Friday, December 12, 2014, C.C. Burnikel

Theme: Let's Corner the market on old poets.

The good news, my minor in college was English and I took many poetry classes. The bad news, I do not recall titles of anything, books,  poems, songs...This took longer than any Friday in months, and I was so excited to have a C.C. to blog after last week's marti masterpiece. Of course what could bemore fitting than the creator of Crossword Corner creating a puzzle about a Corner.  Each of the four in this puzzle has two very famous poets intersecting by the first or last letter of their last names, with a central reveal, surrounded by four cheater squares to make it a grid-spanner of sorts. The works selected appear to be picked because they are not the most famous work of the author, thereby making this Friday a real work out.
There also is also the confusion of so much long fill that exceeds or equal the length of the theme answers. EVICTED, MEDICAL, NEGLECT , IMPURITY, PAGANINI, RED ADAIR, SIPOWICZ, SMASH HIT, THE ALAMO, LENGTHENS and NESPRESSO.  These mix old and new knowledge.

1A. He wrote "The Eve of St. Agnes" : KEATS. Not his most famous POEM. Poor man died at 25 of TB.
1D. He wrote "Summer of Love" : KILMER. Another POEM I do not know from Joyce who wrote TREES. Kilmer was an American killed in Europe by a sniper's bullet in World War I at age 31.

9A. He wrote "Halloween" : BURNS. Here we go again, another POEM I no nothing about. This Scotsman lasted until he was 37, having father 14 children along the way.
 13D. He wrote "The Cloud" : SHELLEY. Percy Bysshe Shelley was a contemporary of Keats, he wrote this POEM and also died young, at 29 in a sudden storm. His death is the subject of speculation. His second wife was Mary Godwin, who wrote Frankenstein.


40D. He wrote "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" : SERVICE.
67A. He wrote "Ash Wednesday" : ELIOT. I do not this POEM either.


49D. He wrote the "Odes" : HORACE. This is a most famous collection of POEMS.
69A. He wrote the "Convivio" : DANTE. This is an unfinished work which includes POEMS in the books.

and the reveal (hint)
38A. Westminster Abbey attraction, and one of four in this puzzle : POET'S CORNER.

Across:

6. Avid fan : NUT. The online etymology dictionary tells us, "be nutts upon "be very fond of" (1785), which is possibly from nuts (plural noun) "any source of pleasure" (1610s), from nut (q.v.)."

14. "That's it for me!" : I QUIT. A simple but elegant fill with a QU in the middle.

15. Kyrgyzstan city : OSH. Really? Kosh B'Gosh, we live in Osh? Occupational Safety and Health not good enough for C.C.? I do not know the cpountry or the CITY.

16. "My FBI" author Louis : FREEH. I cannot remember the spelling of his name. LINK.

17. Drew : LURED. I could not picture this answer. I wonder if Drew Carey would be popular as Lured Carey.

18. Cohort of Curly : MOE. A CSO to our own Chairman, also 20A. Red Guard leader : MAO.

19. Perch, at times : LEDGE.

21. 1970s radical gp. : SLA. So much hard work, I started with SDS.

23. Literary assortment : ANA. We had this a month ago (11/14/14) and I even can pint to a previous C.C. PUZZLE which used htis fill.

25. The whole shebang : ALL.

26. Peut-__: maybe, in French : ETRE. Perhaps it means maybe.

28. Lace place : EYELET.

30. "Small Wonder" state: Abbr. : DELaware. This was one of those educated guesses that make solving go faster.

31. Five-pound Staples package, typically : REAM of paper. You can do your office workout now.

32. Stellar spectacles : NOVAS. Naturally I started with NOVAE.

33. Show anxiety, in a way : PACE.

34. Music publisher sold to Universal in 2007 : BMG. This says it was sold to SONY in 2008? LINK. Bertelsmann is sill very active.

36. Foreign matter : IMPURITY. Nicely phrased.

40. Blockbuster : SMASH HIT. Dont you love fill that has ___HH__.

42. Backup key : ESC. I think of UNDO.

43. Some hosp. scans : EEGS. ElectroEncephalagrams.

44. Pentathlon equipment : EPEES. One of the five events of the competition.

46. Sundance Film Festival state : UTAH. Robert Redford's home.

50. Nutritional stat. : RDA. Recommended daily allowance.

51. Battery terminals : ANODES. Cathodes anyone?

52. Maker of the Power Max HD snow blower : TORO. Two weeks in a row, one from marti one from C.C., hmmm.

53. Chablis, e.g. : VIN. Please no whining about foreign words, especially after the Coc au vin discussion.

54. Sydney's state: Abbr. : NSW. New South Wales.

55. Rocky hellos : YOS.

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57. Old Egypt-Syr. alliance : UAR. United Arab Republic.

58. Finishing touch of a sort : ICING.

60. Swear words : I DO. And I will very soon.

62. West African capital : ACCRA. Ghana, along woith Nigeria, a hotbed of internet scams.

64. Support aids : CANES.

65. Tough mutt : CUR.

66. Designer Mizrahi : ISAAC.

68. Intro to zoology? : ZEE. I am sure those who live by the ZED hate this clue.


Down:


2. Regard as the same : EQUATE
3. Night light sight : AURORA
4. No-win situation : TIE
5. Mfg. guidelines : STDS
6. Deli request : NOMAYO
7. Private entertainers, briefly? : USO
8. Texas Revolution battle site : THEALAMO
9. A neighbor : BFLAT
10. Script add-on : URE
11. Legendary firefighter : REDADAIR
12. Pay no attention to : NEGLECT

22. Stretches out : LENGTHENS
24. Coffee-making portmanteau : NESPRESSO
27. Raise in relief : EMBOSS
29. Bounced : EVICTED
33. Like jigsaw puzzles : PRECUT
35. "So what" : MEH
37. Young __ : UNS
38. 19th-century Italian violin virtuoso : PAGANINI
39. Franz' "NYPD Blue" role : SIPOWICZ

41. Kind of research : MEDICAL
45. Pooh pal : EEYORE
47. Froot Loops mascot : TOUCAN
48. Ancient docking site : ARARAT

51. Apprehension : ANGST
56. Declared : SAID
59. Recent: Pref. : NEO
61. __ process : DUE
63. Gray side: Abbr. : CSA