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9. Fits about Center of Allentown for
starters
10. Solutions for balding men (you and
I): Hail Marys
11. Drunk running back embracing
Barbie’s boy for coins
12. Bleeding from drinking heavily after one
13. Swear again about a very old
wound’s onset
14. Entertain Rod Thursday behind
sketchy bar
15. Daisy’s cousin is all about zinfandel
mania
16. Hint to crying infant’s mother’s
sisters?
17. Support for Communist apparatus
from the right
18. More apt tailor
19. For Manet, I state, “Ed joked”
20. Busted by Brother Ken
21. Sarcastic press I see on the net
22. Stunned by Mr. Clampett’s
dominating annualized rate of
return
23. Second-rate, none of the above, and
trouble
24. Op-Ed piece on Colonel, er, North
25. Peculiar indeed—and rejected
26. Marched without a leader and
bowed
27. Funny, Meany’s one who almost
always agrees ( 3-3)
Previous Issue’s Puzzle—Operas
and Presidents
1. Tosca (“coast”)
2. Aida (“aid a”)
3. Roosevelt (“vote-loser”)
4. Washington (“showing tan”)
5. Madison (“maids on”)
6. Faust (“us fat”)
7. Rigoletto (“Geritol to”)
8. Wilson (“lows in”)
9. Adams (“as mad”)
10. Così fan tutte (“fatties count”)
11. Hayes (“ah, yes”)
12. Turandot (“Tout Rand”)
13. Reagan (“Age ran”)
14. Monroe (“no more”)
Solvers—No Reference Used
Bob Campbell, Lois Cappellano, Jennifer
Cheney, Michael Dolan, Deb Edwards,
Jason Gladden, Paul Haley, Peter
Hedgecock, David Kendall, Jerry Levy,
Charlie Linn, Don Maves, Jeanette
Manning, John Palmer, Joshua Parker,
Alan Putney, Francis Regnaucourt,
Debbie Rosenberg, Alan Silver, Ethan
Stroh, Jim Verlautz, Lawrence Watts
Clues for nine-letter words on faces
of large cube
Front (1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9) Do you while
texting ram our members?
Left (19-10-1-22-13-4-25-16-7) Some sleep
in decent bit of descent
Right (3-12-21-6-15-24-9-18-27) Death by
momentum, right, Ali? Thank you
Back (21-20-19-24-23-22-27-26-25) Run,
in case exercising offers protection
Top (19-20-21-10-11-12-1-2-3)
Gnarliest integrals yielding three-sided
polygons
Bottom (7-8-9-16-17-18-25-26-27) Wildly
insinuate certain streams of payments
Solvers—Used a Reference
(or didn’t specify)
Mark Ackerman, Dean Apps, Glenn
Bier, Jan Brown, John Calcagno, Robert
Clements, Christian Coleianne, Tim
Connor, Todd Dashoff, David Ellsworth,
Bryce Fawcett, Rita Fenichel, John
Fibiger, Bob Fink, Tim Fitzgibbons,
Nick Franceschine, Anant Galande,
Mike Giamba, William Glasgow, David
Harville, Mike Hill, Jason Helbraun, Joe
Kilroy, Eric Klis, Paul Kolell, Douglas
Kraft, Spencer Lloyd, Jeffrey McLane,
Lee Michelson, Brett Miller, Jim Muza,
Ray Niswander, Roy Olson, Susan
Reynolds, Amy Rhodes, Jay Ripps, Lou
Scarim, Craig Schmid, Lance Schulz,
Bill Scott, Glen Stark, Doug Szper,
Chuck Underwood, Dave Wallman,
Frank Zaret
Operas and Presidents brought out
a large number of first-time solvers.
Welcome! As I suspected, the formidable topic of operas created problems
for many of you whom I know to be very
good puzzle solvers (including both my
estimable test solvers).
The best unaided time was reported
by Lois Cappellano, nine minutes and 20
seconds. Lois is a “Jeopardy!” aspirant
and has been studying her operas and
presidents. There were only four others coming in under 15 minutes, which I
thought would be the expert threshold,
and I was right. They were Joshua Parker
at 10, Alan Silver at “just under 14,” Paul
Haley at 14: 35, and Peter Hedgecock “just
under the limit.” Congratulations to all,
or should I say, “Bravi!”
TOM TOCE is a senior manager for
actuarial services with Ernst & Young
in New York and is a member of the
Jeopardy! hall of Fame. he can be
reached at Thomas. Toce@ey.com.
