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WILL SHORTZ'S FAVORITE CROSSWORD PUZZLES. Copyright © 2002 by The New York Times Company. All rights reserved. Printed in the of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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All of the puzzles that appear in this work were originally published in the New York Times daily editions, from November 22, 1993, through April 4, 2002. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 by The New York Times Company. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.

ISBN 0-312-30613-X

First Edition: October 2002

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INTRODUCTION

As someone whose favorite movie of the What makes them special? year is rarely, if ever, named best picture, For starters, every Times crossword has whose favorite TV show is never number to follow some basic rules—applicable to al- one on the Nielsens, and who hardly ever most all American —to be even does anything fashionable, I feel a little un- considered for publication: comfortable picking 75 "favorite" cross- words for this book. The pattern of black-and-white squares Still, someone has to make the choices, must be symmetrical and I have the advantage of having been an Unkeyed letters (that is, ones that ap- enthusiastic solver (as well as puzzlemaker) pear in only one answer) are taboo since about age 8. My first puzzle was pub- Two-letter words are taboo, too lished when I was 14. I sold my first cross- All words must be in good taste word to The New York Times at age 22; the The grid must have allover interlock year was 1975, during the era of Will Weng, which means that the black squares The Times's second crossword editor. And may not cut the grid into separate since I succeeded Eugene T. Maleska to be- pieces come only the fourth crossword editor in The grid can't have too many black the newspaper's history, I've kept close tabs squares on solvers' reactions to the puzzles. Words can't be repeated What's hard? What's easy? What's enjoy- Every answer must have a printed ref- able, and what's not? What excites you, erence or else be in common use in what annoys you, and what leaves you everyday speech or writing wondering "huh"? Letters, phone calls and e-mails pour into Constructing a crossword under such my office, giving me an immediate impres- constraints isn't easy, as anyone who has sion of solvers' opinions. I read The New ever tried will attest. But meeting these York Times's online crossword forum sev- standards is enough only to get the work eral times a day, giving me even faster feed- considered. I receive eight to ten submis- back. I also attend puzzle-related events sions for every puzzle that is accepted for throughout the year. Perhaps best of all, publication, so an accepted puzzle must go every Times crossword is tested by four vet- beyond the minimum standards. eran solvers before publication (in time for For a puzzle to be accepted, I look for a me to do last-minute polishing), so com- fresh, interesting, narrowly defined theme ments about the puzzles from a trusted (assuming there is a theme), accessible to panel arrive even before the puzzles see everyone and consistently applied through- print. out; lively, colorful vocabulary; and a This volume contains my 75 favorite minimum of obscurity and crosswordese. daily New York Times crosswords since The grid must be 15 x 15 squares. The max- 1993, when I assumed the editorship. They imum number of entries allowed is 78 (or represent what are in my opinion the best 72, if the puzzle is unthemed). of the best, chosen based on my own feel- Beyond the above, I enjoy puzzles with ings as well as comments from solvers. humor. I like unusual letter patterns and www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com

words containing the rarer letters of the al- puzzle a constructor ever had in the news-

phabet, like J, Q, X and Z. I encourage paper appears here. At the other extreme, phrases from everyday writing and speech, some of The Times's most frequent and whether or not they're in a dictionary, be- popular puzzle contributors do not appear cause they tend to have pizzazz, and they're in the book at all, because their work is of less likely to have appeared in puzzles be- a quieter, less flashy sort. Their absence fore. An excess of proper names is discour- doesn't mean they're any less valued, aged, because people tend either to know A word about computers: Nowadays them or not—and if a puzzle has a spot many solvers may assume that crosswords with several tough names, it's easy for a are created by computer. This is not true for

solver to get stuck. The quality of the con- the crosswords in The Times. While it's true tributor's clues doesn't matter to the same that computer assistance is being increas-

degree, because I know, as editor, I can ingly used by constructors for suggesting change them if necessary. On average about possible entries or fills for areas of a grid, a J^r half the clues in The Times's crosswords are computer can't say what is a good word or

* ^ my own. an interesting fill. Only a human can make In my first 8V2 years on the job, which is that judgment, the period covered in this book, I've edited Moreover, a computer program to con- more than 2,600 daily puzzles for The struct crosswords is only as good as the Times—from which these 75 were selected, database it comes with. And the English They are presented in chronological order, language is so vast, with so many idioms What makes each of the puzzles special and phrases and names from the world enough to be called a "favorite" is ex- around us, reference works can't begin to plained at the top of its page. At the bottom include them all. Some constructors who of the page are the author's name and the use computer assistance have spent years date and the day of the week of original supplementing their databases with fresh, publication in The Times. As you may colorful names and phrases not found in know, the crosswords in The Times get any references. In a sense, the computer has more difficult as the week proceeds, from become an extension of each constructor's Monday (easy) to Saturday (very hard), so personality. noting the day of the week before you begin Beyond the grid, only a human can think will help you gauge the puzzle's difficulty, of an original puzzle theme or write an My favorite puzzles tend to have more original clue. And I painstakingly continue gimmickry than the puzzles in The Times to edit every puzzle by hand, clue by clue, as a whole. Unusual twists stand out. Often on paper, the old-fashioned way. these are the puzzles that people remember Thus, when you tackle a New York Times and talk about. I'm not sure you'd want a crossword, rest assured that you're still pit- steady diet of gimmickry; for everyday ting your mind against another mind, not a solving, traditional puzzles can bring just as machine. much pleasure. But a book of favorites has Herewith 75 of the best crosswords that its own rules. the human mind can produce! The ages of the puzzle constructors vary from teens to 70's. In a few cases, the only —Will Shortz, 2002

www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.comSHORTZ SAYS: The first weekday crossword that I edited for The New York Times has a simple theme, familiar vocabulary and mostly straightforward clues—suitable for the easiest puzzle of the week. Simple doesn't mean bland, though. Note, for example, the colorful answer at 33-Across, which is not the sort of pop-cultural phrase found often in older puzzles.

ACROSS DOWN 27 "Oy __!" 48 Common cause for 1 Understood 1 French 28 out (supplement) blessing 4 Some tracks 2 time (singly) 30 Hoosegows 50 Strawberry, once ' 9 _ Rizzo ('69 3 Taipei's land 31 Footrace terminus 51 "Any Time _" Hoffman role) 4 Honolulu locale 32 Stage actress Hayes (Beatles tune) 14 Santa winds 5 Fat fiddle 34 MS follower? 52 Auto-racer Andretti 15 Actress Anouk 6 Fuse word 35 Love, Italian style 55 Words of

16 Significant person? 7 First name in hotels 36 Newcastle-upon- , comprehension 17 Kauai keepsake 8 Big rigs England 56 "David Copperheld' 18 Small person 9 Campus mil. grp. 38 Esne character 20 Legit 10 Daughter of Zeus 39 Judge's exhortation 57 Ten to one, e.g. 22 Caroline Schlossberg, 11 Calendar abbr. 40 Prone 58 Gossip to Ted Kennedy 12 Theology sch. 41 Name of 13 popes 59 "That's disgusting!" 23 Type style: Abbr. 13 Eye 44 Oscar the Grouch, 60 High-tech med. 24 Big Mama 19 -man (flunky) for one diagnostics 25 Church part 21 Hooch container 46 Julia Louis-Dreyfus 61 Foreman stat 29 Rummy variety 24 Magna on "Seinfeld" 32 The mark on the C 26 Rights grp. 47 Pool-ball gatherer in Capek i33l Calendar period, to Kirk 37 Caustic substance 38 Traditional tune 40 Pub quaff 42 Logical newsman? 43 Long-lasting curls 45 Depicts 49 Health-food store staple 50 Jerry Herman composition 53 Dash 54 Michelangelo masterpiece 56 Journalist Greeley 58 Used booster cables 62 Tina's ex 63 Correspond, grammatically 64 Regarded favorably 65 Pince- 66 Former Justice Byron 58 59 60 67 Air-show maneuvers P 5 68 Palindrome center 63 A Q t? £ € 66 ( H i -r" £

by Fred Piscop Monday, November 22, 1993 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: This puzzle caused quite a stir when it was published, because its thematic "trick" was still fairly novel at the time. As with all the puzzles in this book, I'd rather not reveal the

twist before you solve . . . but I think you'll enjoy it when you get it!

ACROSS DOWN 25 Santa _, Calif. 42 Filet 1 Privy 1 Uncover, poetically 26 Music man Lester 43 Perceives 5 U.S. narc 2 Site of a Napoleon 27 Short story 45 Debutante 9 Egg depository victory, 1805 28 team 46 Pest controller of a 13 Clear (out) 3 Pyramid, perhaps 29 "Baby, _ Your sort 14 Sum up 4 Moving tribute? Loving" 47 French flower 16 " any wonder?" 5 Daze 30 "Twicknam Garden" 48 Express 17 Thompson of films 6 Road sign poet 49 Per 18 "You _ Beautiful" 7 Handled perfectly 31 Christie's "Peril at 50 Outdoor feast 19 The Coasters' record 8 Publius Ovidius __» 51 Fiji's capital label 9 Break 32 Specialized movie 55 Nancy Drew's beau 20 everyone 56 Self-promotional Wow 10 O.T. book theater 23 Self-defense item notice in a magazine 11 Decorous 33 Detriment 24 Mer material 12 Kind of search 36 Circuits 25 "I Fall to Pieces" 15 Juggernauts 37 Nasty singer 21 McKellen and 39 Cartoonist Silverstein 27 Trash pickup spot Fleming 40 Olympic skater 32 Greenspan and 22 Catches Johann Koss Paton 33 Super-growth locales 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 34 sequitur 35 Summoned, in a way 13 14 15 16 36 Jockey rival

37 Transceiver button 17 18 19 38 Prefix with literal or lateral 20 21 22 39 Does a laundry job 23 24 40 Party you can't crash 1 41 Family assets | 1 H - 26 27 28 29 30 31 43 Dance movement 1 44 Fearful cry 32 33 34 45 Enfant terrible 46 John Guare play, 35 36 37 with "The" 52 Via Veneto farewell 38 39 40 53 St. (London site) 41 42 43 54 Amusement park staple 44 45 57 Trade grp.

58 Frontier trophy 46 47 48 49 50 51 59 Eye part 60 Henri's head 52 53 54 55 56 61 Orange and lemon, 57 58 59 e.g. 62 Gatsby portrayer, 60 61 62 1949

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The hidden theme of this puzzle is revealed at 21-Across, so if you'd like to delay the sur- prise as long as possible, wait to solve this part of the grid until the end. Besides the theme, note the lively answers at 7- and 52-Across, and 3-, 11-, 19-, 30-, 40- and 48-Down. That's expert puzzle-making!

ACROSS Q Franciscus TV drama 22 "I'm glad that's 47 Former capital of 1 Apple competitor of the 60's over!" Bolivia 4 Gambler Holliday 4 "Dream Lover" 23 Sealy rival §8] Underground event Tjy Fifth-century pope singer 28 N.H.-Vt. neighbor 49 gland 12 Green 5 With no letup gSL Open 54 It ended in 1806: 14 The "S" in T. S. Eliot 6 Price abbr. 31 Whirligig Abbr. 16 Men of La Mancha 7 Material 32 Actor Gerard 55 Two or go follower 17 Farmer's tipcart 8 Pro follower 33 Boxer's title, briefly 56 X Cartridge 18 type 9 Dog, for short 34 Short shot? 57 Football linemen: 19 Aviatrix, for short 10 Proof goof 35 Daphne and hazel Abbr. 20 Point of no return? j3fr) Minimal ante 36 It's like home? "I2T) Hidden theme of this 13 A bit obtuse 37 Bomber Boomer puzzle 14 Maze word 39 Beethoven's only 24 Last word of 15 Droopy-eyed opera "Finnegans Wake" Corset result, |40j Sight saver? 25 Make an appeal |19J perhaps ^41 Peaked 26 White House monogram 21 Where fat cats get 43 Cockpit display Rockefeller 27 Outfit thin 44 Mrs. 29 Make an appeal 30 Miners' sen. 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 32 Out of sorts *b 12, 13 14 15 @ Friend of 21-Across r ^ 35 Affected by pollen 16. 17 38 "Clan of the Cave Bear" heroine 1 18 19 20 39 Chosen number? 42 Anwar's successor 21 22 23 24 S 43 Pickpocket 5 I * 2

53 Quick to blush i 56 London barrister 45 46 47 48 49 58 Game officials 50 51 52 59 Making out 60 Hot time in Chile 53 54 55 56 57 61 Umpteen's ordinal?

62 Green lights 58 59

DOWN .;'|60 —*-*" 61 62 | 1 Hosp. hookups 1 & ' • 2 Doctors often carry

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here some extras have been squeezed in where they will fit, adding more pleasure to the solving.

ACROSS 3 Pro_ 25 Yoga position 48 Comic Poundstone 1 COPPER CHARGES 4 Cabinet dept. 26 Take apart 49 Esau's wife 8 MERCURY WATER 5 Scented blossom 27 Strive mightily, with 50 Approach SOURCES 6 He went to camp in "out" 51 Search 15 Furniture piece a 1987 movie 29 U.S. poet laureate 52 Lith. and Lat., once 16 Glee 7 _Hall Dove 54 Deck 8 Port opening 17 Competitor ^q Former Twin batting 55 Memo words 9 Back-of-the-book 18 "O, where is _?": champ 56 Dining hall section Shakespeare 31 Largish singing 59 Tempe sch. 10 Rad 19 Hemingway novel group 11 Latin list extender setting 32 Attack in a way 12 Actress Kedrova 20 Bygone auto Bury 13 Senator from 21 Quarantine 3 Recalled 22 Ship officers 14 Backwater 38 Follows hostilely 24 Of oneself: Lat. 22 Bedroom 4* Indispensable 25 GOLDEN GALE community, for short 43 one's head 28 POTASSIUM 23 Kerrigan and 44 Slightly tapered PORTIONS company 45 Monticello site 33 TIN SOURCE 34 HYDROGEN GAS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 35 Auction offering

36 Mauritanian, e.g. 15 16 37 Like Oscar Wilde 38 Flintstone pet 17 18 - 39 Zip 19 20 21 40 Imagine that! 41 CARBON COOKER 22 23 24 42 SILVER DEBRIS 1 . 45 H NEON PORTAL 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 46 O.T. book 47 Recreational drives 33 34 35 49 Grants 53 Take measures 36 37 38 54 Boz boy 39 40 41 57 Lets, in tennis 19r 58 Bug River locale 42 43 44 45 60 Current instrument 61 Some new-car 46 47 48 drivers 62 HELIUM DRINKS 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 63 ALUMINUM FISHING GEAR 57 58 59 DOWN 60 61 1 Mediocre marks 62 63 2 The Reader (alternative press

magazine) by Randolph Ross Friday, September 16, 1994 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: The reason for the extra square at the top of this puzzle will become evident once you solve 1-Down. Three other answers provide hints to the theme. Note the date that this puzzle first appeared.

ACROSS 67 Stock option 8 Driver's aid 42 Siteofl905's 2 Links org. 68 Clairvaux cleric 9 Be up and about Norway-Sweden 5 Hollers 69 Elizabeth I, to poets 10 Fond of reading split 10 Support 70 System start-up 11 Dogpatch denizen 45 "The Faerie Queene' 14 Speech fumbles 71 Salt deposit? 12 "Cathy," e.g. poet 15 Charlotte eager 72 Hornless, as cattle 13 Nancy Drew's 48 "Who Slew Auntie creator 16 Mitch Miller's 73 "Citizen Kane" _?" (1971 film) 23 Virtuoso instrument studio 50 Bard of boxing 25 Postfix 17 Bandleader 51 Any soap opera 27 Slipper Edmundo DOWN 53 Set upon 31 Adjudge 18 Mr. Kosygin 1 For the outlook, look 54 Kind of brick 32 Toning-up spot 19 "Lean __" (Bill out for his look out! 55 Kazantzakis 33 In fighting trim character Withers hit) 2 Lost in Lille 36 George Gallup 20 The Smothers 3 What 1-Down is competitor 58 "Are not!" response to Brothers, e.g. 4 Hobnob 37 What 3-Down is 60 What do when 21 Alice's restaurant 5 Shock treatments? 38 Ding-a-ling you see red 22 Make hand over fist 6 Pit 41 Mutant cartoon 62 D-Day river 24 Open 7 Blackmailer's words superheroes 66 Letters angels love? 26 Bottom-line amount 1 28 "Odyssey"

enchantress 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 29 Antic 30 Chopin's "Butterfly" 14 15 16 et al. 32 February 2 sighting 17 18 19 34 Brighton brew 35 Carved out 20 21 22 23 39 Cauldron 24 25 26 27 28 40 Like a certain period of burrowed time? 29 30 31 43 Singer Christie I^HK 44 Consent and Reason, 32 33 34 H 35 36 37 38 e.g.

46 "Six Crises" 39 140 41 42 43 monogram | 47 37-Down, e.g. 44 45 46 47 48 49 They're on the •'"> 49 50 51 52 receiving end • I I I 52 Cross 53 54 55 56 57 58 53 Maid-for-TV? 56 "Steve Allen Show" 59 60 61 62 63 regular

57 "Romancero gitano" 64 65 66 67 poet 59 Handsome hunk 68 69 70 61 Cowboys and Indians, e.g. 71 72 73 63 Physicist Georg 64 Actress Diana 65 Casual coverup by Bob and Sharon Klahn Thursday, February 2, 1995 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Sometimes simple is best, even wonderful, as this puzzle's theme proves—especially when all the elements of it are included. This was the constructor's first published crossword anywhere. What a debut!

ACROSS 7 K-O stringr 29 Astronaut Grissom 49 Hue 1 Fantastik competitor 8 Potato buds 31 Relieves 51 Ship post 7 Minimum 9 Guanaco relatives 32 Elvis's middle name 52 Part of A.M. 12 60's space project 10 General Motors 33 Capital on the 53 Point in life 13 Polyester sheets product Caspian 55 Advanced degree? 15 Show horse 11 Hubert's wife, in the 34 XXX drinks Teachers' grp. 16 Trident carrier comics 36 Big Apple sch. 18 Jewel 12 Food additive 37 Ellipsoid 19 "—Rhythm" 14 Trim a tress 39 Train car 21 Riyadh residents 17 Superlative suffix 40 Causing to disappear 22 Blitzed 20 Means of spotting 41 Mexican festival 24 TV's "Tales from the this puzzle's theme? feature 22 Editor's notation 42 Ruined 25 Weaselly animal 23 Some pieces of 43 Brit, legislators 28 airport advice 44 Prefix with meter 30 Doe follower, in 25 Damages 45 1918 battle site song 26 Summer beverages 47 Like some pre- 31 Botticelli subject 27 Artist Magritte Columbian art 32 Lawyers org. 35 Budget item 1 ? 3 4 5 6 |7 8 9 10 11 36 Fits (inside)

37 Kind of history 12 1 13 14 38 Compass heading 39 Aligns, temporally 15 16 - 17 40 Bring forth 41 Disney dog 18 119 20 |21 42 Father of the Titans

22 23 | |24 43 50's White House name 25 26 27 28 29 ' ' ' H 46 Tap type

of nine 31 32 34 48 One 30 1 33 50 Results 51 Warning to Bo-Peep 35 36 37 54 Buckle up 38 39 40 56 Offering a neologism 58 Meaning 41 42 59 A Mouseketeer 60 Ground 43 44 45 46 47 61 Nullify 48 49 50 51 52 53 DOWN 54 !55 56 57 1 Parisian head 2 city 58 59 3 Street drug

4 city |60 61 5 Eugene's place 6 "The Prisoner of

Chillon" poet byjeremy Thomas ] 'aine Wednesd ay, W [ay 1(), 1995 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: In this high-wire act of puzzle-making, the letter I is the clue for 19- and 53-Across, the

black squares in the middle of the grid form a large capital I . . . and every clue begins

with I as well!

ACROSS DOWN 21 Introduction for an 46 Ian of Rhodesia 1 Ingemar Johansson 1 Idolized drummer eye doctor 47 inverse of "floods" wins 2 "In Old ," 25 Instrument for lifting 49 Iced drinks 4 Inhabitant's place e.g. 26 "I think that I shall 50 Illuminated 9 Industrialist's deg. 3 Isaac the violinist never see ..." poem 51 It spans douze mois 12 Insurance figure 4 Idi 27 Inferior cars 52 It's uplifting 14 Ichthyologist's 5 Iberian "mouth" 28 "I give!" 54 In the rear 29 Itty-bitty meas. specimen 6 Intense exam 55 Imperfection 30 lie de la Cite street 15 "It's Still Rock and 7 Ideal, as greenhouse 56 Inhuman brute 31 Ice hockey legend Roll to Me" singer soil 57 Interconnection of 32 Inscribed 56 Billy 8 Inspector nerves Indians of the 34 Ill-looking 16 West 9 Idiot 58 Item in a laundry 35 Inhabitant: Suffix 17 Immortal start for 10 Initiated Caesar 36 Income after taxes 11 Isolated 37 Initial for Superman 18 Important ship of 13 In (actually) myth 44 Irving Berlin 15 Inamorata of Tarzan belonged to it 19 I 20 Indispensable, in 45 Israel- 22 It's in Lepus music separator 23 Italian dish 24 Initials for a waitress 1 2 3 27 Ignorant reply 29 Individual who 12 13 fishes 33 Interweave 16 38 "I Will _" (disco hit) 19 20 39 Intimate of Aeneas 22 40 Innermost orbital point 41 Influences in astrology

42 It precedes poetica 43 Irene's seasoning 44 Inventory, e.g.

48 Indonesian is similar

to it

53 I 59 Infant's place 60 Innocent Hiss? 61 Item for heating liquids 62 Islets 63 Italian artist Andrea del_ 64 Institutes legal action 65 It follows oom 66 In amongst

67 Intemperate fit by Bryant White Saturday, November 10, 1995 www.Ebook777.com — Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Every theme answer in this puzzle interlocks with at least one other—an elegant touch and the answer to 37-Across holds the key to everything. The constructor is a prominent lawyer, businessman and civic leader. He is also the founder of the India- napolis Crossword Club, a meeting of which I once had the pleasure of attending.

