NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
THE MYSTERY OF MCGUFFIN MANOR By Andrew Chaikin / Edited by Will Shortz
“Thank you for coming, Inspector,” Lady McGuffin said. “The famed McGuffin Diamond has been stolen from my study! The eight members of the staff had a costume party tonight - it has to be one of them: The butler, driver, cook, baker, page, porter, barber or carpenter. They have all been confined to their respective rooms surrounding the parlor, as shown here.” Can you determine who stole the diamond ... And where it is now?
ACROSS
1 Battlefield
cry 7 Sprint competitor 12 Pollen-producing
plant part 18 About three miles 19 Excoriates 21 “The Deer Hunter”
director Michael 22 An antique might
have one 23 What a Venn diagram
shows 24 Like 25 As you inspect each room, you find staff members dressed as ____ 28 Suspect No. 1 29 Start of a Christmas
refrain 30 “I like it!” 31 Days of old 32 Word that sounds like a number ... and is a letter backward 33 Russian
pancakes 35 Burn slightly 38 Refusals 39 They’re all ____, so you can easily identify them 44 Popeye’s kid 46 Delta competitor,
in brief 47 Woes 50 Suspect No. 2 51 Have trouble
swallowing 53 Like beloved books,
often 55 Showers 56 Tech debut of 1998 58 Tucson school, in
brief 61 California-based
auto company 62 Bristle of grain 63 What it all
adds up to 64 A ways away 65 Suspect No. 3 66 Spawn 69 Music for the
masses? 71 Sly and the Family
Stone genre 72 Public spat 74 Considered 76 ____ fusion (type of
cuisine) 78 Some appliances 79 They catch dust
bunnies 82 It might get
a licking: Abbr. 83 Musical family with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 85 In the study, you find that the thief accidentally left behind an ____ 88 Some sports cars 91 Lots 92 “That’s ____” 93 Some modern ones
are smart 96 Four-letter word for a
four-letter word 98 In ____ (stuck) 100 Hershey toffee bar 101 Suspect No. 4 102 “You caught me!,” says the thief, who then admits: “The diamond isn’t here in my room, but it’s hidden in ____” 108 “Hungry” game
characters 109 What each person
gets in an election 110 Spark 111 Ordain 112 Joined at an angle, as
two pieces of wood 113 Clothes hanger? 114 Suspect No. 5 115 Suspect No. 6 116 “Easy now ...”
DOWN
1 Source of the robe material for Incan royalty 2 Home brewer 3 Tell 4 Spry 5 Brooklyn Coll. is part
of it 6 Thomas who was chairman of the 9/11 Commission 7 Enjoy deeply 8 Salon brand 9 Magazine audience
fig. 10 Suspect No. 7 11 Style for Edward Hopper and George Bellows 12 What might come
with fencing? 13 Suspect No. 8 14 Goodwill 15 “Despicable Me”
character 16 Intestinal:
Prefix 17 Some knotted ropes 19 Elie Wiesel’s
homeland 20 Lowest of the eight major taxonomic ranks 26 Flambé 27 Japanese box lunch 33 Oenology : wines ::
zythology : ____ 34 Org. in “Die Hard” 36 Teri with a “Tootsie”
role 37 It might be snowy 39 Move off the bottle 40 Chip dip, familiarly 41 Badger 42 Diamond family
name 43 Like a bad loser 44 Major source of oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere 45 Janitor’s tool 48 Britain’s Broadway 49 City near Monterey
Bay 50 Latches (onto) 51 Delta preceder 52 Like a Debbie Downer 54 Women of honour 56 Kinda 57 Very, in Veracruz 59 Swing and completely
miss 60 Getaway for two
lovebirds? 67 Ireland’s best-selling
solo artist 68 Home of the original
Busch Gardens 70 The compass points 71 Hardy bean 72 Campfire treat 73 “Too busy” 75 Jr.’s junior 77 Suffix with
serpent 78 Leader whose name means, literally, “commander” 80 Kilt feature 81 Space to maneuver a
ship 83 Seeped (through} 84 Low on dough 86 Big launch
of 1957 87 “Time for a break” 88 Fictional city inspired
by New York City 89 Sauce put on falafel 90 Squash 93 Springsteen’s
birthplace, in song 94 Knowledgeable (in) 95 Hard 97 Music to a
hitchhiker’s ears 99 Thucydides had one 100 Said a 96-Across 101 Went with 103 Anika ____ Rose,
2004 Tony winner 104 Sunrise direction, in
Seville 105 “Best. Day. ____!” 106 Stable diet? 107 Rushing group,
informally