CrosswordACross1 It’saminer

concern4 Useafork8 Whatawitness

forthedefencemightprovide

13 Cartedujour15 Swisscheese

feature16 Subatomic

particle17 Touchdown

data,briefly18 ManyYom

Kippuractivities20 Whatfurniture

moversdo,essentially

22 I.S.P.withInstantMessenger

23 Mosthearty24 Skewereddish26 Amajorhas

three32 PostonYouTube36 “Byefornow,

monami”37 Whatcarsdoon

adirtroad41 Garlickymayo42 Collegeprof’s

security43 Expands,ina

way45 Ebbingand

flowingwiththemoon,say

48 Mariachirattler52 OldPC

operatingsys.54 Whatpeople

waitingatthedoorforaridemightdo

59 Beginningswimmer’saids

60 Operasolo,often

61 AncientGreekmarketplace

62 Latinfor“tobe”63 Secretary’swork

area64 LeaveHer

Majesty’sservice65 Permits66 Ontariofunny

manGerry___

dowN1 Bulovarival2 Gotback3 Makepossible4 Easilyrattled5 Thewholeball

ofwax6 Howhermitslive7 Decompression

disorder8 Shellsandslugs9 Wolfish

expression10 IrvingBerlin’s“__

_ThisaLovelyDay”

11 Thisandthat12 Shoo-___14 W.Virginia’s

environs19 Smallnewts21 LittleTramp

portrayerCharlie25 Militaryalarm

clock27 NotedRoman

wallbuilder28 Summedup29 2016Olympic

city30 Wheretositfor

asermon31 Beach-goer’s

hope

33 Nolongerin34 Georgeofthe

Jungle’ssidekick35 Chief___

George37 Mandible’s

locale38 XIIdividedbyIV39 VishnuorZeus40 Wackos44 Eurasiantree

duck46 Idolized47 Thelma’smovie

partner49 Servantfreedby

Prospero50 Removethe

suds51 Sensationof

dread53 Tomatoplant

support54 Hourlypay55 “Ararat”

movie-makerEgoyan

56 Crime-solvingWolfe

57 Notverycolourful

58 Anakin,toLuke59 Bigglobofgum

West was stuck for a bid at his second turn. He tried to show his extra values by dou-bling, not everyone’s choice, but North was not deterred and drove to game with his fine hand. South had over-called on such meager val-ues that the contract was far from cold, despite the good dummy.

West shifted to his single-ton 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 dummy’s 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 shed-ding a club, and continued with dummy’s last diamond. Instead of ruffing, he discard-ed 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

done, or was it?The defense could have

prevailed. South erred by cashing the king of spades. West was l ikely 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 sub-tle errors by both West and South. Would you have done better? Yes, I thought so.

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