ACROSS 4 Nixon Veep 32 Rodeo ring? 54 Reliever's quest 1 Geometry calculation 5 Yellow fruit 33 37-Across from a 55 "You said a 5 Mere tool 6 Mr. Guinness witch mouthful" 9 Cupid's master 7 Alternative to hit 34 Message in a bottle, 56 Told a whopper 14 Gun blast 8 Louse eggs maybe 57 Legal org. 15 Kyrgyzstan's 9 Cold sorrel soups 36 Singer Christie 58 Fled or bled Mountains 10 Dress style 37 Christian symbol 16 Athenian general 11 37-Across from a 38 Good-time Charlie 17 Yemeni city raven 39 Place to see a catch 18 Trapper's trophy 12 Kicker's asset 44 "Is that so!" 19 Gathered, as bees 13 Also 45 The unemployed 20 37-Across from a 21 African tribe member 47 "Do _ a Waltz?" 1953 western 22 Actor Buchholz 49 Mrs. Chaplin and 23 Nonetheless 25 A number 1 namesakes 24 Not practice 26 Works of Sappho 50 Kind of glass moderation 28 Belief of one billion 51 Words of 27 Carpenters, at times 29 Climbing vine understanding 31 Hopping 30 "Barnaby Jones" star 52 Despots 32 Shopping aid 35 Twins, e.g. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 • 10 11 12 13 36 Unattached 37 Theme of this puzzle 14 15 „ 40 Doctrines 41 Philatelist's sheet 17 18 • 42 Radical Newton 20 21 22 43 Vane dir. • ! :"vj 44 Dracula's home 23 24 25 26 46 More blessed roSSsj 48 Sheriff's cry, in a ISM/jA. 27 28 29 30 31 western SmI 53 37-Across from the 32 33 34 |35 36 cartoons 57 Moon over Uranus 37 38 39 59 Girlfriend abroad 40 41 42 60 Zola best seller 61 Trite 43 44 45 62 Swerve H jPgjj 63 Suffix with fabric or 46 47 [48 49 50 51 52 authentic 64 Upset 53 54 55 56 65 Loose items, sometimes 57 58 59 60 66 Stitches 61 62 63

DOWN 64 65 66 1 Rope plant 2 Home health hazard

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ACROSS 6 Source of TV 32 Approval 55 Honors word 1 Former revenue 34 M-CCCL 57 Meander model 7 Purple color 36 Santa's laughs 58 collar 6 Grenades, e.g. 8 Chintzy ones 37 "_ Loved You" 60 Composer 10 This may be tiled 9 Fish-eating hawk ("Carousel" hit) Khachaturian 14 Church recesses 10 Enumerate 38 Bit 61 Zilch 39 15 Roaster's place? 11 Not a copy: Abbr. Bad check 62 Be off guard 40 Single-season home- 16 Humorist Bombeck 12 Melville classic 63 Break a run king 17 "Romeo and Juliet" 13 Cooler Commandment 41 United event 19 "I'd consider 42 Churchill symbol 18 Slight trace honor" 46 Jostles 20 Gaping, as the 21 Subject for Aristotle 47 Literally, farmer 25 Beach, Fla. mouth _ 48 Following a curve 22 Dizziness 27 Brokaw's network 49 Flinch 23 Bat wood 28 "Wonderful!" 51 Violent agitation 24 Indulge, in a way 30 Quick score in 52 Hidden 26 Type of servitude baseball 53 Fashion maven's 29 1 + 1= 3, for 31 "I didn't know that!' quest example

33 Noted name in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 puppetry 35 Buzzer 14 15 16 36 Theme of this puzzle 17 18 19 43 Birds feather

44 Woody vine 20 21 22 45 Trial conference 50 Whole lot of apples 23 24 25 54 Marilyn role 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 56 Transfer 57 Actress De Mornay

I 34 ,.':«.; . 133 35 59 Most lucid

62 Unfavorably known 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 64 Eastern princess

43 i 44 65 Swear Mp4>r 66 Spider nests 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 67 Trimming tools 68 Cross products 54 55 | 56 69 Narrow valley 70 Is not allowed to, for 57 58 •A^l 59 60 61 short 62 63 64 DOWN 65 66 67 1 Minor despot

2 Revolt 68 69 70 3 Analysis start 4 Breathing spell

5 Fictional wirehair by David J. Kahn Wednesday, December 27, 1995 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Cathy Millhauser is one of the funniest crossword constructors around, as well as one of the most elegant. Here she incorporates four familiar 15-letter phrases and gives them a punny twist.

ACROSS 3 Shirt label 26 Grarrirny-winning 49 's river 1 Kickapoos, e.g. 4 High-riser, e.g. Baker 50 Harness part 6 "Tuna-Fishing" 5 High-rise, e.g. 27 Hepatologist's 51 Garden spot painter 6 Danny of "Taxi" speciality 52 horn (shofar) 10 Silent one 7 Old actor Walter 28 's 53 Keep (persevere) 14 Emulated the Blob 8 Cruces Station 54 Jacuzzi set 15 "My People" author 9 Mass sections 29 Horse play? 56 60's singer Little 10 Deserved praise 16 Dash 30 "M*A*S*H" extra 57 Vitamin bottle abbr. 17 11 O'Grady of "Eight is Like well-behaved 31 Rake parts Enough" clerics? 36 Spinose mammal 20 Singular 12 Ham bits 37 Feminine friend 21 Mirror backing 13 Screen 38 Junk 22 It can bring a tear to 18 Reply to the Little 40 Ambulance driver your eye Red Hen 41 Dakar's land 23 The Great 19 Seine feeder Commoner 23 City on the Arno 43 Pot 44 Giving a darn 24 Spelling on TV 24 Pre-1917 ruler 45 Trash 25 Like mosquitoes at a 25 One of Polly Adler's camp? ilk 48 Decorative drapery 32 Pernod ingredient 33 Hoopster Archibald 1 2 3 4 5 ' 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 34 "Who, Horatius?" 11 14 " 16 35 Baker or Battle, e.g. 36 Producers of bangs? 17 18 19 38 Swindle, slangily

39 Put away the dishes 20 21 22 40 Exec's dispatch 41 Pickle 23 24 42 Like tie-dyed 1 HHf clothes? 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 46 Hem

32 33 ! |34

' : 47 Fritzi, to Nancy I : 48 Sally 35 36 37 38 51 Mercyhurst College site

39 40 i 41 52 Indian sovereignty 55 Like Cinderella 42 43 44 45 before the Prince? 58 Blue dye 46 47 59 Kind of thermometer 48 60 Ticket imperative 49 50 i 51 52 53 54 61 20's heavyweight 55 56 57 Tunney

62 Street band 58 59 60 63 Goes the distance 61 62 63 DOWN 1 Fast food option 2 Crucifix by Cathy Millhauser Thursday, December 28, 1995 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: A mere glance at the clues below will reveal the unusual feature of this crossword. The answer at 40-Across spells it out. This puzzle is perfect proof that a crossword does not have to be hard to be ingenious or well-made.

ACROSS DOWN 23 "Not _" ("Thinking 52 Manufacturing 1 Doc Duvalier 1 "_and nothing of it") 54 Howe

5 J. Hoover Circumstance" 25 _ Unis 55 player 10 au lait 2 Et_ 27 Romeo 56 "Cogito sum" 14 Corporation 3 Circus 28 Bete — 57 "True_" (arnrnunition maker) 4 Put to 30 Merman 58 Kett of the comics 15 Jules 5 notice 32 panty hose 60 bene 16 friendly 61 In a (agitated) 6 " Rosenkavalier" 33 Billy Joel's "Don't _ 17 "Of _and Men" 7 Cyclist LeMond Why" 64 The old college 18 " the news 8 and a leg 35 "_in " ." today . . (Beatles 9 Take the (fly at 37 "Ready or not, lyric) night) come!" 19 "Take — Train" 10 competition 39 In (actually) 20 basket 11 Arthur 41 The word 22 "The _ Show on 12 Legal 42 Rock's Siouxsie and Earth" — 13 Quod — the — 24 "It's _ !" ("See you demonstrandum 47 Go down in then!") 21 Fleming 49 Grand Opry 26 Camus's "The _ of Sisyphus" 27 so on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 29 Nick at 14 15 16 31 living 34 TV's "_ Clark" & 17 18 19 36 Hippocratic

38 On the — 20 21 22 23 40 Title for this puzzle 43 "Van Gogh in_" 24 25 26 " 44 "Que 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 45 _ River, N.J. 46 the storm 34 35 36 37 38 39 48 Jay — 50 Jacqueline Kennedy, 40 41 42 Bouvier

51 "—Fiction" 43 44 45 53 British 55 "The — Heart" 46 47 48 49 50 59 Mount St 62 —Canal 51 52 53 54

63 finish | 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 65 Get the ground floor 62 63 64 65 66 "Rock of_"

67 nous 66 67 68 68 spumante " 69 "... gathers no 69 70 71 70 the course (perseveres) 71 "Havea_" by Martin Schneider Monday, June 24, 1996 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Perhaps my all-time favorite crossword in The Times. This originally appeared on the morning of Election Day in 1996, before the polls had opened across much of the country. Starting at about 9 a.m., and continuing all day, calls from outraged solvers poured into

my office, because the callers assumed . . . well, you'll have to solve the puzzle to under- stand why. The puzzle was discussed on ABC's "World News Tonight" that night, and explained in The Times the next day.

ACROSS 3 Newspaperman Ochs 23 Sewing shop 50 "LaNausee" novelist 1 " your name" 4 Easel part purchase 52 Sheik's cliques (Mamas and Papas 5 Actress Turner 25 TV's Uncle Miltie 54 Bemoan lyric) 6 Ropes, as dogies 27 Short writings 55 Popsicle color 6 Fell behind slightly 7 Place to put your 29 Opponent 56 Bird of prey 15 Euripides tragedy feet up 31 Likely 58 10 on a scale of 1 to 16 Free 8 Underskirt 32 Actress Caldwell 10 17 Forecast 9 First of three-in-a- 33 End of the English 60 Family girl 19 Be bedridden row alphabet 62 Famous 20 Journalist Stewart 10 Lower in public 35 Trumpet 63 Something to make 21 Rosetta estimation 37 Ex-host Griffin on one's birthday 22 1960's espionage 11 Onetime bowling 39 Black Halloween 64 Regarding series alley employee animal 65 Quite a story 24 Perignon 12 Threesome 40 French 101 word 66 Dublin's land 25 Quilting party 13 English prince's 41 Provider of support, 69 —Victor 26 "Drying out" school for short 70 Hullabaloo program 14 60's TV talk-show 42 Much-debated host Joe political inits. 28 Umpire's call 18 44 Sourpuss 30 Tease Superannuated 47 Malign 34 Tease 36 Standard 38 "The Tell-Tale 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Heart" writer 15 16 39 & 43 Lead story in tomorrow's 17 18 newspaper (!) 45 Gold: Prefix 19 |20 I 46 Lee cakes 48 Bobble the ball __ 22 23 24 49 Spanish aunts 51 Obi 26 27 28 r29 30 31 32 33 53 Bravery 57 Small island 34 35 36 37 38 59 Daddies

61 Theda of 1917's 39 40 41 42 ! |43 44 "Cleopatra" 62 Employee motivator 45 46 47 |48 1 65 Otherworldly I ! 49 50 5, 52 |53 54 55 56 67 Treasure hunter's aid \ 68 Title for 39-Across

57 58 59 60 i 61 next year 71 pYpliiQinn ffntn qopipiI 62 63 64 65 66 67 events 72 Four Fab name 68 69 70 73 They may get tied

up m knots 71 1 72 74 Begin, as a maze 73 74 DOWN 1 Disable

2 Cherry-colored byjeremi,ah Farrell T uesday/N oveniber !5,1996 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Five theme answers, arranged in order from top to bottom (and covering all the possibili- ties of the theme), make this puzzle remarkable. The constructor, a high school math teacher in , N.Y., has six crosswords in the book—more than any other person.

ACROSS DOWN 22 Signed up for 44 "Didja ever ?" 1 Certain drapes 1 Uncle of note 23 U.N.'s wonder . . . 6 Atlantic food fish 2 New Deal prog. Hammarskjold humorist 10 Gator's kin 3 Stream deposit 24 Former polit. cause 45 Successful escapee 14 Cop (confess for a 4 "I can't _" (Stones 26 of the Unknowns 47 Incarnation lighter sentence) refrain) 28 Like some greeting 48 Spanish Surrealist 15 White-tailed flier 5 Morton product cards 51 Certain investment, 16 Deli offering 6 "Rocky II," e.g. 32 Nine-digit number, informally 17 Colt 45, e.g. 7 Diabolical maybe 52 More competent 19 List member 8 Due halved 33 Ultimate point 53 Jesse who lost to Ronald Reagan in 20 "That's a lie!" 9 Words of assistance 34 R.N.'s offering 1970 21 Household 10 "I _" (ancient 36 Send 56 Composer Stravinsky 23 70's-80's robotic rock Chinese text) 37 Trompe 1' 59 Ending with quiet group 11 Record again 38 Stretch 60 N.Y.C. subway 25 The United States, 12 Where to find 41 He KO'd Quarry, 61 Modern information metaphorically Eugene 10/26/70 source, with "the" 27 Uris hero 13 Awaken 42 Asian holiday 28 Dance, in Dijon 18 Early Shirley role 43 Tipple 29 Member of the 500

HR club 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 30 Rock impresario Brian 14 15 16 31 Surgical fabric 17 18 19 33 Ant, in dialect

35 "Texaco Star 20 21 22 Theater" host 39 Cut down 23 24 25 26 40 Brilliance 43 High dudgeon 27 28 29 30 46 Mai_ 31 32 33 34 47 Go on to say 49 "Bravo!" 35 36 37 38 50 It once settled near Pompeii 39 40 41 42 53 Part of a whole 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 54 Kangaroo moves 55 Hayfield activity 50 51 52 53 57 Prefix with China 58 Kind of cereal 54 55 56 62 Shade of red 63 Conception 57 58 59 60 61 64 Bizarre 62 63 64 65 Bronte heroine

66 Pre-1821 Missouri, 65 66 67 e.g.: Abbr. 67 He had Scarlett fever by Alan Arbesfeld Tuesday, March 11, 1997 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS:

David Kahn never makes an ordinary puzzle, but this one is truly exceptional. Every theme answer (four horizontal and two vertical) interlocks with at least one other, and the answer at 7-Down gives a playful explanation of what these six have in common.

ACROSS 61 Noted first name in 9 Dow Jones fig. 37 Attorney's request 1 Construction lifts jazz 10 Pool areas 38 Critic ." Berg's 7 "If _ a nickel . . 62 Like Alban 11 Item in a trunk 41 Old words from 11 Pointed criticism music 12 Together, musically which modern words 14 You can say that 63 Get spliced 13 Feints in boxing are derived again! 64 -poly 19 "Air Music" 43 Half of the Odd 15 Section flanked by 65 Metric units composer Couple aisles 21 Contribute, as to an 48 Sound of passage 16 Hubbub DOWN account 49 Not perfectly round 1 Med. care provider 17 Appoint 23 Criticize in no 50 Fish-eating duck 2 Sweep 18 Spring zoo attraction uncertain terms 51 Ginger Rogers tune 3 World's fair pavilion " 20 Tick off 24 Red corundums in the Money" 4 Famished 52 21 Dearie 25 Continues Not much 5 Tot's transport 22 Ambles (along) 56 Day-_ 6 Start of many 26 Razzed 23 Magellan, e.g. 57 Be-bopper Western place names 30 Louis XIV, to 27 Crescent-shaped 58 "Phooey!" 7 Theme of this puzzle himself? figure 59 Capp and Capone 8 1492 Columbus 31 Wound up 28 Olive _ discovery 35 Cheerless 29 Beach time in Buenos Aires 1 2 3 4 5 6 ' 8 9 10 " 12 13 32 Retired 33 Struggle 14 " ,. 34 O'Brien of "The 1 Barefoot Contessa" 17 " 19 36 TV news time 37 Namesakes of a 20 22 literary fox 23 24 25 26 39 Suffix with saw 40 Plain homes 27 28 29 30 31 42 Eight pts. 43 Not occurring 32 33 " 35 naturally 1 44 voce 36 37 38 39 45 Adaptable truck, for 40 41 42 43 short 46 Stonewort, e.g. 44 45 46 47 Confederate soldier, at times? 47 48 49 50 Pundit 53 Where to hear "All 50 51 52 53 [54

Things Considered" | 55 56 57 58 59 54 Number of articles in the Constitution 60 ., 62 55 New York City opera benefactor? 63 64 65 57 Melon originally 1 1 from Turkey

60 Tide rival by David J. Kahn Thursday, May 8, 1997 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Did I get mail after publishing this puzzle! Many solvers didn't understand the theme

even after seeing the answer . . . although most seemed to appreciate it when it was ex- plained. (See the note in the back of the book in case you're stymied, too.) This was the only crossword that Isabel Walcott ever had published in The Times. In fact,

if I remember correctly, it's the only one she ever submitted.

ACROSS DOWN 24 Rather stout 46 The way and the 1 Like The Citadel, 1 Smart 25 Press on path now 2 Swear word 26 Alpine elevator 47 They might be 5 The Constitution, e.g. 3 Otherwise 27 Billboard listings zapped 9 Wing it 4 Sugar substitute? 28 vu 48 Crow 14 Fit 5 Mooch 29 Troublemakers 49 Type of type 15 Place for a pig 6 Remain in an 30 Struggles 50 Milk snake uncertain state 16 Metier 31 Stash for cash, 51 Keypad key 7 "Crusade in Europe' 17 With 35-Down, a briefly 54 This might be in for author, familiarly birth announcement 34 Maze word the long haul 8 Place for a pig 18 Place to hold a 35 See 17-Across 55 Farm team 9 Recreational four- banquet roast? 36 Tiptop 56 Put on the line wheeler, for short 19 Like some diseases 57 Corset part 10 Least sweet 37 Roe source 20 Heavy-duty kitchen 59 Mariner's dir. 11 Durable wood 39 40's theater director implement 60 Deviation at sea 12 Where Shoshone James 22 Rebound 61 Psychology I Falls falls 40 Thurman et al. 23 60's sitcom that had 13 Not on deck 41 Cause of a fly's a whistled intro, 21 "The Spanish demise with "The" Tragedy" dramatist 45 Idiot boxes 28 Prepare to share 32 Circumference 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 33 Sheik's peer 34 March V.I.P. 14 15 16

35 N20, e.g. 38 What a "choosy 17 18 19 mother" might pack for lunch 20 21 22 42 Ninny 23 24 25 26 27 43 CompuServe service ?''*•'-, 44 Wit Bombeck 28 29 30 31 32 45 Winter Palace residents 33 34 35 36 37 46 Put on ice

48 Unsavory MTV 38 39 40 41 cartoon duo

52 Chevy rival 42 43 1 |44 53 Familiar five-word phrase that means 45 46 47 "Excuses are 1 unacceptable!" 48 49 50 51 Btivi 58 Staffers 52 53 54 55 56 57 60 Abominable Snowman 58 59 60 61 62 62 Turnoff

63 Reinstates 63 64 65 64 Dark_ 65 Southwestern sight 66 67 68 66 Elliptical 67 Crawl 68 Black by Isabel Walcott Saturday, May 10, 1997 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Even among puzzles of this general type (and I'm not revealing what type it is!), this puz- zle is unusual, because the theme has an extra extra twist!

ACROSS 62 Rose 13 Kept on the hard 37 Cross-ply, e.g. 1 "Buffalo _" (1844 63 Pipe piece drive 38 You can count on song) 21 Kindergartener them 5 Speleologist DOWN 22 Genesis city 42 Circus sites 10 Guinea pigs, maybe 1 Gainesville athlete 24 Wrap 43 States as fact ." 44 I 14 Tissue additive 2 "Not to mention . . 25 Where Timbuktu is 15 Departure 3 Wacky 26 Former Davis Cup 45 Indicates 16 Departure 4 Scallop, for one captain 46 Blue bloods 17 Puccini soprano 5 Special touch 27 Writer O'Faolain 47 Replicate 18 Father of William the 6 Cherish 28 The very 48 Best Picture of 1955 Conqueror 7 They may be picked 29 Beach 50 Chimney-top nester 19 Leonowens, 51 Mine entrance Anna up 31 It has many narrow 52 Rocketed e.g., in "The King 8 Poetic adverb rays and I" 53 Nautical direction 9 Sticking point 32 A pastel 20 55 Nautical direction They make wakeup 10 Hollywood producer 33 Deteriorate calls 56 Bird sound Jon 34 Kindergartener 22 "Memphis _" (1990 11 Rejoice 36 Former Laker great war film) 12 King, for instance Baylor 23 Drench, in a way 24 Hurt 1 2 3 * * 6 7 8 9 . 11 12 13 26 Stocks and such

29 Tries 14 '" ,. 30 Whiskered animal 31 Stuck, after "in" 17 ,. ,. 32 "The lie that enables 20 us to realize the 21 22 truth": Picasso 23 25 I |24 35 Shakespeare classic

39 Hurricane heading: 26 27 28 29 Abbr.

40 Petrol unit 30 31 32 33 34 41 Kennedy's Secretary of State 35 36 37 38 42 Jibe 39 40 41 43 Calm I 45 Severe critic 42 43 44 48 Star witnesses? 49 Actress Barkin 45 46 47 |48 50 Parting word 54 Whim 49 |50 51 52 53 55 Cast 54 55 56 57 57 Casa material 58 Mount whose name 58 59 60 means "I burn"

59 Jackson and 61 62 63 Jefferson, e.g. 60 "Mona_"

61 Spots by Randall J. Hartman Thursday, July 24, 1997 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: The most successful punny puzzles are the ones that make you laugh, and this one's a good example. It features six theme answers with a very specific phonetic twist.

ACROSS DOWN 18 Take, as oral 46 "Nice going!" 1 Grist for processors 1 Make lean? arguments 48 Name 5 Quizzes 2 "I could — 22 Cut 50 Kind of aerobics .": 9 Hurt unfold . . 25 Wear the crown 52 Pains in the neck 14 "L'_ c'est moi": "Hamlet" 27 Barbara, to friends 54 Farm towers Louis XIV 3 Northern evergreen 29 Popular appliance 55 F.D.R.'s Interior 15 Train transportation forests maker Secretary 16 Word in a Yale song 4 Jumps on 31 Overproud 56 Several-days-old 17 Religious monster? 5 SA. republic 32 Words said in 57 Pass over 19 Sound louder than 6 Patron of bread? passing? 58 Diminish kerplop 7 Narc's catch, maybe 33 Skater Thomas 60 Pack away 20 Swimming pool 8 Putdowns 34 Shakespeare, the 63 TV breaks problem 9 Tummy muscles Bard of 65 Miss out? 21 Athos, Porthos and 10 "Apocalypse Now" 35 Measure a pop Aramis, e.g. director singer? 23 1944 Pulitzer 11 Jerusalem? 37 Musical fish? journalist 12 One way to get to 40 "Go ahead!" 24 It's rolled out at Jerusalem 41 Some old Fords parties 13 Anniversary, e.g. 44 Setoff 26 Wooden shoe

28 1940's Big-Band 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 leader 30 Solidarnosc leader 14 15 16 33 Chattering birds 36 Not stiff 17 18 19 38 Frothy 39 Serpent's mark? 20 21 22 23 40 Popular men's magazine 24 25 26 27 42 Parisian way 28 29 30 31 32 43 "Mefistofele" 'I composer 33 34 35 36 37 38 45 Biology subj. 46 Gets choked up 39 40 41 42 47 Charles's "Gaslight" co-star, 1944 43 44 45 46 49 "__tobed" 51 Solicit cash from 47 48 49 50 53 Formation of bone 57 Spoils I |51 52 53 54 55 56 59 Cream of the crop

61 Junta's act 57 58 59 60 61 62 Tigger's adopted mom 62 63 64 65 64 Macho dance? 66 Signed 66 67 68 67 Sound 68 December air 69 70 71 69 Compote fruit 70 Q-Tip 71 In (existing) by Karen Hodge Wednesday, September 17, 1997 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: This is the first and (so far) only crossword in The Times by this puzzle whiz in his 20's, who won a prize as a solver at a recent American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. His puzzle utilizes a common theme element in four different ways as it tests your mind's ability to be flexible.

