Saturday, August 27, 2011
Puzzle by Ashton Anderson / Edited by Will Shortz
For a Saturday crossword, this is a fair one; but the clues are all wrong.
Across — 1. It may be seen in a 3-Down picture, SEXCAPADE; 10. Times up?, HIGHS; 15. Like bending over backward, ACROBATIC; 16. Lowest deck on a ship, ORLOP; 17. Feign concurrence, PLAY ALONG; 18. Words of consolation, SO AM I; 19. Bit o consolation, PAT; 29. Google rival, BING; 21. Scriveners, PENMEN; 22. Yesterday, to Yvette, HIER; 24. “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” star, NABORS; 26. Their lines have ties: Abbr., RRS; 27. It’s taken while waiting, ORDER; 29. “Le Roi d’Ys” composer, LALO; 30. Lumpkin, LOUT; 31. Bible supporter, often, PEW; 33. One may be suckered, TENTACLE; 35. Hedonist’s opposite, ASCETIC; 39. Unwanted tail?, STALKER; 40. Black-and-white, SQUAD CAR; 42. W.W. II agcy., OPA; 43. Bottom of the ocean?, HULL; 44. Group sharing a coat of arms, CLAN; 46. Feeds on the farm, maybe, SLOPS; 50. Offensive time?, TET; 51. City that lost its “tallest building” distinction in 2007, TAIPEI; 53. Not apart, in scores, ADUE; 54. Club alternative, REUBEN; 56. ID figures, SSNS; 58. ID issuer, DMV; 58, Match, AGREE; 60. “Let’s roll!”, IT’S GO TIME; 62. Long, YEARN; 63. Very close game, e.g., NAIL-BITER; 64. Bloody Sunday march site, SELMA; 65. Like some skiing and swimming, FREE-STYLE.
Down — 1. “The tenth Muse,” per Plato, SAPPHO; 2. Oblong temptation, ÉCLAIR; 3. Beyond suggestive, X-RATED; 4. Far from forward, COY; 5. Quatrain scheme, ABAB; 6. Author of “America by Heart, PALIN; 7. Missing a key?, ATONAL; 8. Dope, DINGBAT; 9. Lines coming from the heart, briefly?, ECG; 10. Gardeners’ aids, HOSES; 11. One letting of steam, IRON; 12. 1970s music genre, GLAMROCK; 13. What the Faroe Islands were, HOME RULE; 14. Frumpy longer, stereotypically, SPINSTER; 21. “Now!”, PRONTO; 23. Undo, REPEAL; 25. Accented cries, OLES; 28. Out of practice?: Abbr., RETD; 30. Line forgetter’s substitute, LA LA LA; 32. Magick worker, WICCAN; 34. It causes lights to go out, TAPS; 35. Camels’ resting places, ASHTRAYS; 36. Sponge alternative, SQUEEGEE; 37. Kind of awareness, CULTURAL; 38. Title locale in a 1998 Notorious B.I.G. hit, CALI; 41. The Notorious B.I.G., e.,g., RAP STAR; 45. Tabloid nickname, NESSIE; 47. Ripley’s love, ODDITY; 48. Pound, PUMMEL; 49. Very bad, SEVERE; 51. Singer TEENA Marie; 52. Fireplace INGLE; 55. Shoulder, BERM; 57. Displays disconsolation SOBS; 60. Like Beethoven’s Sixth, IN F; 61. Black-throated TIT.
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