Thursday, November 20, 2008 Puzzle by Pete Muller, edited by Will Shortz With today’s day-after-day headlines and constant decline of the economy, small comfort can be taken from today’s crossword with CAPITALISM (17A. Start of a quote by economist Allan Meltzer) WITHOUTFAILURE (23A. Quote, part 2) ISLIKERELIGION (47A. Quote, part 3) WITHOUTSIN (54A. End of the quote), along with assorted entries such as BEAR (59A. With 27-Across, it collapsed in 2008) STEARNS (27A. See 59-Across), ENRON (32D. 2005 documentary subtitled “The Smartest Guys in the Room”), TNOTE (64A. I.R.A. option), NAFTA (61A Pact since 1993), LEGAL (49D. Corporate department), GRUNT (50D. Menial worker) and the grim FUNERAL (43A. Occasion to say goodbye). A few more links: RAELIAN (51A. One who believes humans descended from extraterrestrials), AKIRA (14A. Director Kurosawa), the KABUKI (29D. Tokyo theater performance); 47D. Pitcher Hideki IRABU; LIAO (45D. Chinese dynasty a thousand years ago); 57D. Cousin ITT of “The Addams Family); SHOALS (10D. Bars of a sort); LYRA (63A. Constellation between Cygnus and Hercules). Show me the money!
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