Saturday, June 20, 2009
Puzzle by Brad Wilber, edited by Will Shortz
If the crossword solver sometimes doesn’t have a clue, it’s likely there really isn’t really a practical one, and this Saturday crossword abound, hawking its CAPRICE (40D. Fancy) as casually as a seller of snake oil. WAS I SNORING is clued as Response to being elbowed, maybe,
while MERRY ANDREW gets the terse clue of Clown. ANGLOMANIA is Going bonkers for the British? and EROTICA is Body art? Writer on pictures is ROGER EBERT and Writer whose words are twisted? is an IRONIST. Reduced fare?, DIET PLATE. Followers of some meals are SIESTAS, a TACO is folded before dinner, and EGGROLL is stuffed in a restaurant. Beige attribute, NEUTRALITY. Staged is THEATRICAL and Shape shifters are AMOEBAE. Enough to make even the SANEST (42A. Maximally balanced) HESITANT (32D. Waffling) and ILL AT EASE (65D. Restive).Saturday links -- ASOK (22A. “Dilbert” character who was reincarnated as his own clone); a DRYAD (28A. Companion for Pan); IONESCO (2D. “The Bald Soprano” playwright, 1950); LOEB (54A. 1924 co-defendant); TANTALUS (15D. Victim of terrible teasing); TENIERS (8D. Surname of three generations of Flemish old masters); YAZ (29D. Old Fenway nickname); BOLIVIA (11D. Where Quechua is spoken); EOLITH (31A. Prehistoric stone tool); FT RILEY (27D. Kansas mil. Reservation with eh U.S. Cavalry Museum); and YER.
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