New York Times, Sunday, October 2, 2011
Author:
Eric Berlin
Editor:
Will Shortz
Nocturnal birds liable to keep people awake
Eric Berlin
| Total | Debut | Latest | Collabs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 6/23/2002 | 11/29/2020 | 3 |
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Variety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 1 |
| Rebus | Circle | Scrab | Debut | Fresh |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 6 | 1.52 | 239 | 68% |
This puzzle:
Rows: 21, Columns: 21 Words: 140, Blocks: 67 Missing: {KQZ} This is puzzle # 37 for Mr. Berlin. Sunday freshness: 92%
Notepad: Ten famous people are attending a costume party in this crossword. After the grid is filled, change the two shaded letters in each theme answer to "unmask" a celebrity.
Jim Horne notes:
The ten celebrities are RAY CHARLES, GREG NORMAN, BOB DYLAN, ANNE RICE, ELI MANNING, ALEX TREBEK, JOE TORRE, LOU RAWLS, DON CHEADLE, and TINA LOUISE. Quite a party!
1 I | 2 S | 3 L | 4 A | 5 E | 6 L | 7 M | 8 S | 9 T | 10 A | 11 F | 12 O | 13 U | 14 L | 15 E | 16 A | 17 S | 18 Y | |||
19 S | T | A | R | 20 T | E | A | M | O | 21 N | E | R | V | E | 22 A | L | T | O | |||
23 R | A | N | C | 24 H | A | X | L | E | S | 25 G | R | E | E | N | 26 O | R | G | A | N | |
27 R | O | T | O | T | I | L | L | 28 V | E | R | S | A | T | I | L | E | ||||
29 M | C | L | I | I | 30 C | A | L | 31 L | A | 32 E | T | S | 33 L | I | B | 34 R | 35 A | |||
36 C | H | I | C | 37 F | O | R | 38 I | C | 39 A | R | E | 40 U | S | E | R | I | D | |||
41 S | Y | N | 42 B | O | N | D | 43 P | L | A | N | 44 I | 45 N | N | E | R | A | C | E | ||
46 S | U | N | 47 S | O | T | T | O | 48 A | U | B | E | |||||||||
49 A | 50 P | 51 P | L | E | T | 52 S | 53 L | I | E | N | 54 S | 55 T | E | D | 56 D | 57 I | 58 E | 59 S | ||
60 S | A | R | A | N | 61 E | 62 V | E | N | S | 63 A | 64 T | T | N | 65 I | N | L | A | |||
66 S | L | I | M | A | 67 W | N | I | N | G | 68 A | L | E | R | T | 69 R | E | B | E | L | |
70 A | M | M | O | 71 R | A | P | T | 72 O | V | U | L | E | 73 U | S | O | N | E | |||
74 M | E | A | N | 75 T | I | T | 76 A | 77 S | S | E | T | 78 E | 79 Y | E | E | X | A | M | ||
80 O | N | O | 81 R | 82 O | M | N | E | 83 S | 84 U | R | L | |||||||||
85 J | 86 O | 87 L | 88 T | O | G | R | E | 89 L | O | U | D | O | 90 W | L | S | 91 H | 92 O | 93 G | ||
94 A | L | A | R | M | S | 95 M | 96 A | S | S | E | 97 M | A | E | 98 P | O | P | E | |||
99 M | A | C | A | U | 100 G | I | N | 101 E | S | 102 S | E | N | 103 M | R | M | O | M | |||
104 U | N | C | 105 O | U | N | T | 106 E | D | 107 P | O | T | 108 A | T | O | E | S | ||||
109 C | 110 O | N | C | H | L | A | D | L | E | 111 F | I | N | A | L | G | U | I | S | 112 E | |
113 I | R | A | E | 114 A | R | E | E | L | 115 F | R | E | D | O | 116 S | C | U | M | |||
117 A | B | E | S | 118 F | E | R | R | Y | 119 F | O | S | S | E | 120 T | E | M | P |
© 2011, The New York Times10/2/11 ( No. 22,608 )
Across
1
Tierra en el agua : ISLA
5
Horror movie locale, in brief : ELMST
10
Run ___ of : AFOUL
15
"Whoa! Calm down!" : EASY
19
Be featured (in) : STAR
20
Words on a Spanish valentine : TEAMO
21
Temerity : NERVE
22
Choir part : ALTO
23
Rods on a cowboy's truck : RANCHAXLES
25
Environmentally sound keyboard : GREENORGAN
27
Prepare the soil for planting, perhaps : ROTOTILL
28
Multicapable : VERSATILE
29
DLXXVI doubled : MCLII
30
Lily type : CALLA
32
Foreign visitors? : ETS
33
Only nonsentient zodiac symbol : LIBRA
36
In style : CHIC
37
Voting to pass : FOR
38
Empathetic words : ICARE
40
Password preceder, generally : USERID
41
Example, for instance: Abbr. : SYN
42
007 strategy : BONDPLAN
44
High card up one's sleeve : INNERACE
46
Baltimore daily, with "the" : SUN
47
___ voce : SOTTO
48
French river or department : AUBE
49
Web programs : APPLETS
