Saturday, June 21, 2025

Today’s Saturday Stumper

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.

comments: 1

Michael Leddy said...

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.