03.01.11 — TEA

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Puzzle by C. W. Stewart, edited by Will Shortz

SPOT OF TEA (4 p.m. British refreshment … or what can be found in 18-, 25-, 47- and 58-Across and 3-Down?), ACUTE ANGLE (18A. It measures less than 90°), VOTE AGAINST (25A. Say “nay” to); LATE ARRIVAL (47A. One who was detained, maybe), RABBIT EARS (58A. Old TV antenna) and WASTE AWAY (3D. Shrivel to nothing) are the interrelated group of this pleasant Tuesday crossword.

Other — DESIRE (29D. Tennessee Williams “streetcar”), EVER SO, HAVING, IDEATE (27D. Cook up, so to speak), LOCATE, LOW END, NET SALES (8D. Income statement figure), PUT ONS, QUARRELS (39D. Heated exchanges), SHAMAN (9D. Tribal healer).

Five-letter — “Can’t talk now … I’m expecting A CALL“, ADELE (28A. Fred‘s dancing sister), ALIEN, AMUSE, ARGON, ASSAM (22A. Silk-producing region of India), AVAST, BELTS, BERET, CAPER, CURRLS, DELIS, EAGER, EGRET, EMAIL, EVENT, HAREM, ISAAC, ISLES, LIRAS, MANTA, SAFES, SCADS, SLANG, SMELT, TIBIA, TITHE, VERSE.

Short stuff — ALE, AMAH, BEN, BUS (42A. Greyhound, e.g.), CAN, “ICI on parle français“, “IT’LL be a cold day in …”, LAM, LASE, LEND, MAY I (“Please“), METE, MEWS, NASA, OBI, OIL, OLD, OVA, PEN and PER, PGA and PTA, PLAN, PTS and QTS (Milk amts.), RHEA, SASS, SCOW, SEW, SHAH, TOME, YRS.

Our trouble is that we drink too much tea.
I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient,
which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
~ J. B. Priestley
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