0728-22 NY Times Crossword 28 Jul 22, Thursday


Constructed by: Bill Pipal & Jeff Chen
Edited by: Will Shortz

Today’s Reveal Answer: Cut Corners

Themed answers in the across-direction seem to make no sense at first. We have to CUT out the circled letters, which spell “CORNERS”, and realize that across-answers turn a CORNER and finish in the down-direction. Very devious …

  • 69A With the circled letters, a hint to solving seven Across clues : CUT (CORNERS)
  • 1A Like some face creams and serums, supposedly : ANTI-AGING
  • 6A Cost for a commercial : AD RATE
  • 9A Class now known as Family and Consumer Sciences, informally : HOME-EC
  • 28A “Go ahead, try this!” : HAVE ONE!
  • 35A Rumble in the Jungle promoter : DON KING
  • 47A 1985 benefit concert watched by nearly two billion people : LIVE AID
  • 53A To boot : AS WELL

Bill’s time: 11m 45s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

My wife and I are visiting friends for a couple of days, and I’m afraid we had a late night yesterday. I didn’t get to today’s puzzle until the “morning after”. Hence, this very tardy and abbreviated post. I’ll get to the full post just as soon as I can.

Apologies, but thanks for your understanding.

Bill

Complete List of Clues/Answers

Across

1 Like some face creams and serums, supposedly : ANTI-AGING
6 Cost for a commercial : AD RATE
9 Class now known as Family and Consumer Sciences, informally : HOME-EC
14 W.N.B.A. star Taurasi with five Olympic gold medals : DIANA
15 “___ qué?” : POR
16 Over : ABOVE
17 Strip, as a ship : UNRIG
18 Extravagantly emotional : RHAPSODIC
20 Rouse to action : BESTIR
22 Close behind, as a canine : TO HEEL
23 N.L. West team, on scoreboards : ARI
24 Dearest partner? : NEAREST
27 Plant used to make mescal : AGAVE
28 “Go ahead, try this!” : HAVE ONE!
32 Pear cultivar : BOSC
35 Rumble in the Jungle promoter : DON KING
37 Gal in Hollywood : GADOT
39 Tube rider, e.g. : BRIT
40 Port of Alaska : SITKA
42 Word with memory or bike : LANE
43 Antilles resident : CARIB
45 Finish off : DO IN
46 Sign : OMEN
47 1985 benefit concert watched by nearly two billion people : LIVE AID
49 Fastidious roommate of classic TV : UNGER
51 One way to administer a tranquilizer : DART GUN
53 To boot : AS WELL
56 Electronics whiz : TECHIE
59 Opposite of ruddy : SALLOW
61 Engaged in some amorous behavior : CANOODLED
64 Creator of Heffalumps and Woozles : MILNE
65 Sing ___ : ALONG
66 Swear words? : I DO
67 It has options for “cc” and “bcc” : EMAIL
68 Newsroom positions : DESKS
69 With the circled letters, a hint to solving seven Across clues : CUT (CORNERS)
70 True-blue : LOYAL
Down
1 Actress Uzo : ADUBA
2 Montana, once : NINER
3 Ankle bones : TARSI
4 Still a contender : IN IT
5 Putting in an enclosure : CAGING
6 Loan letters : APR
7 “Why did I do that?!” : D’OH!
8 Exhibit grandiloquence : ORATE
9 Character that’s popular on social media : HASHTAG
10 Instrument with a bell : OBOE
11 Most frequent number, in math : MODE
12 “May the forces of ___ become confused on the way to your house”: George Carlin : EVIL
13 Partner of Parks : REC
19 Ritzy : POSH
21 Has a novel experience? : READS
25 Sidestep : AVOID
26 Lease : RENT OUT
27 End of Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” e.g. : ACT IV
29 Courage under fire : VALOR
30 Cheese wrapped in wax : EDAM
31 Abstainer’s amount : NONE
32 Largest TV network in the world, by number of employees : BBC
33 Word-of-mouth : ORAL
34 Cortana : Microsoft :: ___ : Apple : SIRI
36 Scraping (out) : EKING
38 What you get when you put your hands together? : TEN
41 Scottish noble in “Macbeth” : ANGUS
44 Ones always taking cover? : BED HOGS
48 Military move : RAID
50 Crown covering : ENAMEL
52 One of many in Indiana Jones’s possession : RELIC
53 Quell, as concerns : ALLAY
54 First name on the Supreme Court : SONIA
55 “Just peachy” : SWELL
56 Chaucer chapter : TALE
57 Chimp who orbited Earth in 1961 : ENOS
58 Go kaput, with “out” : CONK …
60 “The Beast” for the U.S. president, for one : LIMO
61 No-goodnik : CAD
62 See 63-Down : … EDU
63 With 62-Down, end of a college address : DOT …

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