05.02.15 — Vast Number

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Puzzle by Barry C. Silk / Edited by Will Shortz

The pairing of GOOGLEPLEX  (11D. Corporate headquarters in Mountain View) and GOOGOLPLEX (27D. Vast number) constitutes the main feature of this Saturday crossword.

Other — ALGEBRA EXAM (25A. Series of unknown challenges?); ALL OR NONE (15A. Zero-compromise); ANDIE (10D. “Pretty in Pink” heroine); CURATORS (51A. Exhibitionists?); GABOR (1A: Socialite who wrote "How to Catch a Man, How to Keep a Man, How to Get Rid of a Man"); G-NOTE (37A. Thou); GUAM (1D. Where Chamorro is spoken); KRAMERS (48A Divorced title couple of film); MAGNOLIA (19A. Image on Mississippi’s state quarter); MAKE TRACKS (28D. Skedaddle); MEL’S DINER (55A. 1970s-‘80s sitcom locale); NEAREST EXIT (44A. Evacuation location); ORANGEMEN (4D. 2003 N.C.A.A. hoops champs); ROOMIES (30A. Some cable splitters); ROY ORBISON (5D. Subject of the 2013 musical biography “Rhapsody in Black”); SALINAS (6D. Seat of Monterey County); TEKTITE (38D. Meteorite impact product). 

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