06.27.08

Words, Words, Words...

Carlo CarrĂ  -- Interventionist Demonstration, 1914
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Puzzle by Brad Wilber, edited Will Shortz
Words, words, words…
Featured this Friday are two columns of three ten-letter down entries -- TURNTOMUSH (12. Get all sentimental), ELMERSGLUE (13. Big sticker?), RESTAURANT (14. Where to act on a gut feeling?), and
SCREENTEST (24. What a potential player must pass), COURTORDER (25. Summons, e.g.), AMISHBUGGY (26. Sight in Lancaster County, Pa.), along with two layers of three nine-letter across entries -- TIKITORCH (1. Luau lighting), IRENECARA (15. Singer who plays herself in “D.C. Cab”), DONTSHOUT (17. “Tone it down!”), and AMERICANA (56. Norman Rockwell specialty), WEARSTHIN (59. Stops being funny, say), LOMALINDA (61. San Bernardino suburb) -- and going down the center of the miscellany, two nine-letter entries, HATINHAND (9. With respectful humility) and NEWSCRAWL (32. Ticker with headlines).
Links for a few of the remaining scattered entries --
PIERROT (39D. Pining pantomime persona); JENNY (36A. With 46-Across, program pitched by Queen Latifah); CRAIG (46A. See 36-Across); HULA (37A. Activity near a 1-Across); RUDI (20A. Gernreich who invented the monokini).
Words, words, words…