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#1 hit for the Beach Boys 33 Vornado product 34 Landscaping tree 35 Peter was the first one Application Federal retirement org. Couple of million? Farm food Justice __ Bader Ginsburg
45 Get going 48 Have bills
49 #1 hit for Johnny Rivers “Let’s get together” Best-liked, briefly Kite carrier Italy’s Villa d’__ One of 12 on a die #1 hit for Jim Croce Brit’s kitchen floor Abates Threw in Dispatch, as a dragon Oboist’s supply Hired thugs 1 6 11 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 24 26 28 37 38 39 42 43 53 54 55 58 60 64 67 68 69 70 71 72
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1 Easy runs 2 General feeling 3 Dodge Viper engine 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 19 20 25 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Slowly, in music Drunkard Genuine Undecided Advice giver on SiriusXM Radio Canon camera named for a dawn goddess Winter vehicle on treads Convertible type Tiny margin of victory Another, in España “__ what?” One of a pair of cartoon slackers It’s over in France National econ. stats
Grow fond of Go from E to F? __ a customer “Soon” Emphatic word of refusal What salmon do upstream Stole from a coat store?
DAILY BRIDGE CLUB:
“This should interest you,” I said to Cy the Cynic. “I read that J.M. Barrie invented the name Wendy just for his book ‘Peter Pan.’”
Cy, a chauvinist, and Wendy, my club’s feminist, are constant adversaries, even when they cut as partners.
“That’s appropriate,” Cy growled. “The woman is straight out of Neverland. She never helps me on defense and never apologizes when a misdefense is her fault.”
Wendy and Cy were today’s East-West, defending against four spades. Cy led a heart, and Wendy took the ace and led her singleton diamond.
“I had to guess,” the Cynic said. “To have a chance, I had to assume 36 __ contact 40 River through Dublin Span. miss Neighborhood pal, in slang 46 Attorney general under Ronald Reagan
47 Blows one’s
stack 50 Mohammad __ Pahlavi: last shah of Iran 51 Farm
contraption 41 44 Wendy had the ace of trumps. If she had a doubleton diamond, I had to duck the first diamond to keep communication. That was the wrong defense — South made his game — and Wendy said I was an idiot.”
Wendy was at fault. She must cash the ace of trumps before leading a diamond. Cy will have no choice but to win and give his partner a diamond ruff.
DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ K874 ♥ 6 ◆ KQ J4 ♣ A K 9 4. You open one diamond, your partner bids one spade, you raise to three spades and he bids four hearts. What do you say?
ANSWER: Partner’s four hearts is an ace-showing cue bid to show slam interest. 52 55 56 57 59 61 62 63 65 66 Engage in to excess OPEC units Mass transit option Barry Humphries alter ego Dame __ Mix, as salad Extinct bird __ Stacy: SpiderMan love interest They might be loose or tight Ka __: southernmost Big Island point
Purse He might have cue-bid the ace of diamonds first if he had it. Still, you can make a slam if he has good trumps. Cue-bid five clubs.