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Sleeping Beauty Thomas Ralph Spence Saturday, May 30, 2009 Puzzle by Matt Ginsberg, edited by Will Shortz The letter Z gets a work-out in this Saturday crossword with an even dozen. The Z-infected words in numerical order across -- 16. JACUZZI; 17. CHORIZO; 19. YITZHAK ; 45. ZOG, Planet visited by Spaceman Spiff in “Calvin and Hobbes”; 49. OZARK; 55. ZAG; 56. GIN FIZZ; 58. SEIZING; 60. ESTEVEZ; 62. HAZED. The second-hand use of the Z (the downs) -- 5. MAZY; 6. ELZIE; 11. BAZAARS; 20. ZOOS; 35. PIZZAZZ; 41. AMAZING; 49. OOZED; 57. FEZ; and last but not least, 59. ZED, Lack of organisation? (my spell-check keeps changing the "s" to a "z"!). Z-less entries of seven and eight letters, alphabetically -- DRAGGED; DRIVE-UP; HOAXING; JOJOBAS, word of the day; MOOCHED; ONE HALF; POLENTA and POMATUM; ROMANCE; SAMPRAS; SCHLOCK; SCRIMPS; SECLUDE; SLOWISH; SPHERIC; TERENCE; UNAWARE. Five and six -- ARDOR; BAHAI; B AND B; DODGED; ECOLI; FITCH; FIVER; FOURS; GRIST; JUST ME; KNEED; PETARD; RULES; RUMOR; SEE OUT; SOCKS; and because "sewage" wouldn’t fit, SWAGE (44D. Metalworking tool), word of the day runner-up. Three and four -- AMOK; AWE; BAUM (22A. “Mother Goose in Prose” author, 1897); CLAP; COAX; GIRO; HIVE; HOO; KAVA; MAMA; NPR; OWL; PEAK; RAP; TAR; THU; VAC; and due to "world" being too long, WOLD (48A. Chain of treeless rolling hills), yet another runner-up for word of the day. Freedom lives! We are free to Z it up in America, the letter was banned in Greece as the popular protest slogan "Ζει", meaning "he lives", the title of the film by Costa Garvas -- here’s the trailer for the film, Z. ----------------- For today’s cartoon, go to The Crossword Puzzle Illustrated. For the complete post, go HERE.
Sleeping Beauty Thomas Ralph Spence Saturday, May 30, 2009 Puzzle by Matt Ginsberg, edited by Will Shortz The letter Z gets a work-out in this Saturday crossword with an even dozen. The Z-infected words in numerical order across -- 16. JACUZZI; 17. CHORIZO; 19. YITZHAK ; 45. ZOG, Planet visited by Spaceman Spiff in “Calvin and Hobbes”; 49. OZARK; 55. ZAG; 56. GIN FIZZ; 58. SEIZING; 60. ESTEVEZ; 62. HAZED. The second-hand use of the Z (the downs) -- 5. MAZY; 6. ELZIE; 11. BAZAARS; 20. ZOOS; 35. PIZZAZZ; 41. AMAZING; 49. OOZED; 57. FEZ; and last but not least, 59. ZED, Lack of organisation? (my spell-check keeps changing the "s" to a "z"!). Z-less entries of seven and eight letters, alphabetically -- DRAGGED; DRIVE-UP; HOAXING; JOJOBAS, word of the day; MOOCHED; ONE HALF; POLENTA and POMATUM; ROMANCE; SAMPRAS; SCHLOCK; SCRIMPS; SECLUDE; SLOWISH; SPHERIC; TERENCE; UNAWARE. Five and six -- ARDOR; BAHAI; B AND B; DODGED; ECOLI; FITCH; FIVER; FOURS; GRIST; JUST ME; KNEED; PETARD; RULES; RUMOR; SEE OUT; SOCKS; and because "sewage" wouldn’t fit, SWAGE (44D. Metalworking tool), word of the day runner-up. Three and four -- AMOK; AWE; BAUM (22A. “Mother Goose in Prose” author, 1897); CLAP; COAX; GIRO; HIVE; HOO; KAVA; MAMA; NPR; OWL; PEAK; RAP; TAR; THU; VAC; and due to "world" being too long, WOLD (48A. Chain of treeless rolling hills), yet another runner-up for word of the day. Freedom lives! We are free to Z it up in America, the letter was banned in Greece as the popular protest slogan "Ζει", meaning "he lives", the title of the film by Costa Garvas -- here’s the trailer for the film, Z. ----------------- For today’s cartoon, go to The Crossword Puzzle Illustrated. For the complete post, go HERE.
