Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Puzzle by Mike Buckley / Edited by Will Shortz
DOC I’M ADDICTED TO / TWITTER (20A. With 38-Across, a complaint) and SORRY I’M NOT FOLLOWING YOU (40A. With 57-Across, response to the complaint) constitutes the main feature of this Tuesday crossword.
Other — ARISTA, BROOCH, COVER GIRL (10D. Beauty on display) and GQ MODEL (44D. Hunk on display), CROCKS, HAND MIX (7D. Use a whisk on), DEBATE, INGMAR (27A. Bergman wh directed “Wild Strawberries”), OCELOT (23A. New World cat), ROASTS (52A. Entrees brought out with carving knives), STATEN Island, STOOD FAST (34D. Didn’t compromise).
Five-letter — On an AD HOC basis, AGORA, ALICE, ALONE, AVIAN, CHICO, DREAM, ETHEL, GORDO, HOSTS, ILIAC, LYDIA, MAHER, MINSK, PIECE, RAYON, SCENE, SENSE, SNAIL, SULKS, SYRUP, TOAST, TONER.
Short stuff — ABED, AGIN, AERO, APTS, BEND, CELT, DAHL, EBAY, ELLA, ENID, ERNO, ESAU, EWER, EXEC, HERO, GAPS, IAGO, IDES, MAYO, NEAT, NEHI, “The Secret of NIMH“, Robert DeNIRO, ODIN, OLIO, ORAL fixation, RHEA, ROME, RUSK, STAB, TINS, TOGA, WELL.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Empty spaces; 5. Writer Roald who created the Oompa-Loompas; 9. What a landscape painter paints; 14. Father of Thor; 15. Company name whose second letter is capitalized; 16. Photocopier cartridge; 17. Saturn’s second-largest moon; 18. Stoop; 19. Birdlike; 25. Drink named for a certain small stature; 31. Smell, taste or touch; 35. Partner of legis. And jud.; 37. Plotter against Cassio in “Othello”; 42. Prefix with -gramme; 43. Attire for Antonius; 45. Without assistance; 46. Decorative pin; 48. Shoreline structure; 50. Subject of a painting by Picasso or Rousseau; 61. Situated near the upper part of the hip; 62. Mid-March date; 64. Capital of Belarus; 65 Gaelic speaker; 66. 1960s secretary of state Dean; 67. Party throwers; 68. Jazzy Fitzgerald; 69. Rented living qtrs. — DOWN: 1. Astronaut Cooper, informally; 3. Gun, in slang; 4. Symbol of slowness; 5. Election year event; 6. Not yet up; 8. Neighbor of ancient Phrygia; 9. New York’s ___ Island; 11. Woman’s name that means “eat” backward; 12. Like Felix, but not Oscar; 13. Puzzler Rubik; 21. “Les Coquelicots” artist; 22. Marx brother at a piano; 26. Tarzan or Buck Rogers, e.g.; 28. It’s sometimes held at a deli; 29. Not fer; 30. Terminus for all roads, in a saying; 31. Wound for Cassio; 32. Still-life pitcher; 36. “Hairy man” Genesis; 39. One of the Barrymores; 41. Synthetic material; 47. Some pottery containers; 49. Bygone record label; 51. Fictional character who cried “Curiouser and curiouser!”; 53. Ancient Greek marketplace; 54. Staple of IHOP booths; 55. Breakfast side dish; 56. Is a sore loser say; 57. “The Secret of ___” (1982 animated film); 58. Jumble; 59. Biscuit containers; 60. Wishing place.
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