Shaping Up!
The Table, Juan Gris, 1914, Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Table, Juan Gris, 1914, Philadelphia Museum of Art ----------------- Tuesday, October 7, 2008 Puzzle by Kevin G. Der, edited by Will Shortz Four interrelated entries are the main feature of this crossword -- WAFFLECONE (17A. Ice cream holder); FOODPYRAMID (32A. Diagram of nutritional needs); BLOGOSPHERE (48A. Community of Web journals); RUBIKSCUBE (65A. Six-colored puzzle) -- by merit of their second halves' reference to three-dimensional geometric shapes. AHAMOMENTS (11D. Occasions to cry "Eureka!"), surely a solver's thought, and DOTCOMBOOM (31D. Short-lived economic expansion of the late 1990s) bring the total of ten-letter to six with the aforementioned four interrelated by geometry. AVOCADO (7D. Guacamole base); LEARNOF (42A. Hear about); OCTANTS (40A. Many pizza slices, geometrically) and SHOWBIZ (46D. Movies, TV, Broadway, etc.) complete the list of long entries. A few more links -- ABOMB (29D. Focus of the Manhattan Project, briefly); DWARF (5A. Companion of Snow White); ERIKA (69A. Actress Christensen of "Traffic"); NIECE (39A. Actress Emma Roberts to Julia Roberts); RAVEL (15A. "Bolero" composer); SIMBA (24A. Lion in "The Lion King"); ZAIRE (28D. Where Ali dethroned Foreman). ----------------- For today's cartoon, go to The Crossword Puzzle Illustrated. For the complete post, go HERE.
