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Sam Ezersky
NY Times, Sun, Feb 25, 2018 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS
60-Across : Like a certain lax debtor type
Author:
Sam Ezersky
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 70, Blocks: 29
1 A | 2 N | 3 C | 4 E | 5 S | 6 T | 7 O | 8 R | 9 S | | 10 I | 11 M | 12 S | 13 A | 14 D |
15 D | O | U | B | L | E | D | I | P | | 16 M | O | I | R | A |
17 V | E | R | B | O | S | E | L | Y | | 18 A | N | T | S | Y |
19 I | N | T | | 20 E | L | S | E | | 21 S | L | O | W | E | R |
22 S | T | A | 23 B | | 24 A | S | S | 25 A | I | L | | 26 I | N | A |
27 E | R | I | E | | 28 S | A | U | C | E | D | | 29 T | A | T |
30 D | Y | L | A | 31 N | | | 32 P | I | N | O | 33 C | H | L | E |
| | | 34 D | E | 35 M | 36 O | | 37 D | A | N | E | | | |
38 S | 39 T | 40 A | Y | W | A | R | 41 M | | | 42 E | N | 43 D | 44 O | 45 W |
46 H | E | R | | 47 S | I | E | R | 48 R | 49 A | | 50 T | I | R | E |
51 O | H | M | | 52 I | L | L | F | E | D | | 53 S | P | I | N |
54 W | R | I | 55 S | T | S | | 56 I | C | O | 57 N | | 58 L | O | T |
59 H | A | S | T | E | | 60 E | X | T | R | A | 61 B | O | L | D |
62 O | N | E | A | M | | 63 L | I | O | N | T | A | M | E | R |
64 W | I | N | G | S | | 65 I | T | S | S | O | E | A | S | Y |
© 2018, The New York Times
Across
1
10
Mopey maid's remark :
IMSAD15
16
17
18
Like Uncle C's wife :
ANTSY19
20
Lees, alternatively :
ELSE21
22
24
Attack, as part of a boat :
ASSAIL26
27
Scary-sounding city :
ERIE28
29
Trinidad and Tobago, initially :
TAT30
Boy in Candy Land :
DYLAN32
Help coin the name of a card game :
PINOCHLE34
Mode of presentation :
DEMO37
European said to condescend :
DANE38
Words wished on winter tramways :
STAYWARM42
What Moscow and Glasgow both do :
ENDOW46
"Ben-___" (all-female remake of an Oscar-winning film) :
HER47
Range said to follow the "B" era :
SIERRA50
Exhaust from part of a car :
TIRE51
___ economics (electrical savings) :
OHM52
53
54
56
Swindler's admission :
ICON58
Polish airline's fate :
LOT59
What a slowpoke hates :
HASTE60
62
Time in a cellphone a minute after 12:59 :
ONEAM63
64
65
Comment about writing essays, to one skilled at them :
ITSSOEASY
Down
1
Said "I'd save 500 dollars, if I were you" :
ADVISED2
Result of a sweepstakes disqualification :
NOENTRY3
4
Cyberspace gun pellet :
EBB5
6
7
A Texas city has this name, as does one in Ukraine :
ODESSA8
Fills with aggravation plus ire :
RILESUP9
Agent in Shaw's "Pygmalion" :
SPY10
11
It stands for a single 6666 on a phone :
MONO12
13
14
Price a hotel has ready at the front desk :
DAYRATE21
Place to get anise in Italy :
SIENA23
Seasides, by the sound of it :
BEADY25
Drug making a return in medications :
ACID31
33
35
Sends to boys, reportedly :
MAILS36
Shoreless inner city of Russia :
OREL38
Give a tutorial on who's who :
SHOWHOW39
Citizen of the Iran capital :
TEHRANI40
Fred who remains big in comedy :
ARMISEN41
Nickname for an ex-I.T. firm worker :
MRFIXIT43
44
This team must win, or I lose a bet :
ORIOLES45
What a trendy well-head did, sadly :
WENTDRY48
Sector with ends switched :
RECTOS49
55
'S a playground game :
STAG57
Group with a ton of peacekeeping forces :
NATO60
61
Bea, to Abe, in modern lingo :
BAE
Answer summary: 7 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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