05.15.07

Einstein's Intelligence Was A No-Brainer -- Albert Einstein's brilliance attracted so much attention during his lifetime, that he wanted none of it when he died. In fact, the mathematician/scientist left strict instructions that there was to be no funeral, no service, and no grave. His body was cremated and the ashes scattered over a river in New Jersey, where he died on April 18, 1955. All except his brain. That, Einstein had left to the world of science that he had single-handedly changed, nearly beyond recognition.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2007

Puzzle by John Halverson, edited by Will Shortz

Great little Tuesday puzzle (sort of "themed" with SKIN, BONE, MUSCLE, FAT) -- in any event it's a NOBRAINER (17A Super-easy decision) which shares the grid with BONEHEADED (Really, really dumb) in this nifty little Tuesday puzzle of contrasts, including STYLE (28D Flair) and STYES (39A Eyelid woes) intersecting dead center. MUSCLECARS (27D G.T.O.’s, e.g.) and FATTUESDAY (10D Big Easy bash), MANIFESTO (6D Unabomber’s writing, e.g.) crosses MOSES (27A Noted Charlton Heston role), STRESSOUT (36A Put too much pressure on) lays over STYES and CATCHCOLD (41A Get the sniffles), so if one AILS (58D Suffers bodily woes) call for EMS (9D Grp. Called after an accident), YEA (23A Vote in a legislative body) opposes NOTSO (65A (“That’s a lie!”), a MINX (13D Flirt) SMILES (5D Beams) at a PIOUS (33A Reverent) PANSY (1D Garden bloom) giving AFROS (18D Hairdos for Jimi Hendrix and others) in a STYLE SALON (43A Place with a "do or dye" situation), SKINFLINTS (20A Tightwads) can’t SPARE (62A Score with two balls) SCRAPIRON (61A Recycled metal) no matter what it COSTS (48D Prices). Very brave to include REHASH (46D Same old stuff), which could provoke SMILES, but it's COOL (30D Hip).

TREX (22A Dino whose body was more than 30 feet long), STAN (32D “South Park” boy who’s always crying ‘Oh my God, they killed Kenny!”), PETE (1A Baseballs’ Rose), MATA (15A ____ Hari, infamous spy), NIECES (29A Aunts’ relatives) DORA (40A “Dumb _____” [old comic strip]), LENA (64A Singer Horne), MOSES (27A Noted Charlton Heston role), LEE (49A Gray general), LEONA (51D Hotelier Helmsley) and EDNAS (52D Author Ferber and others) are the creatures that share this puzzle -- invite them all to the same party and you’ll have a REDALERT (37D Enterprise warnings) and no SLEEP (43D Get some shuteye).

That's all folks!

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For a read on the "theme" of this puzzle, check out guest-blogger Barrywep at Diary of a Crossword Fiend

For today's cartoon, go to The Crossword Puzzle Illustrated

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