01.04.12 — Brendan, Brendan!

Brendan Behan

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Wednesday, January 4, 2011

Puzzle by Brendan Emmett Quigley / Edited by Will Shortz

The quotation I SAW A NOTICE / WHICH SAID / DRINK CANADA / DRY AND I’VE / JUST STARTED (18A. Start of a quip by 44-Across) and BEHAN (44A. Writer Brendan) is the main feature of this Wednesday crossword.

Other — ALIGHTED (38D. Came down), BELUSHI (2D. Only person to have the #1 movie, #1 album and #1-rated late-night TV show all in the same week), ONE DOWN (1D. You are here), OVERUSE (42D. Make a cliché), SALARIED (3D. On the payroll), SIM CARD (26D. Data holder on a cellphone), XEROXES (43D. Some duplicates).

Mid-size — ADORE, BANJOS, BOSSY, DENADA, DOWEL, DUARTE, EDGAR, ENOUGH, HASSLE, IRISES (11D. Van Gogh masterpiece), NEEDLE, NICHES, OGNES, ON ACID, OSRIC, SHEET, SLOMO, SNEEZY (13D. Bashful companion), SPINS, SWITCH, WOVEN.

Short stuff — AMC, AMYS, ANAL-retentive, BRA, CIG, DDT, DES, EAT, ELL and ELM, ESE, FALK, FSIX, IAN, INCA, IRA, JEER and JEEZ, JOAD, LOSE, LOX, MEW,NEA, NIE and NIX, NOS, OBS, OVA, PAT, PIN, PSST, REAL, RIC, ROD, SENT, “That’s all SHE wrote“, TEE, TUX, TWO, ZEDS, ZIT.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES — Crossword Puzzles and Games.

Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Baby docs; 4. Replay view, often; 9. Plays, as records; 14. Org. whose logo features the letter pi with an arrow through it; 15. Like wickerwork; 16. Comic Cheech; 17. Pipe joint; 20. 1980s Salvadoran president; 22. Parliament, e.g., in brief; 24. Courtier who invites Hamlet to duel with Laertes; 25. Key in the middle of the top row; 27. “Oh, c’mon!”; 30. Overly assertive; 31. Nietzsche’s “never!”; 32. Wood used in making some dartboards; 33. $$$ for later years; 39. “___ This, Not That! The No-Diet Weight Loss Solution!”; 40. “Breaking Bad” network; 41. Bagel accompaniment; 51. London jazz duo?; 52. Greenskeeper’s tool; 53. Rejections; 54. Campaign freebie; 55. One of the Beverly Hillbillies; 60. Awards ceremony rental; 61. Watches like a wolf; 62. Holder for a toilet paper roll; 63. Pittsburgh-to-Baltimore dir.; 64. Word with cookie or rap; 65. Flip over; 66. Chemin ___ Dames (W.W. I battle locale). — DOWN: 4. Feature of Dr. Frankenstein’s lab; 5. Come up short; 6. Fertility clinic stock; 7. Cry over spilled milk, perhaps?; 8. Tripping; 9. Urban woe; 10. Bit of butter; 12. Recesses; 19. Invalidate; 21. Detroit rapper ___-A-Che; 25. Peter who played Columbo; 27. “The Ghost of Tom ___” (1995 Bruce Springsteen album); 29. Shipped; 30. It’s held up with a hook; 33. Resident of the ancient city Choquequirao; 35. True; 36. Actor McKellen; 37. AMY’S Kitchen (organic frozen food); 44. Relatives of ukuleles; 45. “All right already!”; 46. Give a hard time; 47. “Gracias” reply; 48. Thing watched while driving through a speed trap; 49. Subj. of the 1948 Nobel in Physiology of Medicine; 51. Small blemish, in slang; 54. “Hey!”; 55. Razz; 57. Pipe joint; 68. 62-Across, e.g.; 59. Duo.