04.17.11 — End of the Line

Sunday, April 17, 2011

END OF THE LINE, Puzzle by Matt Ginsberg / Edited by Will Shortz

Seven humorous quotations are the main feature of this wholly agreeable Sunday crossword in which the solver supplies the punch line.  LOL!

• “I used to do drugs. I STILL DO, BUT I USED TO TOO”: Mitch Hedberg
• “The car stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was IN A PEDESTRIAN’S POCKET”: Anonymous
• “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it THROUGH NOT DYING”: Woody Allen
• “Whoever named it necking was A POOR JUDGE OF ANATOMY”: Groucho Marx
• “You know what I hate? Indian givers… NO, I TAKE THAT BACK”: Emo Philips
• “I don’t mean to sound bitter, cold or cruel but I am, SO THAT’S HOW IT COMES OUT”: Bill Hicks
• “I have the heart of a small boy. It IS IN A GLASS JAR ON MY DESK”: Stephen King

Other — ATTENDS (94D. Doesn‘t cut), CHARADE (95D. Empty pretense), PATRICE (14D. First Congolese P.M. Lumumba), RESERVOIR (29A. Dam result, often), SLOVAKS (15D. Czech neighbors), SUPERDOME (112A. Saint‘s place), TWIN JET (98D. F-15, e.g.), WET SUIT (9D. Diving duds).

Mid-size — ALTIMA, DETACH, DEWIER, EDSELS, GO BUST, HOMERS, NIMBLE, ORTEGA (106D. Daniel of Nicaragua), REST UP, SEES UP, SKIP IT, SO SOON, STERNA (111A. Breastbones), ST MALO (103D. French walled city on the English Channel), TAI CHI, TALK TO, TIERED, TOOLED, UNISON.

Five-letter — ALIEN (75A. Sci-fi film with a hatching egg on its poster), ALLEE, AXIOM, D AND D (124A. Class role-playing game, for short), DÉCOR, DEPOT, DOEST, ELSIE, ERASE, ERATO, ERODE, EZINE, GULAG, HARD G, HOMERS, INEPT, LAING, LUCIA, NEEDS, NOVAE, ON TOP, PSALM, PSEUD, SNUBS, TAROT, TE AMO, U-BOAT (57D. Battle of the Atlantic vessel), USE IT, WADES, YEOWS.

Short stuff — ALTO, ANO, AOL, ARI, ASIA Minor, ATMS, ATON, COIN, CROC, DAMP, DOUR, DOZE, EMIT, ERIK, ESAU, ESSE, ETUI, FAD, FEAT, FEN, GEL, GOT, HUSH, IDEA, INS, IRE, IRID, JEER, KENO, LADS, LEOI, LOLA, “Love ME OR leave …”, MIDI, MNO, MOET, NAAN, NOAH, OHM, ORBS, OWN, PIG, PINA, REES, ROUX, SDAK, SEUL, SIDE, SIS and SIT, SLAP, SNIP, SOPH, TIO, TONG, TSA, TURN, UBER, UNTO, URI and URL, USAR, UTIL, YET.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES — Crossword Puzzles and Games.

Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Screen grp.?; 4. Solzhenitsyn subject; 9. Dives (into); 14. Song accompanied by a harp; 19. Huffington Post buyer in 2011; 20. Lyric muse; 21. Wear down; 22. Tree-lined path in une foret; 27. Invent; 28. Ignores; 30. Sends one out of the park; 33. Alone, in Paris; 35. Lady of Lammermoor; 42. Mexican Valentine’s greeting; 43. Madre’s hermano; 44. Recuperate; 46. Kind of diet; 49. “Never mind”; 52. Asian flatbread; 55. Mystifying Geller; 56. Biblical name meaning “hairy”; 63. Like Jack, it’s said; 66. Some doors; 67. Exploding stars; 76. Cork’s place: Abbr.; 77. More moist; 88. Affix carelessly, with “on”; 87. Crush, sports wise; 98. Whisked mixture; 89. Send continuously, as video; 92. Physicist Georg; 93. Cut off; 97. Dinner table command, with “up”; 99. Above; 109. Fool’s deck; 110. Fashionable ‘70s dress; 116. Essentials; 119. Con Ed, e.g.: Abbr.; 125. Dairy mascot; 126. Slate, for one; 127. Fooled; 128. Out-line?; 129. Perform a la Shakespeare; 130. Place for military supplies; 131. May container? — DOWN: 1. Feature of many a Jet Li film; 2. “Already?”; 3. Stanza successor; 4. Get fixed?; 5. 19-Across has a much-used one; 7. Heaps; 8. Totally fail; 10. J.F.K.’s successor; 11. Forbidding; 12. 1960s doo-wop group with an automotive name, with “the”; 13. Escorts to a second-floor apartment, say; 16. Liza Minnelli, for one; 17. First pope to be called “the Great”; 24. Like Inspector Clouseau; 25. Superlative prefix; 26. Inside look?; 31. Roger of “Cheers”; 32. Pierre is there: Abbr.; 34. Scottish psychiatrist R.D.; 37. Squirt, e.g.; 38. ‘13 grad in ‘11, e.g.; 39. Biblical patriarch “righteous in this generation”; 40. Decorative kit; 41. Become a traitor; 45. Glutton; 46. Wet lowland; 48. Wettish; 50. Crocus or freesia, botanically;51. Chinese gang; 53. “Eugene O’Neill’s “___ Christie”; 54. Palindromic time; 59. Start of a fitness motto; 60. Spot; 61. Fruit that grows in a cluster; 62. Cries of pain; 64. Bugs Bunny’s girlfriend; 65. The Phantom of the Opera; 69. Taunt; 70. A law ___ itself; 71. Venus and others; 72. Grand slam, e.g.; 73. Whence Venus?; 74. When said three times, “Of course, obviously!”; 78. Record stat; 79. Sleep precursor; 80. Gets charged up?; 81. Really liking; 82. “Quit your crying”; 83. It’s assumed; 84. Nile menace, informally; 85. Vegas attraction; 90. Cashpoints; 91. Vintner Claude; 94. Doesn’t cut; 95. Empty pretense; 96. Garage opener?; 100. Ann Landers or Ayn Ran: Abr.; 102. Drove (along); 104. Something that can’t be patented; 105. Like stadium seating; 107. Simultaneity; 108. Admonish, as a child; 112. Aspect; 113. Org. for part-time soldiers; 114. Colada fruit; 115. Latin 101 verb; 117. What you might do after retiring; 118. Fabric scrap, say; 121. Family girl; 122. 6 letters; 123. Thus far.