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Monday, September 12, 2011
Puzzle by Keith Talon / Edited by Will Shortz
GOOD / DOG (57D. With 65-Across, comment that might be heard after the start of 17-, 28-, 45- or 59-Across), ROLL OVER MINUTES (17A. Unused parts of a cell phone plan), SIT-DOWN DINNER (28A. Formal meal at a table), COME HERE OFTEN (45A. Question that’s a classic pickup line) and STAY OF EXECUTION (59A. Death row inmate’s hope) constitute the interrelated group of this friendly Monday crossword — oh, and throw in PAW (1A. One of the “hands” in the command “shake hands”).
Other — AARONS (44A. Hammerin’ Hank and others), ATROPHY (24D. Wither), DEMORNAY (8D. Actress Rebecca), DIRE NEED (38D. Exigency), dreamt (40d. Had visions during sleep), ELAYNE (45D. Comic Boosler), ENCORE (33A. “One more time!“), GLUTEN (10D. Substance in wheat flour), American LEGION (veterans' group), OBSESS (47D. Keep thinking about with “on”), OTELLO (6D. Verdi opera), VITIATE (27D. Impair the quality of).
Five-letter — ALOES, DOSES, EPSON, FLOOD, IDTAG, IGIVE, IPODS, Caffé LATTE, NOTON, PORNO, SAUNA, SCRAM, SERIF, THIEF (66A. Person who uses the “five-finger discount“), WORSE.
Short stuff — ADE, AFR, AHA, “AHOY, matey!“, AIDA (56D. Verdi opera), BREA, COE, EPIC, ESSE, EVAN, EXPO, FLO, GAOL, IAN and INA, INES, INGE, IOTA, LAV, LOOP, LYRE, MAGI, MAUI, NONO, OAF OAST, OTRO, OVA, PART, PRY, PSIS and PSST, PUMA, RAGS, ROVE, TASE, TYKE, UNS, UTAH, VEES, WALK.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 4. Result of a burst dike; 9. “O.K., O.K. … tell me!”; 14. “So that’s it!”; 16. Healing plants; 20. Youngster; 21. Encircle; 22. Stun, as with a police gun; 23. British lockup; 26. Wander; 33. “One more time!”; 35. Hops kiln; 36. Lab eggs; 37. X-rated flick; 38. Arid; 39. What a soldier wears that has a serial no.; 41. Any port ___ storm; 42. Letters before omegas; 48. Instrument for a Muse; 49. La ___ Tar Pits; 50. Mountain lion; 53. Chemical suffixes; 55. Three Wise Men; 63. Finnish bath; 64. Big name in printers; 65. See 57-Down; 67. Medicinal amounts; 68. Juice suffix. — DOWN: 1. Segment; 3. Send to base on balls; 4. Pop music’s ___ & Eddie; 5. Restroom, informally; 6. Verdi opera; 7. Other: Sp.; 9. Novelist Fleming; 11. Minuscule amount; 12. Flying geese formations; 13. To be, in old Rome; 19. Apple devices with earbuds; 25. “___ to a Nightingale”; 28. “Git!”; 29. Less favorable; 30. Off; 31. 2007y film “___ Almighty”; 32. ___-to-riches; 33. Heroic tale; 34. It’s prohibited; 38. Exigency; 43. Letter flourish; 44. Where Nigeria is: Abbr.; 50. Whispered attention-getter; 51. Salt Lake City’s state; 52. Hawaiian island; 54. Int’l fair; 58. Playwright William; 60. Clumsy sort; 61. Iowa college; 62. Young ___ (kids).
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