07.06.11 — Follow Directions

　

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Puzzle by Peter Collins / Edited by Will Shortz

EAST TO WEST and WEST TO EAST (22A. How the sun proceeds … and how to read the answers to 17-, 37- and 56-Across; 49A. How the jet stream proceeds … and how to read the answers to 17-, 37- and 56-Across), along with three palindromes, KNOW A TOYOTA WONK (17A. Rub elbows with an expert on some Japanese cars?), SPOT PALE LAPTOPS (37A. Notice light-colored MacBooks?) and REMARK À LA KRAMER (56A. Comment like a “Seinfeld” character?), constitute the interrelated group of this straightforward  Wednesday crossword.

Other — AIR and NEWSCAST (32A and 10D. Show on TV), AROUSE (8D. Excite), BEFALL, BRANDS, ENDEARS (25D. Makes lovable), ONLINE, PATOIS, SASHES, SENATE, SOWETO (4D. Johannesburg township), TOLERATE (38D. Put up with).

Five-letter — ABHOR, AIM AT, AS PER, DROSS, ELITE, ENOLA, HENNA, HESSE, INEPT, IPANA, OLLAS, ONSET, PEKOE, ROTOR, SAINT, SEXES (16A. Legendary battlers), SLEPT, STENT, TABLE, TERSE, UNITE, VIDEO.

Short stuff — AIR, ASI, ATTN, AVA, CASH, DOUR, EERO, ELI, EST, ETTE, EXO, EZRA, KEN, LEAN, LIE, LIVE, LLD, LSAT, MID, OREO, PEN, PHDS, PIA, RARE, RAY, REV, ROOF, RTE, SOAR, TANS, TAP, TET, TSK, UEYS, WILL WOK, ZOO (6D. Place to see lions and sea lions).

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Degrees of excellence?; 5. Book that begins “Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia …”; 9. Bumbling; 14. Architect Saarinen; 15. Fly high; 20. Beginning; 21. 180’s, slangily; 26. Johnny with a guitar; 30. Like much social interaction nowadays; 31. Put on the back burner; 35. Honorary law degree: Abbr.; 36. Pageant wear; 41. Local dialect; 42. “___ Lay Dying”; 43. A.A.A. suggestion; 44. ___ Gay; 45. Marks on a ranch; 48. Meat request; 53. Landing place for Santa; 55. Come together; 62. Premier; 63. “We’re ___!”’; 64. Gives a good whuppin’; 65. Hulu offering; 66. Meat request; 67. Suffix with towel. — DOWN: 1. Tea type; 2. Decorative tattoo dye; 3. Smelting byproduct; 5. Abbr. on a city limit sign; 7. Gamma follower; 9. Words before “tomato” or “Potato”; 11. Outer: Prefix; 12. “The tongue of the mind,” per Cervantes; 13. Tongue-produced sound; 18. Memo abbr.; 19. Asian holiday; 23. Spicy stews; 24. Source of some power?; 27. Detect; 28. Was a bad night watchman; 29. “Steppenwolf” author; 31. Shoe attachment; 32. According to; 33. Colgate competitor, once; 34. Wind turbine part; 36. Martin or Louis; 38. Put up with; 39. Singer-actress Zadora; 40. It might give you legal problems: Abbr.; 45. Transpire 46. Gloomy; 47. Setting for some oratory; 49. Stir-fry pan; 50. Shoot for; 51. Artery implant; 52. Like Hemingway’s prose; 54. Twistable treat; 56. Al Sharpton e.g.: Abbr.; 57. Wallach of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”; 58. Prefix with life or size; 59. Golfer’s concern; 60. Actress Gardner; 61. Burns behind a camera.