ACROSS DOWN 22 God shown with a 41 Bluenose 1 Radio station supply 1 Arp art burning torch 42 Lighting specialist, 6 Dismay 2 What a model might 23 "Fairytales" informally? 10 Louis who was become 24 Utah lilies 44 Crescents guillotined 3 Barricade, with "in" 25 Two-wheeler 45 Betting game 13 Flu ward sound 4 Inner ear 26 Liqueur flavor 46 Tolstoy hero 14 "You said it!" 5 In the black, like a 27 Two-wheeler, briefly 47 Prefix with culture 15 Regular Cosmo dry cleaner? 28 "Lord of the Flies" 48 "Yikes!" feature 6 Sent, in a way leader 49 Son, usually 7 Within 29 Object of 50 Farm team 16 Betraying, briefly "_ 18 Lhasa (dog) 8 Form of Buddhism contemplation? 53 a Joke, Son" 19 Colony member 9 Currier or Ives 30 Business (1947 flick) 54 Big inits. in credit 20 Strove (for) 10 Start playing, briefly 32 Bullwinkle, for one reporting 21 Told (on) 11 Tight gripper 35 Waters off Hong 23 Advance 12 Lacoste Kong 24 Antigun lobbyist 15 Mideast nation 36 Green shade Brady 17 "_kleine 38 Pop star, say 25 Congresswoman Nachtmusik" 39 Wine orders Waters 28 Respectful 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 31 Commencement 32 Wizards 13 14 ,, 33 Prevent 16 17 ,. 34 Four on a four, e.g. 35 Tint 19 20 I |21 22 36 Coffee 37 Nationality suffix 23 24 38 Flapjack places, for i short 25 26 27 28 29 30 39 Punished, perhaps 40 Like some pizzas 31 33 42 Punish, perhaps 34 35 36 43 Speak monotonously 44 Soothing instrument 37 38 J39 45 Knee/ankle

connector 40 41 42 47 Glow 48 "Look here!" |43 44 51 Eager 45 46 48 49 50 52 It indicates what's happening, briefly 51 52 53 54 55 Womanizer d' 56 Raison 55 56 57 57 Bud Grace comic strip 58 59 60 58 Unified 59 Antique store tag 60 Kind of statement by Kiran S. Kedlaya Thursday, November 27, 1997 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: According to my rules, a crossword does not need a theme if it contains 72 or fewer entries. This brilliant construction by a young mathematician contains just 68 entries, yet has six theme answers.

ACROSS 5 Incessantly 29 Object of March 45 It's put away for 1 Kind of wrench 6 Arctic celebrations winter 7 Venomous, as a 7 Very much 30 Made more 46 Mourning sites snake 8 Climb precipitous 48 Student of Seneca 13 Do well 9 WaUop 31 "Double Indemnity" 50 Give a wave? 14 Not real 10 Some investors' novelist 51 Essay's basis 16 Reducer income: Abbr. 32 Phlebotomy target 53 Kind of gun 17 Eavesdropped 11 Pipe part 33 Defensive ditches 19 With 49-Across, 12 Truthful qualities 34 Land of peace and underlying theme of 15 Actress Laurie of simplicity 24-Down "Roseanne" 35 Heaven 21 Prefix with stasis 18 Parts of meeting 37 Relevance 22 "—only" rooms 39 Bothersome bedmate 23 Appropriate, in a 20 Hairy-chested 42 Critical way 24 Theme of this 43 Fieri facias and 25 School subj. puzzle, with "The' others 26 Hall of fame 26 The believer 44 Statistical bit 28 Brine-cured cheeses 27 Spanish stew 30 The skeptic 32 Hairy-chested 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 33 With the worst

consequences 13 14 15 35 Convictions 36 Foods, Inc. 16 17 18 37 Frequent 24-Down subject 19 20 21 38 Picture 24 39 Public relations 22 |23 25 interpretations 26 27 28 29 40 Undermine 41 Vituperates 30 31 32 43 Gift_

47 Site of temptation 33 34 35 49 See 19-Across 52 Nice work if you can 36 37 get it 54 James Russell 38 39 Lowell, for one 55 Freshens, in a way 40 41 42 I 43 44 45 46 56 Bow out 47 48 49 50 51 57 Illegal race track workers 52 53 54 58 Secret fraternity DOWN 55 56 1 Put on 57 58 2 "Goody!" 3 Desire

4 Wind-up toys? by Ed Pegg Jr. Friday, November 28, 1997 www.Ebook777.com 1 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: In fall 1997 a young lawyer, Bill Gottlieb, called me at The Times, asking if I would be willing to run a crossword containing a marriage proposal to his crossword-

loving girlfriend, Emily Mindel. The puzzle below, which I specially commissioned from Bob Klahn, was the result. Over breakfast with Bill on the day this was first published, Emily solved the puzzle and said "57-Down!" The couple appeared on numerous televi-

sion shows about their unusual engagement. I attended their wedding, and Bob and I have heard from Bill and Emily on every anniversary since the puzzle appeared.

ACROSS 66 Cold capital 12 Stephen Foster's 45 Like some lilies 1 "High Hopes" 67 Artist Paul "Old Uncle __" 47 Shower time: Abbr. lyricist 15 Bilk, say 49 Rich kid in "Nancy" 5 Romeo DOWN 21 Melville setting 50 Encourages, with 9 Pull oneself up to 1 Popular women's 22 Erect "up" the bar mag 26 Bulrush, e.g. 51 Push forward 13 Melange 2 Reserved 28 Like some flu 53 Its capital is 14 Microsoft chief, to 3 Broom (comics 29 Ask for more Time? Innsbruck some witch) 30 "Some Like_" 54 Chocolate marshmallow snack 16 "Darling, Je Vous 4 Posies 31 Offer some to Beaucoup" 5 Help at a heist 32 Entered en masse 55 "Fiddler on the 17 Answers, for short 6 Proceeds falteringly 34 This may be over Roof" matchmaker 18 Poet Dickinson 7 Play at love your head 57 Hoped-for response 19 Dirty Harry's 8 Brass or bronze 35 Tbsp. or tsp. to 56-Across employer: Abbr. 9 Black currant liqueur 36 Radio setting: Abbr. 58 Dynamic start 10 59 Enero, por ejemplo 20 1729 Jonathan Swift Pompous 39 Covet, with "over" pamphlet, with "A" 11 Carry out 40 Threw caution to the 23 Old enough to know wind better? 24 Pork place? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 1 25 Frasier's brother 27 Highly rated 13 14 15 16 29 Begin again 17 18 19 30 Cosby series whiskers 33 Without 20 21 22 37 Key or Kennedy I 38 1965 Gary Lewis and 23 24 25 26 the Playboys hit 41 "2001" mainframe 27 28 29 w»i Sri 42 Fluster 43 Chip for a pot 30 31 32 [33 34 35 36 44 Crater Lake locale 38 39 40 46 Obi- Kenobi 48 Ennui, to Enrique 41 42 43 49 Stat, for Barry Bonds 52 Fall guy 44 45 46 47 56 1992 Paula Abdul ' hit, with Stevie 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 Wonder on harmonica 56 57 58 59 Listen and obey 59 60 61 60 Take the honey and

run 62 63 64 61 Driver's selection 62 Suffix with bachelor 65 66 67 63 Comparatively cagey 64 Collate

65 Like show horses by Bob Klahn Wednesday, January 7, 1998 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: This beautifully crafted puzzle uses its theme element nine times in a total of 18 answers. What makes the grid particularly elegant is that these theme elements appear in perfectly symmetric positions.

ACROSS 76 Cooped up at Old 12 Pentameter part! 43 Refrain i n many 1 Under (concealed) MacDonald's 13 Questionable cradle early Beatles songs 6 Woman's shoe location 46 Entrepreneur's deg 10 "Cease and desist!" DOW 21 Aquarium fish 47 Gape 14 Irene, Dike and 1 " Hold it!" 23 Glide aloft 49 Hush-hush Eunomia 2 Beat badly 26 "Speckled" fish 51 Right-hand pages 15 Positive 3 Seed covering 28 Bread for a Reuben 53 Rules 16 Stigma 4 Bit of bedwear 29 G_ 54 Up on deck 17 Spooky board 5 Rainy or silly 30 Betrayer of the Moor 55 Stuns 18 Kind of list follower 31 Women's Tour 56 Locale for Santa's 19 Beauty (apple 6 Camera setting sponsor: Abbr. team

variety) 7 Pear-shaped 32 Fully informed aboult 57 Singer Bonnie 20 "Finally!" instrument 36 Ed of "Lou Grant" 61 Samoan capital 22 Food 8 Spheres 38 Mob boss 63 Fuzzy fruit 24 Honest one 9 Tithe amounts 39 Doubt-conveying 64 Sporting rapier 25 & Chandon 10 Abbr. on old Asian interjection 65 Bookworm (champagne) maps 40 Peel 67 Toper's woe 27 Diamond 11 Paint job finale 69 Stowe girl middleman? 29 Herb sometimes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 called Chinese

parsley 14 15 16 33 For example 34 Computer type 17 18 19 35 Writer Jaffe 37 Fixed tire 20 21 |22 23 24 41 foo yung 25 26 |27 28 42 Coroner's concern I " 44 "Eureka 1 29 30 31 32 |33 45 Frothy 48 of speaking Way 34 35 36 |37 38 39 40 49 Formal hat,

informally 41 42 43 44 50 Lawyer's hurdle . 52 Frightening 45 46 47 48 49 54 First-rate 58 Korean statesman 50 51 52 53 59 Tome and 54 57 58 Principe 55 56 60 College sports org. 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 62 Disgust 66 Polo competitor 66 67 68 69 |70 68 Summit

70 Bellyache 71 72 73 71 Nimble 72 Football's Armstrong 74 75 76 73 Later 74 Hinders legally

75 Corset prop by Siisan Smit]tl V^edn www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: This clever puzzle has four novel theme entries. What I especially like is the surprise and humor of the final one.

ACROSS 6 Red Square figure 28 Former aerospace 48 Get closer to, in a 1 Kind of shower 7 Heat beaters: Abbr. giant race 7 Bedroom furniture 8 Like Cologne and 30 Adorned, in a way 52 Brazilian dance 14 Treat with gas environs 31 Light-footed 53 Passengers 15 "Gunsmoke" deputy 9 Taxi feature 33 Mrs. Flintstone 56 Dog-paddled, e.g. 16 Mythical warrior 10 Workplace regulator, 35 Alfonso XIII's queen 58 Conclusion of some 17 Consolidated for short 36 Court games clockmaker? 11 "What was _ 39 Brief O.K.: Abbr. 59 Poet _ St. Vincent 19 Give off think?" 40 They can be bruised Millay 21 Teachers' org. 12 Stay 41 Between 0% and 61 Ike's W.W. II 22 Cleopatra biter 13 Eliminated, in a way 100% command 23 Oldenburg "oh!" 18 Like a little old lady 43 Jeer 62 Marshal under 26 Private reply, maybe in tennis shoes? 44 Cretan peak Napoleon 28 Oktoberfest supply 20 Hit the road 45 Remove 64 Conclusion of some 29 Valerie Harper TV 23 Ship on which 46 Couturier Cassini games role Heracles sailed 47 Mother of 65 Conclusion 32 Start of many ship 24 "Moonstruck" star Constantine the 66 Bits of advice names 25 Cascades mount Great 33 "Peter Pan" heroine 27 Induction grp. 34 Consolidated

composer? 1 2 3 4 5 6 ' 8 9 10 11 12 13 37 Decree 38 Popular radio format 14 " 42 Consolidated singer? 46 Wistful exclamation 16 " 18 49 Stir 50 Accepted rule 19 20 " 22 51 Actor's goal 52 Office folk 23 24 25 26 27 28 54 Literary monogram 55 Yalie 29 30 31 32 33 56 Ally of the Fox tribe 57 Kismet 34 35 36 60 Consolidated puzzle author? 37 38 39 40 41 63 Mountainous 43 44 45 67 Distinguished |42 68 Headline-making 46 47 48 [50 weather |49 phenomenon 51 52 53 54 69 Deviation 70 Places to sit, 55 56 58 59 paradoxically 19 1 DOWN 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 1 Cry to Bo-peep 67 68 2 "Losing My Religion" rock group 69 70 3 Brother of 34-Across 4 Stun 5 Focus for Fermi by Gene Newman Wednesday, March 25, 1998 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: A crossword with only 66 answers—and a theme besides—is pretty extraordinary by any standard. The puzzle's lively nontheme answers (like 54-Across, 2-Down and 32-Down)

make it even nicer.

ACROSS 6 Tnink worthy of 26 Frolicking, after "on" 52 Kind of culture 1 Loopy doing 27 Spot 53 Adjudge 7 Some roads 7 Resin used in 32 Prude 15 strip varnishes 33 Like a pie chart 16 #13 8 Remodels, e.g. 35 Cooler 17 More than just a 9 Vituperate 36 Punches fight 10 Darya (Asian 37 Hymns of 19 Abridged river) thanksgiving 20 Bill in Washington? 11 Like 38 "Youbetcha!" 21 Old English length 12 "Measure for 39 Football's Fighting 22 Word with jacket or Measure" villain coal 13 Chris of the N.B.A. 40 Left off 23 Unabridged 14 Troutlike fish 41 Ransom 24 Dismounted 18 Part of a Dr. Seuss 42 Knots 25 Seafood entree title 43 Praise 28 Big name in pet 22 The usual 48 Polygonal recess foods 23 Put away, in a way 50 Amaze 29 Moreover 24 Quantum 51 _NaNa 30 Small logging operator 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 31 1907-8 Series winner 15 16 34 Classified abbr. 36 Presumptive 17 18 explorer?

39 Supermarket head 19 21 43 "The Mocker ^ Mocked" artist, 1930 22 23 24 44 Strip 45 Many Trekkie 25 26 27 costumes 29 46 Suffix with form 28 47 Saw 30 31 32 33 48 "Isthat_?" 49 WhatFEMA 34 35 36 37 38 provides

54 Lawn barrow feature 39 40 41 42 55 Certain gardener 56 Swords and such 43 44 45 57 Fleet 46 47 48 DOWN 49 50 51 52 53 1 Marked time 2 for Place a 54 55 markdown 3 "Strange as it may 56 57 seem ..." 4 Confab

5 A abroad by David J. Kahn Saturday, March 28, 1998 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: This puzzle and the one for the following day (see next page) go together as a pair. You should solve this one first.

ACROSS 3 Frank Capra's " 23 "Mm-hmm!" 47 Frost 1 Check Wonderful Life" 24 Somewhat 48 Jason's ship

5 Fill to excess 4 Bill , the Science 25 Prefix with logical 49 Refuse 9 Country bumpkin Guy 26 Peace Nobelist Root 50 "Rule, Britannia" 13 Pretentious 5 Protect, as freshness 27 "Oh, sure" composer 14 Deposed leader's 6 Bridge toll unit 28 Yankee Hall-of- 51 "G'day" recipient fate, maybe 7 Floor unit Famer Ford 52 Palindromic pop 16 Chester Arthur's 8 Actor Wallach 29 Must group middle name 9 Kind of bread 30 International court 53 It makes a bit of a 17 10 1997 Peter Fonda site, with "The" stir 20 Airport info, title role 31 Plenty sore 54 Hard journey informally 11 Latvian, e.g. 32 Jury 56 _ Mahal 57 Stomach 21 On the safe side, at 12 Volumes A and Z in 37 Atheistic sea an encyclopedia 38 Return to the Alps? 22 Math groups 15 Boxes 40 French textile city 23 Here, to Henri 18 Part of a hearty 41 Came to 24 Calcutta clothing breakfast 43 Square dance move 25 19 Discussion medium 44 Baseball's Roberto 33 Klingon or Vulcan 34 Women's group? 1 2 3 4 ' 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 35 Coach Parseghian 36 Buster Brown's dog 13 " 15 16 37 Central points 1 17 18 19 38 First governor of I 20 21 22 39 Loser to R.M.N, in '68 23 24 40 Numbers game 41 Sharp 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 42 O 45 One who's on your 33 34 35 side 36 37 38 46 London lav 47 Bother 39 40 41 50 In a frenzy 52 Take a part 42 43 44 55 A 58 Lago contents 45 46 59 Seasonal visitor 60 Efficient 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 61 Actress Schneider 55 56 57 62 Hoot 63 Not a hit or an out 58 59 60

DOWN 61 62 63 1 "Streamers" playwright David 2 PartofQ.E.D. by Alan Arbesfeld Tuesday, March 31, 1998 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Nearly every April 1 the Times crossword has some sort of April Fool's joke, and this one

was a classic. On March 31 and April 1, 1998, the puzzles were by the same constructor, had the same pattern of black-and-white squares, had the same four visual theme clues and shared their first three Across clues. In other words, at first glance they looked identi- cal. Many solvers assumed that The Times had made an error and accidentally reprinted the March 31 puzzle on April 1. But in fact the two puzzles are completely different. Ha, ha. April fools!

ACROSS 7 Pizza place 28 Doubleday and 50 Complacent 1 Check 8 Money for a Toyota, others 51 River in Spain 5 Fill to excess say 29 Fran Drescher TV 52 Purina competitor 9 Country bumpkin 9 One of the Beverly role 53 Mortgage 13 New Jersey city Hillbillies 30 Beneficial 54 Good-lookin' 14 All-night teen parties 10 Mine, in Marseille 31 Fair-sized musical 56 Secure, as a victory 16 Send off 11 Species group 57 Prattle 17 12 Alpine off-seasons 32 Parasite 20 Lilliputian 15 Stiff 37 city on the 21 Ready to serve 18 __ Heights Rio Grande 22 They're trouble for 19 Viewfinders? 38 Film genre roses 23 Give _ to (approve) 40 Actress Garson 23 Bass, for one 24 Relay sticks 41 jerk 24 _Fox 25 Screen letters 43 Way out " 25 26 Rigoletto" composer 44 Works by 26-Down " 33 Honeydew, e.g. 11 The Hollow Men" 47 Pigsty 34 Spa Poet 48 Puff 35 Excessively 49 Party times 36 Parched 37 Bug 1 2 3 4 |5 6 7 8 |9 10 11 12 38 One of Columbus's I

snips 13 1 14 15 16 39 Words at the altar 40 Senator John 17 18 19 41 Like a shoe 42 O 20 21 |22 45 Peaches 23 24 46 Idiom: Abbr. *J 47 Sound choice 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 50 Look 52 1936 candidate 33 34 35 Landon

55 A 36 37 38 58 Sounds from 59 Legend in 39 40 I 41 automotives 60 Top spot 42 43 44 61 Meal eaten in a hall 62 They get in the way 45 46 of sound thinking 47 48 49 51 52 53 54 63 More than lean |50 DOWN 55 56 57 1 Great deal : 58 ! £ 2 Character 3 Lip 61 62 63 4 "Mamma—!" 5 Dishes with syrup

6 Hardly believable by A Ian ALrbesifeld Wee inesd ay, A.pril : I, 199 8 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: At the time of publication, this puzzle tied a record for the lowest number of black squares ever used in a standard 15xl5-square American crossword. To achieve this feat, Manny Nosowsky used two sets of triply-stacked answers at the top and bottom of the grid, all of them lively words and phrases. Altogether he spent almost 100 hours con- structing the grid.

ACROSS 8 "Specials," often 26 When repeated, a 40 introduced 1 Some noncoms 9 Drag off again college cheer in 1966 16 Risking danger 10 "Whither thou 28 "How the West Was 43 Second-century 17 So as to annoy Won" and others anatomist 18 Cheerful 11 What I must follow, 29 Matches 44 Cowboy's rope 19 Leave a mess in a children's song 31 The 51st Psalm 46 French novelist 20 Some docs 12 It borders the Atl. 32 Diane's successor on Pierre 21 Biscuit ingredient 13 Western New York "Cheers" 47 China problem 22 Kind of col. or cmdr. county 33 Utopian novel of 49 Brain and spinal 23 Start of a carol's 14 One with instant 1872 cord: Abbr. refrain siblings 34 Dispense, as small 50 Grads-to-be 24 British verb ending 15 Having feeling shares 25 Bruce of old movies 22 Tellers of tales 35 Form of some 26 Basque topper 23 Iron-containing: dynamite 27 They're spotted in Prefix 36 king crab Africa 25 Protested event 37 Emerging 29 Salt of element #5 38 Duties 30 Forward 31 Resting place 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 32 Neglectful

35 Big Apple V.I.P. 16 39 Pitch 40 Jai alai basket 17 41 Skedaddle 42 Odd and even, at 18 119 20 times 43 Severe blows 21 22 23 44 Smoother 24 26 45 Milk source 46 Truman's birthplace 27 28 29 47 "The _ Kid"

48 Some Slim Fast 30 31 offerings 51 Distractive 32 33 34 [35 36 37 38 annoyance 52 Impatience 39 40 41

DOWN 42 43 44 1 Emitting noxious 45 46 47 fumes .I 2 Torture 48 49 50 3 The "Incredible

Hulk" creator 51 4 Reflect 5 Part of a choosing- 52 up routine 6 Literary inits. 7 Be patient by Manny Nosowsky Friday, July 24, 1998 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: The diabolical Henry Hook has legions of fans in the puzzle world. His crosswords appear every other week in the Sunday Boston Globe. He is also the author of numerous puzzle

books. Fortunately for you, this is a milder example of his work ("HH lite," as it were), featuring an amusing theme pulled from everyday life.

