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Mark Diehl
NY Times, Sun, Apr 10, 2016 PUNS AND ANAGRAMS
55-Across : Measurer of the popularity of Don's music
Author:
Mark Diehl
Editor:
Will Shortz
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 68, Blocks: 30
1 P | 2 R | 3 O | 4 P | 5 S | 6 U | 7 P | | 8 Z | 9 E | 10 B | 11 R | 12 A | 13 S | |
14 B | E | R | E | A | V | E | | 15 A | R | O | U | S | E | 16 D |
17 A | L | A | R | M | E | R | | 18 F | R | E | E | A | I | R |
19 N | O | T | | 20 S | A | U | 21 N | T | E | R | | 22 G | N | U |
23 D | C | O | 24 N | | | 25 V | O | I | D | | 26 H | I | F | I |
27 J | K | R | O | 28 W | 29 L | I | N | G | | 30 L | A | V | E | D |
| | | 31 R | I | Y | A | L | | 32 E | A | S | E | L | S |
| 33 S | 34 O | U | V | E | N | I | 35 R | S | T | A | N | D | |
36 S | A | B | L | E | S | | 37 N | O | T | E | S | | | |
38 P | L | I | E | S | | 39 R | E | L | A | X | A | 40 N | 41 T | 42 S |
43 L | E | T | S | | 44 N | E | A | L | | | 45 Y | E | A | H |
46 A | S | P | | 47 F | O | U | R | T | 48 H | 49 S | | 50 A | M | I |
51 S | L | A | 52 Y | E | R | S | | 53 O | A | T | 54 B | R | A | N |
55 H | O | G | A | U | G | E | | 56 P | L | I | A | B | L | E |
| 57 G | E | O | D | E | S | | 58 S | T | R | A | Y | E | D |
© 2016, The New York Times
Across
1
8
Things worn under ze blouses :
ZEBRAS14
Cause to ever be a mourner :
BEREAVE15
Shook or used a buzzer on :
AROUSED17
Mr. Earl, a person sounding an alert :
ALARMER18
Gas station sign to which I refer a motorist with a flat :
FREEAIR19
... Q R S U V W ... :
NOT20
Go along at nature's pace :
SAUNTER22
Animal back in Hungary :
GNU23
Pest control on CD :
DCON25
26
Pairs of high fives :
HIFI27
Author whose first two initials fit between I-L wrong :
JKROWLING30
Mostly slaved over the wash :
LAVED31
Why lira gets exchanged into this :
RIYAL32
33
36
It's a blessing having these furs :
SABLES37
Things set on a staff :
NOTES38
Provides with piles of food and drink :
PLIES39
They'll help you unwind at 10 Star Lane :
RELAXANTS43
44
45
Cry that might follow a "Hey!" :
YEAH46
Creature that will sap your vitality :
ASP47
50
51
53
Silage consigned to a barn :
OATBRAN55
Measurer of the popularity of Don's music :
HOGAUGE56
57
Poems in praise of an appliance maker :
GEODES58
Went off on one's rest day :
STRAYED
Down
1
Letters before -UNK in a lunchbox :
PBANDJ2
3
One who can roar to a crowd :
ORATOR4
5
Club selling mass quantities :
SAMS6
Colorful part of Ave. U :
UVEA7
Person in a ravine up in the Andes :
PERUVIAN8
9
Inferred in the end by mistake :
ERRED10
11
Street in Western Europe :
RUE12
Foregone, like in savage conclusions :
ASAGIVEN13
Sitcom in which George and Elaine were fed lines :
SEINFELD16
Actress Joanne's driver's license and such :
DRUIDS21
24
26
Provides input regarding a sashay :
HASASAY28
They have views on marriage :
WIVES29
Compounds in polyester :
LYES30
Paint in two Gulf states :
LATEX32
A Spaniard makes a set of this :
ESTA33
34
Where a big poet was described in the end :
OBITPAGE35
36
39
Does the opposite after one sees you are wasteful :
REUSES40
Like Barney vis-à-vis Fred on "The Flintstones" :
NEARBY41
Part of a meal at a fiesta :
TAMALE42
Made glisten, as any dish :
SHINED44
Where natives of Oslo are gone :
NORGE47
Boot : butte :: food : ___ :
FEUD48
Stop after 46-Across :
HALT49
What angry Artie is causing :
STIR52
54
Call from the A.B.A. :
BAA
Answer summary: 2 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.
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