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Lab eggs “Bewitched” witch Vigorous spirit 2018 giant shark film, with “The” *1930 Faulkner novel Enlightened Buddhist
“... __ many ways” Letter between zeta and theta *1986 Chris de Burgh hit, with “The” Patio furniture maker Defiant comeback Thrown out of the game Time zone word: Abbr. Money left on a diner table Score often requiring overtime *Wits, when scared out of you Feral Unfavorable review __-Cat: winter vehicle
46 Group of nine
until 2006 48 Grated together,
as teeth 51 DeGeneres who
voices Dory 52 *Hit below the
belt
54 Bird in 2019 Liberty Mutual commercials 55 Apple discard 57 Small amounts 58 Popular newspaper puzzle, and a hint to what’s hidden in the answers to starred clues Cal. pages Humerus neighbor 1 4 10 14 15 16 17 18 20 22 23 24 27 29 30 32 33 35 36 39 42 43 62 63 64 Eye-related 65 “Tamerlane”
poet 66 Cribbage pieces 67 Hospital fluids 68 Shade of blue
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 19 21 25 Mogadishu natives Emote Capital on the Tigris “Scram!” Middle of dinner? Ugandan dictator Amin “Honest!” “Thank U, Next” singer Ariana Puts into words 2010 Mark Twain Prize winner Tina Incompatible with Hiker’s flask Fighting words? Museum tour guide “Atlas Shrugged” writer Rand “Just a bit longer”
DAILY BRIDGE CLUB:
Even on the rare occasion when Unlucky Louie receives a piece of good luck, he is too unlucky to take advantage. Louie brought me today’s deal from a penny game — he had been South — and asked about North’s raise to six hearts.
“Looks reasonable to me,” I said. “You could have had more high-card strength for your jump to four. Even with your actual hand, you had a chance for 12 tricks.”
“I went down,” Louie said glumly. “I took the ace of diamonds and the ace of clubs, led a trump to dummy’s seven and ruffed a club in case the king fell. When it didn’t, I drew trumps and finessed with the queen of spades. I lost a Agitate Highly paid pitchers, typically Host between Jack and Jay Domino dot Swede’s neighbor 37 Means
38 Crazy (over) 39 Step on the gas 40 Like many barbershop quartets 41 Appraising 43 Goes for crustaceans 26 28 31 34 36 spade and a diamond.”
Louie lost a cold slam. He didn’t notice that West’s J-10 (luckily) fell on the first two club leads. Then Louie could have drawn trumps with dummy’s king and led the queen of clubs for a ruffing finesse.
If East didn’t play the king, Louie would pitch his diamond loser. No matter how the cards lay, Louie would win 12 tricks.
DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ AQ653 ♥ K7
◆ A4 ♣ Q 9 5 2. You open one spade, your partner responds 1NT, you bid two clubs and he raises to three clubs. The opponents pass. What do you say?
ANSWER: Partner has suggested a maximum 1NT response with at least fourcard 44 Small laptop 45 Wandering
journey 47 Christmas tree
choice
49 Puff __: venomous African snakes 50 Elton John’s
title 53 Madagascar
primate 56 Spanish eyes 59 Vegas opening 60 __-ray Disc 61 Fugitive’s flight club support. Though you have a bit of extra strength, game is unlikely because you lack a source of winners. Pass.