ACROSS 3 Colorado feeder 25 Georgia city not in 45 Broadway setting 1 Redcap's burden 4 Ms. founder its namesake county since 4/11/91 5 No Westminster 5 You can say that 26 Town in a 1944 46 Become an contender again! novel exmember 9 Kind of tide 6 "Oops!" 27 Fort Knox unit 49 Blue hue 13 Condominium, e.g. 7 Ignored the speed 28 The old nine-to-five 50 "The Sound of 14 "__, of golden limit 29 Spoke more than Music" extras daffodils": 8 Autocrat once? 51 Root beer brand Wordsworth 9 Eggnog enhancement 30 Saxony seaport 52 about (roughly) 16 Plead for 10 Slangy suffix 31 Goldbrick 53 Where Bill Walton 17 Prefix with 11 1934 Pulitzer winner 32 Star QB of Super played marketing Herbert Bowl XXXI 54 One of the Baldwins 18 Author Lofts 12 St. (vacation spot) 33 Doublemint figures 55 Santa Barbara suburb 19 Exactly 15 It could be a group 38 Bankrupt 56 The Great 20 Ad line #1 effort 41 "A good walk 60 Omicrons' 23 "... fish _ fowl" 21 Turn's partner spoiled," said Twain predecessors 24 Caviar, once 22 Boozers 42 P.D.Q., on "ER" 25 Ad line #2 43 Transport to Oz 34 Boston Tea Party V.I.P. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 35 Parts of cloverleafs

36 Margery of nursery 13 14 15 16 rhymedom 37 Jam ingredient? 17 18 19 38 Fussbudget 39 VIII septupled 20 21 22 40 _roll 41 One who makes 23 |24 dreams come true 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 42 Stringent 44 Ad line #3 34 35 36 47 Every last iota

48 Canal site 37 38 39 49 Ad line #4 57 Boggy area, for short 40 41 42 43 58 Remark heard at quitting time? 44 45 46 59 Warrior of legend 47 48 61 Loosen I 62 Served as gondolier 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 63 Limp watch painter 64 Org. 57 58 59 60 65 Battle the clock Portraitist's 66 medium 61 62 63

DOWN 64 65 66 1 Word preceding 20-Across 2 From square one by Henry Hook Thursday, August 27, 1998 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Brilliantly, this puzzle contains eight theme answers connected in a very specific way, with a ninth answer (at 41 -Across) containing a hint to the unusual property of the other eight.

ACROSS 11 Prefix with 35 Pipsqueak 66 Universal John 1 95501 directional 36 Portrait 68 "Runaway" singer 9 Smiling, for now 12 Pleads 38 Certain exams Shannon 15 Topical 13 Perceive 42 French antiseptic 69 Mischievous one 16 Avoidance 14 of admissions 43 Milk: Prefix 70 Pirate's home, with 17 97401 21 Year in the reign of 46 Recent arrival "the" 18 16501 Edward VI 48 Trifle 19 Tongue's locale 24 Atmosphere: Prefix 50 Threw four balls at 20 Actress Thompson 25 Reputation 51 Plastic Band 22 Diet, listing 26 Southernmost of the 55 They stand for 23 Telephoned Marianas something 27 Drop shot 28 Big name in cheese 56 Prefix with store 29 Rosemary portrayer 29 Wishy-washy reply 57 Sci. course 32 54703 30 "The Wild Duck" 58 Weaken 37 Odd playwright 60 Transfer 31 Lay _ (flop) 62 Aware of 39 R. J. Reynolds brand V 40 River of Belgium 33 Mild cigar 63 Huffy state 41 Theme of this 34 "" Miss 64 Sophocles tragedy puzzle? 44 Lover of fur? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 45 Headed off on 47 Very hot 15 16 49 80110 17 18 52 Give the once-over Majestic 53 swimmer 19 20 21 22 54 Case for small scissors 23 24 25 26 27 28 56 Stomach 59 Group 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 61 Nostra 65 73701 37 38 39 67 08818 40 41 42 43 44 71 Aplenty 72 Madness 45 46 47 48 73 Goto mi 74 79910 49 50 51 52

DOWN |53 |54 55 1 Summers abroad 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 2 "Nope" jj$nH 3 Park, Queens 65 66 . ^8 69 70 4 Arabian title Inc. 5 Kal Foods, 71 6 Put away 7 A.F.L.'s partner 73 " 8 Field size, maybe 1 9 Lack of vitality

10 Actor Rick by Alan Arbesfeld Thursday, October 8, 1998 www.Ebook777.com a Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: This visually striking grid contains only 19 Across answers (no standard American-style crossword has ever had fewer), yet is filled with fresh, colorful vocabulary. By the way, a crossword pattern like this, containing many straight edges, is far more difficult to con- struct than one with the more traditional stairstep pattern of black squares.

ACROSS 14 Standard bearers 34 Treat with milk 50 French part of the " 1 It'll give you an even 18 It Must Be _" 35 Stack part U.S.A. " split 21 The Carpetbaggers>" 39 No-goodnik 51 Offspring 9 Hello and goodbye co-star, 1964 40 Suitable for extreme 52 A really big shoe 15 "Heat" star, 1995 22 Sure target dieters 53 C.I.S. members, once 16 European capital 23 Bond, but not James 41 Sound beginning? 17 Was taught how to Bond 42 Buckwheat pancakes do something 24 They're called on 43 "Mighty Lak' 19 Result of a buyout, account of rain Rose" composer perhaps 25 Troubles 44 Architectural 20 Some hummingbirds 26 Shade of red moldings 21 Humble beginning 27 " And what rare 45 Unspecified no. ." 47 One of the sisters in 28 Vice President under as . . Grover 29 Precollege "Sisters" 36 Extended patience, 30 Fought 48 Year in the reign of perhaps 31 Peak near Paterno Edward I 37 Get all gussied up 32 Clip-and-hle item 49 Blanch 38 Lesser Spanish 33 Community event noblemen 39 Revolver feature, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |9 10 11 12 13 14 perhaps

46 Academic settings 15 16 54 They're likely to

| come to blows 17 18 55 1964 Hitchcock thriller 19 56 Channel surfer's locale, maybe 20 57 Indian 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 58 Superfluities ; IH^^H DOWN 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 -« "K K 1 1 11 1 Make a bundle 36 2 Intestinal parts 3 Wrangle 37 4 Lady's man 5 Only same-year |38 N.C.A.A. and N.I.T. i mi 39^ 40 41 42 43 44 45 tourney winner , 4f v,i(SHW*"- 1 (1950) 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 6 Piece of cake? 7 French wave 54 8 Despicable

9 About 1.3 cubic 55 56 yards 10 Engaging individual 57 58 11 Pervasive quality 12 Place for a pin

13 Incessantly by B<3b Kl ahn Friday, N oveniber l 3,199 8 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS:

A slight spoiler here, but something you should know: A pangram is a piece of writing that contains all the letters of the alphabet at least once. Matt Gaffney creates crosswords for the online magazine Slate.

ACROSS DOWN 18 _. in apple 37 Wandering _ 1 Hardly an Oscar 1 Like some pigeons 22 City NE of (houseplant) candidate 2 In shock Casablanca 40 Slip on 4 Worksite tool 3 Noisy talkers 24 Honeymoon 41 Dork 7 Singer 4 " Listen!" destination, with 42 Charge 13 Medical suffix 5 Spanish eye "the" 43 Inability to read 14 In (stuck) 6 Steel in writing 25 Primitive "drum" 45 Spanish wine town 16 Muddy 7 Ancient book 26 Some pods 46 Cookware item 17 Popular side dish 8 On with 27 Overflow 47 Troubadour's subject 19 Canadian writer 9 Part of U.S.N.A.: 28 Worn 48 National frozen Robertson Abbr. 30 Egyptian believers dessert chain 20 Walton who wrote 10 Pollution meas. 31 Meditators 49 "I i^ust be him, "The Compleat 11 Wish undone 32 Suggests " (60's lyric) Angler" 12 Hoped-for reply 33 High-hats 50 Johnny It 21 Tell (from) 15 What I, the 34 has a bill of fare 51 Gardner of film 23 Kind of wire constructor, had to 35 Bankruptcy 52 Food holder 24 Send, in a way do while making this 36 It's breathtaking 54 Paper in a pot 25 BASIC command rpuzzle 29 Commercial stuff: Abbr. 1 2 3 4 5 6 |7 8 9 10 11 12 30 Settles 31 Bumpkin 13 14 15 | |16 32 Yuletide decor 33 Turned bad 17 18 19 34 This crossword grid, when completed 20 21 22 correctly 23 24 37 Trips 25 26 27 28 38 Ristorante offering 29 30 31 39 Interstate info 40 Plasters, e.g. 32 33 41 Day in Granada 44 Team data 34 35 36 45 Angola's Savimbi 46 Winter warmer 37 38

47 U.S. Open champ, i nKfl 1985-87 39 40 41 42 43 48 Ending with two-, 44 45 46 three-, four-, etc. 49 Henry Clay, e.g. 47 48 53 Short-term solution 55 Bring back 49 50 51 52 53 54 56 Stereotyped Beverly

Hills resident ' 55 J56 5 57 Big shooter IH 58 Spanish novelist 58 |59 60 Blasco 59 Kind of wire

60 Expanse by M[att Graffn(?y Saliurda y, No veml ?er V1,1998 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: This elegant construction is built around a humorous quotation running across three lines of the grid. When you're finished, the circled letters, in order (reading left to right, line by line), will give you the name of the quip's author.

ACROSS 5 Dutch cheese 33 's bottom 53 Humdingers 1 Open-mouthed 6 "Star Trek" setting 34 Ending with pay 56 T. Price of finance 6 Jacket part 7 Dame 36 Generally 57 Math course 10 Den 8 Acteur Delon 37 Approach, as the 58 "Oops!" 14 Allied 9 Shut (up) next item of business 59 Wane 15 + or - 10 Daytona500 38 Fish-eating eagles 16 Riding the waves organization 39 Enzyme suffix 17 Coin of Stockholm 11 Body shop figure 40 Bother 18 impasse 12 Shores 41 Small number 19 Hunting target 13 Cry before "You're 44 Respect 20 Part 1 of a quip by it!" 45 Actor Erwin

the w . named in 21 Crookedly 47 This evenin' the circled letters 22 Mischief-maker 48 High schooler 23 Born 26 Centuries and 49 They may be 24 No longer secret centuries marching 25 1950's White House 28 Troop grp. 51 Not the main name 29 Poetic contraction building 27 "Jeopardy!" host 32 Library sound 52 One of the Amazes 30 Place to view a Goya 31 Is responsible for 35 Midmoming 36 Part 2 of the quip 41 "Alice" waitress 42 First in a line of cars 43 Sprites 46 Bordering 50 Actress Dianne 51 Balm ingredient 54 " the ramparts ..." 55 End of the quip 59 All there 60 In olden times 61 River through Switzerland 62 Adenauer nickname, with "Der" 63 Film director Peter 64 Put into the ground 65 Grab, slangily 66 Former spouses 67 Gadabouts DOWN 1 Obliquely 2 Steel beam 3 Actress Renee 4 Former Transportation

Secretary Federico by Glenn E. Sykes Wednesday, February 3, 1999 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: A particular thing—common to almost all crosswords (and almost all writing of any sort)- is wholly missing in this crossword. What is it?

ACROSS 4 "Mogambo" star, 24 Tooth buildup 52 "S.O.S." pop group 1 Daddy familiarly 26 Bit in a salad bar 53 Rorschach stain 5 ''Now!" in a hospital 5 Lacking luxury and 27 donna 54 Applaud (for) 9 Points comfort 28 Comic King 55 Luminous ring 13 King of Norway 6 Bunch of hairs 29 Half-dollar, say 56 Football's _ 14 Mountain lion 7 Famous 30 Kind of nut Armstrong 15 It follows larval 8 Word with 31 Company with cars 59 and away 16 Cunning withholding 32 Dummy 60 Dr.'s org. 18 Of any amount 9 Musician of old 33 Army no-show 19 Chit 10 It's found in a ring 38 Alias of H. H. Munro 20 Music and painting, 11 Summon 40 Conforms for two 12 Harms 41 Cartoonist Thomas 21 Drinks in big 15 Shrub with a tasty 42 Asian fruits amounts fruit 45 Common lizard 22 Author's assistant 17 Door part 46 Junkyard dogs 24 Spinning toys 21 Middling 49 lazuli 25 Quick-thinking 23 Philosophical 50 Not too brainy 31 Cain was his son holdings 51 Historical writings 34 Thin 35 John, abroad 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 36 Words said at an

altar 13 14 15 37 Dah's go-with 38 Go yachting 16 17 18 39 Words said at an altar 19 20 21 40 Zoo inhabitant 43 Paquin or Magnani 22 23 24 44 Gibraltar-ish? B

; 25 26 27 28 29 30 47 Long cut 48 Patchwork works 31 32 33 34 35 52 Curt

55 Clock division 36 37 38 57 "Gotcha!" 58 Balloon 39 40 41 42 H 43 59 Chubby plus 61 Favors sought 44 45 46 62 Got off : 63 Popular insulator 47 48 49 50 51 64 Start with boy or girl 52 53 54 55 56 65 "Mahogany" vocalist |57 Diana 58 59 60 66 Solicits DOWN 61 62 63 1 Put forward for 64 65 66 study 2 Amalgam

3 Fulfill an obligation by Gayle Dean Tuesday, May 4, 1999 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Zack Butler was just 24 years old, studying robotics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pitts- burgh, when he created this elegant crossword for The Times. A wunderkind of sorts, Zack has won several prizes at the annual World Puzzle Championship, which means that he's as good at solving puzzles as he is at making them.

ACROSS 68 Singer Bob 13 Digital watch feature: 40 Kind of act passed in 1 BA or AF plane 69 "Absolutely!" Abbr. 1970 4 Better 19 "Who_?" 41 FaU(to) 9 Play for time DOWN 21 Soup ingredients 46 Remove 14 Gobbled up 1 Indian term of 24 Enemy of the Moor 48 Big name in 15 Love, Neapolitan- respect 26 Slower than adagio magazine publishing style 2 Vermont resort 27 Rehem 51 Equivalent of 16 Charged 3 Lukewarm 28 Former 33-Down? 17 Event where the 4 Silken fabric Mayor Wilson 53 "Gang aft _": Burns twist was done 5 Org. much in 30 Items with dials 54 Selected 18 Start of a quote by economic news 32 "Turandot" 55 Pseudo-convertibles Rep. Mo Udall, 1990, 6 One of a kind composer 56 A whale of a menace regarding the 7 Switch ending 33 See51-Down 57 Fit to _ Presidency 8 Send in 34 Banister's end 59 One of the Gabors 20 Quote, part 2 9 Relaxing job 35 Perpendicular to 60 Greek letters 22 Ready for action 10 Woodland creature radial 61 -based station 23 Kids' book character 11 Tunnel builder 37 Backtracking 62 Sugar suffix Amelia 12 Golf ball position 25 The first X? 26 Trail 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 29 Gets warmer,

perhaps 14 15 16 31 Elvis's birthplace 33 Class with 17 18 19 dissections: Abbr. 36 Transmission 20 21 22 component 23 24 25 38 Quote, part 3 |26 27 28 39 Quote, part 4 '• |29 30 31 32 42 Quote, part 5 43 Mother of Apollo 33 34 35 36 37 38 44 Center

45 Certain contracts 39 40 41 47 Kind of bar 49 Certain addition 42 43 1 .:/|44 50 "Eureka!" 52 Stage, as a historical 45 46 47 48 drama 49 ^1 52 56 Kind of band 50 53 54 55 58 Quote, part 6 56 57 58 59 End of the quote : 1 I 1 l 63 W.C. 59 60 61 62 63 64 Leonardo da

65 Feel 64 65 66 66 Disputed psych, phenomenon 67 68 69 67 Altair or Sirius, astronomically

speaking by Zack Butler Thursday, May 20, 1999 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Featuring a quotation divided into seven parts arranged symmetrically in the grid, this crossword is built around a thoughtful comment from Booker T. Washington, the African- American educator and hero.

ACROSS 5 With 17-Across, 32 Five after four 55 Oarlock 1 Railroad siding Hawkeye Pierce 33 Tolkien forest 56 Rudner and Moreno 5 Israeli author Oz portrayer creatures 57 Muscat native 9 Boxer's nickname 6 Get all mushy 34 Actress Rehan and 58 Iridescent stone 14 Cellar contents 7 Blue language others 59 Stuffing herb 15 Judah's mother 8 Photographers' gigs 35 Ticked off 60 Quote, part 6 16 Woman's name 9 Dr. Pangloss's pupil, 36 Emulated Janet 62 Herbicide's target meaning "loved" in Voltaire Evans 63 Time to beware 17 See 5-Down 10 Make haste 37 Not suitable 65 Obedience school 18 Mezzo's colleague 11 Quote, part 2 38 Prefix meaning command 19 Closes in on 12 Unimportant "with" 20 Start of a quote by 13 Nudnik 42 Expression of Booker T. 21 Early movie dog excitement Washington 22 Workaholic's lack 45 Painkiller 23 Clear 26 Cries out for 47 Latin trio member? 24 Reverses a dele 28 Kin of vivace 49 More salacious 25 Oktoberfest souvenir 29 Striped shirt wearer 52 Sandpiper's cousin 27 Dinosaur trapper 31 Chicano bears? 54 Recoiled 30 Half an LP 34 Mitigates 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 39 Does a butler's job

40 Quote, part 3 14 15 16 41 Quote, part 4 43 Quote, part 5 17 18 19 44 1993 accord signer 46 Quagmires 20 21 22 23 48 Highly influential 50 Alter, in a way 24 25 26 51 Raingear brand 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 53 Introduction to physics 34 35 36 37 38 39 58 C.I.A.'s predecessor

61 End of the quote 40 42 43 64 Fall guy 66 Conked out 44 45 46 47 67 Speck 68 Over 48 49 50 69 Modern pentathlon need 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 70 Joie de vivre 58 59 60 61 ^2 63 71 1944 battle site 72 Johnny Bench's team 64 65 66 67 73 Lucie's brother DOWN 68 69 70 1 Influences 71 72 73 2 Kitchen light 3 Excessive 4 Change chemically by Alan Olschwang Wednesday, June 23, 1999 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: When I appeared on "Martha Stewart Living" in June 2000, I brought this puzzle with me to demonstrate how crosswords are constructed. Martha was fascinated by the art and pre- cision of crossword construction, and I knew that the humor of the answers here would make her and her audience laugh.

ACROSS DOWN 26 Studio stages 52 Durocher or 1 City where 1 Chum 27 Critically important DiCaprio "Phantom of the 2 Pub brews 28 Maine university 54 Pointed tools Opera" is set 3 Uncreative education town 55 Eating regimen 6 Langley, for one: 4 Crazy 29 Ridicule 56 Thomas Edison Abbr. 5 Part 30 Actress Davis 58 Addict 32 Skewed square 60 Nuisance 9 Where to put a pin 6 Play a role _" on a jacket 7 Queries on the 33 "It Had to 61 Songs for one 14 By oneself Internet 34 Breezy talk 63 Flower garland 15 Ripken of the Orioles 8 Somewhat sky- 37 Do something 64 Possesses 16 Furious colored courageous 65 "A Nightmare on 9 Permit 39 Pro_ Elm Street" creator 17 "Come on, ducks, it's 10 Biblical vessel 41 Circus performer Craven time to start!" 11 Kid's beach toy 44 Washington arm- 20 Clothes lines 12 Sicilian volcano bender 21 A or B, on a record 13 Toy building block 46 Escape 22 __-tse 18 Holds in high regard 49 Pageant winner 23 Court dividers 19 Hubbub 50 Hollywood bio " 25 Royal heirs 24 Place Dearest" 27 "Down with the glue factory proposal!" 1 2 4 7 8 10 11 31 1999 combatants 3 5 6 9 12 13 35 A Gershwin 14 15 16 36 Head, to Henri 37 Ancient city north of 17 18 19 Jerusalem

38 Take the show on 20 21 22 the road 40 Reagan Attorney 23 24 25 26 General Edwin 42 Kind of bean 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 43 Historical records 45 Close 35 36 37 47 Tues. preceder 48 Make-a-million game 38 39 40 41 42 49 "Phooey! It's 45 shearing time again!" 43 44 46 47 51 Up to speed 48 |49 50 53 Late-night host Jay 54 Nabokov novel 51 52 53 57 Lady's man 59 Highway exits 54 55 56 57 58 59 ^0 61 62 "I need instructions on catching mice!" 62 63 ^4 65 66 Flood protector 67 Earl Grey, e.g. 66 67 68 68 Alternative to "window" 69 70 71 69 Step 70 1492 and 2001: Abbr.

71 Tibetan legends by Stephanie Spadaccini Monday, August 2, 1999 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: If I even hint at this puzzle's ingenious theme, I'll spoil your pleasure in figuring it out.

All I'll say is that 33-Across contains a hint, and 7-Down, brilliantly, provides an addi- tional clue.

ACROSS DOWN 24 Become prone 44 Seafood delicacy 1 Lookout point 1 Soft leather 25 Suffix with insist 46 All meshed up? 5 Car protector 2 Flee 27 Isn't doing well 47 point (certain 8 Candidate for a 3 Trojan War chief 30 Part of A.A.R.P.: stitch) psych ward 4 Racer Abbr. 48 Wing 13 Memorable 1989 5 French word of 31 Lay 51 Pop hurricane approval 32 Lt.'s inferior 52 _ Lilly & Co. 14 One makes one 6 Glow 33 Bravely endure 54 180 degree turn, in Trigger happy 7 People good at 34 Declawed manx, e.g. slang 15 Grosset's partner in making connections 35 Coalesce publishing 8 Court figures 36 Mozart's "L'_ del 16 Jungle creature 9 Violating orders Cairo" 18 Delineate again 10 Hillary, for one 37 Bouncer type 19 boy 11 Mo. neighbor 39 Medal giver 20 Meantime 12 Unseal 40 Where to find 22 Chapter 11 filers 15 German number pitchers? 23 Wise 17 W.W. II org. 41 Do printer's work 26 "You are too" 21 Sets 43 Muslim title response 27 Some workers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 28 NATO refusal 29 Diet, listing 13 14 15 30 Ex-Bosoxer Petrocelli 31 It may be hard for 16 17 18 one person to carry 33 Hint to filling in four 19 20 21 squares in this puzzle 22 23 24 25 35 Popular Tonka toys

26 : |27 28 38 Time and time again sSj 39 Greetings 29 30 31 32 42 Brown hue 43 Cut_ 33 34 44 Summer treat 45 Old dental supply 35 36 37 |38 |39 40 41 48 Pioneer in Surrealism 49 Go over again 42 |43 44 H 50 Smock 45 51 Early explorer of 46 47 48 Florida 49 50 53 How things are seen 55 Relatives of Siberians 51 52 53 54 56 Norma Webster's

middle name 55 56 57 57 Uphold 58 Squalid 58 59 60 59 Place that's 58-Across 60 European tongue by Robert H. Wolfe Thursday, August 12, 1999 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: The basic format of crossword puzzles seems endlessly adaptable, as illustrated once more here. The grid features a three-part riddle, the answer to which can be found by rearrang- ing the letters in the 10 circled squares.

