DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
King canine “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” network Isn’t honest with “Moby-Dick” captain 14-Across’s yes In a fog Target of campaign finance laws Fast-food toy giveaways, typically Himalayan of legend
Jazz dance 19th-century education reformer
Bit of election season ugliness 28 In order (to) 29 Cry bitterly 31 Travels like a shark Chocolate-andtoffee bar
__ vera
Like a momentous event Short holiday? Bad reviews Network connections 40 Facial spasm 41 Set to the same
time, say
42 Hill helpers 43 Dawg and
bae, e.g. 46 “Gilmore Girls”
matriarch 47 Spirals 52 Hampton Inn
rival
54 Some of this, some of that ... and a hint to the circled squares 55 Flares up 56 Deux divided
by two
57 TV drama that begins with the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 1 5 8 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 25 32 33 34 37 38 39 58 Philly team 59 Deux, across the Pyrenees 60 Callers’ links to specific depts.
DOWN
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 18 21 23 24 Support after a bad break? “Nope” Mocking remark Follow the leader Hostage taker Via plane “Just a __!” Barista’s decoration They’re not meant literally Plant swelling Wham-O summer lawn toy that needs water Base __
Pigs out (on), for short
Go over once more Hurries
With skepticism “It’s __ fault”
DAILY BRIDGE CLUB:
“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.” — Ogden Nash
In today’s deal, South’s bid of three diamonds was a try for game, asking North to bid game with a sound single raise or with a fair raise that had help in diamonds.
South took his ace of spades and saw nine easy tricks: He had to worry about his fourth diamond. At the second trick, he casually led a club: six, queen, king.
East hastily tried to cash the king of spades — what South hoped for. He ruffed and continued thus: diamond to dummy’s king, spade ruff, trump to dummy, spade ruff with the 25 26 27 30 31 32 33 35 36 Hindu religious leaders Medicine man in “The Princess Bride”
CPR providers Asks for a treat, dog-style Risqué message Lean-to relative J.Lo’s fiancé Sailor’s telescope Strand, as in “57-Across” ace of trumps. South overtook his queen of trumps with dummy’s king, drew trumps with the jack and took the A-Q of diamonds. Making four.
East’s defense was naive. If South had spade losers, he couldn’t avoid them. East should defend passively and let declarer struggle. If East leads anything but a spade at Trick Three, South can’t manage his dummy reversal and goes down.
DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ A ♥ AQ1085 ◆ A Q62 ♣ 7 5 2. Your partner opens one club, you bid one heart and he rebids three clubs. What do you say?
ANSWER: Partner’s jump-rebid in his own suit promises six or maybe seven good clubs with Twisted Sister frontman Dee 42 Some green cards? 44 Elicit oohs and aahs
45 Animal whose full name is from the Greek for “nose-horned” 48 Not doing much 49 GameCube rival 50 Dawn direction 51 LAPD ranks
52 TD scorers 53 Boxer Laila 54 Sludge 41 about 16 high-card points. You may make seven clubs or 7NT; he could hold J 5 4, K2,K3,AKQ1086.Bid three diamonds, forcing.