05.01.11 — Look on the Bright Side!



Sunday, May 1, 2011 — May Day

LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE!,
Puzzle by Xan Vongsathom / Edited by Will Shortz

THERE’S NOWHERE TO GO BUT U[P] (110A. Optimist’s phrase under adverse circumstances … or a hint to completing the answers to the six starred clues), along with the end letter of the six phrases turned upward, constitutes the interrelated group of this Sunday crossword — WORST NIGHTMARE COME TRU[E] (22A. *Most awful thing you could imagine), THE SOUTH POL[E] (36A. *Destination of 1911), ENTRY LEVEL JO[B] (46A. *First rung on a ladder), BOTTOM OF THE CLAS[S] (64A. *Dunce’s place), ABJECT POVERT[Y] (83A. *Destitution), ABSOLUTE ZER[O] (93A. *Coldest point).

Other — AGE LIMIT, AGLIMMER, AIRPIPE, ANTEATER, ARCHRIVAL, AT THE TOP, BARGAIN, C S LEWIS (90D. Creator of Aslan and the White Witch), EASTERS, EASY ONE (119A. Real softball), EXOTIC PETS (69D. Tamed tigers, say), FAWCETT, I NEED HELP, INHERIT, LITTERMATE, SEE THRU, STEEPLE (67A. It may have a cross to bear), TANDOOR (63D. Naan cooker), TOY SHOP, WITS END.

Mid-size — ACTION, ALUMNI, ATILLA, AT LAST, AVENGE, COUSIN, DELAY, DEBRA, ENTRÉE, ERROR, FRANS, KAABA (77D. Most sacred building in Islam), KNOTT, LONDON, LOOTS (52A. Hits and runs?), LOSER, MODELS, MOTES, NICKEL, NIECE, NOD AT, PEELE (103A. “The Old Wives‘ Tale“ playwright George), PIERRE, PRIZED, RETINT, ROADS, RUSES, SAMOA, SCONE, SEABED, SPARTA, STRAP, TAINT, TIN EAR, TAINT, TORTE, U TURN, VENTI, ZZ TOP.

Short stuff — ADZ, AER Lingus, AFTS, AGT, ANO and ATO, APU, RKS, ARTI, ASTA, ATOE and ATOM, BAH, BIL, CALF, DISC, DOT, DUMA, EIRE, ELEC, ELM, EON, ERE, SSA, ETAT, EVA, FUEL, GLAM, Fole GRAS, HAL, HAST, HBO, HOER, HRE, IFS, ILSA, IME and IMP, ITSY, Plat du JOUR, LEAN, MGM, MIS, MRT, NEMO, NYT, OARS, OHMY, OLA, ORR, PEST, PEU, PINT, PIXY, REMI, REN, RITZ, SCH, SLED, SLOP, SNOG, SON, STAT (54A. Hits or runs), STY, TAJ and TAP, TEES, TGIF, TONE, VET and VETO, WAT (22D. Buddhist temple).

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Puzzle available on the internet at
THE NEW YORK TIMES — Crossword Puzzles and Games.
Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. One keeping a watch on someone?; 6. Steal; 13. Swine swill; 17. One who m ay be removed; 19. 21, at a casino, say; 21. Home for clover lovers; 25. One with a deadly tongue; 26. Rapscallion; 27. Founder of an eponymous berry farm; 28. Some pipe joints; 29. Dogie, e.g.; 32. Declaration upon checking oneself into rehab; 40. Does not compute”; 41. Where lavalava skirts are worn; 44. Davy Jones’s locker; 45. Graduates; 49. Times in classifieds; 51. Wood shaper; 55. Stub ___; 56. “2001: A Space Odyssey” studio; 57. Dost possess; 59. A laser might read it; 62. Brain-racked state; 70. Minute, informally; 71. Skin-and-bones; 72. Pluto, to Saturn; 75. ___ Stix (powdered candy brand); 76. Big boats; 78. Doctor whose patients never pay the bills; 79. Holdup; 81. 52 semanas; 82. She, in Rome; 87. Color again, as hair; 89. Director’s cry; 91. Ones running shoulder to shoulder?; 92. Corrupt; 96. Burger King vis-à-vis McDonald’s, fittingly; 98. Town House alternative; 99. Russian legislature; 104. Years on end; 107. Above all others; 115. Introductory drawing class; 116. Like stars on a clear night; 1127. Luxury hotel along Manhattan’s Central Park, with “the”; 118. Unwelcome guest; 120. Baroque painter Hals. — DOWN: 1. Teatime biscuit; 2. Rich cake; 3. Surprise birthday parties often involve them; 4. Wirehair of the silver screen; 5. Pub order; 6. “Ugh!”; 7. Go-between: Abbr.; 8. Do followers; 9. 1970s rock genre; 10. Scuba mouthpiece attachment; 11. “___ Mine (George Harrison book); 12. Over three-quarters of bunsenite; 13. Sheer, informally; 14. Almost every puppy has one; 15. Bobby on the ice; 16. Little, in Lyon; 18. Many a flower girl; 20. Pitch; 22. Buddhist temple; 24. Some miniatures; 30. #2 or #3, say; 31. Coal, e.g.; 33. Tacitly agree with; 34. 2012 Olympics site; 35. Close to one’s heart; 36. Place to get a yo-yo or choo-choo; 37. Shakespearean price; 38. ___ Mahal; 39. Cable inits.; 41. Kiss, in 34-Down; 42. One of three for H20; 43. Mohawked muscleman; 45. Fifth-century invader; 46. Slippery ___; 47. Dates determined by the lunisolar calendar; 48. Ixnay; 50. Actress Farrah; 54. Principal’s charge: Abbr.; 55. Hinny’s mother; 58. “It’s about time!”; 59. Freckle; 60. They’re hypothetical; 61. Quarters that haven’t been picked up?; 64. Ottoman bigwig; 65. Prefix with information; 66. Monopoly util.; 67. Leonidas’ kingdom; 68. Noted weakness?; 72. Bob, e.g.; 73. Things in locks; 74. Big Apple media inits.; 78. 20-ounce Starbucks order; 80. Mendes of “Hitch”; 82. Something with one or more sides; 84. “The Family Circus” cartoonist Keane; 86. Start to fix?; 88. Come into; 93. Settle a score; 94. Pennsylvanie, e.g.; 95. “Legs” band, 1984; 97. “Casablanca” role; 99. Messing of “Will & Grace”’; 100. Reversal; 101. Specks of dust; 102. Kwik-E-Mart operator; 105. “Goodness gracious!”; 106. Verne captain; 108. Late-week cry; 109. Gardener, at times; 110. Pick; 111. Charlemagne’s realm: Abbr.; 112. Pay ending; 113. Nickelodeon dog; 114. Poet’s “before”.

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