Today’s Newsday Saturday Stumper is by “Anna Stiga” (Stan Again), Stan Newman constructing under one of the aliases he uses with easier Saturday Stumpers of his making. I found this puzzle not especially easy but not especially tricky.
Some clue-and-answer pairs I especially liked:
7-D, eight letters, “Trans-Neptunian dwarf planets.” For sentimental reasons.
16-A, six letters, “Common typeface in upscale magazines.” Nice, and I can see it on the page, even if I can’t name a single magazine. In my experience, the only typeface that turns up in crosswords is Arial.
26-A, four letters, “Whaler who became a retailer (1850).” Uh, AHAB? No. This clue taught me something.
46-A, four letters, “Christie alternative.” So clear once you see it.
My favorite clue in today’s puzzle: 12-D, eight letters, “Holders of pointy diamonds.” Defamiliarization, as we used to call it in lit crit.
No spoilers: the answers are in the comments.
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Today’s Saturday Stumper
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PLUTOIDS. BODONI. MACY. TINA. TONEARMS.
I'm not looking at your comment because I haven't gotten very far with the puzzle...but I have a question.
As often happens, the puzzle I print from the PDF is missing the last several clues--the final 3 Downs. I can't find a way to access the puzzle that will allow me to see the missing clues. Do you have any tips or a solution? (I once emailed Stan about it, and he blew me off.)
I am finding this one very difficult...a lot of unknowns.
I solve in the browser, so I haven’t had that happen. I just looked at the PDF, and there are two clues that don’t fit on the first page. It’s hard to tell, at least on a phone, that there even is a second page. Not a great design choice to have the puzzle span two pages, with a nearly blank second page. Anyway, the clues there are 3-D, “Quick changes of pitches” and 38-A, “Not characteristic of.”
P.S.: you can get around the problem by printing at something less than full size.
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