Sunday, December 4, 2011
SWAPPING PARTNERS, Puzzle by Kelsey Blakley
Edited by Will Shortz
Swapping two letters of ten common phrases resulting in ten uncommon ones constitutes the interrelated group of this listless Sunday crossword:
DIARY QUEEN (23A. Anais Nin, e.g.?)
PRISON GRAB (25A. Seizure at Sing Sing?)
INTERNAL ANGEL (39A. Heavenly voice of conscience?)
MARITAL ARTS (59A. Specialty of a couples therapist?)
TRIAL BLAZER (78A. Courtroom jacket?)
ROUGE ELEPHANT (94A. Circus performer in makeup?)
DEVIL’S LIAR (113A. Storyteller for Satan?)
TROT REFORM (116A. Improvement o a Standardbred’s gait?)
SCARED COW (3D. One starting a stampede, maybe?)
ARMY CROPS (80D. Troops harvest?)
Other — ACT TWO, ADORER, BOWSPRITS (57A. Sailors‘ spars), CAPABLE, DIGS INTO, DOOMED (45A. Going to hell), EARLY DAY, EDITORIAL, ENZYME, EUCLID (43A. Figure in Raphael‘s “School of Athens), FILM NOIR,HEAD COLDS, INUNCT, LASH OUT, LEGISLATE (79A. Work in a chamber, say), LOST HEART, MESMER (92A. Hypnotist Franz), MY FOOT, QUANDARY, RESTORE, TREASURED, WIDE BERTH, YES OR NO.
Five-letter — AARON, ACCRA, ALANA, AGLET, ALCOA, AMISS, ANGRY, BOFFO, BORON (77D. Element used for shielding nuclear reactors), CLAMS, COSEC, DESKS, DID OK, EDIES, EFFIE, ENIAC, EOSIN (119A. Biology lab stain), ETHNO, GAVEL, GIBED, INLET and INTEL, IRATE, IRENA, KORAN, LEAFS, LIEUT, MISER and MITER, MOREL (85A. Food item prized in French cuisine), MOSHE, NORAD, NULLS, ON RYE, OSRIC, ORIEL, PO’BOY (18D. Submarine), PRELL, READA, RESTS, RIP UP, STIES and STILE, TESSA, TRY TO, URANO, UTTER.
Short stuff — ABUT and ARUT, ANAP, ANOS, ANTI, APB, ARLO, BED, BEEB, COSEC, DADS, DEN, DOGE, DREA, EARL, ELIA, EROO, ESTE, ETS, EURO, EYER, FLOG and FROG, FRAU, GALE, III, IPOD, KALE, KOKO (124A. Gorilla skilled in sign language), LARS, LOOP, LOT, MITT, MOEN, MOREL, MOS, NILE, NOLO, NOOK, OILY, OLEO, ONEL, OWED, PIED, RAIN, ROSS, SARA, SASS, SAY, SEE, SLOW, SNO and SON, SPAM, TEES, TSK, UMPS, UNDO.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES — Crossword Puzzles and Games.
Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Secretaries, e.g.; 9. Modern record holder?; 10. Bucks; 15. Take ___ (doze); 19. Dow Jones industrial with the N.Y.S.E. symbol “AA”; 20. Cataract site, NILE; 21. “The Ten Commandments” role; 22. ___ contendere (court plea); 27. Title girl in a 1979 Fleetwood Mac hit; 28. Reverse; 29. Cause for a kid’s grounding; 30. Heavenly: Prefix; 31. Tech marvel of the 1940s; 33. “Adam-12” call, briefly; 34. Pioneering; 37. Rice may be served in it; 46. Verbally attack, with “at”; 51. Old switch attachment?; 52. Wrong; 54. Due; 56. House of ___ (European dynasty); 62. “___ see it my way” (Beatles lyric); 63. Razzed; 64. Adams and Falco; 65. Israel’s Dayan; 68. Dear; 71. Capital and largest city of Ghana; 72. Gathering of spies; 73. Fjord, e.g.; 74. Very good, in slang; 83. Scrutinizer; 84. Prone to acne, say; 86. De Matteo of “Desperate Housewives”; 87. Put right; 89. “Yeah, r-i-i-i-ight!”; 97. Fashion inits.; 98. Starts, as a big meal; 102. Business partner, often; 103. Reciprocal function in trig; 105. Very sore; 106. Island hopper?; 108. No voter; 110. Herr’s her; 118. “The ___ lama, he’s a priest”: Nash; 119. Biology lab stain; 120. Dense; 121. Rend; 122. Moolah; 123. Prefix with history; 125. Kicks back. — DOWN: 1. Many Little League coaches; 2. “Popular Fallacies” writer; 4. Much-read collection of verses; 5. Suppose; 6. Rub with ointment, as in a religious ceremony; 7. Skewbald; 8. Bread spread; 9. Burrow, for some; 10. Qualified; 11. “___ and the Real Girl” (2007 movie); 12. Up; 123. Criminal patterns, briefly; 14. Hostess ___ Balls; 15. Up in arms; 16. “WarGames” grp.; 17. “The George & ___ Show” (old talk series); 18. Submarine; 24. Dilemma; 26. Sets to zero; 29. Name sung over and over in a Monty Python skit; 32. The last Pope Julius; 33. Década divisions; 35. Decorate tip on a lace; 36. ___-thon (literary event); 37. English channel, familiarly, with “the”; 38. Mark’s replacement; 40. Counterpart of advertising; 41. Antarctica’s ___ Ice Shelf; 42. Votary; 44. Became discouraged; 47. NyQuil targets; 48. “Hamlet” courtier; 49. Downright; 50. Nickname for Theresa; 53. “Leather,” in baseball; 55. Generous leeway; 58. Onetime Procter & Gamble shampoo; 59. Churl; 60. Be contiguous to; 61. Pages (through); 63 Kind of force; 65. Corner joint; 66. How some sandwiches are made; 67. Wallowing sites; 69. Cause of a breakdown; 70. ___ of Venice; 75. Movie genre; 78. Rank below capt.; 79. Möbius strip, e.g.; 81. Athletic supporters?; 82. Title below marquis; 85. Big name in faucets; 88. Balcony window; 90. “What’s it gonna be?”; 91. Whip; 93. Some “Men in Black” characters, for short; 95. Card game akin to Authors; 96. Time for the balcony scene in “Romeo and Juliet”; 98. Managed; 99. “The Faerie Queene” character; 100. It may punctuate a court order; 101. Fence straddler; 104. Annual advertising award; 107. It may come in buckets; 108. First name at Woodstock; 109. Barnes & Noble electronic reader; 111. Stuck in ___; 112. Tag callers?; 114. “Get it?”; 115. Bunch; 116. Reproachful cluck; 117. Mess up.
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