03.02.11 — Taglines

Leonardo DiCaprio in the film of "Titanic"

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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Puzzle by David Poole, edited by Will Shortz

In this Wednesday crossword, “An Affair to Remember,” “a comedy of errors,” “I see dead people,” and “Look Back in Anger” become A FARE TO REMEMBER (17A. “Taxi Driver” tagline), A COMEDY OF ERAS (25A. “Back to the Future” tagline), ICY DEAD PEOPLE (42A. “Titanic” tagline) and LUKE BACK IN ANGER (56A. “Return of the Jedi” tagline?).

Mid-size — AARON, ADLIB, ALIBI, AREAS, ATOLL, CALVE, CIVIC, COMMA, EARNED, EATME, EULER, HUMMER, OLIVE, OSAKA, OUTAGE, PARSE, PRAISE, SAUDI, SNORED, SOLVE, SWARM, UMASS, UMPED, UNFED, YIELD, YODELS.

Short stuff — ABBA, ADM, AFL, AFRO, APU, AURA, AXED and AXEL, BASS, CFOS, CINQ, CLE, CREE, ELIA, ERRS, HALE, IRAQ, IVOR, JIVE, KEEN, LEE, MER, MOVE, MTGE, NAE, NCAA, NEC, NORM, OBI, OJO, OLD, OREL, ORFF, OVA, RAMS, REA and REAL, REIN, SCAM, SLOB, TON, UBI, UGLI, UBER, UKES, WKRP, ZAPS, ZOLA.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Only patron on “Cheers” to appear in all 275 episodes; 5. Honshu metropolis; 10. Sound; 14. Manitoba native; 15. Needing nourishment; 16. Over, in Oberammergau; 20. Org. in a 1955 merger; 21. Super Bowl XLV M.V.P. Rodgers; 22. The Minutemen of the 2-Down; 23. Buy-now-pay-later arrangement: Abbr.; 24. Cavaliers, on scoreboards; 31. Tapenade ingredient; 32. Actor/composer Novello; 33. Truckload; 35. Cat’s tongue; 36. Balliwicks; 38. Dreyfus defender; 39. Band of geishas?; 40. Lipinski leap; 41. Have a cow; 46. Archaic; 47. Bumps hard; 48. Like the Aramco oil company; 51. Teem; 53. Geller with a spoon-bending act; 59. Pitcher-turned-sportscaster Hershiser; 60. Grammatically dissect; 61. Marlon’s “On the Waterfront” director; 62. Striped swimmer; 63. Worked at home?; 64. Dix halved. — DOWN: 1. March Madness org.; 2. “Carmina Burana” composer; 3. Down-to-earth; 4. Cousteau’s milieu; 5. Power failure; 6. Sawed logs, so to speak; 7. Big do; 8. Gung-ho; 9. Naval V.I.P.: Abbr.; 10. G.M. brand discontinued in 2010; 11. “Dancing Queen” group; 12. Dregs; 13. Slips up; 18. Inscription on a Wonderland cake; 19. Swiss who pioneered in graph theory; 23. Bxe5 or 0-0-0, in chess; 24. Corp. money execs; 25. What an accused perpetrator needs; 26. Palindromic car name; 27. Triangular traffic sign; 28. They travel down fallopian tubes; 29. Bikini, for one; 30. Figure out; 31. Spanish eye; 34. “No way, laddie!”; 36. Fired; 37. “Michael Collins” actor; 38. Microwaves; 40. Ignore the cue cards, say; 41. Short stop?; 43. Mountain airs; 44. Purpose of an ode; 45. Like most runs, in baseball; 48. Person who uses a sleeve for a napkin, say; 49. Je ne sais quoi; 50. Strings at luaus; 51. E-mail from a Nigerian price, probably; 52. Cincinnati sitcom station; 53. Aptly named fruit; 54. It may hold your horses; 55. Mesopotamia, today; 57. Kwik-E-Mart owner on “The Simpsons”; 58. I.B.M. competitor.