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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Puzzle by Susan Gelfand / Edited by Will Shortz
PLAYING WITH FIRE (38A. Inviting danger … the end of which can precede each half of the answer to each asterisked clue), MANPOWER (17A. *Staffing level), STONEWALL (25A. *Refuse to cooperate), BIRDHOUSE (52A. *Woodcraft hobbyist’s creation) and ANTEATER (*Toothless mammal), resulting in fireman, firepower, fire stone, firewall, firebird, firehouse, fire ant and fire-eater, constitutes the interrelated group of this hot little Wednesday crossword.
Other — DOT MATRIX (11D. Obsolescent printer type), MAJORETTE (32D. Baton wielder), THROWN and THRONE (16A. Totally confused; 47D. Homophone of 16-Across).
Six-letter — Van Cleef & ARPELS, ASIDES, ATHENA, AZTECS, BUTANE, GELATO, HANKIE, HOOFED, HOT TEA, LOTS OF, OCTOPI (18D. Prey for moray eels), SHOWER, SILENT (61A. Like the Best Picture of 2011), STEWED.
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David 1793
Five — AMAZE, BULBS, DEALT, EWELL, IN OUT, KELSO (55A. Horse of the Year, 1960-64), LETHE, MARAT (29A. Revolutionary killed in his bathtub), NOMAD, OTROS, PENTA, SLAVE, SNAIL, SNERD, WORST.
Short stuff — AIM, APB, ARE and AXE, BAJA, EBB, EXO, ILA, IRAQ, IRT, ISLE, JAW, JEWS, LANG, MLI, NAPA, NIB, OEDS, Counting of the OMER, OSSA, OUI, QED, PINT, POM, ROIL, SANG, SAW, SOYA, SPEW, STAB, “Comin’ THRO the Rye“, TSA, TWO, UNE, VIA, WAIF, YARD, YIN.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES — Crossword Puzzles and Games.
Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. California valley; 5. It may be cut by an uppercut; 8. Off-mike remarks; Counting of the ___ (observance after Passover); 15. Prefix with skeleton; 19. Flu sufferer’s quaff; 20. Montezuma’s people; 21. Spout forth, as venom; 23. Mid 11th-century year; 24. Handed out; 27. Protein-rich bean; 30. It’s taken before a shot; 33. Takeout container size; 35. “Axis of evil” member; 43. Tijuana’s peninsula; 44. Peak in “The Odyssey”; 45. Marked, in a way; 46. Name in garden products; 50. Singer with lowercase initials; 59. A, in Arles; 60. Muddy up; 62. Mucho; 66. Zippo filler; 67. Word on Italian street signs; 69. Likkered up; 70. Flow back; 71. Ref. works sometimes sold with magnifying glasses. — DOWN: 1. One without roots; 2. Blow away; 3.Numerical prefix; 5. Moe, Larry and Curly, ethnically; 6. Wood splitter; 7. Least skillful; 8. Parthenon goddess; 9. Prebirth event; 10. N.Y.C.’s first subway; 12. Tom of “The Seven Year Itch”; 13. Creature wit one foot; 22. Fluffy lap dog, for short; 25. Violated the “code of silence”; 26. Street urchin; 28. Yang’s opposite; 30. Alert for the squad, for short; 31. Dockworkes’ org.; 34. 1955 Thunderbird seating capacity; 35. Lionel Richie’s “You ___”; 37. Proof letters; 39. Sale locale; 40. Part of a chain; 41. J.F.K. inits.; 42. Tearjerker watcher’s item; 48. Walked, with “it”; 49. Vote in Parlement; 51. Cold dessert; 52. Nursery purchases; 53. Bidirectional, like a door; 54. Work like a dog; 56. River of Hades; 57. Dummy Mortimer; 58. Others, in Oaxaca; 61. Wild guess; 63. It has teeth, but no mouth; 65. Penpoint.
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