Moby-Dick swam swiftly round and round the wrecked crew.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Puzzle by Ben Pall / Edited by Will Shortz
¿Por qué? (this crossword’s built-in descriptive at 44-Across) is likely many a solver’s response to this clumsy Thursday puzzle’s electronic version — JOINT, SPLIT, UNION and BREAK are doubled up side-by-side to produce the following:
- PIZZA JOINT and ROTARY JOINT — the doubled JOINT resulting in the downs of RAJJAS, EBOON, ABIIT, MINNX and SETTA
- SPLIT SECOND and SPLIT HAIRS — ESSSE, GPPAS, OLLES, TIINA and ARTTSY
- CIVIL UNION and TRADE UNION — BUUNTS, ENNSUES, LIIEN, LOOCK, ANNT
- BREAK APART and BREAK DANCE — IBBM, BARRI, AMEEN, DABS AAT, BEAKKS
The newsprint (e.g., PDF copy on internet) produces a better visual and clever, less-complex result, along with clues possessing different enumeration:
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Other — ABBIE Hoffman, ACTED, ADANO, Aránzazu “ARANTXA” Isabel Maria Sánchez Vicario, AVANT, Lew AYRES, BABES, BELLA, EGO TRIP, ELITE, ESSAY, EZRA POUND (16D. Poet who made radio broadcasts in support of Mussolini), GOES MAD, GORES, HIRES, I AM SAM, INSECT, INTEL, LEISURE, MARCO, MINTS, ONSET, PHISH, REAMS, Camille Saint-SAËNS, SO TO SPEAK, STUNK, VAPOR.
Short stuff — ABED, AERO, AHAB (1D. Fictional character who says “I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer“), AH SO, “My life is A LIE!“, “AM I wrong?“, APES, ASHE, BEN, BID, CINE, DST, EEN, EST, GIZA, KNEE, OAHU, “¿POR qué?”, RUSE, SOS, “The TEEN Commandments“, VEG, WOOL.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Didn’t wait to make the decision; 6. Be a couch potato, say; 9. Bawls out; 14. Brings on; 17. Hoffman who co-founded the Yppies; 18. Culturally ahead of the times; 19. Italian hangout; 21. What a raised hand may signify; 22. There’s one between the ulna and the radius; 23. Free; 26. Tennis’s Sánchez Vicario; 27. Minor hits?; 28. Goons; 29. Succeeds; 31. Long-distance call?; 32. Creator of U.P.C.’s; 36. Home security measure; 37. It was created by two volcanoes; 39. Italian city associated with the real-life Saint Nicholas; 42. “I agree 100%”; 43. Fire ___; 45. Uses a powder puff on, say; 47. Facetious words of enlightenment; 48. Sources of some tweets; 49. Hardly an instance of modesty; 53. Finally cracks; 55. Blink of an eye; 57. Print producer; 59. Nitpicked; 60. Town in a Hersey novel; 62. Composer Camille Saint-___; 63. Cap site; 64. ___ Island, Fla.; 65. College application need; 66. Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum ___”; 67. Pentium source. — 2. Domestic relationship; 3. Protection for a mechanic, say; 4. Opposite o mom; 5. What Ariz. And Hawaii are the only two states not to have; 6. Clouds, e.g.; 7. Choice; 8. Suburb of Cairo; 9. Indian nobles; 10. Jet; 11. Somewhat; 12. Flirt; 13. ___ high standard; 20. Actor Lew; 22. Setup for a surprise party; 24. Six-footer?; 25. Performed pitifully; 27. “Twilight” girl; 28. Queens’s ___ Stadium; 30. As it might be said; 32. 2001 Sean Penn film; 33. Splinter; 34. Routine with a one-handed freeze, say; 35. Diner giveaways; 38. Houston ice hockey pro; 39. Hotties; 44. Pursue some e-mail chicanery; 46. Sacked out; 47. Like craft shops, typically; 49. Actual, after “in”; 50. Info on college applications; 51. Some stadium cries; 52. Editor Brown; 53. Impales; 54. Dawn; 56. Jean Renoir’s field; 58. Some winter wear; 61. Writer Brown.
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