, MAZDA, MILANO (23D. Home to da Vinci’s “L’Ultima Cena”), ODENSE (33D. Danish city where Hans Christian Andersen was born), O LEVEL, OVER-DO, REIN IN, VEERED, ZONED.
Short stuff — AIRE, AKIO Morita, ALAN, DOOR, EDOM, EMO, END, EPH, EST, GLEE, HST, ITE and IVE and IVY, JIVE, KEEP, LAI, LASH, LINE, MOD, NET, OER, OSOS, PEE and PIE , ROAN, SAGO, SEMI, SHE and STE, SIR, SOD, SUDS, TEES, TOWN, UNIT.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES — Crossword Puzzles and Games.
Remaining clues — ACROSS: 6. Guinness Book suffix; 9. Fountain items; 15. Cue preceeder; 17. Site of Super Bowl XXVI; 19. Like most urban land; 22. Modern rock genre; 25. Brown wall covering; 26. Mathematician Turing; 3. Starchy foodstuff; 34. Onetime exam in British schools; 35. Not spoil; 37. Hip, in the mid-’60s; 38. Actress Allen of “Raiders of the Lost Ark”39. “My dear ___”; 40. Like the service academies; 42. Doom; 43. It may have a square in the middle; 45. Seem to last forever; 46. Opportunity metaphorically; 50. Ancient land in modern Jordan; 5. Book after Galatians: Abbr.; 53. Jeanne d’ Arc, e.g.: Abr.; 50. Half-witted; 60. City of Invention; 65. Chart type; 67. Prefix with centric; 68. It may turn up at a golf course. — DOWN: 2. “___ walks in beauty, like the night …”: Byron; 3. Rear of a hockey goal; 4. Suffix with zillion; 5. Forward-thinking, in a way; 6. The Earl of Sandwich, for one; 7. Hard-to-park vehicle; 9. RX-8 carmaker; 10. Embellishes; 11. y = 3x + f representation, e.g.; 12. Concert souvenirs; 134. Head; 21. Merriment; 22. Called to mind; 24. Exaggerate; 28. “___ got it!”; 31. Buds; 32. Was released; 41. China’s Chou En-___; 44. Spanish bears; 45. Souse; 47. Check; 49. Went off at an angle; 51. On account of; 54. Nonsense; 55. Cadre, e.g.; 56. Pirate’s punishment; 57. Sony co-founder Morita; 58. Equine color; 61. Pres. When NATO was founded; 62. Ore name suffix; 63. Poetic contraction.
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