VENI, VIDI, WHATEVER
(Not original title)*
NY Times Crossword
September 29, 2019
Tom McCoy

The answers to the clues below involve words and phrases in which words usually accented on the first syllable become new words when the stress is switched to the second syllable. Wordplay is fair play.

1. Cruise that specializes in baked Alaska, creme brulee. etc.
2. Like ambitious scientists with eye on the prize
3. Study distinct from a famous high-kicking chorus line
4. Julius Caesar goes with the flow in Gaul
5. What a big rig driver puts on before a date
6. The main food served at Walden Pond

Answers:

1. Ship of the dessert
2. Nobel-minded 
3. Not Rockette science
4. I came, I saw, I concurred
5. Semi-cologne
6. Major Thoreau fare 

*Original title: 
NOW WEIGHT JUST A SECOND