Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Puzzle by Oliver Hill, edited by Will Shortz
Homophonic clues for the across entries of ALWAYS IN POETRY (19. E’er), MONARCH TO BE (32. Heir); BRONTES JANE (32. Eyre), and SNOBBISH MANNER (53A. Air) constitute today’s interrelated entries -- allow Eyre air e’er her heir errs!
GREATWHITE, MONOTONOUS, TERRA COTTA and UNKINDNESS are the other long entries of this frustrating but fun crossword.
Seven-letter across entries -- CARLTON; EXEGETE, whoopee, a word for the professor!; FOODIES; GRUYERE, chew your soup!; IMITATE; MINERAL; TANLINE; THELARK.
Five- and six-letter entries -- AMMAN, not currency; AXIOM; COMBO; DEMOS, not a locale in Greece; EBERT; GETSAT; HORSY; IBOOK; LAINE and LLANA; NOBODY;
NSYNC (21A. Justine Timberlake’s former group); OBIES, I have one; OVERT, yes, I said that!; RENEE; STAYS, no, I didn‘t!; YENTL.The short stuff is playful -- ACID in a CAN, DAG and DAHL, EEL, ENE, ETNA, FGH ("fugetaboutit"!), the HES are a LAD and MEN, ISEE says JESS, a MAT and a MESA, NAIL, NCAA, ODD, OCTA and OTTO, REED, SET and STE, SHU, TAR, TEMP, TOO and TOM, along with YAKS (46A. Talks one‘s head off). O.K., I will -- COMO and COMBO combine to overlap OVO and OVERT -- OBOE and OBIES share an O, as do TOE and OTAY, EAU with HUE their U, and AWE and OWE a W.
Air!
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