06.25.07 -- Elena Verdugo

Monday, June 25, 2007

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Puzzle by Kurt Mengel and Jan-Michele Gianette, edited by Will Shortz

Four inter-related entries, PASSFAILCLASS (20A Course option), YESNOANSWER (37A Response option), ONOFFSWITCH (44A Electric light option), and TRUEFALSETEST (59A Quiz option) are the collective feature of this Monday back-to-work crossword puzzle.

Delightfully presided over by ELENA (18A Actress Verdugo), the familiar standards of crossword puzzles flash by quickly -- ACHE, IRON, ESS, AGA, TATAR, TUTU, MINOR, ALE STE, ROLES, CLIO, ALLAH, APSO, HAMS, FATSO, TEEN, EYES, STATE, ERNE, SHIPS, CARAT, AROSE, TENSED, AREA, DELI, ABEL, STALE, ASPS, HOT, ETS, PETS, ANTIC, OATH, UFO, ATOMS, FRAU, HIRE, LEAFS, CHE, LAY, ALTA, LAST, SHOE, ROTATE, LEPER, ESSEN and SCAT have all appeared in the New York Times crossword puzzles during the month of June several times each.

UFO (41D Carrier of 13-Down) and ETS (13D Travelers from another galaxy, for short) claim their puzzle birthright with ease and grace. ADAMS (5A Scott who draws “Dilbert”) gets a new cluing, SWATH (32A Space cut by a scythe) and SHREW (27D “The Taming of the _____”) share the lispers favorites list with a generous sprinkling of esses throughout. CHASEAWAY (11D Shoo off) and ATONETIME (36D Back then) are the long downs. EFLAT (54 Key of Mozart’s Symphony No. 39) echoes yesterday’s C SHARP MINOR (the acrostic), while the slim division between a MINOR (48A Person under 21) and a TEEN (70A Person under 20) is duly noted, with PETS (29D Consumers of Purina and Iams food) and PATS (19A Loving strokes) bringing a warm smile.

ISAW (30D Vidi in “Veni, vidi, vici”) and see -- as the EYES (71A Optometrists’ concerns) of the solver rest at LAST (62D Final) on STONE (58A Gem) -- indeed, a Monday gem!

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06.24.07 -- Death in C Sharp Minor

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Acrostic by Emily Cox & Henry Rathvon, edited by Will Shortz

The quotation:

RACHMANINOV AS EVERYONE KNOWS USED TO GET MAD WITH PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT HIS C SHARP MINOR PRELUDE DESCRIBED A MAN NAILED INTO HIS COFFIN ON INSUFFICIENT MEDICAL EVIDENCE WHO KEPT BANGING ON THE LID TO ATTRACT PASSERSBY

Probably one of Sergei Rachmaninov's most well-loved works, the Prelude In C Sharp Minor is sometimes nicknamed "The Bells of Moscow" for its stately darkness, like "bells ringing on a dark winter's night". The gloomy, brooding chordal opening is contrasted with a tense restless, middle section, which does not break the mood, but offers livelier and more driven music before the monolithic restatement of the chordal opening theme.

The author’s name and the title of the work:

BOOTHROYD CAN YOU READ MUSIC

I would certainly be interested in knowing which “Boothroyd” and the mysterious source “Can You Read Music” -- it will need to wait another day, as no resource I have or can access gives a clue. 06.26.07 Note: From "Mike" in the Comments, the following: "The quote can be found in: The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, 12th edition (c) 2004, edited by Frank Muir. The quote is by Basil Boothroyd, page 684, third entry: "Can you read music?"

The defined words:

BEETHOVEN (A. Composer whose dying words were “Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over”)

ORCHESTRA (B. Outfit in a pit)

OFFBEAT (C. Unaccented part of a measure)

TIED (D. Literal meaning of “legato“)

HARPSICHORD (E. Virginal, e.g.)

REDNICHOLS (F. Jazz cornetist who played with His Five Pennies [2 wds.])

OSCITANT (G. Agape with drowsiness or boredom)

YAWNING (H. Synonym of Answer G.)

DEFECT (I. Broken piano key, e.g.)

CANES (J. Props for dancing vaudevillians)

ANVILS (K. Heavy gear needed for Verdi’s “Il Troatore”)

NEALHEFTI (L. Composer of the “Batman” and “The Odd Couple” themes [2 wds.])

