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Saturday, August 21, 2010
Puzzle by Barry C. Silk, edited by Will Shortz
With clues that confuse and amuse, this frigid Saturday crossword should cool any solver’s summer weekend.
Across — 1. Kind of mouse, OPTICAL; 8. Indicator that you’re back to your own words, UNQUOTE; 15. Nearly shot, FAR GONE; 16. Sew up a hole?, PUTT OUT; 17. Winter weather hazard, FREEZING DRIZZLE; 19. Dresses down … or butters up?, BASTES; 20. Scratch, RASP; 21. Maccabiah Games setting: Abbr., ISR; 22. Defense secretary after Cheney, ASPIN; 23. Backpack alternative, TOTE; 24. Jacket material, JEAN; 25. Game with trumps, SKAT; 26. See 27-Down, TRUE; 27. “Five Weeks in a Balloon” author, VERNE; 28. Surface for the Olympische Winterspiele, EIS, yes, EIS; 29. Antisubversive grp. of old, HUAC; 30. Jubilant cry, YES; 31. Group that may be hounded?, SEARCH PARTY; 35. Headache cause, DIN; 36. Hub for Air Caraïbes Atlantique, ORLY; 37. Do some course work, MOW; 40. Primates vis-à-vis humans, ORDER; 43. Barrie’s “oddly genial man”, SMEE; 44. Tot’s plea, CAN I; 45. Stand-up comic’s fear, JEER; 46. Latitude, PLAY; 47. Like some joints, CASED; 48. Suffix with cartoon, ISH; 49. “Rhapsodie Hongroise” composer, AUER; 50. Cobwebs may be a sign of it, NON-USE; 51. Part of many a daily supplement, B COMPLEX VITAMIN; 54. Like the midafternoon hours, typically, WARMEST; 55. Foggy, IN A DAZE; 56. Takes over, ANNEXES; 57. Waved a knife at, maybe, MENACED.
Oshkosh Sleet Storm, February 22, 1922, Municipal clubhouse at foot of Washington Blvd. Carl Shurz monument in foreground.
Down — 1. Wrong, OFF BASE; 2. Go down a slope with a chute, PARA-SKI; 3. Do wrong, TRESPASS; 4. “Save the explanation”, I GET IT; 5. Flimflam, COZEN; 6. French cordial flavoring, ANIS; 7. Perfect-game pitcher Barker, LEN; 8. Many a software download, UPDATE; 9. An operator may call on one, NURSE; 10. Stick in a cabinet, Q-TIP; 11. Snack food brand, UTZ; 12. More like the Blob, OOZIER; 13. Certain Tornado Alley resident, TULSAN; 14. Ageless, ages ago, ETERNE; 18. He said “I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury”, GROUCHO MARX; 23. Star TRAC (big name in exercise machines); 24. What ribs are delivered in, JEST; 26. Go time in a game, TURN; 27. With 26-Across, “Amen!”, VERY; 29. Bit of evidence for a sleuth, HAIR; 30. Ivy with deep roots, YALE; 32. Fulda feeder, EDER; 33. Food chain part, PREY; 34. Princess Najla player in Broadway’s “Flahooley”, YMA SUMAC; 38. Endlessly adjustable, as clothing, ONE SIZE; 39. Diversified, WIDENED; 40. Native of the Lake Superior region, OJIBWA; 41. Checkout correction, RESCAN; 42. Render harmless, in a way, DEHORN; 43. Falls like 17-Across, SLEETS; 44. Where Family Day is observed, CANADA; 46. Good thing for a medic to find, PULSE; 47. Trig ratio, COTAN; 49. Mountaineer’s goal, APEX; 49. Complement of Dante’s circles of hell, NINE; 52. Title of Dickens’s Defarge: Abbr., MME; 53. Punch, VIM.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Fire and Ice — Robert Frost
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