ACROSS DOWN 22 Studio sign 47 Wise kids? 1 False "handle" 1 What there oughta 25 See-through wrap 49 "Rats!" 6 Tag along be 26 Suffix on bygone 50 Soft seat 10 Window- 2 's Walesa nightclub names 52 Lecherous 14 Freetown currency 3 Scintilla 27 "Sunset Boulevard" 53 Mountaineer's tool unit 4 "Peer Gynt" dancer Tony winner George 54 Dash gauge 15 Western Samoa's 5 Fax originator 28 Florist's cutting 55 Melville novel capital 6 diem 29 "Eraserhead" star 56 Boardroom V.I.P.'s 16 Go in the water just 7 Eyeball benders Jack 57 PartofQ.E.D. 30 "This foolishness 58 Half a matched set a little way 8 Tiny car must once!" 59 Put-in-Bay's lake 17 good faith 9 Bothers incessantly 31 Coarse tools Fictitious Richard et 18 Carry on 10 Graceful pool 60 34 Completely botch al. 19 Confess openly entrance 11 Moneyed one 35 Fool 20 Start of a question 12 Meaning of wavy 38 Differential gear's 23 Found a new tenant lines, in the comics spot for ." 13 Seats with kneelers 39 George of "Just 24 "What's more .. 21 Norway's patron Shoot Me" 25 Arid expanse saint 44 So great 28 Wood furniture worker 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 32 Bio bit 33 "Animal House" 14 15 16 house 36 The Donald's first ex 17 18 19 37 Engine sounds 40 Middle of the 20 f \ 21 f \ 22 { \ question K J \ J 41 Splits apart 23 24 42 Square (with) m 43 Doctrines 25 26 27 |28 29 30 31 45 Top off 46 Odd-shaped figure 32 33 34 35 36 48 Sports surprises 51 Rarer than rare 37 38 39 40 41 52 Nouveau \ )

42 43 44 . 54 End of the question |45 (Rearrange the 46 47 |48 49 50 circled letters for the | answer) 51 52 53 61 N.Y.S.E. competitor 62 Seaside bird 54 55 56 57 \ 58 59 60 63 Alamogordo's f

county 61 62 63 64 In the 50's or 60's, say 64 65 66 65 "I did it!" 66 Unearthly 67 68 69 67 Hoover hookup 68 Charon's river 69 "Oui" and "si" by Thomas W. Schier Wednesday, September 15, 1999 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Fifty-five of this puzzle's 185 letters—almost 30% of the entire construction—are part of the theme. Quite a nice and original theme, too.

ACROSS 3 It may be coddled 23 The Tin Woodsman's 52 Rap sheet listing 1 States 4 Hastily puts together quest 53 Aegean region 6 Lawyers make it 5 aerobics 24 City on the 54 Opposite of radial 10 Quarrel 6 Monte Allegheny River 55 Villainous 14 Kosher 7 Valuable violin 26 Manicurists' jobs Shakespearean roles 15 Last word in the 8 Jiffy 27 Walnuts and others 56 Spasm New Testament 9 From Okla. City to 29 Dated 58 Exhibit shock 16 Olio Tulsa 33 _ Island Red 60 Ship of Columbus 17 See 22-Down 10 Finish, of a sort 34 Gives up 62 Big TV maker 19 Old Phillips 66 rival 11 Ziti or orzo 35 Part of a giggle 63 Sequel's sequel 20 All over the counter, 12 Examine 37 Speak 64 Camp sight say 13 Thunderous one? 38 Not so believable 65 Actress Thurman 21 Sacred place 18 Chip's partner 39 See 22-Down 66 What to call a 22 Elizabethan pronoun 21 Simian 42 Hit hard baronet 25 See 22-Down 22 Word that precedes 45 With skill 28 Chips in six other answers in 30 Sphere 49 Sampras specialty this puzzle 31 "Norma—" 51 Met production 32 Meathead's father-in- responsibilities? law

36 Like a very rare day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 in hell 40 Victorian 14 15 16 41 See 22-Down 43 Eng. defender 17 18 19 44 Sicilian spouter 46 Oil city of west 20 21 47 " my brother's 22 23 24 25 26 27 keeper?" 28 29 30 48 Florida's - I County 31 32 33 34 35 |36 37 38 39 50 Swimming pool site, sometimes 40 41 42 43 52 See 22-Down 57 Salon job 44 45 46 47 58 Search blindly 59 Cleo of jazz 48 49 50 51 61 "_ it the truth!"

62 See 22-Down 52 53 54 55 56 57 67 Dirty 68 "Bye!" 58 59 60 69 Ruth's mother-in-law 70 Entreat 61 62 63 64 65 66 71 Goes on TV 72 "_ Fell Out of 67 68 69 Heaven" (1936 hit) 70 71 72 DOWN 1 Totality 2 Neck design by Chris Sallade Wednesday, October 27, 1999 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: For most constructors, creating a grid in which every letter forms part of two words (across and down) is challenging enough. This puzzle has answers running through the two long diagonals as well. The puzzle's two authors have never met; they collaborated on this entirely by e-mail.

ACROSS 3 Like some talk 28 Had too much, 55 Like an eager guest, 1 "The Lost Weekend" 4 Revolver, in old briefly maybe subject slang 29 Bungle 56 Position 4 Scream 5 Hocked 31 Fashion mag 57 Embracers 8 Care provider, to a 6 Gen. Bradley 32 Richly adorn 59 Pen part child 7 Care for 33 Bank deposit 60 Gallic girlfriend 14 Crater feature _" 8 Xis' predecessors 34 Cupcake topper 61 Stocking part 15 "This one's 9 "Gross!" 35 Sweet vegetable 62 Easy mark 16 Land on Lake 10 Aircraft engine 37 On with 63 Missouri Victoria 11 Nonelectronic 40 "__-Team" 17 "The_Daba correspondence 41 Hot spot DIAGONAL Honeymoon" 12 "Got it" 45 Hose hole 1 Pirate booty 18 Booty location 13 Ending with Ecuador 47 Shrew 68 More pirate booty 20 Microfiche 19 School of thought 49 Incendiary stuff 22 Dance in Dublin 21 Year in Edward the 50 Whizzes 23 Candle material 52 Ukr., e.g., once 24 Runway walker Confessor's reign 54 Slips 27 Nastiness 25 account (never) 30 Eggnog topper 26 Tuneful twosome 33 Pedro's affirmative

36 Sawyer of ABC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 38 Ryan's "Love Story" co-star 14 15 16 39 Post-E.R. place 40 X marks it 17 18 19 42 Laid up 43 Race unit 20 21 22 44 Gossipy Hopper 45 Eskimo's need 23 24 25 26 46 Go a long way 27 28 29 30 31 32 48 the Jebusite, of I and II Chronicles 33 34 35 36 37 38 51 Muscat moola 53 Saws 39 40 41 42 57 Like pocket diets. 58 Fall guy 43 44 61 What this puzzle is J45 64 It may have a silver 46 47 |48 49 50 lining

65 Some sorority 51 52 53 54 55 56 women 66 Merry-go-round 57 |58 59 60 music 67 Key locale: Abbr. 61 62 63 64 68 Bars 69 Apollo vehicles 65 66 67 70 A Chaplin 68 69 70 DOWN 1 Early writing

2 Legbone by Bill Zais and Nancy Salomon Wednesday, December 1, 1999 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: The longest theme answers in a crossword usually run horizontally. In this puzzle they run vertically, for a reason.

ACROSS 62 Cash in Capua 7 With 11-Down, 43 Holiday window 1 Graphic 63 _B 3-Down's last item 5 No-frills 64 Heads-up words? 44 What tellers lack? 10 Deer sir 65 Quotation notation 8 Rocks 46 Mistaken 14 Something eaten 66 Actress Daly 9 Hold in check 47 Leporello, e.g., in with the palms? 67 Hot spot 10 Begin's co-Nobelist "Don Giovanni" 15 Exxon alternative 68 Ernie's "Sesame 11 See 7-Down 51 Put 16 Quaint sigh Street" pal 12 Completely 53 Stingless bee surrounding 17 About 517 Certain money 13 Prepares 18 Red Sea borderer DOWN transfer 21 Ad_ 19 Charger's acquisition 1 "Open sesame!" 61 Schnozz tip? 23 Steps up? 20 Dickens's pen name sayer 62 Family dog, for short 25 Stead 21 Fine-tune 2 Exceed 27 Say "Li'l Abner," say 22 C&W singer Tritt 3 Jungle swinger 33 Violinist Stern 24 Home of the 4 "So_me!" 36 Goldfinger? legendary Morgan le 5 Rifle attachment 39 Rugged rock Fay 6 End of grace 40 Crack 26 They're involved in 41 With pluck pageantry 28 Admonition to a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 child

29 Fortune 500 14 15 16 chemicals company 30 Like Beethoven's 17 18 19 Sonata No. 30 31 Commedia dell' 20 |21 22 23 32 Helping for a while, with "over" 24 25 26 27 34 Sheraton hotels 28 29 30 owner 35 Be busy 31 32 33 34 37 One of the Chaplins 38 Phys., e.g. 35 36 37 |38 39 40 Honest ' 42 They're cast 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 45 "How the Other Half Lives" author Jacob 48 49 50 51 48 Singing syllable 49 Honeybun 52 53 54 50 "Seinfeld" regular 55 56 57 |58 52 Source of some clicking 59 60 61 62 54 More crafty 55 Extremely 63 64 65 56 Off-course 58 Journalist Kupcinet 66 67 68 59 Note 60 Big name in daytime TV by Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon Thursday, December 16, 1999 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Four 15-letter answers reading across, and two more 15-letter answers going down—it's a seemingly impossible grid to fill. Yet Manny Nosowsky makes the task look easy, using familiar vocabulary that's unusual and colorful at the same time.

ACROSS 2 Arrests 22 Philately collection 44 Sunshine Biscuits 1 Six French kings 3 Slips and such 23 Not so tough brand 8 Cheese dish 4 Holds up 25 Shorty: Var. 45 Pseudologist 15 Had 100 or more 5 Reply to "That a 26 Noted pyramid 47 They may be civil: 17 One stirring up fact?" builders Abbr. trouble for 6 Xing 28 Beaver's nearest 48 And that's not all management 7 Ranker relative 18 Darts 8 College leader 29 Big clubs 19 City on the Aire 9 Take for 31 Antitank weapons 20 "Grand Ole Opry" 10 So-and-sos 32 Perfect role model airer 11 In-flight 33 Washington address 21 Philosophy subjects announcement, for 34 Charades, basically 22 Level short 35 Rotten 23 Glen Gray & the 12 Stopped talking 36 Glossed over Casa Orchestra 13 Tireless ones 38 Places of art 24 Fail (Irish 14 Like poison ivy 41 Copal or mastic coronation stone) leaves 42 Mediterranean 25 House coat 16 Winners get them tourist destination 26 "Le Fifre" artist 27 Becomes twisted 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |8 9 10 11 12 13 14 29 One of the Andrews Sisters 15 16 30 Breathless 31 Howled 17 32 Whence the line "The meek shall 18 119 20 inherit the earth" 34 Elbows on the table 21 22 23 37 Way to get a job 24 38 Regular and long ^J^ 39 Seasonal serving 27 28 29 40 Like some muscles 41 Aquino's successor I 30 I 31 in the Philippines 1 | 42 "Count __" 32 33 34 35 36 43 Wanted letters 44 Prefix with tropic 37 38 39 45 Prop in a Wild West show 40 41 |42 46 Noted storyteller 43 44 45 49 "Don't rush me!" 50 They may be half or 46 47 48 full

51 Like elbows, 49 sometimes

50 ..'.151 DOWN 1 There's one on most

coins by Manny Nosowsky Friday, January 7, 2000 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Another Manny Nosowsky tour de force, this puzzle features three sets of theme answers. Look carefully—there is a reason for the italicized word in each theme clue.

ACROSS DOWN 21 Prima donna 48 Park feature 1 Get rid of 1 Suit to _ problems 51 Surrendered, with 8 Loser 2 Tug, say 23 Buddies "in" 15 City on Lake 3 Estimator's phrase 24 Packinghouse stamp 53 Enticed 16 "Well, I_!" 4 "The Thin Man" co- 25 Procter & Gamble 54 Words to an "old 17 With 18-Across, star brand chap" Spendthrift's motto 5 Business letters? 26 Jerk 55 Harbor (which cracks me 6 Popular vodka, 27 Shake like 56 Actor Sharif up!) familiarly 28 Crows' hangouts 57 "_ Me a Break" 18 See 17-Across 7 Zeroing (in on) 30 It may be temporary (title for this puzzle?) 19 W.W. II combat area: 8 Yemeni city or practical 58 Sales term

Abbr. 9 Linda , Supergirl's 32 Director Louis 59 Grps. that liaise with 20 Lender's recourse alias 33 Follows principals 22 Military mission 10 One way to run 35 Shows of irritation 61 Dietary abbr. 23 Stage assistant's job 11 Novelist Tillie 37 Stars on stage 63 Order at the Green 25 Phnom 12 "Unchain My Heart" 39 AT&T competitor Dragon 26 Goldman singer 41 Gambling, e.g. 64 China's Piao (brokerage) 13 Ship to Colchis 44 "Do _ others ..." 29 Noggin 14 Brightly-colored 47 Pacific 31 Latin lover's word 34 They keep people off 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 beaches

36 Khartoum-to-Nairobi 15 16 dir.

37 Gray 17 18 38 With 40-Across,

American novelist 19 20 21 22 (who cracks me up!) 40 See 38-Across 23 24 25

42 Staffs : 43 Neediest cases site?: 26 27 28 29 30 32 33 Abbr. " 45 Swinging 34 35 36 46 Gamy 47 It might be involved 38 39 40 41 in a police roundup 49 Beer delivery 42 43 44 45

I I 50 Settles with certainty 52 Lore 46 47 48 49 54 " what you say, ." but . . 50 51 52 53 56 Sludge 57 Break 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 With 62-Across, Runner-up (who 60 61 62 63 64 cracks me up!) 62 See 60-Across 65 66 65 End-of-book matter 66 Major coca producer 67 68 67 Spouse's meek response 68 Unity by Manny Nosowsky Thursday, February 10, 2000 www.Ebook777.com " Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Note the date of this puzzle (April 1), which is significant. Solvers on The New York Times's online crossword forum voted this one of their favorite crosswords of the year.

ACROSS 68 Rib 12 Air 47 Log-cutting area 1 Torment 69 Sri Lankan exports 13 Informal tops 49 Standing 5 Some socials 24 Loud streakers 51 Oafish 9 Golfers' needs DOWN 26 Rulers have them 52 Imply 14 Over yonder 1 Flirt 28 Absorbed 53 Inside pump 15 Joyous cry 2 Bouquet garni 30 Synthetic 54 Certain crosses 16 "Are you in _?" element 31 "My life open 55 Timeout signs 17 Little one 3 Conned book" 56 In (stagnant) 18 Utah Lake is to its 4 Graph line indication 32 Plumbing joints 57 Make money west 5 Fund-raising suffix 33 Angers, with "off 59 Certain N.C.O. 19 Tarnish 6 Tongue-lashing 34 League 20 Counterfeiters' 7 High branch 35 kissers nemeses 8 Paste makers 36 Perseveres 21 Rocket launcher 9 "Sophie, and 40 Part of a 22 Marina site Belle" (1996 musica1) Yarborough, maybe, 23 Ministers 10 Here today, gone in bridge 25 List for a new hire tomorrow 41 Jump in the Winter 27 Squish, squash or 11 Hard work Olympics squelch 29 "You're lookin' at 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 |9 10 11 12 13 your person!" 14 15 1 16 33 Have words with 37 Start of a newsgroup 17 18 19 name online 38 Orient 20 21 |22 39 Attempts 42 Measurer 23 24 I 25 26 43 North Korea's 11 Sung 28 29 30 31 32 44 Breadth 45 Cooking meas. 33 34 35 36 38 46 Really here 39 40 41 48 "What fools these mortals writer be" 42 43 44 50 Beacon 55 Half-sister of 45 46 47 Absalom 58 Pen mothers 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 60 Nair rival 61 Formulaic 55 56 57 58 59 60 62 Littermates 61 62 63 63 Camus's "L'_ de siege 64 65 66 64 Officer's jacket 65 Something copied: 67 68 69 Abbr. 66 Countertenor, maybe

67 Musical notes bvM ann\ ' NosowskV s aturd av, A.pril L, 20C www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Peter Gordon created this puzzle as a sly announcement that he and his wife were expect- ing. Daughter Phoebe was born on October 28, 2000. Peter also has the distinction of having the first Sunday crossword published under my editorship—one in which the seven colors of the spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet) had to be colored in the grid.

ACROSS DOWN 15 With "The," Tom 38 Grave's counterpart 1 Woody's "Scenes 1 Cy Young winner Clancy novel, after a 39 Okla. neighbor From a Mall" co-star Saberhagen pregnant pause? 45 Proscribe 6 Manx of the house? 2 New money 18 Indian 46 Slovenly 9 "Yes,_" 3 Fit 20 Turner of TV 48 Gives the boot 13 Bucolic 4 Sail a zigzag course channels 49 Word processing 14 Leave breathless 5 "Ishtar" director, 23 Clink command 15 "_ la vista, baby" after a pregnant 25 Disk-shaped flower 50 Approach 16 Susan Lucci's Ernmy- pause? 26 1940's-60's Indian 51 Gulp of liquor wirvning soap role 6 Loses color P.M. 52 Enrapture 17 Superman foe 7 "You," in a rebus 27 Inexperienced 54 China setting 55 Like 19 1992 U.S. Open golf puzzle 28 Jar part dishwater champion 8 College book 30 Globes 56 Creator of Perry and Delia 21 Like some stores of 9 Part of a book? 31 Smart 57 Batiking needs old 10 "A Hard Road to 32 Stuffed animal at a 59 Many an August 22 The Untouchables' Glory" author carnival birth leader 11 Lots 33 Ticked off 24 Named yet unnamed 12 K follower 35 to the throne 25 Fished 29 Bread in the oven 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 31 Tub with a whirlpool 34 Sans- type 13 14 15 35 The silent brother 16 17 18 36 Fancy calculator

button 19 20 21 37 John Philip Sousa, after a pregnant 22 23 24 pause? 40 Poetic preposition 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 41 Fedora parts 42 Down time 34 35 36 43 Triathlon part 37 38 39 44 Steak order 45 Pain soother 40 41 42 46 Strong joe 47 Line on a map 43 44 45 49 Opens 53 Still fresh 46 47 48 58 March of Time presentations 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 60 Shylock's doing 58 59 60 61 Dog in "Blondie" 62 Snapper trapper 61 62 63 63 City in northern France 64 65 66 64 Wild revelry 65 Hairstyles 66 Certain locks by Peter Gordon Wednesday, April 12, 2000 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Most puzzle solvers are familiar with the word ladder, in which, for example, COLD can be converted to WARM by changing one letter at a time, making a new word at each step (COLD, CORD, WORD, WARD, WARM). Greg Staples is the first constructor I'm aware of who ever incorporated a word ladder into a crossword theme. The 10 unclued answers in

this puzzle (from 20- to 57-Across) show how he did it.

ACROSS DOWN 22 Fido or Fluffy 47 Throat flaps 1 Kind of tent 1 They can be sweet 25 corpus 48 Hankering 4 Strong criticism 2 Word processor 26 1994 Peace Nobelist 50 Blow off steam 8 Ages command 28 Fifth of 12 53 "A house a 14 Charlotte-to-Raleigh 3 Amazon's source 29 Baseball card stat. home" 30 of dir. 4 When "Dallas" aired: One Jack's 55 Trickle 15 Parks in 1955 news Abbr. qualities 58 Congo river 32 Baby 16 "Big deal" 5 "_luck!" 59 Bleacher feature 33 Shoot the breeze 17 With skill 6 Provided that 60 Unforeseen difficulty 36 Canadian skater 19 _Club 7 Olympic water 62 Arafat's grp. Brian 20 *Start of the word sports competitor 63 Jet-set jet 39 N.L. Central team, 65 Nor. neighbor ladder 8 Tee preceder on a 21 *Second step 9 Luau serving 40 Sever 23 *Third step 10 Has a tab 41 Fall from grace 24 Polite guest 11 Gene carrier 42 "Dig in!" 27 clock setting: 12 Ride, so to speak 44 Legal legacy Abbr. 13 Some may be false 46 Like a baby in a 28 Smart set 18 Chooses highchair 31 Communicate

successfully 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 34 Jackie's second 35 *Fourth step 14 15 16 37 *Fifthstep 17 18 19 38 Whines

40 Take care (of) 20 21 22 23 43 *Sixthstep 44 ^Seventh step 24 25 26 27 45 "Opatria_" 28 29 30 31 32 33 ("Aida" aria) 46 Perfect hits 34 35 36 37 49 Happening 51 Duke Ellington's "_ 38 39 [40 41 42 Got Me" 52 Pay back 43 44 45 54 *Eighth step 46 47 48 49 50 56 *Ninth step 57 of the *End word 51 52 53 ladder 61 Censors' signs 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 I 64 Brainiac 61 64 66 Stands for things 62 63 65 67 Put on board 66 67 68 68 Grazing ground

69 Saddam Hussein, 69 70 71 e.g. 70 Chapeau's spot 71 A little work by Greg Staples Thursday, April 27, 2000 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: A puzzle like this makes me smile and shake my head in amazement that anyone would attempt such a challenging theme, never mind execute it so beautifully.

ACROSS 3 St. College, in 25 Mean 49 Ottoman Empire 1 Water collector 27 "The joke's _" founder 5 Even a bit 4 Sensible step 28 Female with a showy 51 Obsolescent carnival 10 Battleground of July 5 Like some doors mate prize 1944 6 Surfing site, with 30 Hawaii 52 Treasured instrument 14 Winged "the" 31 Big auto parts 53 Netanyahu's 15 The sixth part of 7 2000, e.g., in Spain company predecessor 7-Down 8 Actress Ullmann 32 "The doctor _" 54 Alphabet run 16 Shade of blue 9 "Marshall Money 33 Slightly 55 Unused 17 About Guide" 34 Handsome dogs, 56 Straits 18 See 22-Across 10 Portico informally 57 Bicycle adjunct 20 Child's need, maybe 11 Spree 35 "Smart" one 58 Isabella d' 22 Part of an American 12 Cooking aid 36 Out of reach 59 Traditional Olympics plan, at a hotel 13 Previously heard 38 Uproar basketball 23 Examine 19 "Otello" librettist 43 Have a connection powerhouse 24 No-no's opposite? 26 Closed 21 Author Rand (to) 60 Committed reply 29 Patty Hearst's name 24 Sailor's aid 47 Fine, slangily 61 Gist in the S.LA. 34 Conclusive 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 37 See 34-Across 14 15 16 39 Jai_ 40 San Calif. _, 17 18 19 41 Suffix with my-

42 See 44-Across 20 21 22 44 Member of a crew 45 Part of a script 23 24 25 46 "Bewitched" role 48 Source 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 50 Writers' org. 34 35 36 37 38 54 Pits 57 11 p.m., for some 39 40 41 59 See 54-Across

62 "Fort Apache" actor, 42 43 44 1948 63 Dover specialty 45 47 ! |46 64 Ticket category ] 65 British poet laureate 48 49 |50 51 52 53 Nahum 54 55 56 57 58 66 Made like 67 Exalted 59 60 61 62 68 Discordia's Greek

counterpart 63 64 65

DOWN 66 67 68 1 "You _ mouthful!" 2 Arm twisters? by Richard Hughes Thursday, May 4, 2000 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: As I mentioned earlier, a daily crossword with 72 or fewer answers doesn't need a theme. Yet this 70-word puzzle has seven (count 'em!) theme answers, and a beautiful interlock besides. Patrick Berry is one of just a few people in the country who earns his living by constructing crosswords. If he keeps up quality like this, he won't ever have to worry about how to pay the rent.

