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Sam Ezersky
NY Times, Sun Feb 18, 2024 Puns and Anagrams
50-Across : Con
Author:
Sam Ezersky
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 33
Notepad: In print, the clue for 20-Down has the letters N E X T U P arranged in a ring.
1 P | 2 O | 3 O | 4 H | 5 P | 6 O | 7 O | 8 H | | | 9 H | 10 A | 11 I | 12 L | 13 S |
14 A | U | T | O | T | U | N | E | | 15 C | A | T | N | A | P |
16 I | C | E | W | A | T | E | R | | 17 O | W | E | S | T | O |
18 N | H | L | | | 19 S | H | N | 20 O | O | K | | 21 T | E | N |
22 T | I | L | 23 D | 24 E | | 25 O | I | N | K | | 26 B | I | N | G |
27 S | E | O | U | L | | 28 R | A | D | | 29 A | R | N | I | E |
| | | 30 S | A | 31 M | S | | 32 E | 33 F | F | E | C | T | S |
| 34 B | 35 A | T | T | L | E | | 36 C | U | R | A | T | E | |
37 T | E | M | P | E | S | T | | 38 K | N | I | T | | | |
39 A | V | I | A | S | | 40 O | 41 R | C | | 42 C | H | 43 A | 44 I | 45 N |
46 B | E | R | N | | 47 W | W | I | I | | 48 A | E | T | N | A |
49 U | R | I | | 50 N | O | N | P | R | 51 O | | | 52 T | H | E |
53 L | A | G | 54 O | O | N | | 55 O | C | T | 56 A | 57 V | I | A | N |
58 A | G | H | A | S | T | | 59 F | L | O | T | I | L | L | A |
60 R | E | T | R | Y | | | 61 F | E | E | L | S | A | F | E |
© 2024, The New York Times
Across
1
9
F and G are healthy, but ... :
HAILS14
"Little Deuce Coupe" or "Brand New Cadillac" :
AUTOTUNE15
Afternoon activity in which you can tap out :
CATNAP16
When they served the crew tea, I drank this :
ICEWATER17
18
Sports org. that's alternately in a hole :
NHL19
Quiet corner for a simp :
SHNOOK21
Evening hour in 12-Down :
TEN22
___ cows come home (for de longest time) :
TILDE25
Sound from an animal that's pink with a round head :
OINK26
Search engine's endless game of chance :
BING27
___ food (kimchi, e.g.) :
SEOUL28
29
Palmer whose Masters wins are, in total, four :
ARNIE30
"Club" with mass appeal :
SAMS32
Film staples heard around Fox :
EFFECTS34
Competition for a tablet :
BATTLE36
Price of copper, to a chemist :
CURATE37
38
Li__e ma__y m__ __tens :
KNIT39
Shoes bought with a Visa card :
AVIAS40
Pick: figure in: a) comedy; b) romance; ___) fantasy :
ORC42
China island group :
CHAIN46
"___, baby, ___!" (Swiss tourist slogan) :
BERN47
BBaaddggeerr SSttaattee: Abbr. :
WWII48
A neat insurance company :
AETNA49
50
52
Article in Mother Jones :
THE53
55
58
Turkish leaders + Turkish leader :
AGHAST59
Naval formation that'll fill a lot of ocean :
FLOTILLA60
61
Down
1
Brushes or pats in colors :
PAINTS2
3
Opera seen in hotel lobby :
OTELLO4
Question not of "who" :
HOW5
Apt org. for a bake sale :
PTA6
P__p-__p hi__ __, often :
OUTS7
It's in the middle of nowhere, so not many people live here :
ONEHORSETOWN8
That woman, actress Long :
HERNIA9
Bird that Mark Wahlberg holds back :
HAWK10
11
12
When an E! title airs on TV, informally :
LATENITE13
Cleaning items for one's GPS :
SPONGES15
Company approval to use a stove :
COOK20
23
Cleaning item you don't need to stand up to use :
DUSTPAN24
Thrills in "The Late Show" :
ELATES26
The bare advice for meditating :
BREATHE29
Where to be in a Friday before California :
AFRICA31
Sports org.'s metric units :
MLS33
34
It's one A away from a B average :
BEVERAGE35
Air might be this - do you agree? :
AMIRIGHT37
Like a brutal array of data :
TABULAR41
"What a ___!" (unhappy Band-Aid buyer's cry) :
RIPOFF43
Who, in the fifth century, alit at Rome :
ATTILA44
45
Dance that a Scot declines twice :
NAENAE47
50
... Q R T U V W X Z :
NOSY51
Zero + a low digit :
OTOE54
A woodworker might fashion one from a trimmed board :
OAR56
N.L. East team in Great Lakes :
ATL57
6's, on grandfather clocks :
VIS
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