Today’s Saturday Stumper

Today’s Newsday  Saturday Stumper is by “Lester Ruff,” Stan Newman. And yes, it started so easily. 1-A, eight letters, “The ones that got away”? Feels like a getaway giveaway. 1-D, six letters, “Southwest’s second-largest city”? Obvious after 1-A. But I struggled with 11-D, three letters, “Don’t just look” (huh?), 16-A, six letters, “Italian art glass” (and yet I have a piece of it, duh), and 34-D, eight letters, “Circle look-alike” (again, huh?). This puzzle turned out to be Maura Ruff than I expected. The distinctive feature: two fifteen-letter answers, 8-D, “That’ll do” and 34-D, “Optimistic sentiment.”

Some clue-and-answer pairs of note:

19-A, three letters, “Something drawn to scale.” I think the clue is a pun, but I still don’t get “drawn,”

21-D, three letters, “‘The definitive record’ updated quarterly.” Long may it wave.

24-D, seven letters, “Handle.” The answer makes me think of something from a 1930s movie.

38-A, six letters, “It might be a snap.” Sweet.

44-D, six letters, “Hypothesized transitional guy.” I thought of a KInks song, and I don’t mean “Lola.”

48-A, four letters, “Litter pickup point.” Cute.

If the Newsday paywall makes it impossible for you to access the Stumper, you might try a different browser. I can access the Stumper in Brave but not in Safari. Or try another source — GameLab, for instance (which requires that you turn off your ad-blocker). Newsday would do well to offer a crossword subscription. I’d happily pay for the puzzle, but I won’t pay $6.98 a week for a digital subscription to Newsday.

No spoilers; the answers are in the comments.