09.15.11 — The Corner House

Corner House by Joan Sicignano

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Puzzle by Samuel A. Donaldson / Edited by Will Shortz

CORNER LOT (35A. Prominent location to build on, as suggested by this puzzle?), along with the word HOUSE in a single square in the each of the four corners of the crossword constitutes the interrelated group of this well-constructed Thursday crossword.

• [HOUSE] ARREST (1A. It’s better than prison) and [HOUSE] BROKEN (1D. Always going outside?)
• ANIMAL [HOUSE] (8A. #1 on Bravo’s all-time “100 Funniest Movies” list) and [HOUSE] SITTER (14D. Vacationer’s help)
• CLEANS [HOUSE] (37D. Gets rid of everybody, say) and [HOUSE]KEEPER (62A. Help)
• COFFEE[HOUSE] (43D. Place where people work for beans?) and SCHOOL[HOUSE] (63A. Place of learning)

Other — CUL-DE-SAC (40A. You can’t go through with it), NON-UNION (32A. Lacking bargaining power, maybe), RUNAWAYS (36D. Missing persons), THE ONION (7D. Publication with a 1997 headline “Drug Use Down Among Uncool Kids”).

Seven-letter — AIR MAIL, ALUMNAE, ARECIBO Observatory, home of the world’s largest single-aperture radio telescope, AYN RAND, BREADTH, CHIANTI, LETS LIE, NOT THAT, OUTLOOK, RESTS ON and RESTORE, RIB EYES, SAUCERS, SCEPTRE, SEE INTO, SENECAS (26D. Six Nations tribe), SORIANO (60A. Seven-time major-league All-Star Alfonso), WRITE-IN, YACHTIE (61A. Sailing enthusiast, informally).

Five and six — ABIDER, ABODE (31D. Place to live), ANSEL (25A. Adams behind a lens), ARCHER, ARNIE, BASAL (48A. Kind of cell in biology), BEANE (48D. Baseball general manager Billy), CANTOR, COSETS (37A. Mathematical subgroups), E-BOAT (28A. W.W. II attacker), EIEIO, LILAC, LUCRE, NIHIL, STRIA, T-NOTE.

Short stuff — ALL and ALP, CAN and CEN, CHAP, EDOM, ETES, HID, IBID, IER, IMF, IRS, KISS, MEA, MHO and MIO, NERF, OCT, RAT and RST, SUCH, TIE, WALT, WISC.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 15. Latitude; 16. They may be grilled; 17. Give back; 18. Italian red; 19. Country Music Mo.; 20. Mine, in Milan; 21. Squirreled away; 22. Alphabet trio; 23. X; 27. Good call letters for Radio Disney?; 30. Suffix with hotel; 31. Emmy-nominated sitcom of the early 1970s; 34. Waiter; 44. Dough; 45. Rear; 46. Farm letters?; 47. When the French toast?; 50. Big name in balls; 51. One on either side of the St. Gotthard Pass; 52. 1900s, e.g.: Abbr.; 53. Where the Ringling Brothers circus began: Abbr.; 55. Org. employing Ethan Hunt in film; 56. “Anything but!”; 58. Mount Holyoke graduates, e.g. — DOWN: 3. Has as a base; 4. Subject of many lab tests; 5. Biblical kingdom; 6. Tiny groove; 8. Zodiac symbol; 9. Nothing; 10. Scholar’s reference abbr.; 11. Start of a confession; 12. Who wrote “Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think”; 13. Leaves alone; 24. Big eyes, metaphorically; 27. Kind of candidate who’s rarely successful; 29. It matures in 1 to 10 yrs.; 33. Org. supported by the 16^th Amendment; 34. End of some scores; 36. Missing persons; 38. Forecast; 39. Royal rod, in Britain; 41. Investigate; 42. Speedy delivery; 45. Hymn leader; 49. Lavender; 52. Fellow; 54. To so high a degree; 57. Wed; 59. Conductance unit.