ACROSS 59 Uses a sewing 6 Characterized by 35 Solar or lunar 1 Arthur of 70's-80's shuttle leitmotifs, e.g. phenomenon TV 60 Cafe (laced 7 So 36 Astronaut Bean 4 Most uncomfortable, coffee) 8 Signs of healing 37 Excite as weather 61 Swiss canton 9 Not just again 38 Rounded bolt covers 10 Burning 62 Arch 10 Dawdle 41 Subject of testimony 13 Last page 63 Lens cover? 11 Asthmatics' needs in a murder trial 14 Provincial ruler in 64 Sen. Stevens of 12 Like sandals 42 Nonscoring baccarat the Byzantine Alaska 15 Sketch comedy show card Empire on Fox 43 Voltaire's metier 15 Like old records DOWN 20 Cast supporter? 45 Barely maintain 16 Home of "The 1 "Borstal Boy" author 22 Starter's need 46 Hunger Sopranos" 2 As a whole 24 patriae 48 Sitting duck? 17 Person with a hat, 3 Paramount Pictures 25 Renounce 50 Completely reliable maybe founder Zukor 28 Company part 52 Actress lone 18 He beat Connors to 4 Fighter at 31 Hardly extraneous 56 Book of Samuel win Wimbledon Chancellorsville 33 Imaginary character 19 "When said and 5 Fire truck item 34 Demilitarized place 57 Chapped done ..." 21 Business tycoon's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 • " 11 12 problem? '• 23 Landlord's problem? 13 14 26 Sink 16 17 " 27 Fire-breathing

monster 19 20 21 22 29 Begrudges 30 Casino worker's 23 24 25 26 problem? 32 Title acquired in 27 28 29 church, maybe 30 31 32 33 Soda jerk's problem? 38 Whistle blower 33 34 35 36 37 39 Shopper's problem? 40 treaty Modern 38 39 subjects

44 Like some messages 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 Dolt 49 War minister's 47 48 49 50 problem? 51 Sweepstakes 51 52 |53 entrant's problem? 54 55 56 57 58 53 100 centesimos 54 Detachment of 59 60 61 soldiers 55 More repulsive 62 63 64 58 Vinaigrette ingredient by Patrick D. Berry Thursday, May 18, 2000 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: The date of this puzzle is a hint to its theme ... as well as its clues. Note that every clue begins with the same letter of the alphabet. D-lightful!

ACROSS 2 Doofus-y sort 24 Docked animal parts, 46 Daughter's cry? ." 1 "Do _ others .. 3 Downhill /uphill maybe 47 Diminish by degrees 5 Disorganized conveyance 25 Did alpine calls 48 Devotional 11 Dirty campaign stuff 4 Dash (write 26 Diocletian's 552 ceremonies 14 Drudge of feudal 27 Djibouti's Gulf of quickly) _ 49 Dock sight in times 5 Drivers' fares 28 Doublet 15 District in the Galveston 6 Drifting above 29 Defunct oil name 52 Diminutive amount Philippines 7 Doze 30 Duct 16 Document or diet 53 Daily Bruin sch. 8 Delve (into) 34 Dinner scraps ending 9 "Down with the 35 Devoted, as friends ^4 Dobbin pulls one 17 Ducker of military bull!" 36 Duke belongs to it: 57 Dismiss service 10 Droll actor in Abbr. technicality 19 DiMaggio stat "Ghostbusters" 38 Dollywood locale: 58 Delivery co. 20 Dewey, e.g.: Abbr. 11 after lundi Abbr. 59 Dice action 21 Debonair 'bunny Day game man 12 Densely settled 39 Department of State 60 Dusseldorf connector Declining, 22 'Desperately Seeking 13 as embers chief under Reagan 18 Dated term for Desiccated Susan" actor Quinn 42 24 "Date film" classic of "yours" 43 Drowsy 1987 23 Drinks popular in 45 Describing no more 28 Devils hot weather than 31 "Diana," for one

32 Determinant of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 utility charges 33 Decreases 14 15 16 37 Disclaimer on a sale

tag 17 18 19 38 Dobie Gray's " Crowd" 20 21 [22 23 40 Deere product: Abbr. Definite 41 agreement 24 25 26 27 43 Denizen of an aquarium 28 29 30 31 44 Divorce lawyer on "L.A. Law" ! HI 32 33 34 35 36 45 Disagreeable air 46 Dauntless ones 37 39 40 50 Dawn i |38 51 Dander 41 42 43 52 Danube locale: Abbr. 55 Decimal point 45 56 Difficult jump-rope 44 game 61 Defeater of A.E.S. 46 47 48 49 62 Detach, as a rind 63 Disney lion 50 51 |52 53 54 64 "Definitely!" 65 Danish, e.g. 55 56 57 58 59 60 66 Decisive time (or ill theme of this 61 62 63 puzzle) 64 65 66 DOWN 1p 1 Dairy or ranch regulator: Abbr. by Alan Arbesfeld Tuesday, June 6, 2000 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: This is the only Times crossword that has ever been published without the clue headings Across and Down. Instead, all the clues appear in a single list from 1 to 70. Answers that share a number also share a clue, in a manner for you to discover.

CLUES 37 Colonnade around a 49 "Gulliver's Travels" 64 W.W. I battle site 1 Fast place courtyard and others 65 Crud 2 It's sent by wire: 38 Graceful swimmers 50 Universal ideal 66 Destined (for) Abbr. 39 Gambler's chimera 51 Detonation maker 67 Fictional princess 3 Family dog 40 General Tso's 52 Ballet step 68 "Peter Pan" man 4 Will chicken maker 53 Hunted items 69 Analyze 5 It may bring a box to 41 Variety show 54 Kind of lily 70 Wrigglers your house 42 Like a delta 55 Compos mentis 6 Burn relief 43 Second son 56 Rug rat

7 Uncle _ 44 Texas city, site of the 57 It may be the basis 8 British facility San Jacinto of wishful thinking 9 Catches sight of Monument 58 Some roasters 10 Arboreal creature 45 Invoice stamp 59 Analyst's reply with sticky feet 46 Superior to a chief 60 Actor Patrick 11 Hindu queen warrant officer: Harris 12 Scratched (out) Abbr. 61 Mardi 13 Start of North 47 "_said..." 62 Brain Carolina's motto 48 Highway access 63 Genteel event 14 "That is _!" (debate charge) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 Dairy aisle items

16 Thousand 14 15 16 17 TV newsman Potter and others 17 18 19 18 Piper Cubs, e.g. 19 Couch potato 20 21 22 20 Groups adapted to 23 24

their environments ' - -

21 Singer Sumac 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 22 Nal, e.g. 23 Doc bloc 33 34 35 36 37 24 Members of the family Hydrophidae 38 39 40 41 25 1946 Literature 42 43 44 45 Nobelist 26 Gen. Rommel 46 47 48 49 50 27 Omanl money

28 "Hold on, I've 51 52

changed my mind!" J§jjf? 29 Retd. check notation 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 30 Children's game 62 63 64 31 Bring out

32 Knight's list 65 66 67 33 Western New York county 68 69 70 34 Kind of class 35 Salt

36 Classical poem by John Duschatko Wednesday, June 7, 2000 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: This wide-open construction features four 15-letter theme answers, one of which (8-Down)

crosses the other three. Not easy to do! A bonus touch that I like is the lively nontheme answer at 20-Across, which is a phrase everyone knows but that has probably never ap- peared in a crossword before.

ACROSS 3 "Big Brother is 24 Kind of skin 41 "The Scarlet Letter" 1 Nears, with "on" watching you" writer 26 Rock that may hold woman 9 Animal shelter 4 Ecodisaster fossils 43 Doesn't wear well 13 Paper-folding 5 Besides 27 Longtime "Today" 44 _ stiff creation 6 Pedro or Paulo show personality 46 7th-century date 14 Like a rainbow 7 Well-known, but not 29 Contractor's info 47 Relig. leaders 16 Huey well-liked 30 Like "Othello" 49 Tax form info: Abbr. 19 Dancing Astaire 8 Huey, Dewey and 31 Continues, after a 50 Kind of care fashion 20 "Now I remember!" Louie 21 Fertility clinic stock 9 Mike holder 32 Nebulous 22 "_do" 10 Makeshift cradle 33 Critically injure 23 Enjoy a rose 11 Hosp. ward 34 Jean Valjean, at the start of 24 Skelton's 12 Unwavering "Les Kadiddlehopper 15 Gets down to work Miserables" 38 Overseas carrier 25 Scale tone 17 Brother Castor and 39 Tongue, anatomically 26 Tucks away sister Olive 40 Cooking agent 27 Tippler 18 Attacked 28 Frau's abode 23 Mike holder 29 Land of Robert Burns 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 30 Dewey 13 14 35 Humorous illustrator Searle 16 17 18 36 Not be calm 37 role Oscar-nominated 19 20 21 of 1966 38 King's word 22 23 24 39 Econ. figure 42 Latch (onto) 25 26 27 43 It may be waxed 44 Memories of a H 28 29 whirlwind trip, 1 maybe 30 31 32 33 34 45 38-Down's home: 35 36

46 Pipe cleaner 37 38 39 40 41 47 Like sod 48 Louie 42 43 44 51 Full of chutzpah 52 Stets 45 46 47 53 Roasting platform 48 49 50 54 1968 pitcher with six consecutive shutouts 51 52

DOWN 53 54 1 Orient Express terminus, once 2 Misled by Mark Diehl Thursday, August 10, 2000 www.Ebook777.com " Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: This 68-word grid contains ten 15-letter answers spanning the grid, with 8-Down intersect- ing the nine going across. As typical with Bob Klahn, he spices up the puzzle with lively vocabulary, and the grid doesn't have a single unnecessary black square.

ACROSS 6 "The Untouchables" 27 Baron Munchhausen 49 Novelist Easton 1 Comprehensive composer Morricone 29 Places of refuge Ellis insurance plans 7 Shouts of triumph 30 Something to sip 50 Classic dress 16 Cause for celebration 8 Promise to marry 31 Together 51 Courtroom cover-up 17 Summer runners 9 "_ be in 32 "Phooey!" 52 Combined, in ..." 18 Romeo's last words England 34 Nike competitor Compiegne 19 1995 role for 10 Rule, in Rouen 35 Flap 53 One of a group of Kenneth Branagh 11 1969 Peace Prize grp. 36 "Summer and 40-Across 20 Empty talk 12 Sure thing Smoke" heroine 55 Letters starting many 21 Start of a religious 13 Noodle concoction 42 L.A.'s San _ Bay military plane names observance? 14 Clear 44 Pernod flavoring 56 French pronoun 45 Big name in juices 57 Drawing 22 Command level: 15 Network: Abbr. _!" Abbr. 21 Dependent 46 "Comin (1981 3-D western) 24 Personal 22 Shine 47 Ice cream flavor, involvement 23 Paramecium, e.g. briefly 28 Provider of a pick- 24 Popeye's creator me-up? 25 Letter before qoph 48 Prefix with -iris 30 What 1 might mean: 26 Like a farm Abbr. 33 Contract provision 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 37 "Leaving Home" author 16 38 "Guys and Dolls" 17 song

39 Purged 18 119 20 40 March figures, for short 21 |22 23 41 They're made to measure 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 42 Mtge. units 43 Broken 33 34 35 36 46 Trouble spots? 37 49 Capital of Moravia 50 It takes a beating 38 54 Team for which George Plimpton 39 40 |41 once played 58 "Ain't Misbehavin' 42 43 44 45

: tune 1 ' 49 59 Like 101, to 102? 46 47 48 50 51 52 53 DOWN 54 55 56 57 1 of, in Sons Hebrew 58 2 Wagered 3 "Tales of a Wayside 59 Inn" bell town 4 Swell 5 Hootchy- by Bob Klahn Friday, September 29, 2000 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: This puzzle's clever theme is signaled by the circled letters in the middle of the grid. For the constructor to get all these multi-checked letters to work could not have been easy.

ACROSS DOWN 18 Slapstick comedy 44 Expert on spars and 1 Passport feature 1 Grad sch. classes items stars 6 Role for Ingrid 2 Trudge 22 Clog (up) 45 Catch a wave 10 Bridge toll unit 3 Pretentious 23 Encourager 48 Catch 14 Overthrowing a base, 4 Commercial suffix 24 "SportsZone" airer 49 Mister, in Mendoza e.g. with "Sav-" 26 IBM products 50 Radiated 15 Select 5 Prognosticator 27 Partake of 52 "_ does it" 16 Prehistoric terror, 6 Computer programs 28 Superhero's undoing 54 Architect Saarinen informally have them 30 Fictional Simon 55 Talk up 17 Superhero's home 7 Whoppers 32 Used a bench 56 Huskies' load 19 Go on and on 8 Mooring spots 33 Mao -tung 58 Russian plane 20 "Look, up in the _!" 9 Gore and Bundy 34 Wasser in the winter 59 Middle of XXX 21 Playboy centerfold 10 Gillette brand 36 Smart-alecky 22 Authority 11 Superhero's skill 38 Belt tightener? 12 Filmed, 23 32 pieces and a in 39 Altar reply board Hollywood slang 41 Snitched 13 Praises 25 Speed: Abbr. lavishly 42 Scans 26 Certain teas 43 Finally 29 They go well with plaids 31 Diamond unit 32 Asian plains 35 River to Hades 36 Stayed at home 37 Best Picture of 1958 40 Dress store section 42 Feeling puffed up 43 Players in a dome, once 45 Taken care of 46 "_TeChing" 47 More skittish 51 Like much notebook paper 53 "The Unity of India" writer 54 Symbol on a cape 57 Et_ 58 Superhero's nickname 60 Drunks 61 Smooth (out) 62 Baseball Hall-of- Famer Combs 63 Deuce taker 64 "Pretty Woman" co- star 65 Berate by Bill Zais Tuesday, October 31, 2000 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Saturday Times crosswords don't often have themes, but this one is an exception. It fea- tures four interlocking theme answers and a hint to the trick at 41-Down.

ACROSS 3 Unite 28 sense 47 Arp contemporary 1 Big moneymaker 4 Pickup artist's line? 29 Director's opposite 49 Where questions are 8 Chairs may hold 5 Checked out 32 Bad marks in high asked them 6 Suffix with 55-Across school, maybe 52 Fraternity letter 14 Still, in a way 7 Volstead Act 34 Dentists' convention? 53 Giants and Pirates, 15 "Some nerve!" opponents 35 Like some plans e.g. 16 Firmly formed 8 Tough area 36 1962 musical 56 Sound units 17 Jam and cram again 9 50's political choreographed by 59 Dress (up) 18 Francis of hockey monogram Bob Fosse 61 It may be picked fame 10 Like some organs 37 It's nonreturnable 19 Dweller in 11 Don of England, e.g. 38 Mixer Clydebank 12 Musee d'Orsay locale 41 Without any chance 21 Paris Opera part 13 Most dependable at all (and a phonetic 22 Unlock 15 They chase flies hint to this puzzle's 24 In print 20 works for theme) 25 Teaching venues One who Police Enticing 26 Brainard, the the Gazette? 43 Absent-Minded 23 Town connected by 44 Up, in a way Professor bridge to Windsor 46 Ballet position 27 Smashing

30 Use a shuttle 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 31 Kind of hole 33 Plenty 14 15 35 Trying cases, plea bargaining, etc.? 16 17 39 Jackson of jazz 40 Prefix meaning 18 20 21 "likeness" 41 Pocket 22 23 24 25 42 Expected to happen 26 28 29 30 45 Pinkerton, e.g. 48 Morsels 31 32 34 50 "Well, lookee here!" |33 51 Art school name 35 36 37 38 54 Artifice 55 Hit or miss 39 ." | [40 57 "_ else fails .. 58 Brewer's product 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 60 Words before a 1 ~m fight? 48 49 50 51 52 53 62 When repeated, not much in the way of 54 55 56 57 news 1 63 One who puts on a 58 59 60 61 cap 64 Pizazz 62 63 65 Some disbelievers

64 1 ' 65 ^H ^'/iffi DOWN 1 1 Sounded like a rook

2 Cave dwellers by David J. Kahn Saturday, December 2, 2000 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Solvers on The Times's online crossword forum voted this the best daily crossword of the year.

ACROSS 65 Nettle 10 Major can maker 41 Prince Valiant's wife 1 Building supports 66 Judge, at times 11 Chief of staff under 43 Sewing machine 6 "I see," facetiously 67 Geologists' divisions George Bush attachments 10 Not latched 68 Proof word 12 Dean's concern 44 Kind of insurance

14 Zero Mostel role of 69 Dental stuff 13 Skip it 46 Writer Marilyn 1964 18 Very much Savant 15 Color of some wine DOWN 23 Exec's degree 47 Car hood, in Britain grapes 1 What "ipso" means 25 Apprehensive feeling 48 Consult 16 Cracked 2 Fancy part of Los 27 Overthrow 49 Enduring hits 17 Insomniac's need Angeles 30 Big name in the ad 50 Duck hunter's boots 19 Crack, in a way 3 Loath biz 52 Angry reactions 20 Otologist's study 4 Some whiskey 31 Poker supplies 55 Sage 21 Company founded 5 Print tint 33 N.L. East team 56 Rearrange, say by Steve Case 6 Caught some rays, 36 Counting everything 58 Kids' TV character 22 Newspaper read at perhaps 37 Cousin of reggae 62 Uncooperative one Notre Dame 7 Kachina doll maker 38 Art shop buy 63 Noted 62-Down 24 Oliver's wife on 8 Framework piece 39 Eagles' home "Green Acres" 9 Capital of Loiret 40 Delay 26 Common Market: Abbr. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 28 Lower

29 Vietnam was part of 14 15 16 it 32 Actress Thurman 17 18 19 34 Travel widely 35 Raises 20 21 22 23 36 Arctic native 24 25 26 27 28 37 Fallacious reasoner 40 The Who's "Tommy" 29 30 31 32 33 and others 41 China aster, e.g. 34 35 36 42 Scot's wear 1 1 —7$ 43 Taken in 37 38 39 40 41 44 Naples's home: Abbr. 42 43 44

SSuNb i 45 Carte start 46 Soapmaking 45 46 47 48 49 50 substance 51 Modern data holder 51 52 53 |54 53 Moreover 55 56 57 58 59 54 1970 Kinks hit 55 Sorrowful cry 60 61 62 63 57 Rebuffs 59 Roulette bet 64 65 66 60 Troubles 61 Hubert Humphrey's 67 68 69 running mate, 1968 64 1982 title role for Meryl Streep by Peter Gordon Thursday, December 14, 2000 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: The constructor of this crossword (a Times regular) carries each of his theme ideas as far as possible, adding multiple layers, if appropriate—and does so with skill and flair. Here is an excellent example.

ACROSS DOWN 25 Wall St. event 47 Beckett title name 1 Was in the running 1 Rope material 26 Vodka brand, 50 Athens's state, in for 2 Per informally ancient times 8 Summer dress 3 Like Errol Flynn 27 First lady with bangs 53 Call off feature 4 Old Polo Grounds 29 Chestnut, e.g. 55 Euripides play 14 They often start favorite 31 Spur part 56 Commuter's run? "Here" 5 Hung back 32 Like krypton 57 Pride of Israel 16 Jim Palmer, once 6 Take (look) 33 Lavished love (on) 58 Dugout shelter half of 17 Where The Gazette is 7 Muse of comedy 35 Comic Philips 60 When rush published 8 Draw game? 37 Elusive one hours occur: Abbr. 18 Kind of club 9 Valuable deposit 38 Timber tree with 61 "Viva Maria!" actress, 1965 19 Hoops stat. 10 QB protectors colored inner bark 62 Play to 20 Forfeit again 11 Hawaiian storm 40 When some footballs 63 Some G.M. cars 22 Benjamin Disraeli, 12 16-Across, for short are hiked 65 Book after Ezra: e.g. 13 "I'm all ears" 43 Like many doors Abbr. 23 African pullover 15 Pavement caution 44 French pronoun 67 PartofX-X-X 24 Schoolmarmish 21 Goes over 46 Good name for a girl 26 Mr. _ of "Peter 23 Dancer's partner? writing a postscript? Pan"

28 "There it is!" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 30 August birthstone 14 15 16 34 Siesta time 36 In direct competition 17 18 38 CD-_ Inventor 39 who 19 20 21 22 inspired this puzzle 41 Get spliced 23 24 25

42 Parts left out : 45 Fosters, for one 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 48 First name in mystery writing 34 35 36 37 49 Sri Lanka export 38 39 40 41 51 Ninny I 52 "_ Stars," #1 hit for 42 43 44 45 46 47 Freddy Martin, 1934

54 Symbol of 48 49 50 51 punctuality 56 Ale relative 52 53 54 55 59 Waterside

accommodations 56 57 58 [59 60 61 62 1 63 provider 64 65 66 67 61 Duffel 64 birth Rare 68 69 66 Weigh heavily

68 Sewer, maybe 70 71 69 Screenwriter's start 70 Auto gauge shower

71 Speech enliveners by David J. Kahn Friday, December 29, 2000 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS:

As mentioned on the puzzle of July 24, 1998, the record for the lowest number of black squares in a standard 15Xl5-square grid was 21. This puzzle set a new record with just

20. Still, the vocabulary in it sparkles, and it doesn't have a single bad entry.

ACROSS 5 Snickers 22 It may follow four or 40 Screening device " ..." 1 Monarchy or 6 , she's mine six, but not five 41 Separate parliamentary (Manfred Mann 24 Silence 42 Not in democracy lyric) 26 Like most cemetery 43 Golfers' bane 16 A little too clever 7 Columnist Herb and plots 46 To (just so) 17 Oven item others 28 Sports org. owned 49 Mil. titles 18 Stray 8 Farm prefix by Fox 50 Encouraging word 19 Join securely 9 Study of lakes and 29 In which 49 is 100 20 1984 skiing gold ponds 30 Rash medalist 10 -Cross 31 What tubas play 21 Many cottage Championship 33 Naif dwellers Racing 34 Place of interest? 23 Diner orders 11 Complains 36 Napoleon's 25 Arab League V.I.P.'s 12 Baseball stat birthplace 26 Putdowns 13 Church offering 37 One of the brothers 27 Connecting points 14 Turn out Grimm 28 Sacks 15 Paris parents 38 Bill 29 Piece of neckwear 39 Potato dishes 32 "Let's Get __" (1973 #1 hit) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 33 Star, maybe 34 '93 Sugar Bowl 16 champs 35 W.W. I troops: Abbr. 17 36 Ace of clubs? 37 Aristophanes 18 119 20 comedy, with "The" 38 21 22 23 24 sandwich, informally 25 26 39 Solid swats 40 Emitted steam 27 28 29 30 31 43 Promotes

44 Kind of warfare 32 33 34 45 Half of the "Wayne's World" duo 35 36 37 47 Author LeShan 48 Wall Street gambit 38 39 51 Camper's need 52 Comments from co- 40 41 42 43 workers 44 45 46

DOWN 48 49 50 1 Former German

duchy known for a 51 breed of dog 2 Really ham it up, 52 redundantly 3 Found out about 4 N.Y.C. subway by Joe DiPietro Friday, January 19, 2001 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Speaking of record-breaking, this puzzle may well hold the record for the most theme en- tries of its type in a standard 15X15 grid. I won't reveal exactly what type this is—you'll feel proud when you discover the secret for yourself.

