Paradise of Dante Alighieri, Canto XXXI, illustration by Gustave Dore Friday, June 19, 2009
Puzzle by David Levinson Wilk, edited by Will Shortz People in the puzzle -- ANDREAS (7D. Two-time Greek P.M. Papandreou); 9D. Civil-rights leader ASA Philip Randolph); 34D. Dumas’s “La Dame AUX Camélias”; ELLEN (43A. First name of two first ladies); EVA MARIE (37D. Saint of acting); JAMES DEAN (48A. Actor who said “Only the gentle are ever really strong”); a HIRER (1D. Engaging sort); IMUS (31A. Big name in radio); ISAK DINESEN (15A. “Babette’s Feast” author, 1950); JASON (29A. Husband of a sorceress, in myth); LAMARR (44D. Strange woman player in “The Strange Woman,” 1946); MINETA (46D. 2001-06 secretary of transportation); NEREUS (8D. Mythical Aegean Sea dweller); a PROTEGEE (13D. She has a personal trainer); ROYS (54D. Artist Lichtenstein and others); TEY (28A. “Miss Pym Disposes” mystery novelist); and last but hardly least, there’s the lovely, scheming Eve of ALL ABOUT EVE (57A. 1960 movie on which the musical “Applause” is based).
HASTA MANANA (1A. South-of-the-border sign-off)!
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