09.29.09

AT SEA

Peace: Burial at Sea, 1842 by J. M. W. Turner

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Puzzle by Paula Gamache, edited by Will Shortz

AT SEA (71A. Clueless … or where the answers to this puzzle’s starred clues were all first used), LOOSE CANNON (17A. * Dangerously unpredictable sort), DEEP SIX (39A. *Junk), HARD AND FAST (61A. *Inviolable, as rules), IN THE OFFING (11D. *Likely to happen) and CHOCK A BLOCK (25D. *Jammed) are the interrelated group of this Tuesday crossword.

A few more links -- LEND-LEASE (8D. War aid program passed by Congress in 1941); ADSPEAK (4D. Marketers’ “language”); 50A. VIENNA Boys’ Choir; ANNIE (7D. Photographer Leibovitz); TALON (6A. Osprey’s claw).

Way hay and up she rises, early in the morning!

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