NY Times crossword, Tues, Nov 2, 2016
Life is Shortz, no doubt
about it. Will Shortz shared some wisdom in his crossword puzzle on this day: amidst all the blockgame scenery,
fake and feint foolery, word and parry parody.
The clue—Down 23--What kindness and graceful aging reveal…
La respuesta, the answer … Inner beauty, sounds like the
supercilious, surefire meaning to existence
Will said it best and moved
on ahead most beautifiously to Down 24—Quibbles. And the answer to Quibbles? Nit…
And so goes life you move from inner beauty to nitpicking in a heartbeat, a
nanosecond a blink of the eye. Cause that’s how Will rolls… the man has cojones
like Yemens
Lemons, he’s no slave to space and time. Well, actually he’s pretty
particular about his spaces. And he likes his rhymes.
Way down upon the Swanee
River, far far away. In Ancient Central America, Juliet found her Romeo amidst
the Ebola, the Togoslogos and the Allosaurus. Or was that Al O’Saurus, the
Irishman from Pleistocene.
Rolling Stones lack it—. Moss. A
rolling stone gathers no moss, fools
us does Mr. Will Shortz the harlequin, and even adds a television reference, a “Wheel of Fortune” buy— an e.
You’re a funny guy Big Willie.
Bonnie and Clyde went on a
crime spree, he reminds, and Theseus slew the Minotaur on Crete. Don’t know if
Bonnie and Clyde made it to Peoria but I know they never hit Lesotho. But like
Sondheim said… It takes two. And that’s Across 59-- a duet. Just do it!
And Mr. Shortz does do it,
roaming down and across the cosmos like an Allosaurus from pre-history to Wheel of Fortune… across the map and all
over history, myth and legend. Across 61, To
be, in Toulouse, that’s c’est and with Will it’s either c’est la vie or not
to be—you just never know.
Just gotta see if it
fits.
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