Monday, September 7, 2009 -- Labor Day
Puzzle by Andrea Carla Michaels and Ashish Vengsarkar, edited by Will Shortz
This Labor Day crossword features a piscatorially interrelated group -- GO FISH (1A. Card game in which a player might ask “Got any 8’s?“); TAKE THE BAIT (20A. Fall for it); OPEN A CAN OF WORMS 41A. Start something that one shouldn’t start); GET REELED IN (57A. Be a sucker); MARINE GREEN (11D. Algae color); UNDER THE SEA (24D. Disney lyric repeated before “Darling it’s better / Down where it’s wetter”); 72A. Hook, line and SINKER.
A few links -- 17A. San SIMEON (Hearst castle); TUDORS (50D. English monarchs from Henry VII through Elizabeth I); MANES (30D. Lions hair); DEN (28D. Lion’s lair).
Labor Day -- I'm gone fishin'...
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