It's a Mystery!
Humphrey Bogart as Sam Space in "The Maltese Falcon"
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
IT’S A MYSTERY, Puzzle by Brendan Emmett Quigley, edited by Will Shortz
This mystery has eight LEAD DETECTIVES (109A. Ones in charge of a case … or a literal hint to the eight other longest answers in this puzzle) to bring about a solution:
DREW UNIVERSITY (23A. School in Madison, N.J.);
FISH STORY (33A. Don’t believe it);
MAGNUM OPUS (46A. “The Divine Comedy,” for Dante);
HAMMER THROW (66A. Track-and-field event);
FELL ASLEEP (84A. Dropped off);
MASON JARS (98A. Pantry array);
QUEEN MOTHER (17D. Beloved figure in England); and
SPADE CASINO (65D. Card game played to 61).
That should be plenty!
A few clues -- Across: 1. Drapery material; 20. City and county of central California; 22. Hair color; 26. Poet whose last words were “Of course [God] will forgive me; that’s his business”; 29. Coup d’OEIL (quick glance); 38. HUEVOS rancheros; 40. Raw bar offering; 45. Classic theater name; 61. Fraternity member; 72. Record producer who published the diary “A Year With Swollen Appendices”; 78. Kon-Tiki material; 92. Trig. Angle; 96. “On Language” columnist; 107. San Luis OBISPO; 117. Big name in auto parts; 121. Major diamond exporter.
Down: 4. City with the world’s first telephone directory (1878); 9. Blade in sports; 12. Novelist who wrote “The Gravedigger’s Daughter”; 19. Eve ENSLER, “The Vagina Monologues monologist; 31. Persian Gulf emirate; 39. Biological dividing wall; 43. Kind of fin; 52 Yemeni money; 58. Southern legume; 68. Loose overcoat; 77. Certain photo caption; 83. “Malcolm in the Middle” boy; 93. Deli order; 101. “The Grapes of Wrath” family; 113. Letters on a brandy bottle.
With all those clues and detectives, this one should be an open and shut case!
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