ACROSS DOWN 17 Saw with the grain 43 Dugong's cousin 1 "One Man's San 1 Serving with vin 21 Knocking noises 44 Half of quattordici Francisco" author 2 Rio contents 22 Kind of triangle 46 A Gabor sister 5 doble (Latin 3 Airline with King 23 Louis Botha, notably 47 Cruel people dance) David Lounges 25 Recipe abbr. 48 Choppers 9 Some Olympians, 4 "Nashville" co-star 26 Fleece 51 Part of a baby bottle nowadays 5 Outdoor dining spot 27 Black key 53 Artist Gerard

13 Stare impertinently 6 N.C. State plays in it 29 Guarantee Borch 14 Slogan 7 H. Rider Haggard 30 Blender setting 54 Flies away 16 Algebra topic novel 32 The Rhumba King 55 "Me neither" 18 Like some rats 8 Alphabet trio 34 Together, in music 56 1977 Scott Turow 19 "You there?" 9 They talk too much 35 Some mail book 20 Org. that banned 10 Angrily harangue designations: Abbr. 58 Greek letters DDT 11 "_Mio" 36 San _, Calif. 59 "Ker-bam!" 21 Knock over 12 "Si" man? 38 Something in 60 Quod faciendum 24 Critic, at times 14 Break activity, writing? 61 Subway wish 25 Pay the entire check perhaps 39 An American in 28 Fertilizer sources 15 "What's that?" Paris, perhaps 31 What a cedilla indicates 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 33 Talk incessantly

34 Turnstile part 13 14 15 37 It can be found in oil 40 Game in which jacks 16 17 are highest trumps 41 Inflammatory 18 119 diseases 21 22 23 24 42 Radiate 20 43 Ripens 25 26 ?7 28 29 30 45 Monterrey jack? 46 Pinch-hitting great 31 32 33 34 35 36 Manny 49 Super (old video 37 38 39 game standard) 50 Washington, to 40 41 42 Lafayette 52 Fed 43 44 45 "Jir^c 54 Charing dish fuel 46 47 49 50 51 57 1947 Best Picture 48 nominee 52 53 54 55 56 62 Waste away 63 Answer to the riddle 57 58 59 60 61 "Dressed in summer, naked in winter" 62 63 64 1980's Davis Cup captain 64 65 66 65 Hits a fly 66 City on the Gulf of

Aqaba by Peter Gordon Thursday, March 8, 2001 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: When you see Cathy Millhauser's byline on a puzzle, you can be virtually certain that your laugh muscles are about to get a workout. Here she takes four common phrases and puts a punny twist on them in a very specific way.

ACROSS 67 Battery components? 10 It now has a Union: 37 Left alone 1 Double dates 68 Kind of money Abbr. 38 Campaign dirty 5 Old newspaper 11 Soak tricks sections DOWN 12 Painkiller dosage 42 Money guarantor, for 10 Something to nibble 1 Of the ankle phrase short on with Beaujolais 2 Squirm 13 Sleep on it 43 Designer Schiaparelli 14 "Alfred" and 3 Out, at the library 21 Long, for short 46 Blur remover "Judith" composer 4 One who gets what's 22 Louver part 47 Complete 15 Grown coming 27 Certain vocal part 48 Got smart with 16 Minor 5 Actress Oakes of 29 Submissive type 50 Cup or purse 17 Agitate "CHiPs" 30 It borders the state 51 Twin of myth 18 Lofty 6 Kitchens have them of Amazonas 52 Put forth, in a way 19 Pipsqueak 7 Like some 32 Kind of pot 53 They may be tapped 20 "Flood cleanup pregnancies 33 Still for the stage wears me out!" 8 Football Hall-of- 34 Greek 57 Third in a Latin 23 Line on an invoice Famer Matson antepenultimate recital 24 "Gotcha!" 9 1930's Goldwyn star 35 Stay behind 58 "Trinity" novelist 25 Bridal path Anna 36 She kneads people 60 What a mess! 26 Wilt Chamberlain was one 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 28 Big name in fine china 14 15 16 30 Strut 31 "Health club exercise 17 18 19 is so boring!" 36 Jazzman Allison 20 21 22 23 39 Franz of operetta fame 24 |26 27 40 Tout's concern 28 29 30

41 "Military service > '•X1 www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS:

Almost all of us had or were at least familiar with decoder rings when we were kids, for writing and receiving secret messages. This construction adopts the decoder ring idea for a puzzle within a puzzle—the kind of novel twist in a crossword that I love.

ACROSS DOWN 13 Madrid Mme. 42 Car safety feature 1 Scotland's Fyne 1 Not-so-apt word for 21 Big holiday mo. 47 Coveted 5 It's nothing to speak Abner 22 Notched 49 Et _ (footnote abbr.) of 2 Suitable for service 25 Makes origami 50 Warn 10 Perennial 3 Shore catch 26 Comparatively 52 Hospital figure presidential 4 One who's beat but healthy 53 Former East German campaign issue good? 27 Deluxe secret police 14 Memo phrase 5 "Be well" accommodations 55 Tubes in the kitchen 15 Part of a U.S. census 6 Catchphrase from 28 All-night party 56 Tale category "Clueless" 30 Early auto 57 Marvel Comics 16 "Did you_?!" 7 Poppycock 31 Zhou_ heroes

17 Bound 8 They may be made 32 Move like a 3-Down 58 Jeanne d'Arc et al.: 18 Manly apparel with Bibles 33 Tournament round Abbr. 19 avis 9 Present 36 Nothing 59 Gumbo component 20 Half of a decoder 10 Be rough with the 37 Smile 60 Without ice ring reins 40 Classic Jaguar 61 Relig. training 23 Former nuclear 11 Flattened figure 41 Hit 1980's-90's NBC ground power org. 12 Earthwork drama 64 Company in Italy? 24 "Como _ usted?" 25 Maserati, e.g. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 29 It gives you an out 34 The Buckeyes: Abbr. " 14 15 16 35 Heralded 38 What a rubber 17 18 19 produces? 39 Secret message 20 21 22 43 Hall-of-Fame coach Mike 23 24 44 Author Wiesel 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 45 Clay, after transformation 34 35 36 37 38 46 English essayist Sir

Richard 39 40 41 42 48 Unpleasant ones 51 Landers and others 43 |44 45 54 Opus 55 Other half of the 46 47 48 49 50 decoder ring 61 Thailand, once 51 52 53 54 62 More than hot 55 56 57 58 59 60 63 Gave the go-ahead 65 French 101 verb 61 62 63 64 66 Pluralizers

67 Woman of the haus 65 66 67 68 Its motto is L'Etoile du Nord: Abbr. 68 69 70 69 Thomas Jefferson, religiously

70 Inevitability by William I. Johnston Thursday, March 29, 2001 www.Ebook777.com SHORTZFreeSAYS: ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Mel Taub has been a Times constructor since the 1950's. He's best known for his Puns and Anagrams puzzles, which appear several times a year on the Sunday puzzle page. Here is a more traditional crossword for which he directed the construction in an adult education course on crosswords at a Manhattan YMCA. Before the course began, he proposed the

theme, which I preapproved. Then he and his students, in class, jointly produced the grid and the clues.

ACROSS 2 Mme. Bovary 19 Gray-brown 44 "Communist 1 "_," said Tom 3 Let 23 Aesthetically Manifesto" co-author presently 4 Outside: Prefix pretentious 45 Feed 5 Not chronic 5 "Crouching Tiger, 24 Macedonian's 46 Gets around 10 Limey's quaff Hidden Dragon" neighbor 49 Poodle name 14 N.Y.S.E. competitor director 25 Spread around 50 Mideast ruler 15 General denial? 6 Jackie who starred in 26 Cry to anchor men 51 Man, but not 16 Big partygoer? "Tom Sawyer," 1930 27 "Platoon" prize Woman 17 "_," said Tom 7 Voice of America 28 Sandal strap 52 Be sure unremittingly org. 29 Many a skit actor 53 Uttar Pradesh tourist 20 Hood's gun 8 It has a point 30 Complaints site 21 Pond cover 9 Work unit 31 Bilked 54 Hankering 22 Gladiator's place 10 "All in the Family" 32 Evade 55 Spanish building 23 On the main role 37 Dangle topper 24 Word before juris or 11 Ready for plucking 38 Lifting device 56 Quarter generis 12 Saudi Arabia 39 Webster's 58 Politicos with jobs 25 "_," said Tom neighbor Unabridged, e.g. 59 Raven's call fittingly 13 Maja painter 41 Sawyer of ABC 33 Snappish 18 Nice to nosh 42 Linguine sauce 34 Meadow denizen 35 Symbol of solidity 36 Suggestive 37 It was tested on Bikini, 1954 39 Polynesian amulet figure 40 "Little" Stowe girl 41 "Fudge!" 42 Baffler 43 "_," said Tom accordingly 47 Bettor's interest 48 Differently 49 Pretend 52 Utterly destroyed 54 State touching Can. 57 "_," said Tom patiently 60 All you can eat 61 Early settlers of Iceland

62 Top 54 55 56 63 Provokes splenetically 59 64 Emulates Babe Ruth 65 "_/' said Tom 62 haltingly 65 DOWN 1 Reagan cabinet member by Mel Taub and crossword class Wednesday, April 25, 2001 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.comSHORTZ SAYS: Before he was even out of high school, Trip Payne knew that he wanted to be a profes- sional crossword constructor and editor. Here is a fine example of his work, featuring a funny quotation and stacking of theme entries. Incidentally, Trip is the youngest person (at 24) ever to win the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He also won $32,000 on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."

ACROSS 2 Sewing machine 21 Paul V's papal 47 Summer drink 1 Overthrown leader attachments predecessor 49 Platform on the back 5 Not out 3 Shelley's elegy to 25 Part of w.p.m. of an elephant 10 See 61-Down Keats 28 They can be rolled 50 Kind of shell 14 Actress Lamarr 4 Some needles 29 Tribal language 54 Houdini's birth name 15 Beau's gift 5 cantabile (gentle, 30 Bank 56 Really rains 16 Till fill sad song) 32 It's just not right 58 Princely family name 17 Speaker of the quip 6 WTtistle maker? 34 Follow of old starting at 20-Across 7 China setting 36 TV spinoff of 1980 59 Transient 19 It has the spirit 8 Persisted in 38 Carrier name until 60 Bern is on it 20 Start of a quip 9 Paper 1997 61 With 10-Across, 22 Slightest 10 Spots 39 Biblical judge skier's aid 23 Word of agreement 11 Ticked off 40 Plant gametes 62 "Shoot!" 24 Sharp flavor 12 Merry 41 "I wouldn't do that' 26 "Kate & Allie" 13 "You naughty 42 Winter break, of a actress Meyers person!" sort 27 Young fowl 18 Start of many 45 Person with a loss 31 It could be stuffed addresses 46 Sexton's duty 33 Old station identification 1 2 3 ' ' 6 7 8 9 » 11 12 13 35 Had 36 Main city of Devon 14 '• ,. 37 Quip, part 2 1 40 Haunt 17 18 ,. 43 Jeff Lynne group 44 "My Uncle" star 20 21 48 Chekhov uncle 22 23 24 25 49 It should set off alarms 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 51 Informal footwear I 52 Flutter 33 34 35 |36 53 One of the Volcano Islands, for short .;'. - 37 38 39 55 Jobs site 57 Quip, part 3 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 62 Subjoins 63 End of the quip 48 49 50 51 64 Saddle, e.g. 65 Tel Aviv-born person 52 53 54 55 56 66 French jeweler 57 58 59 60 61 Lalique 67 "Chickery Chick" 62 63 bandleader

68 Smithery employee 64 65 66 69 Genesis source 67 68 DOWN 69 1 "The Glamorous

Life" singer by Trip Payne Thursday, May 3, 2001 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS:

The secret of this puzzle's theme is revealed at 62- and 16-Across. The theme itself appears in the six longest Across answers. That's a lot of theme material, with a crackerjack con- struction besides.

ACROSS DOWN 18 Begin to catch up 42 Scoreboard line 1 Quirky 70's-80's 1 Skilled with under RHE, maybe band 2 "The Time Machine" 22 Filmmaker with total 43 George W. deg. 5 "Evita" role people creative control 44 Sun-dried, as beef 8 Give confidence to 3 Designer Wang 25 Spotted, to Tweety 46 Ness et al. 14 Mountain stat. 4 Oppress 26 "Angela's Ashes" 47 Ready, as a sail 15 Agreement abroad 5 Bill's partner follow-up 48 Island red 16 See 62-Across 6 Funny feeling 27 Sp. ladies 49 Hollow rock 17 Previous 7 Children's song 28 In good health 50 Lightheaded 19 Attacked violently refrain 29 Get to work on 51 No-brainer? 20 Bejeweled adornment 8 Halifax clock setting: Time? 55 Nutcase 21 Bush Sr. headed it Abbr. 32 Modifying word 56 The King's middle 23 "Ici on francais" 9 Pull into 33 Go for the gold name 24 Like a street urchin 10 Fergie, formally 34 1939 Garbo role 57 Profits 27 Jungle queen of 50's 11 In (unborn) 35 Worldwide: Abbr. 59 _-Cone TV 12 Empire 36 Beverage brand 61 Pops 30 Retaliation, in part? 13 Cosmetician Lauder 37 Org. 31 They're affected by 40 Eye bank donation the ionosphere 34 Totenberg of NPR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 38 True up

39 Island off India's 14 15 16 coast 40 Theaters 17 18 19 41 Father of Enos 42 Spread out, timewise 20 21 22 23 44 Cup at a grease joint 24 25 26 45 James of "Marcus ! I Welby, M.D." 27 28 29 46 Movie house |30 popcorn choice 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 52 Tryon novel, with

"The" 38 39 40 53 You might need a paddle to do this 41 42 43 54 Brilliance 58 Stingers? 44 45 60 Went around in circles? 46 47 48 49 50 51

62 With 16-Across, the | 52 53 55 56 57 theme of this puzzle |54 63 Too late for the E.R. 58 59 60 61 64 Oddball 65 Big name in 62 63 64 swimwear

66 Pay stub abbr. 65 66 67 67 Frank or Francis

by Alan Arbesfeld Wednesday, May 23, 2001 www.Ebook777.com 1 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.comSHORTZ SAYS: Most crossword constructors would have been satisfied with the three theme entries at 17-, 36- and 57-Across. Will Johnston added a fourth theme entry at 7-Down, turning a merely good puzzle into a great one.

ACROSS DOWN 18 Make a father 45 Whimper 1 Emphatic agreement 1 Land bordering 19 Neato 46 How brutes behave 5 Pitcher Shawn Bhutan 24 Less woolly, perhaps 48 With 10-Across, 10 See48-Down 2 Equivocal answer 25 Author Janowitz ocelot and margay 14 Circular 3 Dramatist Rice 26 Singer DiFranco 49 Complete change of announcement 4 North Platte locale: 28 Hang out mind 15 Ring Abbr. 29 Noted Folies Bergere 50 Excellence 16 Mine, in 5 No dessert for a designer 51 Gets ready 17 X dieter 30 Like some outlooks 52 "Over here!" 20 Unusual 6 Climbs, in a way 31 Operation Desert 53 Minuteman's place 21 Pulls down, so to 7 XXX Storm target 54 They have speak 8 Source of lean red 32 Lipton, Inc. brand participating M.D.'s 22 Mediterranee, par meat 33 Girl lead-in 56 James of jazz Grp. monitoring exemple 9 Clinton, e.g.: Abbr. 34 Conflagrant 58 emissions 23 You may flirt with it 10 Baseless rumor 37 What cleats increase 59 Clemente 26 Thun's river 11 Archer of myth 38 Greg's sitcom wife 27 "Farewell, My 12 Square setting 39 Labor org. since 1935 Lovely" novelist 13 Faults 44 They may be sour 31 Neighbor of an Afghani 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 34 Bohr's study 14 15 16 35 y plata (Montana's motto) 17 18 19 36 X

40 Hollywood job: 20 21 Abbr. 41 It means nothing to 22 23 24 25 jp Nicolette 42 "Shake, Rattle and 26 [27 28 29 30

• Roll" singer 43 Sticky situation 31 32 33 34 35 46 Crop 36 37 38 39 47 Sorry soul 49 Authority on 40 41 42 diamonds? 52 "I don't buy it" 43 44 45 |46 55 7,926 miles, for the earth 47 48 49 50 51 VH| 1 57 X 60 -eyed 52 53 54 |55 56 61 Judging group 57 58 59 62 Fall preceder, perhaps 60 61 62 63 Throw out 64 Like God, in a fire- 63 64 65 and-brimstone sermon

65 Some queens by William I. Johnston Thursday, May 24, 2001 www.Ebook777.com . Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS:

If you'd like to delay learning the secret of this puzzle as long as possible—the special nature of the entire construction—don't look at the last clue (65-Down) until the end. It explains the puzzle's amazing theme.

ACROSS 5 Detergent brand 28 Found's partner 54 "Dianetics" author 1 Besides 6 What some pups 29 Pamplona runners Hubbard 5 "Como _ usted?" grow up to be 30 Yours: Fr. 56 One-named artist 9 City near Diisseldorf 7 50/50 test choice 32 Cosmetician Lauder 57 Winter air 14 They hang around 8 Org. 33 Hot seasons in 59 Pitcher Tiant 16 Accustom: Var. 9 Poetic adverb 60 Directors Ang and 17 Southern lights 10 Marching band drum 34 They might be fine Spike 19 Take the conn 11 Brunei and Oman, 36 Aware of 61 M.I.T. part: Abbr. 20 Noted monologuist e.g. 38 Architect Saarinen 62 Captures 21 Hwys. 12 Toledo's lake 40 "Gotcha" 64 "_ a girl!" 22 W. Hemisphere grp. 13 1987 role for Costner 41 It parallels the radius 65 Point value in 24 Scope 15 Actor Flynn 47 Brining need Scrabble of every 26 Window bases 18 Perfectly 49 Tough tests letter in this puzzle 29 "Mon Oncle" star 23 Wirehair of film 51 Feel Jacques 25 Small brook 52 Hall's singing 31 It comes before a 26 Daring feat partner dropped name 27 Attic covering, 53 Razor brand 34 29 for copper, e.g.: maybe Abbr. 35 Choo-choo's sound 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 37 Lowest in

importance 14 15 16 39 Game you can lose only once 17 18 42 Fastening devices 43 Labor 19 20 21 44 Roger of "Cheers" 45 Cardinal's insignia 22 23 24 25 46 Those, to Jose 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 48 Choker 50 Out of port 34 35 36 37 38 52 Scull propeller

53 Der (Konrad 39 40 41 Adenauer) 55 Musical Home 42 43 44 58 Having no chips left to bet 45 46 47 48 49 63 Explosive stuff 66 Sleeping perch 50 51 52 §9 67 Most minuscule 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 68 Queen lace 69 "What_?" 63 64 65 70 J.F.K. arrivals DOWN 66 67 1 "What a pity!" 68 69 70 2 Boor 3 Dam's counterpart 4 Indian by Peter Gordon Tuesday, June 5, 2001 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS:

Besides being funny, this puzzle is also elegant: The four main theme entries appear in two intersecting pairs. Just think of all the theme possibilities that Cathy Millhauser must have rejected until she found ones to cross on the necessary letters!

ACROSS DOWN 22 Oodles 44 Periods of rain, often 1 Greek's sixth 1 Mao contemporary 25 Strong string 46 Moors 5 "King Cotton" 2 Almost forever 26 Hatch from Utah 48 Half a comedy duo composer 3 After 34-Down, an 27 Make 49 Computer acronym 29 After 34-Down, an 10 Wax order to an 51 Sidle order to an E.P.A. 14 Knee-slapper arrowsmith? 52 Picture of health? administrator 15 Void 4 Ones who might say, 53 Prefix with com 30 Pianist Gilels et al. 16 Road condition? "God, no!"? 55 Hence 31 It's catching 17 After 34-Down, an 5 Mouthed off 5^ Misrepresent 34 See 17- and order to a witch? 6 Neighbor of Man. 59 _Kan 58-Across and 3- and 19 Leeds's river 7 Modulars, e.g. 29-Down 8 Bolivian capital 20 Leads (in) 35 Kind of minister 21 Stomped 9 High-pH 38 October honoree 23 Mozart article 10 Plots, in a way 39 Annual El Paso 24 Psalms interjection 11 Fulminate events 25 On the main deck 12 Fiend 41 Miss's equal 28 It may be under 13 Cig 42 "The Hobbit" hero your tongue 18 Golf champ Els Baggins 32 Dropped a line 33 Violent struggle 1 2 3 4 1 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 Med. care group 14 " 16 37 's state flower 1 17 18 19 38 Shoe sole material after 39 Number cinco 20 21 22 40 Palindromic diarist 41 Game with a 40-card 23 24 deck 42 Rally creators 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 43 Call for 34 35 36 45 Like fan-tan and 32 33 tangrams 37 38 39 47 Feather in Juan's cap? 40 I 41 42 50 Italy's Isola d'_ 51 They're polar 43 44 45 46 54 Residences 57 Brandenburg trio 47 48 49 50 58 After 34-Down, an 51 52 53 54 55 56 order to a chiropractor? 57 58 59 60 Chutzpah 61 of Husband 60 61 62 Bathsheba 62 Fast sport 63 64 65 63 Some are electric 64 Trirnrning targets 65 Load by Cathy Millhauser Thursday, August 30, 2001 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS:

Brendan Emmett Quigley, a guitarist for the Boston-based rock band Hip Tanaka, brings a certain hipness to the Times crossword, a feature that is not usually known for being hip. My favorite part of this puzzle is 23-Across, a colorful, funny phrase that everyone has heard, but which I'm sure no one had ever thought to put in a crossword before.

