Thursday, May 3, 2012
Puzzle by Neville Fogarty / Edited by Will Shortz
Genealogy, perseverance, questionnaire, misspelled, millennium and occasion are misspelled in this devious Thursday crossword, e.g., MISPELLED (60A. Like the six longest answers in this puzzle), GENEOLOGY, PERSEVERENCE, QUESTIONAIRE, MILLENIUM and OCCASSION.
Other — ARCANE, CROSSE, EQUALS, ERICSON, HERDED, LASSES, MEET ME, PALERMO, RUSSIA (45D. More than one-ninth of the earth‘s land), SÉANCE, SLIPPER, SPACERS, SPOUSES.
Mid-size — ASTIR, BUDGE, CASAS, ELCAR and ECLAT, EXECS, HIREE, IRANI, KIMONO (30A. Article with an ushiromigoro), KNOLL, LELAND, LIMON, MEET ME, MERCI, ONE-UP, SAENS, SAM I AM, SHEER, SMASH, TURNS, USES UP.
Short stuff — ALBA, Da capo ARIA, A TAN, BIG, DIN, ELLE, EMU, ERMA, GAY, IKE, IMS and ISM, JAGS, JUNO, LEIA, MANO, MCS, MME, MSU, NANO, NBA and NSA, NEED, NYU, OSE, PCBS, RAE and REBA, SAY, SDAK, SIX, SMEE, TEAK, USSR (66A. Red letters?), UTEP, VCRS.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. 2007 Ellen Page film; 5. Some coolant fluids, for short; 9. Runaway success; 14. Work on ___ (sunbathe); 16. One leaving a personnel director’s office, maybe; 17. Study of trees?; 19. Dana of “MacGyver”; 20. Better halves; 21. Henry who founded Cadillac; 22. Tenacity; 25. Doctrine; 28. French comment that may elicit the reply “de rien”; 29. Passport for foreign travel, e.g.; 33. Dinar spender; 35. Suits; 36. Mic holders; 37. Move at all; 41. They’re on haciendas; 43. Persistent Seuss character; 44. “Forever ___” (1996 humor book); 47. Rise; 49. Where Spike Lee earned his M.F.A.; 50. Survey staple; 54. Depletes; 55. Orthodontic add-ons; 59. Moving about; 62. Spanish citrus fruit; 63. Role in “Hook”; 65. Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland; 65. Composer Camille Saint-___; 66. Red letters?; 67. Furniture wood. — DOWN: 1. Pricey cars, informally; 2. Sch. With the mascot Paydirt Pete; 3. Prefix with technology; 4. Extra life, in a video game; 5. City gained by Rome during the First Punic War; 6. La ___, Wis.; 7. Highly successful; 8. Perhaps; 9. Unqualified; 10. Long time; 11. Esoteric; 12. Event for a rapper?; 13. Drove together; 18. Sugar suffix; 21. Speaker of the line “Help me, Obie-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope”; 23. Explorer born around A.D. 970; 24. TV accessories; 25. Five-star W.W. II hero, informally; 26. Large roll; 27. Fr. Title; 31. Event; 32. Org. associated with U.S. Cyber Command; 34. Shooters’ grp.?; 36. Word before and after “a”; 38. Bedlam let loose; 39. John who wrote “The Beggar’s Opera”; 40. Prey for a dingo; 42. LP problem; 43. Prop in “Cinderella”; 44. Is, in math; 45. More than one-ninth of the earth’s land; 46. “Let’s get together”; 48. Highland girls; 51. Goes bad; 52. Charlotte of “The Facts of Life”; 53. Fanfare; 58. International magazine founded in France in 1945; 57. Single-mom sitcom of the 2000s; 58. Its state sport is rodeo: Abbr.; 60. The Spartans, briefly; 61. Pre-texting texts, for short.
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