Saturday, March 24, 2012
Puzzle by Barry C. Silk / Edited by Will Shortz
There's no puzzle like the Saturday puzzle
Like no puzzle I know
Traveling through crazy clues is so thrilling
Freaking out on maybe-should-be-might
Frowning as you watch the down squares filling
And see the acrosses come to light
There's no people like puzzle people
They snarl when they are low
Even with a turkey that you know will fold
You may be stranded out in the cold
Still you wouldn't trade it for a sack o' gold
Let's go on with the solve.
Let's go on with the solve!
This Saturday crossword features six eleven-letter and six ten-letter answers:
HOT PASTRAMI (1A. Stage Deli staple)
ISAAC ASIMOV (15A. Writer who held 14 honorary doctorates)
PET SEMATARY (17A. Stephen King’s next novel after “Christine”)
MASTERPIECE (49A. Great work)
ETHEL MERMAN (53A. (1951 Tony winner for “Call Me Madam”)
SHOW-ME STATE (55A. It borders the Land of Lincoln)
AB POSITIVE (12D. Like some blood)
NOISEMAKER (13D. One passed out on New Year’s Eve)
EXCITEMENT (14D. What many fans generate)
SALAD GREEN (25D. Choice for a bed made in the kitchen)
ODER NEISSE Line (German/Polish border)
NEW-FANGLED (27D. Novel)
Other — ACETATE, ARIOSI, BASE PATH (33D. Diamond lane), DEAR ME, DESERT, DNA TESTS (38A. They can answer the question “Who‘s your daddy?”), DOES TIME, GENESES, IVY ROSE (11D. 1957 hit for Perry Como), MORAY EEL (10D. Crevice-lurking predator), RESUMES, RETYPES, RIGS UP, SAMOSA, SONATA, SYOSSET (24A. Oyster Bay hamlet).
Five-letter — ADELE, BEZEL (33A. Grooved ring on many a ring), DAZES, RACER, RAVEN (37A. Black scavenger), SAREE, SECTS, SORER, TSARS, WHELM.
Short stuff — “Ev’rybody Wants to Be A CAT”, AMA, ANE, ARF, BALD, BASS, BOX, ESE and ESL, FAR, FEMA, HIPS, IRT and IST, LEWD, MASS, MIKE, NED, OSES, PAS, PIC, RENE, RITE, SHAY, “SHO nuff!”, SSE, STEW, TAM, TATE, TES, TORE, WETS.
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Puzzle available on the internet at
THE NEW YORK TIMES — Crossword Puzzles and Games.
Remaining clues — ACROSS: 12. Gas ending; 16. Deliver hooks, e.g.; 18. Many a cell product; 19. Quito-to-Lima dir.; 20. Bolted; 21. Melodic passages; 23. Bottom part; 24. Oyster Bay hamlet; 25. “Hammerklavier,” for one; 28. Is in the can; 20. Singer of the 2011 #1 hit “Someone Like You”; 30. Ranee’s wear; 31. Dreadlocks cover; 32. NC-17, maybe; 34. It may be open at a comedy club; 35. Sound that a muzzle muffles; 36. One active in the heat?; 40. Jeroboa’s home; 41. Origins; 42. Volstead Act opponents; 43. Throws together; 44. Two-wheeled carriage; 45. Away’s partner; 48. Accent reduction may be part of it: Abbr.; 52. Computer add-on?; 54. The idiot brother in “Our Idiot Brother”. — DOWN: 1. Disco swingers?; 2. Plural suffix for conditions; 3. Turner Prize institution; 4. Part of une danse; 5. Collectible record; 6. Chutney-dipped appetizer; 7. Pre-Soviet succession; 8. One may provide passage; 9. Health care grp.; 22. Ending for 23-Across; 23. Having nothing to part with?; 24. More likely to go off; 28. Staggers; 30. Mennonites and others; 34. Gravitation consideration; 38. They have job listings; 37. Does over, as a document; 39. French pronoun; 40. Hand wringer’s words; 42. Overpower; 44. Be unsettled; 45. Damage control grp.; 47. Novelist Bazin; 51. N.Y.C. commuting debut of 1904.
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