06.02.11 — Border States

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Puzzle by Brendan Emmett Quigley / Edited by Will Shortz

Random states functioning as “crossword BORDER / STATES“ with, clockwise, NEW YORK, FLORIDA, ALABAMA, ALASKA, MONTANA, GEORGIA, WYOMING and NEVADA, constitute the interrelated group of this meandering Thursday crossword — other than that the eight states border the puzzle, someone really needs a map!

Other — AEROSOL, DEDALUS, DOLORES, EPHEDRA (15A. Banned medicine used to treat asthma), EPITAPH, HD TV SET, ICE RINK, IN A CAST, ISADORE, ISOLATO, LASCALA, NUT TREE, RETINUE, SICILIA, SUNLESS, VIOLIST, WHOOPED.

Mid-size — ATOLL, EVERLY Brothers, FA LA LA, HOT TEA, I TINA, LEARY, NISEI, NOW NOW, ODILE, ROREM, Mother TERESA, TONTO, VISOR, WIDEN, WRITER, YESES.

Short stuff — AEON, APES, BORA, CMI, CTR, DAP, DIM, DOB, ECO, EDEN, FARO, FRET, HEAT, “Drawing is putting a line round an IDEA“: Henri Matisse, JOAD, Don JUAN, KAT, MIL, OR SO, OTOS, REAL, RIAA, ROC, RRS, SARG, SEWS, SITS, TART, VEES, YELL.

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Puzzle available on the internet at

THE NEW YORK TIMES — Crossword Puzzles and Games.

Remaining clues — ACROSS: 16. Spray; 17. Pinchas Zukerman, e.g.; 18. Where “Lucrezia Borgia” premiered; 19. Ocean ring; 20. Baccarat alternative; 21. 5/19/1917, for J.F.K.; 22. Fish by letting the bait fall lightly on the water; 26. When doubled, a 19-Across; 27. Hired thugs; 30. 1976 Pulitzer winner for “Air Music”; 31. Sports bar fixture; 34. Big stretch?; 35. Ma or Pa in a Steinbeck novel; 36. Steinbeck, e.g.; 39. Dark; 42. Nods; 43. Passion; 44. Org. that combats illegal file sharing; 46. Buffalo-hunting Indians; 47. “Easy there!”; 49. Approximate year in which Eric the Red was born; 50. Big lotto prize, for short; 51. Is unused; 52. 1986 rock autobiography; 54. On the mend, say, as one’s arm; 56. Stephen of Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”; 58. Pecan, e.g.; 59. Senator’s place. — DOWN: 2. “The best is yet to come,” for Frank Sinatra; 3. Screamed and hollered; 4. Scream and holler; 5. “Swan Lake” swan; 6. Ones on the right track?: Abbr.; 7. “Kitty ___” (Beyoncé song); 8. Syllables following “Strike the harp and join the chorus”; 9. Doctor whom Nixon called “the most dangerous man in America”; 10. Roughly; 11. Bird of myth; 12. ___ Freleng, creator of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck; 13. Actual name of Nabokov’s Lolita; 14. See 26-/28-Down; 20. Stew; 24. Dealer’s accessory; 25. It’s depicted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling; 26. With 28-Down, theme of this puzzle; 28. See 26-Down; 30. Unembellished; 32. Some necklines; 33. TV character who said “Him a beauty. Like mountain with snow - silver-white”; 37. Royal attendants; 38. Person who’s out of step with society; 39. Tailors; 40. Island in the Mediterraneo; 41. Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, 1987-95; 43. Throat soother; 47. Second-generation Japanese-American; 48. Ream out; 51. Pioneering puppeteer Tony; 53. Sour; 55. D.C.’s Kennedy ___; 56. Dark; 57. Prefix with warrior.