02.16.12 — Margin for Error



Thursday, February 16, 2012

Puzzle by Jim Page / Edited by Will Shortz

MARGIN / FOR / ERROR (21A. With 29-/30-Across, wiggle room … or a hint to this puzzle’s them), along with synonyms for an error around the margin the crossword constitute the interrelated group of this on-the-button Thursday crossword: Clockwise — SLIP-UP (1A. Goof), FLUFF (7A. Boo-boo), TYPO (15D. Misprint), MISCUE (37D. Muff), HOWLER (60A. Screwup), BONER (59A. Gaffe), TRIP (45D. Pratfall) and FUMBLE (16D. Flub).

Other across — CARUSO (12. Player of TV’s Caine), LIVE ACT (13. Circus performance or concert), FETTLED (16. Lined, as a furnace hearth), 17. AGENTRY (17. Representative’s work), WHASSUP (20. Bro’s greeting), MUD PIE (26. Chocolate dessert), ONE SEC (49. “Hold on”), REMEDY (42. Medicine), REDDENS (50. Flushes), ILLEGAL (54. One caught by border patrol) , REIGATE (55. Market town that’s a suburb of London), PLICATE (57. Folded like a fan), CREATE (58. Mint).

Down — SCENARIST (1. Film planner), LATE RISER (2. Slugabed), PULL IN (4. Grab a parking spot), FLAWED (7. Imperfect), LIGHT PENS (8. Implements for “writing” on computer screens), FENSTER (10. 1960s title sitcom character)FULMINATE (29. Rant), OHIO STATE (31. School whose football stadium is nicknamed the Horseshoe), RESPECTER (32. Obeyer, as of laws), ART DECO (39. Like New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel), ENSLER (43. Tony-winning playwright Eve), IN VIEW (44. Seen).

Short stuff — AD LIB, ARCH, ATV, BET, BRIAN, BUR, CRUD, EGAN, ESE, FATSO, GAL and GAT, HELL, HEM, IDS, IHOPS, INK and INS, IVS and IVY, IRK and IRT, LIST, LOS, MOT, OTERO, OUT, OWE, PODS, SHE, SISI, TCU, THAT, TODO, TRAWL, RIP, UNE, USE ON, UVEA.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 18. Nice one; 19. L.A.P.D. part; 23. “You ___!”; 24. Stir; 25. Monty Python title character; 28. It may have bullets; 33. Yuma-to-Tombstone dir.; 34. Excuse; 35. It may come from a well; 36. Stumble, in a way; 38. Kind of net; 40. Ones stuck in the hospital, for short?; 41. Approval in Rome; 44. Blue-roofed dining spots; 45. “I heard ___!”; 48. Shut-___; 52. Quad bike, e.g.; 53. 2011 Rose Bowl winner, for short. — DOWN: 3. First subway line in N.Y.C.; 5. Hit with, as a pickup line; 6. Jet engine housings; 9. Part of the face whose name is derived from the Latin for “grape”; 11. Tubby; 14. Gunk; 22. Old gang weapon; 23. Prickly seedcase; 26. Vocabulaire part; 27. Get to; 34. “You ___ me”; 35. Brown, e.g.; 40. Wallet items, in brief; 41. Lord Byron’s “___ Walks in Beauty”; 46. The pits; 47. It’s not scripted; 52. Eyebrow shape; 56. Miss at a hoedown.

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