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Monday, November 28, 2011
Puzzle by Andrea Carla Michaels / Edited by Will Shortz
PRETTY BOY FLOYD (20A. Notorious 1920s-’30s bank robber), UGLY BETTY (33A. America Ferrera’s Emmy-winning role); PLAIN JANE (44A. Hardly a beauty queen), and GORGEOUS GEORGE (54A. 1940s-’50s wrestler with golden locks) constitute the interrelated group of this attractive Monday crossword.
Other — ABILENE (10D. Kansas town on the Chisholm Trail), GALUMPH (25D. Walk clumsily), HOFFMAN (9D. Dustin of “Rain Man”), IMAGINE (42D. John Lennon song with the refrain “You may say I’m a dreamer …”, ISOTOPES (5D. Springfield’s minor-league team on “The Simpsons”), JEERING (46D. Making catcalls), PILSENER (39D. Light-colored beer or the glass it comes in), SECEDED (43D. Left the Union), SLOE GIN fizz, WISE GUY (4D. Smart aleck).
Mid-size — ACELA, AGREE, “… old woman who lived in A SHOE“, ARABS, AVOID, BREED, CANOE, FICHE, GUESS, GULAG, HAD AT, IRANI, LLAMA, LUSTY, NEURO, NO MEN, OBESE, RANG IN, RE-UNE, SEAMEN, SEE ME (24A. Terse note from the boss), SEMIS, STEEP.
Short stuff — AMOS, ASHY, DECO, DID I, EIRE, ERA, FDA, FLOW, GARB, GINA, GOO, GREW, GWEN, HTTP, IMAC, IRIS, LAM, LIMP, MANY, NERO, NOHO, ODOR, Put ON AN act, OVER, ROUE, SARA, The Beatles’ “SHE Loves You“, SHIN, SON, TEED, TEL, TOMB, TONE, YER and YEAR and YEAS.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES — Crossword Puzzles and Games.
Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Move like water; 5. Apple computer; 9. Attacked, as a challenge; 14. “What ___ do to deserve this?”; 15. ___ Lee cakes; 16. Fatter than fat; 17. “Famous” cookie name; 19. Piece of microfilm; 23. Sticky stuff; 29. Prepared to give a “Jeopardy!” response; 36. Brain surgeon’s prefix; 37. Big Band ___ (1930s-’40s); 38. Almost straight up and down, as a cliff; 40. Fugitive’s flight; 41 Big rigs; 47. Naval workers; 50. Fast train to New York City; 60. Shun; 61 Much-kicked body part; 62 Middle of the eye; 64. Attend homecoming, say; 65. Bell sound; 66. Crime solver Wolfe of fiction; 67. Lhasa apso or Labrador; 68. Sophomore or junior; 69. Dancer Verdon. — DOWN: 1. Rx watchdog org.; 2. Like Dali’s watches; 3. Fragrance; 6. Lots of; 7. Bedouins, e.g.; 8. Birchbark boat; 12. Like fireplace grates; 13. Nettled, with “off”; 21. ___ of the Unknowns; 2. “Aw, quit ___ bellyaching’!”; 25. Twenty questions attempt; 26. Shake on it; 27. Andes animal; 28. URL starter; 30. Solzhenitsyn’s “The ___ Archipelago”; 31. Tehran native; 32. All-female group’s policy; 34. Business card abbr.; 35. Approving votes; 45. N.Y.C. area near the Village; 48. Recent: Prefix; 51. Hot blooded; 54. Apparel; 55. Above; 56. Don Juan type; 57. Actress Lollobrigida; 58. Got longer, like Pinocchio’s nose; 59. The Emerald Isle; 63. Charlie Sheen, to Martin.
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