DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Teensy
5 Box for tea leaves 10 Japanese box
lunch
15 Tree with an
oil-rich seed 16 Streamlined 17 Frank __ Wright 18 “Long time no
see” follower 20 Old enough 21 “Lady and the __” 22 Traffic signals 24 Possesses 25 Stage of grief 26 Smartens (up) 28 Manhattan liquor 29 Full of activity 34 “Ben-Hur” extras 37 “Now it’s clear” 38 Sonogram
subject
39 Sticks (out)
42 Had a nice
chitchat
44 __ out a living 45 Ahead
47 Not for kids,
filmwise
49 One whose wages come from wagers
50 Slugger Hank 51 Feel crummy 54 Rum-flavored
cakes
56 River mouth
formation
58 Far from friendly 60 Steep headlands 64 With deleted
scenes included 65 Passover staple 67 Likely to goof 69 Dam that created
Lake Nasser 70 Simoleons 71 Cookie cooker 72 Pork cuts
73 Goad
74 Twitter
headquarters?
DOWN
1 Beatty/Hoffman box office flop 2 Sticky 3 Water treatment
plant input
4 “I did good!” 5 Fort Collins sch. 6 Actress Jessica 7 One in the
headlights? 8 Critter on XING
signs
9 Informal “See
what I mean?” 10 Come into
one’s own
11 Pixie
12 Craft for six
puzzle answers 13 Rapper whose name sounds like a big cat
14 Poems of praise 19 “A Wrinkle in Time” (2018) actress 23 Electrically
connected with 27 Plant firmly
30 “So what?!” 31 Can. neighbor 32 Ref, slangily 33 Last critter in an
ABC book
35 TV’s “Science Guy”
DAILY BRIDGE CLUB:
Unlucky Louie is my club’s prince of misfortune. If he heated a bowl of alphabet soup in the microwave, it would come out spelling disaster.
Louie was declarer at today’s four hearts. West’s 2NT was “Unusual,” showing length in both minors. When West led the queen of diamonds, Louie won with the king to lead the queen of trumps for a finesse.
West discarded but worse was to come. When dummy played low, East won and led the ace and a second club to West’s king. Then a third club spelled doom: Whether Louie ruffed low or with the ace in dummy, East would get a second trump trick.
Louie brought it all on himself. He can afford to 36 Lawn starter 37 Honshu port 39 Chore
40 “One card left!” game warning 41 12-Down queueing pattern depicted by six puzzle answers 43 Corn unit 46 Science fair awards 48 Ultimately become
51 Nook lose one trump trick, hence he must win the first diamond in dummy and lead a low trump.
If East takes the king, and the defense plays three rounds of clubs as before, Louie can ruff with the ace and draw East’s remaining trumps with the Q-J. And no other lie of the missing trumps can trouble Louie.
DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ 7652 ♥ A9642 ◆ A2 ♣ J 6. Your partner opens one club, you respond one heart and he bids one spade. Opponents pass. What do you say?
ANSWER: To raise to two spades would be a chancegiving action, suggesting at most nine points. A jump to three spades would invite game, suggesting about 11. 52 58-Down default
music program 53 Under the surface 55 “So I was wrong!” 57 Defunct scandal-plagued company
58 Apple computer 59 Toll lane choice 61 Throat trouble 62 Kissable fairy-tale
critter 63 Unaccompanied 66 Ray gun sound 68 Legged it Though the spade support is weak, I would like the side aces and the “working” jack of clubs. Bid three spades.