Breakfast, THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931): After spending a night doing whatever it is small-time gangsters do, Tom Powers (a snarling James Cagney) has heard just about enough from his girlfriend Kitty (Mae Clark). Nothing says ''please be quiet'' like a grapefruit in the face.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Puzzle by Brendan Emmett Quigley, edited by Will Shortz
Good morning! Have you had breakfast yet? BACONS REBELLION (3D. 1676 Virginia uprising), TOAST MISTRESS (5D. Woman presiding at a banquet), PANCAKE MAKEUP (19D. Cosmetic applied with a damp sponge) and COFFEE TABLE BOOK (11D. Photo-filled reading matter in the living room) are the interrelated group of this Monday back-to-work crossword puzzle. For a good breakfast puzzle, HERE.
Other -- ASPECT (55A. Facet), PAPER PROFIT (18A. Unrealized gain on an investment), HIGH FALUTIN (36A. Fancy), HINT AT (24A. Merely suggest), RABBIT’S FEET (44A. Good luck charms), SHAMUS (29A. Detective, in slang), TIMBAL (49A. Kettledrum) and WEIGH SCALES (64A. They measure the tonnage of trucks).
Five-letter -- ARENA, BERTH, CANTO, DANES, ENOLA, IHOPE, ITEMS, MCCOY, MOXIE, ONEUP, OPIUM, OTERI, PAWED, SAJAK, SEEPY, SERIN (8D. Small finch), SHAFT, SHARK, SONIA, TACOS, TROTS, YETIS.
Short stuff -- AAH, ALEE, APT, ARLO, BADE, BOB and BOZ, CEDE, CHOP, DUB, EEL, EMIR, ETA, EXPO, FIR and FOR, FREI, HAS, IBM, IDO, IIN, IMP, INA, JANE, KOS, MIEN, MIR, NET and NEZ, NNE, NTH, OGLE, ONEI, ONO, OTT, PAL, PFUI (23A. “Bah, humbug!”), REC, SPY, TBAR, TBS, TRON, TBAR, UGHS (Terse critiques).
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Remaining clues -- ACROSS: 1. 1996 candidate Dole; 4. “10 ___ or less” (checkout line sign that grates on grammarians), 9. The real ___; 14. When a plane is due in, for short; 15. Nerve; 16. [Crossing my fingers]; 17. ___ center (community facility); 20. Suffix with cyclo- or Jumbo; 22. Braga a k a the Brazilian Bombshell; 26. SSW’s opposite; 28. Letters on an ambulance; 32. Give up, as rights; 34. Evergreen; 40. “That’s ___ haven’t heard!”; 42. “Jaws” menace; 43. Wished; 47. Charles Dickens Pseudonym; 48. Kuwaiti leader; 51. Buddy; 53. Mesh; 58. Guthrie with a guitar; 60. Pat of “Wheel of Fortune”; 63. Mountain lift; 67. Singer Yoko; 68. W.W. II bomber ___ Gay; 69. Outdo; 70. Giant great Mel; 71. Copenhageners, e.g.; 72. Tending to ooze; 73. Flattens in the ring, fort short. DOWN: 1. Train sleeping spot; 2. Former “S.N.L.” comic Cheri; 4. Little devil; 6. Giant fair; 7. Appearance; 9. Former Russian space station; 12. Poppy product; 13. Reported Himalayan sightings; 21. To the ___ degree; 25. What to say to a doctor with a tongue depressor; 27. Snakelike fish; 31. Path down to a mine; 33. Talk over?; 35. Once ___ blue moon; 37. Costing nothing, in Cologne; 38. Wedding vow; ___ Perce tribe; 41. Company called “Big Blue”; 45. “Am ___ your way?”; 46. Atlanta-based sta.; 50. Well-put; 51. Manhandled; 52. Indoor game site; 54. Tex-Mex sandwiches; 56. Poetic chapter for Ezra Pound; 57. Gaits between walks and canters; 59. Look at amorously; 61. Tarzan’s woman; 62. On the sheltered side; 65. Contains; 66. Word repeated in Mad magazine’s “___ vs. ___”.