53
Property claims : LIENS
55
Some sexy nightwear : TEDDIES
60
Clingy wrap : SARAN
61
Ties up : EVENS
63
Memo abbr. : ATTN
65
"To Live and Die ___" : INLA
66
Narrow overhang : SLIMAWNING
68
Government resister standing ready : ALERTREBEL
70
It might be in a belt : AMMO
71
More than attentive : RAPT
72
Immature egg : OVULE
73
East Coast rte. : USONE
74
Was sincere : MEANTIT
76
Strong point : ASSET
78
It often involves a Snellen chart : EYEEXAM
80
___ about : ONOR
82
All, in old-time stage directions : OMNES
84
Modern address : URL
85
Shock a fairy-tale monster : JOLTOGRE
89
Nocturnal birds liable to keep people awake : LOUDOWLS
91
Take most of : HOG
94
Burglar discouragers : ALARMS
95
Billiards shot : MASSE
97
Fannie ___ : MAE
98
"Pastorals" poet : POPE
99
Former Portuguese colony in China : MACAU
100
Certain game-ending cry : GIN
101
Industrial hub of Germany : ESSEN
103
1983 domestic comedy : MRMOM
104
Like invalid ballots : UNCOUNTED
107
Fries, e.g. : POTATOES
109
Soup spoon designed for shellfish : CONCHLADLE
111
Last costume at a costume party : FINALGUISE
113
Requiem hymn word : IRAE
114
Visibly stunned : AREEL
115
Michael and Sonny's brother in "The Godfather" : FREDO
116
Cleaner target : SCUM
117
Five-spots : ABES
118
Transport, as across a river : FERRY
119
1999 Broadway revue : FOSSE
120
Seasonal worker, say : TEMP
Down
1
U.N. member since '49 : ISR
2
Like some newly laundered shirts : STARCHY
3
Ointment base : LANOLIN
4
Bitterly cold : ARCTIC
5
Californie, e.g. : ETAT
6
Collection of specialized words : LEXICON
7
Green-headed water birds : MALLARDS
8
What wavy lines may indicate in a comic strip : SMELL
9
Lean-___ : TOS
10
Celestial being, in France : ANGE
11
Actor José : FERRER
12
Trilogy that includes "Agamemnon" : ORESTEIA
13
Eye layers : UVEAS
14
Carnival follower : LENT
15
When the events in flashbacks took place : EARLIER
16
Field with unknowns : ALGEBRA
17
RR stop : STA
18
"___ knight doth sit too melancholy": "Pericles" : YON
24
Part of "the many," in Greek : HOI
26
Canola, for one : OILSEED
28
Clears out of, as a hotel room : VACATES
29
Hosts, briefly : MCS
31
Cheerful and spirited, as a voice : LILTING
34
Singer Ocasek : RIC
35
Fruit drink : ADE
37
It might have serifs : FONT
39
Before long : ANON
40
Straight : UNBENT
42
___ Vista (Disney video distributor) : BUENA
43
Boiled cornmeal : POLENTA
45
Cashew, for one : NUTTREE
46
Hit hard, as brakes : SLAMON
49
Northeastern Indian state : ASSAM
50
___ d'Or (film award) : PALME
51
Italian "first" : PRIMA
52
Many a "Damn Yankees" role : SENATOR
54
Mutely showed respect : SALUTED
56
Truck fuel : DIESEL
57
Paper collector : INBOX
58
Kagan of the Supreme Court : ELENA
59
"The Crucible" locale : SALEM
62
Pooh-bah : VIP
64
Business card abbr. : TEL
67
Gets the water out of : WRINGS
68
Many Monopoly spaces : AVENUES
69
They might atone : RUERS
72
Moved like water into plant roots : OSMOSED
75
Very, very funny : TOOMUCH
77
Short answers? : SOLS
79
Festive time : YULE
81
Note to self : REMINDER
83
"___ in the kitchen with Dinah" (old song lyric) : SOMEONES
85
Bad situation : JAM
86
Suffix with Cray- : OLA
87
Unfilled spaces : LACUNAE
88
Mesmerized states : TRANCES
90
Newspaper section that competes with Craigslist : WANTADS
91
Hockey team's advantage : HOMEICE
92
Smallish marsupial : OPOSSUM
93
Prize : GEM
96
Elk's weapon : ANTLER
98
"The Prisoner" author : PROUST
100
"A Free Man of Color" playwright : GUARE
102
Veep Agnew : SPIRO
103
Part of a business sched. : MTG
105
Count ___ (Lemony Snicket villain) : OLAF
106
Snakelike : EELY
108
Palliative plant : ALOE
109
Org. in "Burn After Reading" : CIA
110
Round body : ORB
111
Opposite of ppp, on scores : FFF
112
Hirohito's title: Abbr. : EMP
Answer summary:
12 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 3 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
