SUNDAY CROSSWORD:
THE MYSTERY OF MCGUFFIN MANOR
“Thank you for coming, Inspector,”
Lady McGuffin said. “The famed McGuffin Diamond has been stolen from my study! The eight members of the staff had a costume party tonight - it has to be one of them: The butler, driver, cook, baker, page, porter, barber or carpenter. They have all been confined to their respective rooms surrounding the parlor, as shown here.” Can you determine who stole the diamond ... And where it is now?
ACROSS
1 Battlefield cry
7 Sprint competitor 12 Pollen-producing plant part
18 About three miles 19 Excoriates
21 “The Deer Hunter” director Michael 22 An antique might have one
23 What a Venn diagram shows 24 Like 25 As you inspect each room, you find staff members dressed as ____ 28 Suspect No. 1 29 Start of a Christmas refrain 30 “I like it!”
31 Days of old
32 Word that sounds like a number
... and is a letter backward 33 Russian pancakes 35 Burn slightly 38 Refusals 39 They’re all ____, so you can easily identify them
44 Popeye’s kid
46 Delta competitor, in brief
47 Woes
50 Suspect No. 2 51 Have trouble swallowing
53 Like beloved books, often 55 Showers
56 Tech debut of 1998 58 Tucson school, in brief 61 California-based auto company 62 Bristle of grain 63 What it all adds up to
64 A ways away 65 Suspect No. 3 66 Spawn
69 Music for the masses?
71 Sly and the Family Stone genre
72 Public spat 74 Considered
76 ____ fusion (type of cuisine)
78 Some appliances
79 They catch dust bunnies 82 It might get a licking: Abbr. 83 Musical family with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
85 In the study, you find that the thief accidentally left behind an ____
88 Some sports cars 91 Lots
92 “That’s ____” 93 Some modern ones are smart 96 Four-letter word for a four-letter word
98 In ____ (stuck) 100 Hershey toffee bar 101 Suspect No. 4 102 “You caught me!,” says the thief, who then admits: “The diamond isn’t here in my room, but it’s hidden in ____” 108 “Hungry” game characters 109 What each person gets in an election 110 Spark 111 Ordain 112 Joined at an angle, as two pieces of wood
113 Clothes hanger? 114 Suspect No. 5 115 Suspect No. 6 116 “Easy now ...”
DOWN
1 Source of the robe material for Incan royalty
2 Home brewer
3 Tell
4 Spry
5 Brooklyn Coll. is part of it
6 Thomas who was chairman of the 9/11 Commission 7 Enjoy deeply
8 Salon brand 9 Magazine audience fig. 10 Suspect No. 7
11 Style for Edward Hopper and George Bellows 12 What might come with fencing? 13 Suspect No. 8 14 Goodwill 15 “Despicable Me” character 16 Intestinal: Prefix 17 Some knotted ropes
19 Elie Wiesel’s homeland
20 Lowest of the eight major taxonomic ranks
26 Flambé
27 Japanese box lunch
33 Oenology : wines :: zythology : ____ 34 Org. in “Die Hard” 36 Teri with a “Tootsie” role 37 It might be snowy 39 Move off the bottle 40 Chip dip, familiarly 41 Badger
42 Diamond family name
43 Like a bad loser 44 Major source of oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere 45 Janitor’s tool 48 Britain’s Broadway 49 City near Monterey Bay
50 Latches (onto) 51 Delta preceder
52 Like a Debbie Downer
54 Women of honour 56 Kinda
57 Very, in Veracruz 59 Swing and completely miss 60 Getaway for two lovebirds?
67 Ireland’s bestselling solo artist 68 Home of the original Busch Gardens
70 The compass points
71 Hardy bean 72 Campfire treat
73 “Too busy”
75 Jr.’s junior
77 Suffix with serpent 78 Leader whose name means, literally, “commander”
80 Kilt feature
81 Space to maneuver a ship
83 Seeped (through} 84 Low on dough
86 Big launch of 1957 87 “Time for a break” 88 Fictional city inspired by New York City
89 Sauce put on falafel
90 Squash 93 Springsteen’s birthplace, in song 94 Knowledgeable
(in)
95 Hard
97 Music to a hitchhiker’s ears 99 Thucydides had one
100 Said a 96-Across 101 Went with
103 Anika ____ Rose, 2004 Tony winner 104 Sunrise direction, in Seville
105 “Best. Day. ____!” 106 Stable diet? 107 Rushing group, informally