LA Times Crossword

April 24, 2022

Christina Iverson (adapted)

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Each clue has two answers. There is a pattern in the second answers to the clues.

 

What's the difference between:

 

1. St. Nicholas in a department store and St. Nicholas in a LEGO Advent calendar?

2. Complaining about issues that affect you and complaining about getting the wrong wine in a restaurant?

3. A legal court setback and someone telling you that you can't feel a certain way?

4. A frightening tale and a tale about a Jewish celebratory dance?

5. Insurmountable issues and a surfer's dream?

6. A course of Prednisone and a way to manage Ceres and Vesta?

7. A plain, but effective support wrapping and a pretty, dainty, but ineffective one.

 

Answers:

 

1. Mall Santa and Small Santa

2. Airing grievances and Pairing grievances*

3. Motion denied and Emotion denied

4. Hair-raising story and Chair-raising story

5. Deal breakers and Ideal breakers

6. Steroid treatment and Asteroid treatment

7. Ace bandage and Lace bandage

Pattern in the second answers of each clue:

 

The second answers add the letters S P E C I A L to the key words of the first answers.

 

This is the first Sunday crossword for the constructor, who is the assistant to the new editor of the the LA Times Crossword - Patti Voral

 

*Grievance is a kind of wine..

Puzzle title:
EXTRA SPECIAL