ACROSTIC — At this time’s passage is in regards to the world’s oceans and their most feared denizens. It’s from a 2011 e-book referred to as “Demon Fish” by Juliet Eilperin, who’s the deputy local weather and setting editor at The Washington Submit. The fish in query is a shark, in fact.
It’s midsummer now, and the chances are most likely at their peak that your toes are someplace close to the water when you clear up this acrostic (cue the John Williams music). Worry not: Eilperin’s e-book offers a wider perspective on how essential sharks are to the stability of the marine ecosystem and informs us that solely about 6 % of sharks pose any hazard to people (and that we’re way more prone to get struck by lightning than wind up in a shark’s jaws).
Talking of tooth, this puzzle’s clue set is bristling with sharp stuff. There are a number of hints to the passage, a few of them obvious. For instance, “Portrayer of Amity Island’s Chief Brody in a 1975 Spielberg film,” or “The place capsizing may get you tossed.” That is ROY SCHEIDER, whose hydrophobic character winds up IN THE DRINK on the very finish of “Jaws.”
Others are cleverly indirect: There’s OPHELIA, the “Shakespearean drowning sufferer.” I racked my mind on the “Eponymous ex-con of quite a few numerically named movies” and didn’t consider DANNY OCEAN (I additionally discovered that there are “Ocean’s” Twelve and 13).
Lastly, some have been surprising, and made me smile after I figured them out towards the tip of my clear up — after the passage’s matter was evident. “Spoke forcefully and persuasively,” which I assumed can be “lectured” at first, was JAWBONED. The “Gelatinous, lye-cured seafood dish fashionable in Nordic nations” is LUTEFISK, which has up to now eluded me in any ecosystem apart from puzzles and in addition sounds a bit of scary.
What did you suppose?
