07.10.09

Crève Cœur

Broken-Heart-Less by Ron Gamble

Friday, July 10, 2009

Puzzle by Joe Krozel, edited by Will Shortz

CREVE COEUR (7A. With 9-Across, Missouri city whose name means “broken heart”), ROMANCERS (24D. Beaus), CRUEL AND UNUSUAL (1D. Torturous, perhaps) and TRUE CONFESSIONS (44A. Story-filled magazine since 1922) are the dramatic interrelated entries of this terrific crossword.

Adding to the mise en scène are ABERRATIONS, PREMARITAL, FERRET OUT, RELATE and ELATED, PREVENTS and DELETES, the shadowy and insidious CABALS -- a crossword filled with bits and pieces of a shattered self -- PRO and CON, SOW and STIR, ESTOP and SHUT -- sound too dramatic? HUMOR ME (29D. “C’mon, at least consider it!”)!

A few links -- ANTONIO (31D. The merchant of Venice), DOLORES (13A. 1941 #1 hit for Tommy Dorsey), LAURELS (11A. Composition of some old crowns), PALESTINE (18A. Former British mandate), ROSARIO (48A. Argentine port on the Paraná), SWENSON (50A. Housekeeper player on “Benson”), TOSCA, (40A. Floria TOSCA, Puccini title role), HAITI (19D. It has departments named Nord, Sud and Ouest), SNOOD (23A. W.W. II factory wear) and GTO (17A. The Monkeemobile, e.g.).

When the night has been too lonely/ and the road has been to long,/ and you think that love is only/ for the lucky and the strong,/ just remember in the winter/ far beneath the winter snow/ slies the seed that with the sun's love/ in the spring becomes the rose.

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