other Washington Post Sunday crossword, October 16 (contains answers)

Posted November 4, 2005 • Comments Off on Washington Post Sunday crossword, October 16 (contains answers)

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Title: America’s Next Top Models
Theme entries: clothing items, redefined as puns with professions

24A, The sandwich makers wore ___: WRAP skirts
45A, The day-care workers wore ___: KID gloves
69A, The cutlers wore ___: STILETTO heels
87A, The caddies wore ___: TEE shirts
113A, The congressmen wore ___: HOUSE coats
3D, The memory experts wore ___: JOGGING shoes
12D, The circus promoters wore ___: TENT dresses
65D, The limo drivers wore ___: STRETCH jeans
69D, The spiritual advisers wore ___: SUPPORT hose

Things I learned, with web links so you can learn them too:

75A, Indy’s Luyendyk: ARIE
85A, How boors behave: INAPTLY [I got this, but I don’t think it’s a damn word]
97A, Conductor de Waart: EDO
105A, Vezina Trophy org.: NHL [uh, Stanley Cup?]
121A, Miner’s vein: LEDGE [def. 4]
36D, Big D hoopster: MAV [I cannot navigate nba.com in my browser. They can blow me.]

[At this time four squares in the upper right were blank, and several others were wrong.]

26A, Bellini heroine: NORMA
13D, Siouan tongue: OTO

Oh. Wait. I just got it. Hold on. It’s comrades and sorority. The other opera is Tosca. I fix. (Two opera clues right next to each other. Bastidges.)

Okay, I scribbled some more crap in the corner, and now we’re fine. See? This is the first one this bad in a while. The real root of the problem was 22 Across, E-TOOL. Not e-mail. Not e-book. Sigh.

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Overall:
I messed up a biblical 17 squares in this one, including fixing a bunch of letters I got outright wrong. I even had to scribble in two theme entries: I had jogging suits and stretch pants. This was another cute, easy theme, but of course the whole puzzle is so messed up it doesn’t matter. Nine theme entries, and (I think) nine things I had to look up (counting cutler), both slightly higher than average numbers.