La Vérité --1870, Jules Joseph Lefebvre
----------------- Saturday, June 14, 2008
Puzzle by Brendan Emmett Quigley, edited by Will Shortz TRUTHINESS (1A. Modern coinage meaning intuition without regard to facts) is 'What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true.' It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality. It’s a word I’ve not heard in day-to-day conversation by anyone I know and if anyone I know used the word, I’d doubt they’d know what they were saying.
Other opinionating includes HASASHOTAT, BULLDOGGED, SHOWCASING, INONESENSE -- along with the political, DASKAPITAL, KITERUNNER, BRIBERIES, ASPERSED, AMELIORATE, FEDERATE, ETATIST, how else to ACCENTUATE IDEOLOGIES -- take your pick, RISKIT (39D. Live dangerously, maybe). PERTAINING, INLANDER, CAREERS, AVIONICS and ADAMITES are a nice group, along with GARAGED, DESOTOS and that CARALARM (32D. Thing that’ll deter someone from taking a ride).
SATAN and STELLA abut. PIKERS and ACTORS share a line. FACEVALUE and REALER cross. Not something to do, but somewhere to go is ACTON and not somewhere to go, but something to hold is CHINA. Fritz gets a rest and LANG (43A.“The King and I” film director) is Walter, not to be confused with yesterday’s LANTZ of Woody Woodpecker, he too a Walter. AUGIE and KEENEN, ACARID (22D. Tick, e.g.) and ELIDED round out the more or less intended entries.
Falling into place among the four corners of four-deep ten-letter words are the happenstance fill -- ABBA, ALII, AMI, AUST, CLIP, CREE, CURS, EGAL, ELBE, ERR, GRES, HSIA, IHOP, INNS, MEGS, NEST, NORI, RAMA, RASA, RUNE, SNEE, TALK, THAD, USES, WENT.
Solved this one hanging from the ceiling like a bat with a mirror and a chisel and still managed to come in under three minutes -- oops, wrong blog!
Ain’t it the truth? -----------------
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