YODELED (M. Made a chalet-to-chalet call)

OPPOSITE (N. Ritardando, vis-à-vis accelerando)

UNISON (O. What choir members often sing in)

RHONDA (P. Title girl in a Beach Boys hit)

EMBOUCHURE (Q. Mouthpiece of a wind instrument)

ANTHEM (R. Angola Avante or God Bless Fiji”)

DOWNPAT (S. Rhearsed to mastery [2 wds.])

MINIMS (T. Half notes)

UPTIGHT (U. Stevie Wonder hit of 1966)

SWINGING (V. In the style of Basie or Goodman)

IMPROVISED (W. Vamped)

CAKEWALK (X. Strutting dance deed; deed done with ease)

All of the defined words have a relationship to music in some manner or other, which is always very rewarding to a solver -- truly, in this case, a “theme”!

Disregarding the mysterious author and elusive title of the work, this is a wonderful acrostic with its caustic quote, coordinated clues and classic construction -- kudos to Cox and Rathvon!

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06.24.07 -- Is There A Doctor In The Puzzle?

Sunday, June 24, 2007

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NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY

Puzzle by Eric Berlin, edited by Will Shortz

THEDOCTORISIN (65A Alternative title for this puzzle) answers the question of this post's title -- six doctors to be accurate. Culled from the circled letters of the entries SECURITIESANALYST (23A Wall Street worker), MUSICALCOMEDY (39A Broadway's "The Producers," e.g.), FAMOUSLASTWORDS (50A They may come back to haunt you), SHRIMPCOCKTAILS (84A Appetizers served with sauce), WATERSOFTENER (91A It might go in a tank), and DEPARTMENTOFLABOR (109A Elizabeth Dole once led it) are the doctors SEUSS, MCCOY, FAUST, SPOCK, WATSON and DEMENTO!

It’s probably a good thing there are no serious illnesses or psychosis in this puzzle, as the doctors found in the faint circles are not particularly known for their expertise in medicine, but rather for children’s books, science fiction, opera/drama, detective stories and radio broadcasting. I did notice however, one Dr. TESLA (120 ______), perhaps he could be of help -- and then there is PHD (73A High degree) a shingle belonging to no one in particular.

The remainder of the puzzle is classic variety crosswordese and arcana -- even a few fresh clues for old favorites (e.g., SISSY, 70D Playground taunt) --- some new utterances (AWW, 81D “How cute!”) -- dogs and dogfood (AKITAS, 1A Dogs named for a region of Japan; KAL, 12D ___Kan pet food) -- government agencies (DEPARTMENTOFLABOR (109A), FDA, CIA, OEO and other abbreviations to throw into the alphabet soup, FTD, CEO, OED, AFTRA, ELAL, NCO, etc.

Troubled by clues for SMASH (33D Overhead), NOEL (46D "O Sanctissima," e.g.), DIANE (98D Steak _____), not surprised by the Will Shortz hallmark double-clue for 78A and 75D, Yemen’s capital, SANA and RIAL respectively. Mulled over what is WATERS OF TENER before saying oh hell, WATER SOFTENER -- keep it simple! Never heard of a TEADANCE (82D Afternoon event) before -- it’s something I’ll just have to pass up in this life.

All in all, a fair and enjoyable solve for Sunday with the doctors going in circles being a nice gimmick -- got it about half-way through, eliciting more of a “oh, is that all” than it being of any help -- a relief that it was not some horribly clever thing that just racks one’s nerves, sending one seeking medical attention -- as I’m not sure any of these doctors are qualified!

...and I can't resist saying it: "Elementary, Watson!"

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06.23.07 -- Variations on a Theme

URSAMAJOR (15A It's pictured in Van Gogh''s"Starry Night Over the Rhone") and PORTRAYAL (13D Acting job) -- Bette Davis as Baby Jane Hudson in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and Charles Pierce as Bette Davis as Jane Hudson as "Baby Jane"

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Saturday, June 23, 2007

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Puzzle by Patrick Berry, edited by Will Shortz

PORTRAYAL (13D Acting job) leads the way for art and artists as a theme for this standard Saturday crossword puzzle. TOPBANANA (17A Vaudeville bigwig), VOICEOVERS (29A Talking during movies?), TRAILER (9D It doesn't give you the full picture), and SPAREPART (1A Replacement) (I know, I know!) follow.

