DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
“Big Board” that lists GM and GE Strauss of jeans Scam using spam, say Fireworks cries Eye layer that includes the iris Roman robes How something precarious may hang
Love, to Casanova Soft toss “Out with it!” List-ending abbr. Diplomatic office “No more for me, thanks” Simon __ How a good comedian leaves the audience? Farm layer Lamp-to-plug line
Little mischief-maker Marisa of “My Cousin Vinny” 40 Asian New Year 41 Very unpleasant 43 “It’s __-win
situation” 44 Clinton’s veep 46 Fifth scale note 47 Difficult time 50 Queries 54 Schlepped
55 Eats a little 57 “Verrrry funny” 59 Stem (from) 61 Opposite
of “yep” 62 Overplay the
part
64 Care
66 Career
employee
67 New __: modern
spiritualist 68 Rebuke from
Caesar
69 Put off 70 Gridiron throw 71 Stinging insect 1 5 9 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 23 24 26 28 29 33 35 36 37
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 18 22 25 27 30 31 32 Aristocrats Grammy-winning cellist
“Not too __!”: “Good work!” “To the max” suffix
Slyly attracts “Brideshead Revisited” novelist Waugh Wiener schnitzel meat Words of confession School fundraising gp. Household skills class, for short “Let me handle it”
__ Lee desserts Canine command Elevs. Mideast chieftain Arthur of tennis Dictation pro Like dessert wines Ambulance pro 007, e.g.
DAILY BRIDGE CLUB:
If there were an Olympic event for pessimism, Cy the Cynic might enter — but he wouldn’t like his chances of winning. Cy expects the worst and is seldom disappointed.
Cy became declarer at today’s four spades doubled, and West took two high hearts and shifted to the jack of clubs. Cy won a finesse with dummy’s queen and saw that he could take the rest, for a glorious victory, with favorable breaks: K-A of trumps, ace of clubs, club ruff, and a trump to dummy to discard diamonds on the good clubs.
But since the Cynic routinely expects bad breaks, he led a LOW club from dummy at the fourth trick. West won and led a trump, Figure skating figure Sticky subject? Musical Yoko Get sassy with someone 40 Import-export imbalance “Sadly ...” Newspaper opinion page 46 Norelco products 48 Pointed beard 49 Baked potato topping paired with sour cream 34 37 38 39 42 45 and Cy won with dummy’s 10 and ruffed a club. He drew trumps with the K-A and ran the clubs. Making four.
Cy goes down if he leads a trump to his hand at Trick Four and returns a club to dummy’s ace. East will ruff and lead a diamond. Cy can’t set up and cash the long clubs, so he must finesse with the queen. West’s king wins the setting trick.
DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ 5 ♥ AK93 ◆ K10 74 ♣ K J 10 9. You are the dealer. What is your opening call?
ANSWER: Some players would open one diamond, intending to bid two clubs next if responder bids one spade or 1NT. That plan is Piano piece Some big box stores Clinched, and a hint to the four longest Across answers
“... and two if by __”
57 __ up: robbed 58 Parisian gal pal 60 Latvian capital 63 Blow it
65 “Do the __”: soft-drink slogan 51 52 53 56 risky. I recommend opening one club and bidding 1NT over a one-spade response. It’s not a perfect plan, but it will let you stay low.