Thursday, March 26, 2009
Puzzle by Edward Safran, edited by Will Shortz
A LITTLE MADNESS IN THE SPRING IS WHOLESOME EVEN FOR THE KING (20A. Start of a poem by Emily Dickinson that continues “But God be with the Clown, / Who ponders this tremendous scene”) is an apt quotation for both this season of Spring, spring break, March madness, and the Broadway season, as Ionesco’s “Exit the King” opens today at the Barrymore Theatre on Broadway. Read New York Times article HERE.
When I saw that this was a puzzle with a quotation, I groaned, as quotations in crossword puzzles are my least favorite, with the exception of the acrostics which are another animal. However, if a quotation can be as apt and topical as today’s then all's well that ends well, or what you will!
Mid-size entries include ADDS TO, ALARMS, ASK OUT, CELADON, DEAD SEA, ENTENDRE, GALLEON, KNOTTS, MACHETE, SHAKES UP.
Five-letter -- AGNES, ANTIC, AS ONE, DOWSE, DRAWL, EMOTE, ENORM, GOLEM, LLOYD, LOOMS, OSLER, RIVET, SIXER, STERE, TIERS, TROVE, TUCKS, UTTER.
Short stuff -- AMIS and AVIS, COMA, CORK, DEMO, ELAL, ELKE, ENYA, ERE, EVER, EXON, GRAM, HAM and HAS, IDLE, KIA, LEG and LEN, LOWS, MANO and MENU, NEAP, NOME and NONE, NOR, ODIN and ODOR, OMIT, ORAL and ORAN, PREP, RANI, TEEM, THEN, TITI, TWAS and TWIG, ULNA, VINE.
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