DAILY CROSSWORD
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“What did I tell you?” Moves like a crab Ladies of Sp. Decorative garden planter Clocked in __ contendere: court plea Reason for not owning a cat, say Genesis twin Doled (out) Suckling spot Dog in the comics Enchanted Sowing machine Like a cyclops TV drama settings “Star Trek: TNG” counselor __ Troi “Worst Cooks in America” judge Burrell Expense reducer When Tony sings “Maria” Makes a connection “Lou Grant” production co. Backstage guy Official with a seal
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procrastinating 53 Backside, slangily
Film VIP Prince William’s school Annual New Year’s Day spectacle ... and a hint to the starts of 17-, 23-, 36and 49-Across 60 Religious leader in “Angels & Demons” 61 Wind, over time 62 Hawaii’s
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“Just imagine ...” Barnes & Noble Nook, for one Contest submissions Cyber Monday event
“__ be fun!” Nerd One-named singer with the #1 hit “Royals” Joule fraction Place to fly Make light of Calvin’s babysitter in “Calvin and Hobbes” Adolescent support group Not worth a __ Zipped through Chinese philosopher Mo-__ Proscriptions Motrin alternative
DAILY BRIDGE CLUB:
In the club lounge, Unlucky Louie was grumbling about the cost of his health insurance.
“If you can’t afford it,” Cy the Cynic told him, “you can always rely on the placebo effect.”
“My doctor prescribed one of those,” Ed offered. “I paid his bill with Monopoly money.”
It’s a mystery why Louie won’t buy insurance as declarer. At today’s slam, he took the ace of spades and led a trump to his queen. West took his stiff king, and East also got a trump trick. Louie went down one when the diamond finesse won.
Louie can try to play safe for one trump loser by taking the ace first, but if he has a diamond loser, he can’t afford the safety
WWII general MIT URL letters Markdown marker Winery process Formerly named Aerobatics fliers Tres menos dos BOLO cousin Upper-body garment that exposes the midriff 40 Barge line 42 Strategy game played with stones 26 28 29 33 34 36 37 38 39 play. So Louie should lead a club to his ace at Trick Two and return a diamond to dummy’s jack. If East had the queen, Louie would need to find him with K-x in trumps.
When the finesse wins, Louie takes out insurance by leading a trump to his ace. If East-West played low, Louie would go back to dummy to lead a second trump.
DAILY QUESTION: You hold: ♠ J8 ♥ AQ9432
◆ 762 ♣ A 7. Your partner opens one spade, you bid two hearts and he rebids two spades. What do you say?
ANSWER: You have enough strength to invite game but not quite enough to force. An encouraging 43 Checked for fit 44 “It’s on me” 46 Ran into
48 Open house
offering
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printers 51 Stallone title role 55 German
automaker 56 Challenge
57 AQI monitor 58 Hoops stat. 59 Tulsa sch. named for an evangelist but not forcing rebid of three hearts would be the choice of many players. An option is to raise to three spades.