MAGIC SQUARE, Puzzle by Elizabeth C. Gorski
Edited by Will Shortz
In a box in the center of this admirable Sunday crossword are three rows of three numbers that add up to 15 horizontally, vertically and diagonally. The related entries:
MATHEMATICAL (36A. Like magic squares)
ADD UP TO FIFTEEN (119A. With 98-Across, 34-Down and 48-Down what each line in the center square should do)
EIGHT ONE SIX (17D. Top row)
THREE FIVE SEVEN (23A. Middle row)
FOUR NINE TWO (67D. Bottom row)
HORIZONTALLY (98A. See 119-Across)
VERTICALLY (34D. See 119-Across)
DIAGONALLY (48D. See 119-Across)
Other — BLUESY (14A. Like Big Mama Thornton‘s “Hound Dog“), BONGOS (25A. Ones getting hit on at salsa clubs?), BRAWLS (96D. Donnybrooks); CON JOB (1A. Sting), GAZETTES (90D. Newspapers), INFIDEL (123A. One who‘s beyond belief?), LOOSE TEA (15D. Leaves out of the bag?), LYCEES (68D. Parisian schools), OOLITE and O’TOOLE (22A. Limestone variety; 99D. Co-star of “The Stunt Man”), OPERETTA (8D. Bernstein‘s “Candide,” for one), PLANET (124A. Revolutionary figure?), REAR EXIT (70A. Back door), SATANIST and EVIL (84D. Worshiper with a pentagram; 80D. 84-Down’s doings), SAUSAGE (49A. Pizza topper), SLITHER (49D. Snake along), STOICS (18D. Ancient Greek school).
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 7. Makes a love connection?; 20. Inclined; 21. Mollify; 26. File extensions; 27. Gen. Bradley; 28. Sledge who sang “When a Man Loves a Woman; 30. Master; 31. Stretched, in a way; 33. Nesting place for a bird; 35. Horned Frogs’ sch.; 42. Investor’s bottom line; 44. Spider-Man” director Sam; 45. Numerical prefix; 46. Eco-conscious; 47. Like letters marked “Return to sender”; 51. Author of “Unto the Sons”; 54. Poison hemlock or Queen Anne’s lace; 56. When the estival de Cannes opens; 58. Peace ___ hand”; 59. Comic actor Jacques; 60. - ; 63. Company closing?; 64. Silent screen star Naldi; 65. Winging it?; 69. - ; 72. Lift; 73. “I’m impressed!”; 74. - ; 75. Woodstock artist Guthrie; 76. P.T.A. concern: Abbr.; 77. Atlanta Braves’ div.; 78. Knee-length hip-hop shirts; 83. Mother who wasa Nobelist; 85. Skeleton section; 91. Rotating surveying tool; 92. Hollywood’s Patricia and others; 94. “It Happened One Night” director; 95. Abruptly calls off plans, say; 96. Show some irritation; 102. Published; 103. Chorus after “All in favor”; 105. Road sign that may elecit a groan; 106. Used, as a dinner tray; 108. Dance instruction; 112 Ditch-digging, e.g.; 113. ___-Seltzer; 117. Hip; 122. Like some unexciting bids; 125. High-hat; 126. Tennis Hall-of-Famer born in Bucharest; 127. Get ready to ride, with “up”. — DOWN: 1. Women’s suffrage leader Carrie Chapman ___; 2. Workplace welfare org.; 3. Workplace rights org.; 4. “Eat at ___” (class sign); 5. Unlock, to a poet; 6. One of two photos in an ad; 7. Where Ponce de León died; 9. Black ___; 10. Stay fresh; 11. Pitcher’s datum; 12. Friendly introduction?; 13. Parts of pounds; 14. Short cut; 16. Bone connected to the oblique cord; 19. Start of an agreement that’s not really an agreement; 24. Muslim leader; 29. Light side; 31. Tuscan export; 32. Prie-___ (kneeling bench); 36. Gershwin’s “The ___ Love”; 37. Suffix with zillion; 38. Fed. Agents; 39. Price abbr.; 40. Coach Parseghian; 41. Trail; 43. Singer Dion; 44. Hitch; 50. Oil-rich land; 52. H.. senior’s exam, once; 53. Division politique; 55. Playwright Fugard; 57. Beginning of ___ (watershed moment); 60. - ; 61. - ; 62. - ; 65. “Yeah, that’ll happen; 66. Many a Rubens subject; 71. Sports car feature; 79. Greenish shade; 81. Slippery; 82. Mercedes models; 86. German pronoun; 87. Steamed bun in Chinese cookery; 88. E.M.T. training; 89. Drought-prone; 93. Dates; 97. Mete out; 100. “There is ___ …” (song by the Cure); 1901. Monet’s Dutch subjects); 104. Laundry problem; 107. The Wright brothers’ home; 109. “Hairspray” role; 110. Some e-mail attachments; 111. Diamonds, e.g.; 113. Somewhat; 114. Impart; 115. Bow attachment; 116. Price to play; 118. Commandment adjective; 120. Hand-oheld organizer, in brief; 121. Hollywood’s home: Abbr.
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