08.14.11 — Hack Saws

Ben Franklin illustration by Amir Taqi

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Sunday, August 14, 2011

HACK SAWS, Puzzle by Paula Gamache / Edited by Will Shortz

Seven wacky adages constitute the interrelated group of this amusing Sunday crossword:

"A penny saved is NOT ENOUGH TO RETIRE ON"
"Where there's a will, there's GOING TO BE A RELATIVE"
"Where there's smoke, there's AIR POLLUTION"
"People who live in glass houses LET IT ALL HANG OUT"
"He who laughs last FINALLY GOT IT"
"If at first you don't succeed, REDEFINE THE MISSION"
"Don't bite the hand THAT HASN'T BEEN WASHED"

Other — ABETTED, AMINO ACIDS, ASPHALT, EAST INDIAN, ENABLES, GRUFFNESS (82D. Surly manner), MAFIOSO, ONE TO GO (5D. “Almost finished!”), PAINKILLER (3D. Analgesic), SEATTLE, SIRLOIN, SLICES INTO (23A. Reduces significantly), TABOULI (10D. Middle Eastern salad), THE RIALTO (12D. Area of Venice with a famous bridge), TILTS, AT.

Six letters — AGE GAP, AZALEA, BAD LOT (37D. Rapscallion), DEGREE, DHARMA, DILATE, ELLIOT, FACTOR, IT’LL DO (41D. “That‘s good enough“), KI MOON, LCD TVS, MOANED, NADINE, NOLITA (89A. Neighborhood east of SoHo), REPUTE, RETINA, STOLICE, STERNE, STINKO (6D. Wasted), TALCED.

Five — AHEAD, ALAIN and ALIEN, ANSAE, ATTAR of roses, BAHA’I (21A. Religion founded in Iran), DENSE, EBERT, HIPPO, INANE, LAGOS, LATIN, LHASA, NESTS, OLLAS, PEROT, REEKS, SALES, STATE, STEEL blue, STYLE, TONTO, UHURA (59D. “Star Trek“ role).

Short stuff — AARE, ACE, Come from AFAR, AFL, ALAN, ALVA, ANTE and ANTS, “ASK me anything“, ATOM, CALI, CIO and CIR, DALI, DST, DUMA, EASE, EFT (38D. New newt), ECHO, EDNA, ELAN, ETTU and ETUI, EWE, EXED, FAX, FAIR, FLAW, GIGA, GOUT, HAS (1D. Is sick with), HER Majesty, ICS, I’D’VE (29D. Contraction with two apostrophes), ILL (3D. Sick), ISME, LAH-di-dah, LAIN, LIT (68D. Wasted), LOW, MOOG, NIL, NMEX, NNE, OAK, Alley OOP, PEAT, PICO, RAE and RAH and RAN, RESH, RITT, SATE, SAO Tomé, SEAL, SERE, SINE, STEM, TAIL, TAO, TIL, TINO and TITO, TORI, WACO, WIRE, XENA, YETI, YIPE, ZINE (72D. Fanboy‘s reading).

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Animal with a huge yawn; 6. Garden support; 15. “Swans Reflecting Elephants” artist; 19. Formula One driver Prost; 20. Bandleader Puente; 22. Dash; 25. “Your Movie Sucks” writer; 26. Billion: Prefix; 32. Winery wood; 33. Needle case; 34. Like a black hole; 42. Mama Cass; 43. Partner of 74-Across; 44. Spread out; 45. E-mail alternative; 48. Effrontery; 49. Entertainment providers at a sports bar; 52. Pop’s ___ Tuesday; 53. Fill; 54. Perfect service; 55. Certain commando; 60. Founder of United We Stand America; 62. Despicable; 64. John who searched for the Northwest Passage; 65. Buddhist teaching; 71. Rhododendron cousin; 74. Partner of 43-Across; 75. Chinese “path”; 76. Stinks to high heaven; 84. Russian council; 86. Land in a river; 87. Some are queens; 88. Part of a cul-de-sac address, maybe: Abbr.; 92. “Riddle me, riddle me ___”; 93l Public respect; 96. Managed; 97. 2, 3, 4 or 6, for 12; 102. Revenue line; 105. It can make a 10 a 9; 107. Sante Fe-to-Denver dir.; 115. Legend of the Himalayas; 116. Oldest von Trapp child in “The Sound of Music”; 117. Protein building blocks; 120. Reposed; 121. Looped handles; 122. Bone-dry; 123. Sacred city of Lamaism; 124. Mrs. Garrett on “The Facts of Life”; 125. Places to liver in the sticks?; 126. Struck out; 127. Stupid, in Sonora. — DOWN: 4. Boulevard where Fox Studios and the Los Angeles Convention Center are located; 7. Former Yankee Martinez; 8. Departing words?; 9. Synthesizer designer Robert; 10. Helped in a job; 13. It has banks in Switzerland; 14. Director Martin; 15. Step; 16. It’s out of this world; 17. Port on the Gulf of Guinea; 18. Silly; 24 Western terminus of I-90; 30. Relationship disparity, perhaps; 31. Console; 36. Naught; 39. Part of T.A.E.; 40. Comet part; 45. C-worthy; 46. Scintilla; 47. TV warrior for good; 50. It’s north of Baja, informally; 51. Prime cut; 53. A star may represent it; 57. College cheer; 58. Bog buildup; 61. Cooking pots; 63. Baylor’s city; 67. Applied some powder to; 69. Title girl in a 1964 Chuck Berry hit; 70. Toe woe; 73. Stud money; 77. Javanese or Malay; 78. Ban ___ (Kofi Annan’s successor); 79. Laurence who wrote “Tristram Shandy”; 81. “Good grief!”; 83. Material for a suit?; 85. Party of the underworld; 91. Suffix with robot; 93. Hebrew letter after koph; 94. Fights with; 95. Permits; 98. It might be on the road; 99. One behind the lens; 100. Farm mate; 101. Didn’t suffer in silence; 102. Flair; 103. Forward; 104. Exempli gratia, e.g.; 109. Economist Greenspan; 110. It has aperiod of 2(pi); 111. No pressure; 112. Its highest point is Wheeler Peak: Abbr.; 113. Current carrier; 114. Nymph spurned by Narcissus; 118. August hrs.