Along the way are sprinkled the luminaries URSAMAJOR (15A It's pictured in Van Gogh's "Starry Night Over the Rhone"), the supernumeraries ACHOO (16A Outburst from Sneezy) ("Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"), the orators with NOTES (47D Speaker's aids), a playwright RACINE (19A Wisconsin city originally named Port Gilbert), a tunesmith EROICA (53A Symphony originally dedicated to Napoleon) and a toon, DILBERT (20A Comic strip character with an upwardly curving necktie).

Gwyneth PALTROW (39D "Sliding Doors" star, 1998), David Ogden STIERS (43D He Played Winchester on "M*A*S*H"), LOU Costello (42A Bud's bud in comedy), and MAE (33A Busch of Laurel and Hardy films) share the marquee at the matinees on Saturday and WEDNESDAY (60A When "anything can happen" on "The Mickey Mouse Club").

TULSA (45A City whose name means "old town" in Creek) might well have been clued as 1949 Susan Hayward potboiler, HOTSPUR (27A Short-tempered sort) is a nice role in Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part I", RABBITRUN (55A Wood-and-chicken-wire enclosure) was a 1970 film with James Caan; and SPIKEHEELS (38A Bad shoes to run in) are the feature item on the poster for "The Devil Wears Prada".

OPIONEERS (58A First novel in Cather's "prairie trilogy") brings this INMOST (34A Hardest to get at) theme to a full RONDURE (8D Circle) -- so much to like about this wonderful little Saturday crossword puzzle beyond its theme that I'll just refer you to those that will call it "theme-less" -- hey, it's sunny, so it's "rain-less"; it's raining, so it's "sun-less" and so on and so on -- negative! So chatter and chew and hem and haw, cluck and claque and clap and claw!

So TIRED (48D Played out)!

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Late bulletin: Anonymous comment authored by "Hooboo" states: "I don't understand how inmost, thereto, Kia, Acura, spaniel, Rabin and hasps fit into the art theme. Can you explain it?"

Well, "Hooboo", where did you read that they did? -- but in any event, they do -- see links for INMOST, THERETO, KIA, ACURA, SPANIEL, RABIN and HASPS.

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06.22.07 -- Believe It or Not!

Friday, June 22, 2007

Puzzle by Mike Nothnagel, edited by Will Shortz

Fun puzzle! Ripley's "Believe It or Not!" presides over this collection of oddities and arcana dead center in the form of the entry RIPLEY (15D Collector of bizarre facts) like a neon sign in a penny arcade!

MARINEBIOLOGIST (16a One concerned with school activities?) -- "He’s a marine biologist—he wouldn’t want anything killed like that," -- the other biologists watched in horror as the great white approached him. He seemed quite calm—he was trying to get his leg out of its mouth." The other biologists felt utterly helpless as they watched their friend being dragged deeper into the depths of the water until he was gone. "Lots of things were going through my mind. I just hoped, I just hoped that he’d come up." But despite searches by divers and police, no trace of the biologist has been found except for his buoyancy vest and air tank. Thursday officials called off the search for his body. A local fisherman thinks that divers need to realize the area is unsafe and steer clear. "It is crazy; they are shark bait!"

MRTOADSWILDRIDE (54A Disneyland attraction since 1955) -- Keep your eyes peeled because Mr. Toad certainly isn't watching where he's going! Climb into your buggy and hang on, because the wacky characters from the Disney classic "The Wind in the Willows" are going to take you on a road trip you won't soon forget! Prepare for these antic adventures: Begin in an English manor, crash through a fireplace, take a madcap dash through a warehouse chock full o' dynamite, and watch out for that train!

SANDIEGOZOO (5D Birthplace of the first giant panda in North America to survive adulthood).-- The Giant Panda of China is a rare and reclusive beast. In fact, they don't even like to meet up with other pandas. But they still need to communicate with each other. So they've set up community bulletin boards. However, pandas can't write, so instead their messages take a different form. They use urine. This chemical communication allows pandas to tell their neighbours who they are, when they visited and how important they are in the local hierarchy. Male pandas have turned all this into a high art, including learning to do handstands so they can mark higher up a tree.!

