place in a junior high poetry contest, which only shows how low the bar was placed.:
Title: A Crossword Puzzle
A crossword puzzle
Now let me see
What's a word
Meaning trickery
How many letters
I'll tell you it's three
But how that will help you
I really don't see.
It begins with an X
And it ends with a Z
And the letter in the middle
Well it just couldn't be
Something is wrong
It's plain to see
It must be the puzzle
It couldn't be me
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More important, I think you should all know that the composer of this puzzle-me-has had (years ago) two daily puzzles that were accepted and ran in the New York Times and Eugene Maleska, the well-known Times crossword puzzle editor, placed my larger Sunday puzzle in a Simon & Schuster Crossword Puzzle book. Maleska hand-wrote me a long letter, ending with a hope that I would not turn out to be "a nova." I guess I did. But when I look up nova, I'm not sure: "a star that suddenly becomes thousands of times brighter and then gradually fades to its original intensity." 1000's??
This puzzle, somewhat hurriedly composed, does not, I think, quite meet the standards of the Times, but on the other hand, it has a political orientation which the Times would never allow.If you need hints, email me at dmermels@duke.poly.edu. Some day, in the not too distant future, I'll put the answer on the blog. Have fun.
Across1 A special O word (be careful)
4 Barry's favorite Pres.
7 Worn, presumably, by Hoffman in Tootsie
10 Econ. ratio, involving money earned and money owed
13 Hit 42 homers in 1929
14 14-14
15 ____ shore (Maryland, Delaware, Virginia)
17 January 20, 2009
20 Palindromic member of the family
21 Precedes last name of film maker who gave us Vivre sa vie
22 Stake put into the pot
23 What many GOPers think of O
27 5th album by Flake, 1995
28 Last word on screen, usually, before the credits
29 What OJ gained bef. he became infamous
30 RR law, passed in 1926
33 Beginning of what many GOPers might answer to popular O phrase
35 A place to buy
37 Plated horse
39 What to call a team with both genders
40 Word with caboodle
42 Precedes present
43 USS ____ (Desert Storm ship)
45 Sounds of surprise
47 Conclusion of 33 Across
48 Loser to DDE
49 Pitching stat
52 Beginning of Capra movie, with James Stewart
54 7, 14, 21, abbr.
55 What Democrats think of America, since November 4
58 Precedes acte
61 Wall Street option
62 Gang
63 January 20, 2009
69 Reid or Biden will do this, vis-a-vis the Senate
70 Fighter in Iwo Jima
71 Earlier
72 Indiana airport letters
73 O admitted using marijuana, cocaine and alcohol, but not this
74 April 15 org.
75 See 1 Across
Down
1 Some like it this way
2 Schwahn created teen TV drama (initials)
3 First name of tennis great (be careful)
4 ____ the ____ of Crispian (King Henry V)
5 Activity at a card game, before playing
6 ____ Laws on discrimination and ec. pay
7 ____ and the Beast
8 Foul
9 Enzyme suffix
10 "Coming Home" star
11 One Down "to ____ "(1988)
12 ____ Gault, landmark Supreme Court decision, 1967
16 Air ____ (flown by puzzler to Memphis)
18 Rare girl's name (ranked 3887, in US)
19 Where S.C. messed up, in 2000
23 Played Lawrence, in 1962
24 Seen on stage at classical concerts
25 Just below Sask. and Man.
26 Predecessor to CIA
30 Hard, salty cheese
31 Used to live at Dakota
32 Mining accesses
34 Former name of Tokyo
36 Yummy bake, but healthy?
38 Hic, haec, ____
41 The ____ Man, with Powell and Loy
44 Young female aristocrat who comes out
46 Postal worker, at times
50 Grand ____
51 "We are not ____ "
53 Brews
55 People of middle-earth
56 Greek goddess personifying recklessness
57 ____ Saud
58 Caltech Econ. and Pol. Sci. lab, initials
59 Labor bd.
60 ____ age
64 "____ the end of time," sung by Como
65 Super Bowl won by 49ers, 26-21
66 Interjection, sometimes denoting frustration and/excitement
67 Kind of maniac
68 Inside ____
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