By DEANE MORRISON AND GEORGE BARANY
George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977) currently on the Chemistry faculty of the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. Deane Morrison, a distinguished science writer, is his U of M colleague. For more about this specific puzzle, including a link to the answer, visit here. More Barany and Friends crosswords can be found here.
Across
1.___ coil (electrical device invented in1891)
6.Aussie greeting, often followed by “mate”
10.Ballplayer’s headgear
13.They keep the wheels turning
14.Song title shared by “The Sound of Music” and “West Side Story”
15.Put away groceries?
16.Facility whose large glass pyramid would glow purple whenever this puzzle’s
honoree was present
18.Obstacle
19.Band boosters
20.Theater chain that merged with AMC in 2006
21.Get bushed
22.___ moss
24.Concise in speech
26.Billboard’s #1 single of 1984
30.Fish stick?
31.Scott Turow autobiographical bestseller of 1977
32.Get ready to drive, in golf
36.“___ U”
38.Number of Grammies won, as well as pronunciation of a #3 top 40 hit, by this
puzzle’s honoree
41.Small force
42.Classified, as blood
44.Land of Esau’s descendants
46.DDE’s wartime command
47.Prince’s followers
51.Big wind
54.Go ___ great length
55.Willing partner
56.Grieve
59.Coffee, tea, or beer
62.No-win situation
63.Song that begins with a spoken eulogy to “this thing called life”
65.Bobbie Gentry wrote one to Billy Joe
66.The ___ Project (“Sleeper”)
67.Quibblers split them
68.Nothing but the bottom of the ___
69.Some mil. awards
70.Old lab heaters named after a volcano
Down
- Spanish appetizer
- Oral, e.g.
- Missed a beat
- Ameliorate, in a way
- Means of communication at Gallaudet Univ.
- Rubberneck
- Talks slowly, in a way
- Lung compartment
- Hirsute Himalayan
- Rustic retreat
- Video game name
- Georges who wrote “A Void” (novel without the letter “E”)
- Muscle: Prefix
- John and namesakes
- Played around (with)
- “Much ___ About Nothing”
- Flat-screen predecessor, for short
- Order
- Word with cow or mackerel
- Center of gravity?
- Small eel
- Result of computer overuse, maybe
- Golden rule preposition
- Drudge
- Chapter’s companion
- They may amend xword clues
- Emphatic denial, as to news of a tragedy
- How many it takes to tango in Spain?
- Dudes
- Arcade fans
- Strikingly unusual
- Dedicated experimentalist or experimental subject
- Stick with the beat?
- Tolerate
- Winter weather woe
- Exploits
- NFL linemen
- Cornell of Cornell University
- “Swiss Family Robinson” author Johann
- Bristol boy
- Revolutionary whose beret was never raspberry