09.21.09

Magazine Readers

Monday, September 21, 2009

Puzzle by Mark Feldman, edited by Will Shortz

MAGAZINE READERS (39A.What 17-, 20-, 56- and 60-Across are?), TIME KEEPER (17A. Official with a stopwatch), SELF PROMOTER (20A. Bragging sort), PEOPLE PERSON (56A. One good at forming connections with others) and MONEY LOVER (60A. Miser, e.g.) are the interrelated group of this Monday crossword.

Monday links -- AL CAPONE (40D. Gangster a k a Scarface), ADAMS (22D. John or John Quincy); Florentine painter Fra Filippo LIPPI; URIAH (23D. Dickens’s Heep); ASTA (52A. “The Thin Man“ pooch“), EMUS (57D. Down Under birds), OWL (46D. “Whoo … whoo …” caller), WREN.

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