Lester Ruff, are you really? Less rough, that is. Because today’s Newsday Saturday Stumper is not especially easy, or at least it wasn’t for me. I was ready to surrender until I realized what 33-A, six letters, “100 Years of Warner Bros., e.g.” signified.
Some clue-and-answer pairs of note:
1-A, eight letters, “Wet-weather wear.” If this answer means what I think it means, this clue is pretty sneaky.
12-D, eight letters, “Structure in a policing metaphor.” Not seeing this answer readily made the northeast corner much more difficult than it might have been otherwise.
13-D, eight letters, “Miles Davis sax collaborator.” My difficulties with 12-D and 18-A made this one much more difficult than it should have been. I thought that the answer had to be first name–last name, and I was stumped trying to think of someone, anyone, from Miles’s later years.
14-D, eight letters, “Belle’s lidded comforter.” Aww.
18-A, six letters, “What miscreants might make.” See 12-D.
25-A, five letters, “Sitcom’s fellow-shrink.” Of course.
26-D, seven letters, “Harvest with an annual limit.” Stumper-y.
40-A, five letters, “FDR self-descriptor.” The answer works in at least two ways.
45-D, six letters, “City served by Andersen Airport.” Andersen who?
51-D, four letters, “SeatMe acquirer in 2013.” And who was SeatMe?
My favorite in this puzzle: 38-A, six letters, “Not a single heavy duty.” Way Stumper-y.
No spoilers; the answers are in the comments.
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Today’s Saturday Stumper
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Michael Leddy
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BOXSET. RAINCAPS. (For exhaust systems, not human heads, I think.)
HENHOUSE. ADDERLEY. (Julian “Cannonball.”)
AMENDS. NILES. TAXLOSS.
POTUS. (FDR, POTUS: initials. But also: FDR is supposed to have used the acronym.)
ODENSE. (Hans Christian Andersen.) YELP. ONUSES.
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