Paris Hilton

SLOWNEWSDAY (23D Cause for some fluff filling) -- "Blogs Aren't Blogs Unless I Say they Are" -- Robert Scoble, formerly of Microsoft and co-author of "Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers". A surefire way to drive a little traffic to a blog is to manufacture an argument out of nowhere, using an outrageous statement to draw attention -- such as “only websites meeting five criteria decided by a committee at Microsoft several years ago are really blogs. Everything else is just pretending to be a blog." Oh, and the moon is made of blue cheese!

ALL THE CLUES THAT'S FIT TO PRINT!

Across: 1 Tollbooth option for Northeasterners; 7 Pennsylvania town that was the longtime home of Rolling Rock beer; 14 Ogle; 15 Plans named for a Delaware senator; 16 One concerned with school activities?; 18 Comment after "So"; 19 Itself, in a legal phrase; 20 Dating concern; 21 Martini go-with?; 22 Approve; 24 BusinessWeek topic: Abbr.; 26 N.F.L.'er or N.B.A.'er; 27 Mathematician seen on a Swiss 10-franc note; 29 Lounging terrace; 31 "The Last of the Plainsmen novelist; 32 Judge's declaration; 33 Yes-men; 37 Worn rocks; 38 Cold evidence; 39 "Blade Runner" actress Young; 40 Give an invitation for; 41 A challenger might go after one; 42 Cheer starter; 45 Word with time or tone; 46 Plays first; 48 Steel guitar sound; 50 With 9-Down, albeit, poetically; 52 Length o a kids' fun run, briefly; 53 Kind of wind; 54 Disneyland attraction since 1955; 57 Sweethearts; 58 It may sit near a jack; 59 "After you"; 60 Deck reply

Down: 1 College in south central New York; 2 Extremist; 3 Be wiped out; 4 Easter baby, maybe; 5 Birthplace of the first giant panda in North America to survive to adulthood; 6 Abbr. on many Quebec road signs; 7 Slacker; 8 Bearer of scales and plates; 9 See 50-Across; 10 Capital on the Daugava River; 11 Fresh; 12 Link between DNA strands; 13 Round fig.; 15 Collector of bizarre facts; 17 Books with many cross references?; 23 Cause for some fluff filling; 25 Suave, and then some; 28 Addict's bugbear; 30 Japanese P.M. Shinzo ____; 32 "Cryptonomicon" novelist Stephenson; 33 Some coll. seniors take it; 34 Have as a boss; 35 The orange variety is black; 36 One with the force: Abbr.; 37 Maker of a wake on a lake; 39 Source of strength; 41 Showed anxiety; 42 Flint, e.g.; 43 Tomorrow; 44 Cool; 47 Locations for declamations; 49 Certain chess piece, informally; 51 Collector of couples; 54 Rangers' venue: Abbr.; 55 Cooler; 56 N.Y.C. airport

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06.21.07 -- SOLSTICE

Summer begins at 2:06 p.m. Eastern time today, and astronomy, not meteorology, is the deciding factor. It is then that the northward trek of the sun's direct rays across the planet will cease and the summer solstice will arrive. For the next six months, the direct rays of the sun will move inexorably south, culminating in the winter solstice. Even so, the summer season is the slowest to fade. As a result of the Earth's elliptical orbit around the sun, the Northern Hemisphere summer lasts 93 days, while the winter is only 89 days long.

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Thursday, June 21, 2007

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Puzzle by John Sheehan, edited by Will Shortz

It's the first day of summer!

A standard crossword puzzle with six partial anagram entries. The entries, with the clue becoming the second word of the entry anagrammed and the first word of the entry a variation of how one might describe an anagram. The six entries and their clues are: KNOTTED/ROPES (20A PROSE), TANGLED/ROOTS (28A TORSO), FAUX/PAS (37A SAP), BAD/DEAL (39A LEAD), TOSSED/GREENS (45A GENRES), and ADDLED/BRAINS (55A BAIRNS)...yeah, and "loyal satirists" twists into "solstitial rays"!

Really liked this anagram-entry crossword -- it has a great PULSE (34D Something a doctor might check) -- here are the symptoms:

Irritations: THROE (3D Spasm) wants to be THROB; TRAMP (21D March) wants to be TROMP; MOOED (25D Made farm sounds), homonym for "mood" and one of two calves; QUADS (64A Targets for weightlifters), the other calf, could have been DELTS; SUABLE (49D Ripe for a trial lawyer), aches for an "e"; SEER (23A Jeremiah, e.g., in the Bible) spent a short time as IBER (a Chief of); and PSST (68A “Hey, buddy!”), just a rude expression used by a crude individual!

