12.27.10 — Here's Johnny!

The Johnnys Bench, Cash, Miller, Rivers and Nash

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Monday, December 27, 2010

Puzzle by C. W. Stewart, edited by Will Shortz

HERE’S JOHNNY (60A. Classic TV intro … or a hint to the starts of 16-, 22-, 30-, 42- and 47-Across), BENCH WARMER (16A. Second-stringer), CASH PAYMENT (22A. Compensation in bills and coins), MILLER LITE (30A. “Great taste … less filling!” sloganeer), RIVER’S EDGE (42A. 1986 Keanu Reeves film) and NASH RAMBLER (47A. Car in the Playmates’ 1958 hit “Beep Beep”) are the interrelated group of this entertaining Monday crossword.

Other — AROUSE (13A. Stir up), BATMAN (1A. Half of the Dynamic Duo), DEMOTE, EDITOR, MERMEN (24D. Fish-tailed males), MORAYS (9D. Some eels), ORCHID, PLINTH (28D. Base of a column), PRELATE (8D. Church dignitary), REAR-END (42D. Ram into from behind), STOP UP, TENSES (46A. Gets rigid).

Five-letter — AZURE, CREEP (54A. Someone who gives you the willies), EAT IN, EXALT, MERIT, NIPPY, REMAP, Milan opera house La SCALA, SET ON, STALE, SCALA, UMIAK (40A. Eskimo boat), UNDID.

Short stuff — AERO, AIDS, APR, ARCH, AREA, ASH and ASS, ATA, BABS, BEET, CUED, DDT, EKES, ERE and EYRE, INIT, IRV, IZE, JED, KNOT, LEI, LIL, LPS, MUCH (4D. A lot), NEW, ODE and OLDE, ONTO, PRO, PUT, RAGE and RARE, RPM, RTE, SASH, SEE, SMUT, TAX, TEE and TEEN, TINE, TOE, TONS (3D. A lot), TSE, USER, WHIM, WOKE, YEN.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 7. 33 1/3, e.g., for a record: Abbr.; 10. Envision; 14. Prefix with space; 15. Word after sales of income; 18. One thing ___ time; 19. Window framework; 21. Rapper ___ Wayne; 25. Put a cork in; 29. Mao ___-tung; 38. Loosened, as a 57-Down; 39. Before, poetically; 41. Miss ___ USA; 44. Tip of a boot; 53. Suffix with rational or civil; 55. Opened one’s eyes in the morning; 59. Place; 63. Not con; 64. “What’s ___ for me?”; 65. Magazine manager; 66. Hankering; 67. Banned insecticide, for short; 68. Take down a peg or two. — DOWN: 1. Nickname for Barbara; 2. Environs; 5. ___ Wednesday; 6. Just off the assembly line; 7. Chart again; 10. Like week-old bread; 11. Dine at home; 12. Glorify; 14. Design feature over many a gate; 17. Stupidhead; 22. Prompted; 23. Easter mo., often; 25. Porn; 26. Fork prong; 27. Merrie ___ England; 31. Hawaiian garland; 32. Newspaper columnist Kupcinet; 33. Golf peg; 35. Assists; 36. Fulminate; 37. Barely manages, with “out”; 40. Consumer; 43. ___ 1 (Me.-to-Fla. Highway); 45. Flower often used in a 31-Down; 57. A bit cold; 48. Sky-blue; 49. Place atop; 50. Kind of badge for a Boy Scout; 51. Reddish-purple bit in a salad; 52. Records turning at 33 1/3 7-Across; 55. Capricious desire; 56. “Hold ___ you hat!”; 57. Shoelace problem; 58. Brontë’s “Jane ___”; 61. ___ Bartlet, president on “The West Wing”; 62. Poem of praise.