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Sunday, May 23, 2010
FLIP-FLOPS, Puzzle by Yaakov Bendavid, edited by Will Shortz
Moving the location of a single word in a common phrase, resulting in an uncommon phrase, constitutes the interrelated group of this Sunday crossword.
ALIEN CRAFT SPACE (23A. Where ETs do knitting and art?)
MR ROGERS HOOD NEIGHBOR (34A. Thug living next to humorist Will?)
HAND-OFF REMARK (46A. “Get that first down .. And don’t fumble”?)
POLE FLAG SITTING (67A. Watching over Warsaw’s national emblem?)
AT A STILL STAND (88A. Waiting in line for hooch?)
PSYCHOLOGICAL FARE WAR (97A. Competition among shrinks?)
WE SHALL COME OVER (119A. Visitors’ fair warning?)
Other — ACTUATE (92D. Impel), ARUGULA (50D. Salad green), BREATHS (15D. Inspirations), CONCEDE (94D. Say “I lost,” say), COSTUME (110A. Halloween purchase), NICE ONE (12D. “Good comeback!”), OTTOMAN (48D. Hassock), RHEOSTAT (32A. Current regulator), RYDER CUP (75A. Biennial golf competition), SONATINA (61A. Shortish piano piece), SONNETS (54D. Milton works), STEEPLE (28A. Bell site), TOOK NOTE (105A. Paid attention to, with “of”).
Six-letter — ASH PIT, CAESAR, DRAPER, EL NINO, ESSENE, FEMURS, FOSSIL, GOOSES, HORTON, IT’S HOT, OAKTAG, OPORTO (56A. Wine city north of Lisbon), OTELLO, OVULES, REGRET, SAPPHO (10D. Plato‘s “tenth Muse“), SEURAT (79A. “Parade de Cirque“ artist), STALED, STATUE, STINGS, SORBET (59A. Frozen dessert), TABOOS, TARAWA (57A. Pacific atoll in 1943 fighting), WAHOOS.
Five — ADREM, ARIES, ASCAP, ATE AT, BIMBO, CLARA, DEALS, ESSEX, GLACE (1A. Frozen dessert in France), IRABU, KENNY, MT APO (34D. Philippines‘ highest peak: Abbr.), NEONS, NOTRE, OBAMA, OLSEN, QUITO (121A. Capital city more than 9,000 feet above sea level), RAN ON, RIVAL, ROUTES, RUDDY, SIREN, ULNAR, UMASS.
Short stuff — ABUT, AFRO, AINT, ALAI and ALAS, ALDA, ANOD, ARTE, ASTR, AS YE, ATIT, AVIS, AVOW, BIC, CAD, CETA, CLOG, DEAF, ECON, EEN, ESTA, ETUI, FAQS, FOIL, GRAF, HEMA, IDEO, IDOL, IERE, INF, JAR, JAWS, KWAI, LAVA, LEAR, LILO and SILO, MEIR, MENU, MILK, MLVI, MSU, NAM, NEI, NINE, OWE, PGS, PVTS, RAMS, RAS, ROAM, ROSA, RRR, SEEP, SERO, SITE and STE and STET, SSNS, STOL, STY, TONE, TREX (117D. Creature in a “King Kong“ fight), WAFT, WHOS, WIZ, WTA, ULAN, ZEST.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 6. Vise parts; 10. Personnel IDs; 14. Michelle Robinson, now; 18. Nearby school, maybe; 20. Jai ___; 21. “While you’re ___ …”; 22. First sign; 26. Country singer Chesney;27. Old fogy; 29. David, for one; 30. Give ___ (say O.K.); 42. Org. for Venus and Serena Williams; 43. Comical Johnson; 44. Keats’s nightfall; 45. Place for grain; 53. Book contents: Abbr.; 55. Home of the N.C.A.A. Spartans; 64. Home of the N.C.A.A. Minutemen; 68. Bright lights; 71. Relevant, in law; 74. Former Yankee pitcher Hideki; 81. Future seeds; 84. Verdi tragedy; 85. Ill-mannered one; 86. “Platoon” setting, for short; 91. Alan of Hollywood; 93. Pen name; 95. Skin ___; 96. Dorm V.I.P.’s; 106. Santa ___; 107. Long bones; 114. Fireplace cavity; 118. Gave heartburn, say; 122. Prefix with logical; 123. Maintain; 124. Start of the French Lord’s Prayer; 125. Temptress; 126. Relish; 127. Round of golf, informally; 128. County of Newark, N.J. DOWN: 1. Five-time U.S. Open champ; 2. Disney title character from Hawaii; 3. Hertz rival; 4. Husband of Pompeia; 5. Cause of some storms; 6. Big bump; 7. Word said with a tear, maybe; 8. Ride the breeze; 9. Web presence; 11. Lost zip; 13. Chateau ___ Michelle winery; 14. Art supply store stock; 16. “___ No Woman,” 1973 hit for the Four Tops; 17. Computer offering; 18. “___ sow …”; 24. Jam; 25. Blood fluid: Prefix; 29. Undercover jobs; 31. Not to be persuaded; 33. Ooze; 35. Blathered; 36. Growling sound; 37 [Ignore edit]; 38. Blood: Prefix; 39. Airhead; 40. Colleague of Lane and Kent; 41. No contests; 42. “___ next?”; 47. Clothier, in Cambridge; 49. Thwart; 51. Super Bowl XXXIV champs; 52. Famous movie river; 58. Observatory subj.; 60. Kick oneself over; 62. “In the,” in Italy; 63. Place to stick a comb; 65. “Charlotte’s Web” setting; 68. Pumice source; 69 Be flush with; 70. Pedestal topper; 71. Royalties org.; 72. Passes out; 73. Like some complexions; 76. “Bewitched” aunt; 77. ___ nerve; 78. Sci-fi escape vehicles; 80. They’re just not done; 82. Spanish demonstrative; 83. Small-runway aircraft, briefly; 87. Standard part of a food pyramid; 89. Like Saint-Saens’s “Urbs Roma” Symphony; 90. Norman of TV fame; 98. Dr. Seuss title animal; 99. Spurs; 100. “Boy, am I shvitzing!”; 101. Job legislation estab. In 1973; 102. Stray; 103. Dead Sea Scrolls writer; 104. Exuberant cries; 107. Recommended reading for newbies; 108. Thread holder; 109. Kiev-born Israeli P.M.; 111. ___ Bator, Mongolia; 112. 10 years before the Battle of Hastings; 113. Nobel Prize category: Abbr.; 115. A lot of mil. Personnel; 116. “Able was ___ …”; 119. Guru; 120. Fall behind.
