DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Sleight of hand? 5 Like pie? 11 Tennis stroke 14 Name on the 1949 “Death of a Salesman” playbill
15 Bug on the
road?
16 Common cause
of conflict
17 “The Karate
Kid,” e.g. 20 Guide for surfers 21 Gray shades 22 Be of service to 23 Org. with traveling bans?
25 One hanging around a lifeguard tower 29 Studio once run by Howard Hughes
32 1958 Pulitzer
author James 33 D.C. figures 34 Some museum art 36 16th-century
council site 38 Unspecified
degree 39 Footnote abbr. 40 Nasal partitions 41 “... or so it
may __” 43 Unadulterated 44 Slangy OK
45 Ice cream named after a Canadian river 48 Quite a lot 50 Address in a
mess
51 Confront
aggressively 53 Swears
57 2013 Hudson’s Bay Company acquisition
60 “... exclaim, __ he drove out of sight”: Moore 61 Sign with an
arrow
62 Start to giver or
taker
63 Befitting 64 Hazmat team members, often 65 Tae__do
DOWN
1 Atlas display
2 Et __
3 Dust bunny
component 4 Achieved some
progress 5 Rubber eraser,
for one
6 Go slowly 7 Sargasso Sea
spawner
8 Pac. cousin 9 Christian in
cinema 10 Ambiguous
answer
11 Little big cat 12 Mythical monster 13 First and last word of a common fourword saw
18 Dr. Skoda on
“Law & Order” 19 Bathing spot 23 Popular online
lists
DAILY BRIDGECLUB:
“Simple Saturday” columns are meant to help aspiring players.
Beginners are taught the virtue of “getting the kids off the street”: drawing the defenders’ trumps promptly. The times when it’s proper to delay drawing trumps are too many to list.
At six hearts, South ruffed the first spade and drew trumps, which took three leads. He next led a club from dummy to his queen. West won and led another spade, and South ruffed again. He then led a diamond to dummy’s ace and finessed with the jack, but West produced the queen for down one.
Was South unlucky, or did he misplay?
South drew trumps prematurely. He can lead a 24 Discussed, with
“over”
25 Mark
26 Come to terms 27 Daddy Warbucks,
e.g.
28 Former Mormon
leader Ezra Taft __ 30 Actress
Knightley 31 Blender brand 35 “Nosebleed
seats” section 37 Supposes to be 42 Loses temporarily 46 Bodega patron trump to dummy at Trick Two but must next finesse in clubs. If West returns a trump, South wins and takes two high clubs to pitch a diamond from dummy. He cashes the A-K of diamonds, ruffs a diamond in dummy and ruffs a spade. South can then ruff his last diamond and claim the rest with high trumps.
DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ None ♥ AQ9864 ◆ KJ85 ♣ A Q J. You open one heart, your partner bids two hearts and the next player jumps to four spades. South in today’s deal bid five clubs with this hand. Do you agree with his call?
ANSWER: I agree. South could see a chance for slam if North had good trumps plus the ace of diamonds. 47 European capital 49 Fortune 500 l
istings: abbr. 51 Sailing 52 Complain 53 Really good, in
’90s slang 54 Rodents do it 55 Money in la
banque 56 Treated by the
doctor 58 Four-wk. period,
usually 59 Minimum for
many games North-South had agreed on hearts as trumps, so South’s five clubs was appropriate: an ace-showing cue bid to try for slam.