The New York Times Mad Hatter Crosswords: 75 Wild Puzzles
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Features:
75 of the Times' wildest puzzles
Portable format is perfect for travel or solving at home
Edited by the biggest name in crosswords, Will Shortz
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780312588472 |
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| Publisher: | St. Martin's Press |
| Publication date: | 07/05/2011 |
| Edition description: | First Edition |
| Pages: | 96 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.28(d) |
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1
ACROSS
1 What lions and lambs rarely do
8 Secretly
15 Green shade
16 Busy
17 Common allergen
18 Name meaning "God is with us"
19 Mathematician who was the subject of "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers"
20 Edd’s "77 Sunset Strip" co-star
22 Yerkes Center inhabitant
23 "Bye now"
24 Aerospace transmitter
25 1960’s–70’s soul record label
26 Natl. Adopt-a-Dog Month
27 Taken in
28 Slangy hypothetical
29 Cobalt
31 Bow and others
32 It’s set on the far right
34 Tons
37 Herbal stress reliever
41 Satanic
42 Cute Valentine
43 ___ in Quebec
44 Otolaryngologists, for short
45 Instrument heard on "Within You Without You"
46 Willa Cather’s "One of ___"
47 Fr. martyress, maybe
48 Blue supergiant known as Alpha Cygni
49 San Diego tourist attraction
50 Haberdashery purchases
52 Wife of Nero
54 Collectively
55 Un-p.c. activity
56 Opener
57 1950’s Mouseketeer
DOWN
1 House style
2 Drink order
3 Much-anticipated social event
4 It may initiate a blessing
5 Farm calls
6 First name in tyranny
7 Cut a rug
8 Shakespearean king
9 Directory contents
10 Tube alternative
11 Sweets
12 Dividing line
13 "What’s shaking?"
14 Pre-Internet communications
21 Rink event
24 Bone just above the foot
25 Paddle
27 Carving medium
28 "McSorley’s Bar" painter
30 Jr. year events
31 Spy’s need
33 It has a mathematical focus
34 Lively ballroom dance
35 Bar
36 Reveres
38 Caraway-flavored liquor
39 Coyote, to a sheep rancher
40 Quiet
42 Grafton sleuth ___ Millhone
45 It may be common
46 Orchard Field, after 1949
48 It’s committed to memory
49 British gun
51 ___ de bourrée (ballet movement)
53 Long time: Abbr.
2
ACROSS
1 Hit man’s hit
9 Loafs on the job
15 Have a table for one
16 Knows about
17 Big name in footwear
18 Specialty
19 Cause of misery
20 "Mahoning" painter
22 It may be a lot
23 Time and ___
25 ___ pickle
26 "My Way" lyricist
27 Old sponsor of Tom Mix
29 Butts
32 "Forgot About ___" (1999 rap song)
33 Stick in a paint can
34 Stadium snack
38 Has the authority
39 Something to fight for
41 Mont Blanc, e.g.
42 Layered dish
43 Delivers for a price
48 Crown
49 South Korea’s Roh ___ Woo
51 Get ready to shoot
52 Anthony Eden, e.g.
53 Figures in detective fiction
55 Literally, "numbered"
56 "I can’t believe it!"
58 Writer Rawlings
60 Warm
61 Monopoly avenue
62 Divines
63 Stop stewing
DOWN
1 Potation location?
2 Sound of feigned amusement
3 Like much of Webern’s work
4 "___ are milder" (old ad slogan)
5 Flying Dutchman’s choice
6 Letter getter
7 Waiting one’s turn
8 Neighbor of Nigeria
9 10-year sentence, in slang
10 Sugar suffix
11 Flew off the handle
12 Alternative to 5th Avenue
13 Emphasizes, in a way
14 Rent
21 Turner and others
24 Seat of Webster County, Ia.
26 1608 Monteverdi Opera
28 Sci-fi writer ___ Scott Card
30 Experiencing swelling, maybe
31 Sign of a smash
34 Grp. concerned with clipping
35 Old Colorado Indian
36 Special delivery?
37 Like some dryers
40 Pal
41 Whip up
44 "I Loves You, Porgy" singer, 1959
45 Code of silence
46 Rages
47 Hard
50 It may render an arrow harmless
52 Some attendance figs.
53 M.D.
54 Hindu honorifics
57 Julie or Marie: Abbr.
59 Raven
3
ACROSS
1 Diagnostic aid
8 Leaves stranded
15 Mundane
16 Fit
17 2003 Broadway musical whose name is an address
18 "Don’t Go Breaking My Heart" duettist, 1976
19 Thimbleful
20 Roughed up
22 It’s cast
23 Takes care of
25 Dashboard item
26 Trio to the right of the D on a keyboard
27 Animal that may be striped
29 Emblem of St. Mark
31 Reddish purple
32 Marriage, for one
34 Three-time Major League Soccer champs
36 Show affection from a distance
38 Bun holder
41 Ready for a drive
45 Comrade in arms
46 1987 Pulitzer critic Richard
48 Pox
49 Controversial 1980’s proposal: Abbr.
50 "Yipe!"
