Crossword

ACROSS

1 Its a miner
concern
4 Use a fork
8 What a witness
for the defence
might provide
13 Carte du jour
15 Swiss cheese
feature
16 Subatomic
particle
17 Touchdown
data, briefly
18 Many Yom
Kippur activities
20 What furniture
movers do,
essentially
22 I.S.P. with Instant
Messenger
23 Most hearty
24 Skewered dish
26 A major has
three
32 Post on YouTube
36 Bye for now,
mon ami
37 What cars do on
a dirt road
41 Garlicky mayo
42 College profs
security
43 Expands, in a
way
45 Ebbing and
flowing with the
moon, say
48 Mariachi rattler
52 Old PC
operating sys.
54 What people
waiting at the
door for a ride
might do
59 Beginning
swimmers aids
60 Opera solo,
often
61 Ancient Greek
market place
62 Latin for to be
63 Secretarys work
area
64 Leave Her
Majestys service
65 Permits
66 Ontario funny
man Gerry ___

Solution to Whatzit? at bottom of page

BRIDGE with Bob Jones

done, or was it?

The defense could have
prevailed. South erred by
cashing the king of spades.
West was likely to have
opened one diamond with
4-4 in the minors and South
should have played him for
1-3-4-5 distribution. Cashing
the king of spades gave West
a chance to jettison his king
of diamonds, avoiding the
endplay. These were subtle errors by both West and
South. Would you have done
better? Yes, I thought so.

Whatzit? solution:

West was stuck for a bid at

his second turn. He tried to
show his extra values by doubling, not everyones choice,
but North was not deterred
and drove to game with his
fine hand. South had overcalled on such meager values that the contract was far
from cold, despite the good
dummy.
West shifted to his singleton spade at trick two, won
in dummy with the ace.
South ruffed a diamond,
then cashed three rounds
of hearts ending in dummy.
Another diamond was ruffed,
and declarer continued with
a low club toward the king
in dummy. West was forced
to duck his ace, playing the
10, and dummys king won
the trick.
South knew from the play
so far that West had started
with either 2-3-4-4 or 1-3-4-5
distribution. He cashed the
king of spades, West shedding a club, and continued
with dummys last diamond.
Instead of ruffing, he discarded his remaining spade. West
won his king of diamonds,
but was forced to play clubs,
giving South the queen of
clubs for his tenth trick. Well

Solution to yesterdays puzzle

DOWN

1
2
3
4
5

Bulova rival
Got back
Make possible
Easily rattled
The whole ball
of wax
6 How hermits live
7 Decompression
disorder
8 Shells and slugs
9 Wolfish
expression
10 Irving Berlins __
_ This a Lovely
Day
11 This and that
12 Shoo-___
14 W. Virginias
environs
19 Small newts
21 Little Tramp
portrayer Charlie
25 Military alarm
clock
27 Noted Roman
wall builder
28 Summed up
29 2016 Olympic
city
30 Where to sit for
a sermon
31 Beach-goers
hope

33 No longer in
34 George of the
Jungles sidekick
35 Chief ___
George
37 Mandibles
locale
38 XII divided by IV
39 Vishnu or Zeus
40 Wackos
44 Eurasian tree
duck
46 Idolized
47 Thelmas movie
partner
49 Servant freed by
Prospero
50 Remove the
suds
51 Sensation of
dread
53 Tomato plant
support
54 Hourly pay
55 Ararat
movie-maker
Egoyan
56 Crime-solving
Wolfe
57 Not very
colourful
58 Anakin, to Luke
59 Big glob of gum