Thursday,
May 21, 2009Puzzle by Patrick Blindauer, edited by Will Shortz
A wandering
e in this Thursday crossword results in Barney Fife being a BARNEY FIEF (17A. Name of Lord Rubble’s feudal estate?); coal mine, COAL MIEN (26A. Air in a sooty shaft?); sneak peek, SNEAK PEKE (33A. Sly little dog?); Happy Feet, HAPPY FETE (46A. Celebration for a Disney dwarf?); snow cone, SNOW COEN (51A. Bamboozle a “Fargo” director?); and borderline, BORDER LIEN (65A. Property claim along the Rio Grande?). Fife fief, mine mien, peek peke, feet fete, coen cone, line lien…eeeeee!Oh well... Other long entries --
CORN BREAD and FIELD MICE followed by seven-letter entries, INFIDEL, NEONATE, SIMILES and TORN OUT. Six-letter -- AGREED; ARCANA; BOMBAY; CUBISM; DEFRAY; ONEUPS; PUENTE; RESOLE; TECHIE; YESMEN.Five -- CHASM; ENIAC; ESSEN; SCOUR;
LEROI; LIFER; NARCS; NURSE; OBAMA; RYDER; SCABS; UNCLE; WILTS.Short stuff -- ABBA, ABC, ADD, AER, AMAT, ANNE, ANTS, APE, ARAL, BOW and BRO, BRAN, BSMT, CAT, CLUE, EDAM, ELUL, ELS, EMMA, ETE and ETTE, GUYS, HENS, KOA, MEAL, NITE, NYU, OBI, ONMY, ORE, RAN, REES and REFS, RENE, ROCS, RPI, SEAS, SSA, TSAR, UPS, WOK, and welcome back,
YMA (47D. Sumac from Peru).------------------
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