52 Fishing locale
53 "What ___?"
55 Kennel club’s interest
57 Auto protector
58 Pause that refreshes
60 Circling
62 Buttercup family member
63 Puccini aria
64 Armenia’s capital
65 Noncommittal reply
DOWN
1 Snake
2 Cheese holder
3 "Again . . ."
4 Term.
5 Fish bait
6 Follow ___ (do detective work)
7 Vicks product
8 It’s put on the rack
9 In literature, the personification of purity
10 "Don’t ___"
11 Flake
12 Flipped
13 Decorative dining table piece
14 Was hot
21 Bombed
24 Short and thick
28 John ___, 1995 British Open winner
30 ___ de Noël (Christmas Eve): Fr.
31 Get smart
33 Run
35 Instant: Abbr.
37 Available for a pass
38 Compensation package amount
39 Traditional
40 Criticize harshly
42 Slowly come (in)
43 Info that may be stored with passwords
44 Important Wall St. number
47 Discovery of 1898
51 Title girl in a Ritchie Valens hit
54 Salinger girl
55 Courtesy title overseas
56 Popular techno musician
59 Erev ___ (Hebrew good evening)
61 Fighter at Chancellorsville
4
ACROSS
1 Savvy
7 Basketball player’s stat
15 Stay out of sight
16 TV family member whose words are often bleeped
17 Layperson in a monastery
18 "And?"
19 Not at all shady
21 Diamond with a mike
22 They may hold money for passengers
23 Run off, in the old days
24 Beekeeper in a 1997 film
25 A hero may have it
29 Tallies: Abbr.
30 Clipped
32 At the time of
33 QB Detmer and others
34 Place to display goods
38 Downed, as shots
41 No longer work
42 Caught on camera
46 Like some discounted mdse.
47 Receives eagerly
50 It may be for the birds
51 Four in an acre
53 "What have you been up to lately?" response
55 Aplenty, once
56 Not work independently
58Part of some platters
61 Conductor knighted in 1996
62 Tundra borderer
63 Painter Meissonier
64 Taboo
65 Worrywart’s words
DOWN
1 Casting event
2 Ochlocracy
3 Siren
4 Have second thoughts about
5 "___ le feste" ("Rigoletto" aria)
6 Sticks, in a way
7 React to something hilarious
8 Court great
9 Grp. concerned with traveling
10 Part of some letters
11 Certain Iraqi
12 Bump
13 Cause of some attacks
14 Business setback
20 It’s associated with dens: Abbr.
23 North Dakota city
26 Cravings
27 When D.S.T. begins
28 Call from the field
31 London’s ___ Court
35 Player of Caroline in "Caroline and the City"
36 Questionable gift
37 1996 song that was #1 for 14 weeks
38 Dish Network rival
39 Picked-out material?
40 One who’s overly eager
43 Discussion
44 Not thinking of others
45 Thaw
48 Game similar to crazy eights
49 Burst
52 Loser
54 Land, in Lyon
56 Mobility improver
57 Actor Reginald, who played both Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes
59 Pitch preceder
60 Under the table
5
ACROSS
1 They come in fits
5 Insurer’s file: Abbr.
9 Firmly add on
14 Take ___ (rest)
15 Ethnic cuisine
16 Kitchen gadget
17 Writer Earl ___ Biggers
18 Basketball Hall-of-Famer Harshman
19 Skirt
20 Big job for a teller
21 Prefix with industry
22 Turns over
23 ___-deucey (game)
24 Games that go into overtime
26 Squalled
28 Actress Hyams of 1920’s–30’s film
29 Common female middle name
30 Popular toys since 1961
32 1969 N.B.A. M.V.P. who played for the Bullets
34 Hot
36 Work the room
39 D–
43 Old war zone: Abbr.
44 Antiquarian’s stock
46 Escalator feature
47 Turned state’s evidence
50 Wagner soprano
51 Representative
52 "___ ask you!"
