Thursday, June 17, 2010
Puzzle by Corey Rubin, edited by Will Shortz
BEETHOVEN’S NINTH (33A. 1824 Vienna premier) with ODE TO [JOY] and [JOY] tucked into five more squares producing BUNDLE OF [JOY] with FOR [JOY]; EN[JOY]ABLE with [JOY]CE; ALMOND [JOY]; [JOY] RIDING with [JOY]STICK; OVER[JOY]ED with NO [JOY]; and [JOY] LUCK CLUB with [JOY]NER constitutes the interrelated group of this Thursday crossword.
Across — 1. Poe poem, with “The”; 6. A lot; 11. Cutesy-POO; 14. Chris with the 1991 hit “Wicked Game”; 15. With 25-Across, an Irving Berlin song; 16. Furthermore; 17. Blue; 18. Hit 2006 film banned in every Arab country except Lebanon; 19. “SHE Bangs” (Ricky Martin hit); 20. Newborn; 22. Concern for an Allied ship; 24. Part of many a job title: Abbr.; 25. See 15-Across; 26. Gratifying; 30. Hershey’s brand; 31. Part of the home computer market; 32. Talk up; 33. 1824 Vienna premiere; 41. Hydrocarbon suffixes; 42. Home of London’s Palace Theatre; 43. Pastime for a car thief, perhaps; 47. Euphoric; 50. Region known as the Valley of the Moon; 51. Èvian and Vichy; 52. Like most music; 53. Best-selling novel of 1989, with “The”; 58. Like Schubert’s Symphony No. 7; 59. Top of a Roman candle?; 61. Sophocles skill; 62. Middling mark; 63. Ding Dong filler; 64. Cézanne contemporary; 65. Elizabethan dramatist Thomas; 66. “HERE’S to you!”; 67. Not just big.
Down — 1. Kind of lettuce; 2. Grandson of Abraham; 3. It extends about a yard; 4. Diane of “Wild at Heart”; 5. 1973 NASA launch; 6. Nucleic acid sugar; 7. Up; 8. One way to jump; 9. Norris Dam agcy.; 10. Relief pitchers prior to closers; 11. El PASOAN (certain Texan); 12. Present; 13. Work incorporated in 33-Across … or a description of this puzzle?; 21. Nigh sch. course; 23. Life, in brief; 25. Swiss ALPS; 26. Attaché’s place: Abbr.; 27. Aye’s opposite; 28. “Dubliners” author; 29. Hrs. in Puerto Rico; 30. Writer Rand; 32. Jack and billy; 34. Eponymous doctor with a maneuver; 35. Tony-nominated choreographer White; 36. Part of a food pyramid, briefly; 37. Neighbor of Jordan: Abbr.; 38. What there was in Mudville; 39. French beverage; 40. Container on a pole; 43. Gamer’s device; 44. TV’s Andy; 45. Short of resources; 46. DO A favor; 47. Works; 48. Dust collector, for short; 49. Certain sled driver; 51. Lowlifes; 53. Al Joyner, 1984 Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump; 54. Zodiac creature; 55. Solo; 56. Quelques-UNES (some: Fr.); 57. Part of a gig; 60. Hurdle for some srs.
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