Today’s Newsday Saturday Stumper, by Matthew Sewell, is yet another week’s worth of evidence, the sixth, that the Stumper is back. It’s a good puzzle, filled with smart clues and novel answers. The clue that somehow, I don’t know how, opened up the puzzle for me: 62-A, ten letters, “International Emmy category.”
Some clue-and-answer pairs I especially liked:
13-A, ten letters, “Fancy low-level furnishing.” I was wondering if it had something to do with a conversation pit. But of course not.
21-D, four letters, “Audio equipment.” GEAR?
22-A, three letters, “British Columbia’s 1000-year-old Big Lonely Doug.” The answer is guessable, but the clue adds value.
23-A, seven letters, “Secured a bill, perhaps.” Clever.
33-D, four letters, “Like some stand-out characters.” The clue works in a couple of ways.
42-A, nine letters, “Sent sideways.” I was thinking boxing, or something to do with pool. No.
53-D, four letters, “Enhance unnecessarily.” Like, how often do we see this word?
55-D, four letters, “Suited to following.” Pretty Stumpery.
59-A, ten letters, “Very early arthropods.” I don’t know what arthropods are, but I know my Clark Coolidge.
And my favorite: 10-D, eleven letters, “Group hitting the bottom of the barrel.”
No spoilers; the answers are in the comments.
Saturday, September 11, 2021
Today’s Saturday Stumper
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TELENOVELA. PERSIANRUG. EARS. FIR. (See here.)
ReplyDeleteSTAPLED. BOLD. (Letters or personalities.)
LATERALED. GILD. ATEE.
TRILOBITES. (“Ounce code orange / a / the / ohm / trilobite triolbites”)
CALYPSOBAND. (For instance, the Esso Trinidad Steel Band, on an LP produced by Van Dyke Parks.)
So many near misses from me that had at least a checked letter or two that ended up being wrong:
ReplyDeleteUS employer of 1000+ canines - ADA (I didn't really think about that low number)
Tailor's activity - ALTERING
Edge, in sports headlines - not LIP or TIP apparently
Last word of Twain's "Eve's Diary" - AMEN
Sources of support - ARMS
Ugh, I made this harder for me than I had to.
My first guesses were FBI for the canines. I also had ALTERING and AMEN early on. ESTD helped me see AYES straight off. Good puzzle, no?
ReplyDeleteOops — FBI and DEA.
ReplyDeleteGreat puzzle. This felt really fresh.(And thanks for reminding me I never did say how I liked it.)
ReplyDeleteI have to remember that sometimes too.
ReplyDelete