01.04.10 -- Fruit

Monday, January 4, 2010

Puzzle by Paula Gamache, edited by Will Shortz

BEAR FRUIT (37A. Be productive … or what the answers at 17-, 25-, 53- and 63-Across do?), SOUR GRAPES (17A. Reaction of a sore loser), TOP BANANA (25A. Head honcho), LEMON LAWS (53A. They protect car buyers) and CHERRY PICK (63A. Select the best and leave the rest) are the interrelated entries of this first Monday crossword of the new year. Produce or produce not, may your coming year be productive!

Seven-letter entries follow with AT LARGE (40D. On the loose), AVOCADO (2D. Guacamole need), BREWERY (41D. Anheuser-Busch, for one), EMERALD (11D. Valuable green stone), HAMSTER (42D. Pet with cheek pouches), HOLY COW (46D. “My heavens!”), 12D. Bill & MELINDA Gates Foundation, MOURNED (3D. Lamented the loss of), ON A DIME (45D. Words after stop or turn) and SEA BASS (13D. “Chilean” fish).

Six- and five-letter -- ABHOR, ABOVO, ASHOT, ATEUP, CAPOS, ENRON, ERINS, HAITI, KOREA, MANNA (24A. Food from heaven), NEATO, OCALA, PASSBY, PIETA, REPRO, SCRAP, SLACKS, STEAM, TADAS (36A. Triumphant cries), THORN, TRAVIS, TRESS, WHERE, YIELDS.

Short stuff -- ALA, AVON, AWS (58A. Reactions to adorable babies), BRAM, CIA, DELA, DYE, EYRE, GAME, GAS, GNAW, GORY and GREY, KOS, LEMS, LOOT, LSD, MOS, NAES and NOT, ODE, OFA, OMOO, OOHS (44A. Sounds of amazement), REA, RETD, RIB, RUSH, SAG, SASH, SEWS, SMEE, SODA, SPRY, STA, USA, WAH (28A. Cartoonish baby cry).

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Remaining clues -- ACROSS: 1. Tiddlywinks or tag; 5. Leftover cloth bit; 10. Moon-landing vehicles, for short; 14. The Bard of ___ (Shakespeare); 15. Michelangelo masterpiece; 16. “Peter Pan” pirate; 19. Boxer Oscar ___ Hoya; 20. Bosom buddy; 21. ___-hour traffic; 23. Lung protector; 24. Food from heaven; 27. Shelley’s “___ to the West Wind”; 30. Gives in (to); 31. Scotch and ___; 33. Rioter’s haul; 40. Hate; 43. Highlands denials; 48. Country music’s Tritt; 50. Mattress problem; 52. “Just kidding!”; 56. City NW of Orlando; 59. Accessory that might say “Miss Universe”; 60. “The ___ Bunch” of 1970s TV; 61. AARP part: Abbr.; 66. Earl ___ tea; 67. Seoul’s home; 68. Melville work set in Tahiti; 69. Bronte’s Jane; 70. Boiling indication; 71. Puts in stitches. DOWN: 1. Windbag’s output; 4. Energy company that filed for bankruptcy in 2001; 5. Energetic for one’s age; 6. Org. in “The Bourne Identity; 7. Copy, for short; 8. Enjoyed immensely; 9. Elapse; 10. ‘60s hallucinogen; 18. Munch on like a mouse; 22. Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s country; 24. May and June: Abbr.; 25. Locust tree feature; 26. “That’s swell!”; 29. Lobster ___ Newburg; 32. From the beginning, in Latin; 34. Arthur Miller’s “Death ___ Salesman”; 35. Lock of hair; 38. Brockovich and Moran; 39. It’s between Can. And Mex.; 47. RR stop; 49. Pants that are dressier than jeans; 51. Graphically violent; 54. ___ in the dark; 55. Question of location; 57. Mafia bosses; 60. Stoker who created Dracula; 62. It may have made a blonde blonde; 64. Stephen of “The Crying Game”; 65. Bout enders, briefly.