53 Baglets
54 ___ once
55 Edge
56 Port near Mascara
57 "Don’t You Know" hitmaker, 1959
58 Bad spots
59 Make a decision
60 Triglyceride, e.g.
61 Mothers and daughters
62 Rimsky-Korsakov’s "The Tale of ___ Saltan"
DOWN
1 Bumbler
2 Quite a lot
3 Show no respect for privacy
4 Like some pesticides
5 Hindu soul
6 Two murals at the Met
7 Is in love vainly
8 Danish tourist attraction
9 Some vase decorations
10 Pin
11 It’s far removed from the real world
12 Furniture style of the early 1800’s
13 In braids
25 Further down
27 Warning sign
31 British party
33 Vacation destination
35 Certain Zinfandel
36 Big tract
37 Peter and others
38 Small tract
40 The Dnieper flows through it
41 House of Milan
42 Star of "The Bronx Zoo"
45 Rays
48 Food in a nursery rhyme
49 Small change
6
ACROSS
1 Highest-ranking, in some hierarchies
6 Kind of cholera
13 Side in eightball
15 Best Original Screenplay winner for "American Beauty"
16 What Putin is often put in
17 Like peppercorns
18 Regional
20 Game winner
21 Potluck array
22 Good thing to get over
23 9W and others
24 Gray ___
25 Place for knights
29 Silvery white
31 Small flap on a garment
32 Like worker bees
33 One may have stilts
34 Naval Medical Center locale
36 Divergent doctrine developer
37 Place for the high life?
38 Commercial catchword
39 Like hors d’ouevres
44 It may be crushed
45 There until the bitter end
46 Pennsylvania city where Franklin signed a treaty with Indians, 1753
48 Miners
49 Taxed
50 Surrounded
51 Margins of safety
52 Victims
DOWN
1 Glistening garnish
2 First name of a Blackmore heroine
3 Pieces of land
4 Queens’ homes
5 One on a podium, perhaps
6 Some garment cuts
7 Puts (away)
8 Toward the center
9 Old hoops grp.
10 Low stools
11 Unlucky
12 Visitor to Rome in 46 B.C.
14 Cleric’s vesting place
15 Necklace option
19 Get through slowly
22 ___ Tribunal (international arbitration court)
25 Music genre
26 Be able to gather enough evidence
27 "Iliad," e.g.
28 Avalanche
29 Alexander V, e.g.
30 Cobbler’s job
34 Beat
35 While lead-in
37 Some seats are next to them
39 Large and heavy-looking
40 Axed
41 1819 Keats poem
42 Turn outward
43 They may be pounded out
45 Heroine of Tchaikovsky’s "Pique Dame"
47 Two -time Wimbledon winner ___ Hoad
7
ACROSS
1 Like William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
7 Facing
14 Showed
16 Mental pictures
17 Its logo is a rearing horse
18 Early 19th-century invention named after a Scottish engineer
19 Sponge
21 Puts out, say
22 Craft
23 Make one
24 Neuwirth who won a Tony for "Chicago"
27 Bills
29 Mag. subscription units
32 One up at all hours?
37 1954 Akira Kurosawa classic
38 Become the focus
39 Plymouth-to-London dir.
40 Plymouth Reliant, for one
41 Some home-brew
42 1997 U.S. Open winner
44 Frank
48 "Holy moly!"
50 Noted Chopin compositions
54 Certain electrode
56 Hotel room furniture
57 Boastful wannabe
58 Popular baked confection that originated in Chattanooga
59 Stage persona
60 Egypt’s Lake ___
DOWN
1 Diminutive Bud Fisher cartoon character
2 "Boy, do I ___!"
3 Conductor
4 Ready to go back
5 Nothing special paywise
6 Subs
7 Having an extended opening?
8 "Lion of the Desert" role
9 "Never Wave at a ___" (1952 film comedy)
10 Rock with bands
11 Butterfly whose larvae feed on nettles
12 Downer
13 Sylvia of jazz
15 Calendario parts
20 Liberalize
23 Inexplicable impulses
24 Noted Davis
25 Novelist Canin
26 Occupation involving many workers
28 Common flag symbol
30 ___ orange
31 Farm structures
33 Sunburn sites
34 Paul Valéry’s "La soirée ___ M. Teste"
35 Cotton Club notable
36 Evolutionary shifts
43 River of Hades
45 Hebrew name meaning "sweetness"
46 Bad company?
47 The Navigator Islands, today
48 Elusive subject
49 "Sounds good to me!"
50 Conquistador’s locale
51 Tastes
52 Fort ___, Ont.
53 Vision expert
55 Lot
8
ACROSS
1 Rather good at reporting
4 "Moses" author
8 One given to gushing
14 "Turn to Stone" grp.
