DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 It sold its mobile phone business to Microsoft in 2014
6 Econ. numbers 10 Beverage sometimes boxed
14 Build
15 Square
calculation 16 Title type:
abbr.
17 Serf of Sparta 18 Backstage
accesses 20 Unplanned
acquisition 22 Kylo’s mom in “The Force Awakens” 23 Hairdos made popular by Marie Antoinette 24 Home to the National Gandhi Museum 28 Showing
faith in
31 Jesus on a
diamond
32 __ Linda, Calif. 34 Metal giant 35 Kia
subcompacts 36 Smartphone
downloads 38 “Divergent”
heroine __ Prior 39 Trainee 41 Zoomed 42 Prefix with ski
or pad
43 John Williams
quintet
45 Ones eating on
the house? 47 “You’ve got __” 49 Novelist Hunter 50 Litmus test
for fun? 56 Judicious 57 “But wait! There’s more!” knife 58 Property
attachment 59 Campus official 60 Tatted up 61 Sting target 62 USMC rank 63 New __
DOWN
1 Radar’s pop 2 Where Utah’s minor league Owlz play
3 Wet forest growth 4 Statement after an ordeal 5 Churchill’s 1945 successor 6 Cared 7 Worn-out washer result 8 Invigorate 9 Fungal disease affecting 40-Down 10 Dreaming, at times
11 “Shh! Don’t tell anyone!” 12 Scottish resistance 13 Otherwise 19 Legend maker
DAILY BRIDGE CLUB:
My friend the English professor gets annoyed with people’s careless word usage. He chastised me for writing that a declarer made a contract “by means of” an end play.
“Just ‘by’ will do nicely,” the prof growled.
When I watched today’s deal in a penny game, South took the ace of hearts and appeared to have four losers: a heart, a club and two diamonds. But he drew trumps, took the A-K of clubs and led a heart. West won with the jack and led the queen, but instead of ruffing, declarer pitched his club loser.
West was end-played. If he cashed the ace of diamonds, South would take the rest. If West led a heart, South would ruff in dummy 21 Spots for
flowers
24 DEA employee 25 Literature Nobelist Canetti 26 Geppetto,
for one
27 “__ kidding!” 29 Decorative curtain fabric 30 Source of relief 33 Accord 37 Electronic control mechanism 40 Pines, say and discard a diamond. Making four.
“Masterful play,” I observed.
The prof was North. He nodded approvingly at South but cringed at me.
“Watch your language,” he sighed. “’Masterful’ means domineering. The word you want is ‘masterly,’ meaning skillful.”
No matter what you call it, South’s play earned 620 points.
DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ K953 ♥ A103
◆ 72 ♣ A 7 5 4. Your partner opens one heart, you respond one spade and he bids 1NT. The opponents pass. What do you say?
ANSWER: You have enough strength to invite game. Bid two hearts, which 44 Menu heading 46 Italian “Eat!” 48 Frontal and
temporal 50 Lip application 51 1998 Sarah
McLachlan hit 52 Mark for
attention 53 Three-time speed skating gold medalist Karin
54 1914 battle
river
55 Kegger quaff in this auction shows 10 or 11 points. If you had, say, eight points with heart support, you would have raised to two hearts directly.