ACROSS DOWN 21 Royal address? 44 A thing unto 1 N.H.L. division: 1 When many 24 Kwanzaa principle 46 Native Arizonan Abbr. take place 25 Heavy drinker 47 "That makes sense!" 4 Is wearing 2 Raise canines? 26 Acura model 48 Exactly 9 With 11-Down, 3 One of the Jacksons 29 American acquisition 49 Enticed "Casablanca" site 4 "Want to explain of 2001 50 Engine covers 14 Word with caddy or that?" 30 Musician's gift 51 Off-road goer, briefly bag 5 Silvery gray 31 Purchase for a 52 Traditional letter 15 Prefix with arthritis 6 Sault Marie disguise closer 16 Online sales 7 Wine: Prefix 33 " Rosenkavalier" 53 Breakfast place, for 17 sgt. (police rank) 8 Hotel lobby sign 34 "ElCapitan" short 18 "Never!" 9 Splendid composer 54 Drift (off) 20 They undergo 10 Words to elicit 35 Looker 56 Try to win over bonding recognition 36 They may be fixed 57 _Tiago 22 Glossy finish 11 See 9-Across 37 Lopsided, as a grin 58 Actor Brynner 23 Angry parent's yell 12 Waste, as time 38 Color 59 Multivolume ref. 27 Patricia of "Breakfast 13 Insidious 39 Dash widths at Tiffany's" 19 Some acct. money 40 Mishandled 28 Order members 29 Political cartoonist 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Rail 32 Pindar, for one 14 15 ,. 34 Enlarged river, perhaps 1 17 18 19 37 Connie Francis's

1960 film debut 20 21 22 41 Have no more good ideas 23 24 25 26 i^H 42 Sticks | 43 "Undoubtedly" 27 28 29 30 31 44 Resentments 45 Discharge |32 33 34 35 36 49 Comment about a sad but memorable 37 38 39 40 exit 53 Numbskulls 41 42

i ! 55 Michael who starred 43 44 45 46 47 48 in TV's "It's a Great Life" 49 50 51 52 56 1975 Four Seasons hit 53 54 55 60 Legal rep. 61 Exuded 56 57 58 59 60 62 "Today" co-host 63 Strive (for) 61 62 63 64 Newspaper opinion pieces 64 65 66 65 Drops out of the bidding

66 Summer in Sevres by Brendan Emmett Quigley Wednesday, November 7, 2001 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.comSHORTZ SAYS:

A small spoiler here: While this puzzle looks like it's themeless (it contains only 68 an-

swers after all), it does, in fact, have a five-part theme. The constructor is a member of the math department at Santa Clara University.

ACROSS 3 Half a Beatles title 22 Cries while hunting 42 Chinese 1 Shrimp 4 Rob _ (Scotch 23 Fight to keep the transliteration system 8 "Jeopardy!" ) faith 44 Some western contestants, e.g. 5 Truckee River source 26 Certain investment, scenery 14 Transports over a 6 Skating silver briefly 45 They, in Tours slick surface medalist at 28 It may make the cut 48 Picked up 15 OneofGabe's Albertville 31 3.75 feet, once 50 Poet Wheeler "sweathogs," in 70's 7 What that is in 32 Rock music's Wilcox TV Toledo Fighters 52 Where to see a 16 Aggressive plugging 8 Claims 33 Reach by drilling round of shots time, 17 News maybe 9 It's raised on a farm 34 Great thing to hit 53 Wildcat's opponent 18 It's opposite Juarez 10 Was no dummy 35 Kind of truck in the 1998 Final 19 Great facility 11 Wrap 36 Revisionists? Four 20 Parodied 12 Chocolate candy 37 Moon of Saturn 21 A community may brand 38 Some buzzers have one 13 Saw, e.g. 39 Like Shelley's 24 Sheltered 14 Support group? "Frankenstein" 25 Reason for a badge 19 Squares and such 27 Part of some e-mail addresses 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 28 Like some locks 29 High class?: Abbr. 14 15 30 Make a big splash, maybe 16 17 33 Hard butter?

34 Where Indian movies 18 19 are produced 35 God's first word? 20 I 21 22 23 24 38 "It's_!" 40 Dynasty after Ch'in 25 26 27 28 41 Lyric poem 43 Place to use a 29 30 31 32 lorgnette 44 Code name 33 46 for the money 36 37 47 Decks out ' 34 35 49 Film statistic 38 39 40 41 42 51 Protected wildlife I 52 Tough 43 44 45 46 54 Bloody Mary alternative 47 48 49 50 55 Oil sites

56 Movie preview, 51 52 53 essentially 57 Makes even 54 55 smoother 56 57 DOWN 1 Sellout profiteer 2 Support group by Byron L. Walden Friday, November 23, 2001 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Imagine a crossword with three unchecked squares (see 36-Across), which, nevertheless,

every solver can fill in with complete certainty. Patrick Merrell, a cartoonist and humorist by profession, created this novelty, which was one of The Times's most talked-about puz- zles of the year.

ACROSS 3 Appropriate 24 Reply to a seat 48 Devour 1 _Hall dedication for this seeker 49 Waste 6 Trudge puzzle 27 Minor setback 50 Wilbur's charge in 10 Site of many walls 4 Too popular 28 Septennial problem? 60's TV 14 2002 Olympics venue 5 And not 29 Tournament passes 51 Subject of a 1930's 15 "_ mouse!" 6 Examine slyly 30 Recipe abbr. fad 16 "Exodus" author 7 On the up and up 31 Trade 52 "Don't stop" 17 Brickworker 8 Congo forest 32 Counting-out word 56 U.K. leaders 18 "Zounds!" dwellers 34 Extensive knowledge 19 Money maker 9 Duchamp works 39 Hot, dry wind 20 Suffix with origin 10 Doctors call it 40 The good earth? 21 Do this if 36-Across parotitis 43 At least equal is two letters 11 Met selection 44 One who cleans 23 These go in 12 Kind of sulfide drains 36-Across 13 Renaissance family 45 Hearth tool 25 Rate (be perfect) 26 B.O. sign name 46 Town near Bangor 27 Bro or sis 21 Old knife 47 Title locale in a 1937 30 DDT target 22 Pitcher's change-up Ronald Colman film 33 A score

35 Pepsi-like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 36 ??? 37 Prepare (for) 14 15 16 38 "Giant" animals

40 Gets it, apparently 17 18 19 41 Microfilmer, maybe 42 Sportage maker 20 21 22 44 Antique show sign 23 24 45 Like this puzzle, when 36-Across is 26 28 29 filled in |25 |27 50 Your description of 30 31 32 33 34 36-Across 53 Wrest 35 36 37 54 Orthogonally moving piece 38 39 40 55 Pacific explorer 56 It's spotted in the 41 42 43 44 West

57 Australia's Lake 45 46 47 48 49 58 Test course obstacle

59 The "m" in m.o. 50 51 52 53 60 One who's not a procrastinator 54 55 56 61 Lingering effect 62 Responds peevishly 57 58 59

DOWN 60 61 62 1 Spread 2 Inspiration for poets and musicians by Patrick Merrell Thursday, November 29, 2001 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Michael Shteyman emigrated from Russia to the United States just five years before this puzzle was published. At 17, he was one of the youngest constructors ever to have a puzzle in The Times. You would never know that English is his second language. This puzzle features a beautiful construction with eight theme answers.

ACROSS DOWN 22 and tonic 52 School of fish 1 Out-and-out 1 Chinese capital 24 Not sit 56 Through 6 Door fastener 2 Choosing 28 Abandon 57 Throw 10 Drops in the 3 Speedy marching 29 Wire message 62 Caribbean, e.g. morning? rate 33 Jazz pianist Hines 13 Per_ 4 Supped 35 Dinner-related 14 Domed recess 5 Actress Turner 36 Proclaim 15 French soul 6 Rotter 37 Look of surprise 16 Contract workers? 7 Like some concerts 39 Oboe, for one 17 Campus V.I.P. 8 Future J.D.'s obstacle 42 Paved the way for 18 Whip but good 9 Late breakfast hour 43 Catchall: Abbr. 19 60'sTVboy 10 Four-person outing 45 Vodka or whiskey: 20 Sneaky spy 11 Came forth Abbr. 23 Flat fees? 12 Left the band, 47 Admits 25 Sheik's guest, maybe perhaps 48 So everyone can hear 26 He was given the 13 Musical combo? 49 Eye affliction ears of a donkey, in 21 Acquire 50 Arc lamp gas myth 27 Like bad inflation 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 30 Grp. with its HQ in

Brussels 13 14 15 31 Central street 32 Penalty declarer 16 17 18 34 Aviv 35 Inventor's desire 19 20 21 22 38 Texas border city 23 24 25 26 40 Messenger

41 Roman 650 27 28 29 30 43 Measure (out) 44 "Diana" singer Paul 31 32 33 34 46 Molecular structure 51 Holiday songs 35 36 37 38 39 53 Moines 40 41 42 43 54 Trunk the world of 55 Jump-rope game 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 58 Break, financially

59 way (to some 51 52 53 54 extent) 60 "My mistake!" 55 56 57 58 61 Familiar with 59 60 61 62 63 Comics outburst 64 Pro's rival 63 64 65 65 Land, as a fish

66 Washington and 66 67 68 University 67 Clinton aide Panetta

68 -slipper by Michael Shteyman Tuesday, December 4, 2001 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: I don't believe in record-setting merely for the sake of record-setting. But this masterful construction both sets a record for the lowest number of entries (54) ever to appear in a standard 15xl5-square grid and features lots of colorful vocabulary besides.

ACROSS 3 Ludicrous 14 Scraps 37 Williams title starter 1 Boondocks 4 Language descended 17 "You've Really Got a 38 Kind of station 7 "The Virginian" from ancient Hold on Me" singers 39 Tenant writer Egyptian 26 Lost one's balance, 13 Dovetailed 5 Dangerous assailant perhaps 15 Neighbor of Ciudad 6 Amino acid in many 27 Lion or wolf Juarez proteins 28 Blush 29 Gets under 16 Psychically 7 Surfers' stops, someone's skin? 18 They may pull perhaps 30 Scary-sounding banners 8 Black cats, houseplant 19 Sole, e.g. supposedly 31 Like oak leaves 20 Log rollers? 9 "Clockers" director, 32 Tot 21 Prisoner's desire 1995 34 Relatively regular 22 2001 French film 10 Feral 35 Give more stars to, comedy or its 11 Beaux- (people maybe heroine with lively minds) 36 Comment before 23 It may cover dark 12 Tennis ace Marc "Ha, ha" circles 24 Humorist Burgess 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 of "purple cow"

fame 13 14 15 25 Opposite of scarcity 27 Some queens' wear 16 17 18 31 Asking for a hand 32 Chocolate candy 19 20 brand 21 22 33 Like some errors

40 Over-and- (two- 23 24 barreled firearms) 41 Part of a one-sided 25 26 tennis match 42 Gradually corrode 27 28 29 30 43 "Nanny and the 31 Professor" family from 1970's TV 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 44 Kiwi, e.g.

45 Century in politics 40 41 46 Penitent 47 Optic screens 42 43 48 Mother 44 45 49 Another shooting DOWN 46 47 1 Choke 48 49 2 1956 U.S. figure skating gold medalist Albright by Frank A. Longo Saturday, December 15, 2001 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: This year-end puzzle features a theme of New Year's resolutions. Each theme answer is a familiar phrase reinterpreted in a punny way as someone's promise to do better the next year. The two constructors collaborated on this entirely by e-mail.

ACROSS 71 Not barefoot 13 Places for church 45 Way back when 1 Pointed a pistol 72 Has a need for bells 48 Have a go at 6 Blockhead Rogaine 18 Rooster's mate 49 Greenhouse area 10 Quantities: Abbr. 22 60's radical org. 51 Sportscaster Howard 14 Mix-up DOWN 24 Family-friendly, in 52 Dumbfounded 15 Nabisco cookie 1 Trembling trees cinema 53 Telescope parts 16 Epitome of redness 2 Shortly 26 Smile widely 56 "H-E-L-P!" 17 Teetotaler's New 3 Guru 27 Cook's cover-up 59 Hard to fathom Year resolution? 4 Flunking letters 30 Ruin 61 Embryo's site 19 Cotton unit 5 Assigned task 32 Hire 64 Family M.D.'s 20 Best guess: Abbr. 6 Has some success 34 "Same here" 65 "Yay, team!" 21 "_ Can" (Sammy 7 Circled the sun 37 John Glenn player in 66 culpa Davis Jr. book) 8 Meadow "The Right Stuff" 22 French explorer 9 Bare peak 38 Biblical lands La_ 10 Palindromic pop 39 Octopus's arm 23 -do-well group 40 Bongo, for one 25 Comment of 11 When to eat 42 Carson City's state: approval 12 Fib Abbr. 28 Light touch 29 "Get lost!" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 31 Bootlegger's New Year resolution? 14 15 16 33 Highlands hat 35 es Salaam 17 18 19 36 French girlfriend 37 Came in 20 21 22 41 "I'm a Believer" 23 24 25 26 27 28 band, with "the" 43 Monopoly card 29 ?0 31 32 44 Singer's syllable 46 Born: Fr. 33 34 35 |36 47 Executioner's New Year resolution? 37 ^8 39 40 41 42 50 Making sounds 54 Oils and watercolors 43 |44 45 46 55 Lady-killers 57 Seward Peninsula 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 city 54 55 56 57 58 All set 60 Pack away 58 59 60 61 62 62 Quentin 63 100-meter, e.g. 63 64 65 66 64 Scrabble player's

New Year 67 68 69 resolution? 67 Cruise stopover 70 71 72 68 Use a beeper 69 Donnybrook 70 Choreography move by Nancy Salomon and Harvey Estes Monday, December 31, 2001 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS:

Once again, here's proof that a crossword doesn't have to be hard to be exceptional. Be- sides the four basic theme answers in the longest spaces in the grid, look for four "bonus' theme-related entries in shorter spots.

ACROSS DOWN 24 Take five 44 Ones pointing 1 "The Wizard of Oz" 1 Little ones 25 "The Thin Man" fingers dog 2 Oil grp. canine 45 Some Oldsmobiles 5 Island 3 _Bell 27 "Egad!" 46 Long stories (immigration point) 4 They're given at 28 Burden 47 Maine college town 10 Birdbrain graduations 29 Sounds made by 36- 48 "Le Viol" painter 14 On with (equal 5 Community next to Across 52 Say (deny) to) Van Nuys 30 Fancy ballroom steps 53 Eight: Prefix 15 Lasso loop 6 Ease up 33 Give off 54 Quartet minus one 16 Decorative pitcher 7 Ness monster 34 "_ She Sweet" 55 R.p.m. indicator 17 Ten: Prefix 8 Prefix with metric 35 Impel 56 Old Standard Oil 18 French fashion 9 Instant, for short 37 No longer worth brand designer 10 Student overseer debating 58 One of four for a square: Abbr. 20 Like bagpipes 11 Had 38 Ballerina Pavlova 59 Nothing 22 First month in 12 Tractor maker John 39 Valuable things to Madrid 13 Synthetic fabric give? 23 Actress Skye 19 Aware of, slangily 41 Work, as dough 24 Emulate Salt-N-Pepa 21 Clock sound 42 Organic compound 26 Room with an easy chair 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 27 Spinning competition 14 15 16 31 How checks are signed 17 18 19 32 Regarding

33 de cologne 20 21 22 36 Litter members 37 Tropical ray 23 24 25 26 39 Islamic ruler 40 Road wiggle 27 28 29 30 41 King_ 42 Ogling 31 32 33 34 35 43 1925 hit musical with 36 37 38 39 the song "Tea for Two" 40 41 42 46 Lawn base 49 Letter after zeta 43 44 45 50 Bunches 51 Madison Square 46 47 48 49 50

.' Garden, e.g. 53 Hearty breakfast 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 Performer in a cage 57 58 59 60 60 Historic periods school subj. 61 Med 61 62 63 62 Funny-car fuel 63 Quirks 64 65 66 64 Mediocre 65 Lip application 66 Cry from Santa by Sarah Keller Monday, January 28, 2002 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS:

Something you should know in order to solve this imaginative puzzle: In a letter bank, the letters of one word are used (and repeated as necessary) to spell a longer word or phrase. For example, IMPS is a letter bank of MISSISSIPPI.

ACROSS 2 "Love Story" 18 Getting warm 49 Spread (on) 1 Loudspeaker sound composer Francis 22 Without exception 50 Football locale (and a (and a letter bank for 3 "The Fountamhead" 23 Orchard pest letter bank for 47- 60-Across) author Rand 24 Sierra Across) 6 Planets and such 4 VCR button 25 Lord's workers 51 Actress MacDowell 10 Steamy 5 Touch up 26 Approximately 52 Mindless 14 Howled 6 More than fancy 28 Ruler until 1917 56 Goes back out 15 Raise a stink 7 Seeing things as they 31 Hang tough 58 Vintner's valley 16 Isaac's firstborn are 32 Popular card game 61 Pitcher's stat. 17 See 71-Across 8 "Wanna _?" 35 Rootin'-tootin' 62 Skedaddled Track feature 19 Hoosegow 9 "Saturday Night 36 More adorable 63 64 Ivy Leaguer 20 Freshwater duck Live" staple 37 Out of it 65 Leman 21 Sporty Fords 10 It's often burning 39 Dancer Charisse 23 What's more 11 Jeff Bagwell, notably 40 Opposite of ecto- 27 Going strong 12 Hotel staff 42 Abound 29 Became an issue 13 Derby prize (and a 45 Pen up 30 See 13-Down letter bank for 47 Made to take the fall 33 Neigh-sayer 30-Across) 48 Main course 34 Educator Horace

35 Company with a dog 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 in its logo 38 Applicable 14 15 16 41 Do away with 17 18 19 43 Moines

44 Harmony 20 21 22 46 They have long tails

47 See 50-Down 23 24 25 26 27 28 i 29 50 Many states have them 30 31 32 H 53 Mrs. Chaplin 33 34 35 36 37 54 "_ Breckinridge" HI 55 Present from birth 38 39 40 41 42 57 Knock for a loop 43 44 45 46 59 Dutch cheese ftu Bm 60 See 1-Across 47 48 49 66 Queue

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| 70 Sound 71 Ludicrous (and a 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 letter bank for 66 67 68 17-Across) DOWN 69 70 71 1 London's 1 or _2 by Greg Staples Thursday, February 28, 2002 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS: Many solvers completed this Patrick Berry puzzle without realizing what makes it an

amazing feat of construction. Solve it, look carefully at your finished grid . . . and then be

as astonished as I was when I first saw it.

ACROSS 3 Portrait painter 25 Double platinum 46 Noises from a 1 To the extent that Hals Genesis album of rattletrap 8 Pebble-filled gourd 4 With suspicion 1981 47 Obliquely 14 Sweet, dark wine 5 Cheers 27 Actress Plummer 49 Acknowledge 15 Inflexible 6 fin (at last): Fr. 28 Brewer's need 51 Fish in a John Cleese 17 Spiritual leader of film 7 Danger for a 30 Cry (for) the Isma'ili Muslims 52 riverboat 31 Captures Perfume 18 Rock band with a " 53 Lake Volta's locale 8 "Mississippi 32 Can. borderer record-tying eight 54 Funny bit (1992 film) 33 Lee Grammys in 1999 55 "What a pity!" 9 Portrait on an old 2<2 34 Healing sign 19 Some babysitters 56 Punishment for a stamp 35 One of Henry VIII's 20 Vs of a fluid ounce pirate 10 Succumbed to fear, six 22 Suddenly lose it 57 Movie dog 23 Org. maybe 36 Name on a razor 59 Builder's need 24 Raft material 11 Ledger entries: Abbr. 38 Doll's utterance 61 Big 12 team: Abbr. 26 Skier McKinney 12 James of Hollywood 40 Showing fatigue 63 Old name in travel 29 Marriage 13 Tolstoy heroine 41 One-fourth of a announcement 16 Pick barbershop tune 34 Place in which to 21 avis 43 Pastoral sounds luxuriate ." 37 "A _ plan . . 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 38 1981 miniseries set in ancient Israel 14 15 16 39 Theater passage 41 Where bottles of 17 18 alcohol sit 42 Unmitigated 19 20 21 22 43 The Crimson Tide,

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pop 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 45 Clorox or Clorets 46 Melon type 34 35 36 37 38 48 Strong supporter?

50 Booty 39 40 41 54 Fancy do 58 Fastener piece 42 43 44 59 "The Bell Jar" author 60 Dogsled runner, 45 46 47 | j maybe 62 Martin Luther King 48 49 50 51 52 53 Jr.'s birthplace 64 It's drained by 54 55 56 57 58 59 traveling 65 Kigali resident 60 61 62 63 66 Lower limbs 67 Trumpet blast 64 65

DOWN 66 67 1 Appliance maker 2 They may span generations by Patrick Berry Thursday, March 21, 2002 www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com SHORTZ SAYS:

This intricate and well-balanced puzzle contains multiple theme surprises. Crossword con- structing doesn't get much better than this.

ACROSS 71 Like some 70's 11 Sound of impact 41 Grenoble's river 1 School of whales trousers 12 "_ramblin' 42 Drop as low as 4 Plowed layer 72 "Harry Potter" wreck ..." possible 13 Oui's opposite 9 English of a sort character Neville _ 45 Having small gaps 21 Change in Cuba 14 Ivy Leaguer 73 Marina del 48 Dark loaves 15 Controvert 23 Chorus section 50 Feature of a 16 Replay speed 25 "If _ Would Leave smuggler's suitcase DOWN You" 17 Kind of garden 52 Kind of bikini 1 Is stranded 26 Move on the 18 Cause winter 55 Bannister, e.g. 2 Shake like schedule isolation _ 56 Military camping 3 With 22-Across, a 28 Quarters 19 Council Bluffs spot 29 Pretend resident Florida county 57 Pronto 30 Set at the proper 20 Have a taste of 4 Star's demand 59 Expressionist Nolde level, as a work force 22 See3-Down 5 Break away 33 "Look west," to a 61 Grinder 24 Ted Williams was 6 Corrida cry drill sergeant 62 Pilsener kin one 7 namesake Jr.'s 34 Spike Lee's "She's _ 63 Blow-up: Abbr. 27 Governmental 8 Extend credit Have It" 65 Game with Skip and guarantee 9 Deck shoe 35 Growls Reverse cards 31 It doesn't hold water 10 Potable in a fizz 37 Bulova rival 66 Confession topic 32 Delaware and Missouri 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 33 Encourage 36 This, in Toledo 14 15 16 38 Response to the Little Red Hen 17 18 19 39 Over there 40 Pink and lacy, 20 21 22 23 perhaps

43 Egg carton abbr. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 44 Bibliographic abbr.

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49 Attack from above 39 40 41 42 43 51 Irascible 53 Didn't heal well 44 45 46 48 54 Reactionaries, politically 49 50 51 52 58 1997 Fonda role 60 Spanish-speaking 53 54 55 56 57 Muppet on "Sesame Street" 58 59 60 61 Composer Saint- 64 "The speech of 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 angels": Carlyle 67 "It's the __!" 68 69 70 68 Forelimb bones 69 How contracts are 71 72 73 signed 70 Emissions-regulating

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ENJOY THIS BONUS PUZZLE! The New York Times Crossword All-Stars features forty of Brendan Quigley's best Times puzzles, plus ten brand-new, never-before-published puzzles created especially for the book. Sharpen your pencil and dive in to this sneak-peek puzzle from The New York Times Crossword All-Stars book!

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