2019-05-01_Games_World_of_Puzzles

62 GAMES WORLD^ OF PUZZLES^ | may 2019

As TBBT concludes its lengthy run, we offer an appreciation in the form of this variety cryptic crossword. The unclued

entries are the names of two important contributors to TBBT. The shaded squares, read clockwise from the upper left,

name the individual who proposed the core concept of TBBT. ANSWERS, PAGE 79

8ǤȨ&ǣǥ&ȳǞǥ8ǤȨǝǚǓ BY BOB STIGGER

ACROSS

1 Sheldon’s hero is lining
his pockets (5)
5 A University chair
comes with this excellent
salary (at first, beyond
500 thou) (4)
8 Doctor Who’s a TV
program (4)
11 Reportedly, what
Hawking might
help you do with
a battery (4)
12 Crop circle, a bit
of tomfoolery (3)
13 Revolutionary glue
securing midsection of
Massimino’s craft (5)
15 See instructions (5,6)
17 Web counter-part (4)
20 Complaint from
staff about sixth
of postdocs (4)
21 Retaining heads of
science labs, that is
key (4)
22 Class wasted energy,
mostly (5)
24 Droid featured
in cartoons (5)
26 Dull-surfaced, slightly
radioactive stuff (6)
27 Engineer can see what
Dr. Cooper would call
“malarkey” (6)
29 A rocket scientist’s
finishing, finally (2,4)
31 Laughable “Phantom
Menace” character has
Koothrappali doubled
over (3,3)
36 Comicon’s opening!
Zero points for some
Christians (5)
37 Mates organized
paintball squads (5)
39 Get married, everybody!
(Amy’s close) (4)
41 Lunar valley explorer’s
back ailment (4)
43 Leonard essentially
perfected one laser gain
medium component (4)
45 See instructions (6,5)
47 Fictional Professor
Proton’s admitted into
MENSA after the initial
broadcast (5)
48 Mars doesn’t have a
thing of interest to
lawyers (3)
49 Always believe
roommate’s content (4)

50 Note empty dormitory,

neat and orderly (4)

51 Indiana Jones’s focus:

small, short-term digs (4)

52 Oxygen is stored in

solid reservoir (5)

DOWN

1 With improvised nonsense

syllables, sing the first part

of “Soft Kitty” (4)

2 Priya’s opening

beers, losing face

with colleagues (5)

3 Protocol demands

accommodating

senior (3)

4 Knocking out leader of

Klingons with ring

made of gold (5)

5 Bernoulli number

possessed by ideal fluid (6)

6 One of the Coens, on

Kripke’s final: “It’s a gas” (6)

7 Sheldon’s #1 quirk:

endless mega-fidget (6)

8 Tender a paper to a

journal of public

transportation backed by

Howard’s alma mater (6)

9 Video game series

having interest for a

city in Hawaii (4)

10 We’re right to accept

conclusion of “uncertain”

physicist Heisenberg (6)

14 Poorest Stan Lee comic (7)

16 Babble, “Black holes at

the Center pig out” (5)

18 Cleric spots a large

exploding star (6)

19 A graduate assistant,

perhaps? Nope, worse (4)

23 Basic elements of string

theory are perfectly

logical equations (6)

25 Again change the

symbol for aluminum,

breaking rule (7)

28 What might the campus

food service do? React

badly (5)

30 A conditional grant is

only discussed (4)

31 Judge barely comprehends

“electrical resistance” and

“the square root of -1” (6)

32 Leno’s taking look at that

Penny beatermobile (6)

33 Terrible anger consumes

Caltech’s second

President (6)

34 Teaching assistant cut

short a legendary author

in sci-fi bar (6)

35 One third of Admin-

istration develops forms (6)

38 Hit series (CBS aired it for

more than a decade) (5)

40 Sure, Wolowitz conceals

backed-up sink (5)

42 First element in the

periodic table (4)

44 A guy like Stuart is over-

whelmed by dinner dates (4)

46 Skip the premiere of

PBS science series

“Gametes” (3)

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