Today’s Newsday Saturday crossword is by Stan Newman. It’s an easy puzzle by Stumper standards. I found my way with two toeholds, 23-D, three letters, “Informal ‘exceedingly’” and 29-A, three letters, “Petition.” And I was off.
Some clue-and-answer pairs I liked:
3-D, eight letters, “Ducks glide there.” Is it okay to call this clue cute?
9-A, five letters, “Breaks into a vault.” The kind of clue that doing crosswords teaches you to understand.
10-D, seven letters, “Canine coats.” See 9-A.
17-A, nine letters, “Pancake purveyors.” Feels very ‘80s to me. But I still like it.
30-D, nine letters, “Étude embellishment.” Three in a row. (Alliterative clues, that is.)
45-A, nine letters, “Heating system component.” Takes me back to earlier abodes.
52-A, nine letters, “Navigational hobbyist.” I didn’t know about this hobby.
53-A, five letters, “Earliest-born Poker Hall of Famer.” I’m out.
If you, too, are having difficulty with the Newsday paywall, you can access the Stumper at GameLab. And if Newsday is listening: please consider offering a crossword subscription. The Stumper has a national audience, and you cannot expect non-Long Islanders to pay $363 a year for a crossword.
No spoilers; the answers are in the comments.
Saturday, October 30, 2021
Today’s Saturday Stumper
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WAY. (Way cool!) ASK. ICERINKS. LEAPS.
ENAMELS. CREPERIES. (The Magic Pan, anyone?) GRACENOTE.
STEAMPIPE. ORIENTEER. HOYLE.
Wikipedia: “Because of his contributions to gaming, [Edmond] Hoyle was a charter inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979, even though he died 60 years before poker was invented.”
How did you access the puzzle? Subscription to Newsday?
I put a link in the post in the next-to-last paragraph — GameLab. You can find the Newsday puzzle elsewhere too — Saturday’s Crossword Fiend post has links in the comments.
With GameLab, you have to disable any ad-blocker and sit through an ad to get the puzzle. I’m not sure about the other sites.
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