15 Dynasty of Confucius
16 Rabbit ears, e.g.
17 College entrance consideration
19 Still in the original package
20 Gets ready beforehand, in a way
21 Like Satan worshipers
22 Lends
23 Past tense?
24 One that gives you an eyeful?
26 Corporeal cord
27 Drain feature
28 Like many churches
30 Years
31 Storied home wrecker
38 Shout to the team
42 Antarctica’s ___ Coast
43 Enter quietly
45 Turn (to)
46 Taking off
47 Source of some scars
48 Hierarchs
49 Famous Cremona family
50 Water, in other words
51 Religious exhortation
52 Some injections
53 Coastline feature
54 Current entry points
55 Disposal items
56 Even
DOWN
1 Regardless of
2 Not at all calm
3 Need for taking 9-Down
4 Proper relationship
5 Skyrocket
6 Feature of some roller coasters
7 Rose and burgundy, e.g.
8 Tell a thing or two
9 They may be brought to a business meeting
10 Ritzy
11 Taqueria order
12 "Have mercy" in Masses
13 Pittance
18 Goose-pimply
25 They’re baited in rings
29 Tough request
31 Rush in a movie theater
32 Professional light bulb producers?
33 Suppressing opposition brutally
34 Eradicated, with "out"
35 Hop offerer
36 Has trouble standing
37 Architecture, e.g.
38 Skilled moneymaker
39 Whole
40 Certain marble
41 Uncomfortable position
44 Las ___
48 Step, in Seville
9
ACROSS
1 Gorges
7 Liquid offering at a "bar"
15 Kind of valve
16 Be a segue for
17 Asian clue collector
18 Indefinite yes
19 Online newsgroup system
20 Occult characters?
21 Churned-out prose
22 Keep away
24 Straining aid
25 Game ender, perhaps
26 Unfeminine
27 Karat measure
32 Underling
33 Counterparts
34 Fore-play?
35 Piano piece
36 Does up differently
37 Pang
38 Natural rustler
39 Dancing stimulus
40 Got really upset
46 Invoice fig.
47 Chauffeur’s order
48 Hot
49 Stored
51 ___ Beach, Calif.
52 Firecracker
53 King topper
54 Pair for the court
55 Doesn’t look good?
DOWN
1 "The Fall" novelist
2 Physicist ___ Störmer
3 Foch’s force
4 Something may be written in it
5 Top of the Catholic Church?
6 Sausage-wrapped British breakfast dish
7 Kitchen gadgets
8 ___ Islands, which include the Cyclades
9 Gumbel’s "Today" successor
10 They’re usually fruit-flavored
11 Bash a bit
12 Reduced
13 "Terrible pity"
14 Escape mechanisms?
23 Surety concern
24 In sorry shape
26 Track event
27 Bullets, so to speak
28 By and large
29 Account
30 "The Sacred Wood" writer, 1920
31 How many symphonies Chopin wrote
32 Great American Cookies rival
34 Busiest
36 Fly-by-nights?
38 Tracy’s "Tortilla Flat" co-star
40 Dorough of the Backstreet Boys
41 Traffic stopper, sometimes
42 Senate wear
43 One may be full of scales
44 Eighty-___ (early Oklahoma homesteader)
45 Cons
47 Good watcher
50 It may make a bust: Abbr.
10
ACROSS
1 Subject of a court order
8 Credit
15 Name after which the New World is named
16 Infused with energy
17 Formative
18 Having some intelligence
19 Some modern bill payers, for short
20 Photo ID’s
22 50’s sitcom name
23 Set (against)
24 Divulge
25 Literary monogram
26 "I’m not ___ complain . . ."
28 Gulf V.I.P.
30 Anthologies
31 Mezzo Berganza
33 Common computer icon
35 Correct
37 Sincere
39 Goes for
43 Pass
44 Saucy sort
46 March
47 Bond, e.g.: Abbr.
48 They must be satisfied
50 Christmas, e.g.: Abbr.
51 Disparage
53 Numbers holder
54 Give (out)
55 Goes nuts
57 "The same," in condition
59 ___ City of story and film
60 Kind of window
61 Very spread out
62 Neighbors, figuratively
DOWN
1 Cleaning vessel
2 Last song recorded by the Beatles
3 Not so likely
4 Tosser of the Apple of Discord
5 Material for a whitesmith
6 Yucca’s plant family
7 Pleasant
8 Qintar spender
9 Old letter opener
10 Early second-century date
11 Oregon college
12 Classic work with 34 cantos
13 Business, facetiously
14 Whirls
21 One concerned with bouquets
24 Schlemiel
27 Bathwear
29 Hopping John ingredient
30 More suitable for a job
32 Stand buys
34 Airs
36 Fruity dessert
37 Front-of-car accessory
38 Not so bright
40 Sticks
41 Dollface
42 Ductless organs
43 Big cuts
45 Lunchbox item, for short
49 Detailed, briefly
52 Singular, to Caesar
53 ___ call
54 Turn
56 Field call
58 Sports page statistic
Excerpted from The New York Times by Will Shortz.
Copyright 2009 by The New York Times.
Published in August 2009 by St. Martin’s Press.
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