01.01.13 — Emancipation Proclamation

 

Henry Louis Stephens, untitled watercolor (c. 1863)

of a man reading a newspaper with headline

"Presidential Proclamation / Slavery".

 

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

 

Puzzle by John Farmer / Edited by Will Shortz

 

EMANCIPATION / PROCLAMATION (23A. With 51-Across, presidential order signed on January 1, 1863), ABRAHAM / LINCOLN (37A. With 39-Across, signer of the 23-/51-Across) and ABOLITION / OF SLAVERY (18A. With 61-Across, goal of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe) constitute the interrelated group of this Tuesday crossword.

 

Other — Troy AIKMAN, BANYAN (50D. Canopy tree), CAME BY, CAST LOTS, DC AREA, DEMENTIA (4D. Loss of faculties), FRAPPE, LAB RATS, MINI-ME, Jerry ORBACH, ROBINS, SOLARIA, TRICOT.

 

Five-letter — ABODE, ARETE, ARTOO Detoo, ASSES, BUXOM, CELIA Cruz, EXAMS, FLINT, HYMAN Rickover, IOWAS, Nita NALDI, NEEDS, OBAMA, OVINE, OY VEY, RADAR, RUBES, SAND, TSARS, ZOWIE.

 

Short stuff — AFRO, Omnia vincit AMOR, APR, ANE and ATE, BOP, BRAT, BRR, CASA and CASH, COBB, ELM, ESS, FAIR, FOX, I DO, LOVE, MARC Chagall, MOO, MSRP, NAS, NENA, OPEL, OTOE, ROLL, SEA, Alastair SIM, TOIL, TOME, UBER, XENA, ZSA.

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