Subjectives: ACHE (14A Source of misery), not always; LIAR (51A Yarn producer?), not all yarns are lies; LAIR (62A Hollow, perhaps), well, “perhaps” was added, but LAIR and LIAR, asymmetrical stuffing; IQS (59A Measures of brightness), sometimes more a measurement of dullness!

Déjà vu: SUP (60D Eat well), seen this last Sunday, clued as 39D “How ya doin’?” and all those old standards, EWER, ERODE, ALOE, MAO, ASP (this Monday), AERO, DYE (yesterday as TIEDYE), both LIAR and LAIR, URGE, EDGE, IRIS, ARE (properly clued, even if deviously so, this time around); AUDI (one of the several very popular crossword cars), SNAGS, SHOO; and, of course, the repulsive PSST!

Good stuff: WOOD (6D Fifth-anniversary gift) and EMERALD (7D 55th-anniversary gift) side-by-side with Shortzesque cluing; SOX (11D One of two A.L. teams), finally, Chicago gets included; ARREARS (43D Payments might be in it), just a nice turn; GAS (30D Oomph), dunno, just like it a lot; GALLUP (48D New Mexico town mentioned in the hit “Route 66”), been there?!

"Saab" story: AXLE (42 Car bar) -- boy, has this been haunting the puzzle lately -- Sunday’s crossword, titled REAR AXLE in which a group of entries contained omitted L’s and E’s -- well, if you do the Sunday puzzle, I don’t need to explain. Sometimes anagrammed under the skater’s move, AXEL, AXLE this week is particularly impressive for the number of times it (AXLE) has appeared, and the fact that a section of the AXLE on my vehicle (a Ford Focus) snapped in half this last Thursday (see photo below, the arm to the axle holding the shocks).

Luckily it happened going five mph, because on the Long Island Expressway at 60 mph -- BITS (2A Smithereens)! Aha, saved by MESSENGERS (66A Angels) see Friday -- another coincidence? If you are knotted, tangled, tossed and addled by this real (not faux), good (not bad) tale of woe (and certainly not ALAS) -- AFATE (32D _____worse than death) that has been NIXED (19A Kiboshed), be of good cheer, as today we greet another summer!

Analemma over the Ukraine

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06.20.07 -- Circles

22D Inner Circle This miniature is of circular design, with a central emblem figuring Helios in his chariot. There are several circles surrounding this emblem and all are subdivided into twelve segments. The inner circle has twelve small naked female figures, six light- and six dark-skinned. Outside that are twelve numbers in Greek (henceforth called 'labels'). Outside that twelve clothed male figures representing the twelve months. Outside that are written the month names in Greek (indicating a specific date in the month) and on the very outside of the figure one may see the emblems of the zodiac signs.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

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Puzzle by Bonnie L. Gentry and Victor Fleming, edited by Will Shortz

Standard crossword puzzle with a gimmick -- 20 of the 225 letter entries are in circles, all of them being the letter “T” -- four of the circled “T”s are in the four corners of the grid and the remaining 16 circled “T”s are in a diamond shape in the center of the grid. It appears the intent was to evoke a draftsman’s T-Square -- the contrivance of outlined letters gives the solver a few extra clues once the circled letter is identified. I am partial to gimmicks in crossword puzzles as their skeleton adds depth to the grid and interest for the solver.

"Battle of the Amazons", Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The remainder of the puzzle’s 205 letters include two eleven-letter entries -- INNERCIRCLE (22D Influential group) and AMERINDIANS (10D Iroquois and others). Some of the seven-letter entries include OILWELL (13A Crude structure?), AREAMAP (15A Tourist’s aid), YESISEE (16A “Understood!”), MANLESS (17A Like a band of Amazons), LOCKSIN (55A Commits to, as an interest rate), BUELLER (56A Ferris in film), ALLEARS (60A Intent, as a listener), ALGEBRA (61A Field of unknowns?), and six-plus six-letter words including PALACE (9D Guard’s workplace), PALADE (20D 1974 Medicine Nobelist George _______), ANACIN (21D Bayer alternative), DIONNE (29D Quints’ name), EASYON (30D Hardly strict with) and EVOKED (44D Brought forth).

A slight delight for Wednesday.

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