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• Thursday, June 12, 2014 • Section E • Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com
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Crossword ACROSS 1 Pink-slips 5 Two- or threestriper, for short 8 Civic bldgs. 12 ___ arms 13 Bud competitor 15 Its first capital was Chillicothe, 1803-10 16 Casino staple 17 “Yellow Submarine” singer 18 Sandwich style 19 Hit the gym 21 Many figures of “The Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel 23 Narrow-brimmed hat 24 Title character played by Sarah Jessica Parker on Broadway 25 Santa Maria is one of them 27 David, when taking on Goliath
30 Use a divining rod 31 Heyward, Stone or Nelson, as each signed the Declaration of Independence 32 Rounded projection 33 Sea bird 34 What 3- and 9-Down are an example of 37 Jon Stewart display 38 Puccini piece 40 Rake 41 Cessation of breath
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50 Medium for school announcements 53 Fourthlargest city in Deutschland 54 Hair-raising 56 The Ronettes, e.g. 57 A.L. or N.L. division 58 Whiff 59 Currency with a 20-cent coin 60 Specialty 61 Stratego piece with a monocle 62 Stalk
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27 Big name in moving 28 Annual May announcements 29 Suggest 31 Word after lake or sea
39 Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthplace
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By PHILLIP ALDER Newspaper Enterprise Association
Steven Wright, a comedian who specializes in deadpan delivery, said, “Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.” Cast your mind back to yesterday’s column. Then look at this one. Maybe you will have a Steven Wright moment. West is defending against four hearts. He leads off with the club ace: six, queen, nine. How should he hope to defeat the contract? The bidding is instructive. North is right to make a takeout double over one club. True, if South does not have a ive-card major, the ensuing 4-3 major-suit it might be worse than a 5-3 or 5-4 diamond it. But a good South will have a ive-card major. East made a pre-emptive jump raise to three clubs, promising ive or more clubs and a weak hand. With game-invitational or greater strength, he would have responded with an artiicial two no-trump. (When responder has a big balanced hand, he starts with redouble over an opponent’s takeout double.) South cue-bid four clubs to show a strong two-
suiter. (With a good onesuiter, he would have jumped in that suit.) Note East’s play of the club queen. When a defender cannot win a trick, he plays top of touching honors (assuming he can afford to do so, of course). Now West should see four defensive tricks: two clubs, the heart king and a diamond ruff. At trick two, not later, West must shift to his singleton diamond. He then gets in with the heart king, underleads his club king to give East the lead, and receives a diamond ruff.
Contact Phillip Alder at pdabridge@prodigy.net.
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