10.24.09 -- Turn, Turn, Turn and Tina Turner!

Tina Turner performing live in 2008

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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Puzzle by Paul Gamache, edited by Will Shortz

This Saturday crossword is fairly straightforward with general clues and answers, turning up more than a few personages:

Across: 1. High-definition storage medium, BLURAY DISC; 11. With 28-Across, like some traffic, STOP AND GO; 15. Singer born Anna Mae Bullock, TINA TURNER; 16. Ranchero’s hand, MANO; 17. “Baby Hold On” hitmaker, 1978, EDDIE MONEY; 18. Item of the past, EXES; 19. Situation before many a game is won, ADIN; 20. Cookie flavoring, ANISE; 21. Word before thou, WILT; 22. Cabinet chief between Smith and Thornburgh, MEESE; 24. ENTRE-Deux-Mers (Bordeaux wine appellation); 26. Glass top, RIM; 27. It spawned the Weather Underground Org., SDS; 30. Singer Aguilera, self-referentially, XTINA; 32. Alternatives to iPhones, TREOS; 33. “The Practice” and “Boston Legal” Emmy winner, SPADER; 34. French Revolution radical, JACOBIN; 37. Wild, BERSERK; 38. Gadget for a grease monkey, OIL GUN; 39. Big dos, FETES; 40. Like some shoulders, BROAD; 41. Triumphant cries, TADAS; 42. It may thicken the plot, SOD; 45. Some Amazon.com orders, CDS; 46. Calvin Klein offering, SCENT; 48. Her alter ego is Princess Adora, SHE-RA; 50. Contents of some deposits, ORES; 52. Foundation strengthener, REBAR; 54. “Life of Pi” author YANN Martel; 55. Real joker, RIOT; 56. Dupe’s exclamation, I’VE BEEN HAD; 58. Fear, to François, PEUR; 59. Time to pull a product, SELL-BY DATE; 60. Out-of-commission cruisers, SSTS; 61. “Turn! Turn! Turn!” songwriter PETE SEEGER.

Down: 1. Sub squads, B-TEAMS; 2. Like 57-Downs, LIDDED; 3. Brief briefs?, UNDIES; 4. Farmers’ needs, RAINS; 5. Got fed up?, ATE; 6. Where César Chávez was born, YUMA; 7. Talked and talked and talked, DRONED ON; 8. They have tops and bottoms, INNINGS; 9. Minds, SEES TO; 10. Old yeller?, CRYER; 11. Old World duck, SMEW; 12 It begins where a person hails from, TAXI RIDE; 13. Routine delivery, ONE-LINER; 14. Prepare for delivery, POSTMARK; 23. iPod attachments, EARBUDS; 25. Station skipper, EXPRESS; 29. Prussian prohibition, NEIN; 31. Soviet agency created from Rosta, TASS; 32. Cover of the Colosseum?, TOGA; 33. SET A goal; 34. Creation of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, JOB CORPS; 35. Hangs up after agitating?, AIR-DRIES; 36. Bargain hunter’s bonanza, CLOSE-OUT; 37. Stand where you lie BED TABLE; 39. Alternator driver, FAN BELT; 41. Nonhuman baby sitter?, TEEVEE; 42. Ugly Dungeons & Dragons figure, SEA HAG; 43. Busy, ORNATE; 44. Irish, DANDER; 47. Like new ones, CRISP; 49. Chrissie of the Pretenders, HYNDE; 51. Navigation rtes, STRS; 53. Lee side, REBS; 57. It has a ball, EYE.

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