10.15.12 — It's a Tie

 

Monday, October 15, 2012

 

Puzzle by Tom Pepper / Edited by Will Shortz

Royalties, nineties, properties, casualties, beauties and novelties are split in two, providing neckwear for this tidy Monday crossword:

ROYAL TIES (20A. Neckwear for princes?)
NINE TIES (24A. Neckwear for a full baseball team?)
PROPER TIES (32A. Neckwear just right for the occasion?)
CASUAL TIES (43A. Neckwear for informal occasions?)
BEAU TIES (51A. Neckwear for boyfriends?)
NOVEL TIES (58A. Neckwear in a work of fiction?)

Other — JOTTED (Scribbled), ON RAMP, SAME DAY, SAN JOSE (48A. City that a song asks “Do you know the way to …?“), SHIP OUT (26A. Alternative to “shape up”), SUBURBAN, VEGETATE, WHAT’S UP (5D. “Anything going on?”).

 

Five-letter — AERIE, ANDRE Agassi, AVERS, BAHAI, Andrea DORIA, ECOLI, ENROL, ERRED, EVERT, EXIST, HAGAR, JEERS, JELLO, OGDEN Nash, SEALY, SHALE, SLYLY, SORRY, TARSI, TARTS, TO-DOS, WROTE (Scribbled).

 

Short stuff — Golden AGER, AJAR, ALTO, ARIA, BRA, CASH, ECHO, EDS, ELIS, ERE, EROS, EWOK, GIN rummy, GOAD, HERB, HEXA, IAGO, IOWA, IRIS, I-TEN, JOHN (14A. Lav), Chou En-LAI, LOGO (2D. Target‘s target, e.g.), LOO (21D. Lav), “O Sole MIO”, MOS, Bill NIL, NYE, OBE and OBI, PEES, PER, RANI, SIKH, SPEC, SYNE, THEY, TORI, TROT, VEIL, VEST, YEA.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Woman in a choir; 5. Scribbled, say; 10. One piece of a three-piece suit; 15. “Horrible” comic strip character; 16. Sound in a long hallway; 17. Golden ___ (senior); 18. Tennis champ Agassi; 19. Provoke; 22. Jiggly dessert; 23. Calendar pgs.; 30. Vote for; 31. The “p” in r.p.m.; 38. Have a life; 41. U.K. honour; 42. Posturepedic maker; 47. Top of a woman’s swimsuit; 57. States with confidence; 63. Rosemary, for one; 64. Blew it; 65. Doughnut shapes, mathematically; 66. Song in a libretto; 67 Andrea ___ (ship in 1956 headlines); 68. Furry ally of Luke Skywalker; 69. Major Calif.-to-Fla. Route; 70. With cunning; 71. 100-yard race, e.g. — DOWN: 1. Cracked a little; 3. He and she; 4. Entrance to a freeway; 6. Indian princess; 7. Nash who loved to rhyme; 8. Ankle bones; 9. Byron’s “before”; 10. Do nothing; 11. Food-poisoning bacteria; 12. Oil-producing rock; 13. Fusses; 22. Derisive shouts; 25. Bill ___ the Science Guy; 26. Design detail, for short; 27. Six: Prefix; 28. Pupil surrounder; 29. Harness race gait; 33. Japanese sash; 34. What “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” has a lot of; 35. Villain who says “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy”; 36. Yale students, informally; 39. Like bedroom communities; 40. Bite-size pies, maybe; 44. China’s Chou En-___; 45. Expeditious type of delivery; 49. Goose egg; 50. Scribbled (down); 51. Faith founded in 19^th-century Persia; 52. Turn inside out; 53. Eagle’s nest; 54. Become a member: Var.; 55. “My bad”; 59. Part o f a bridal ensemble; 60. Des Moines’s state; 61. Arrow shooter of Greek myth; 62. Worshiper in a temple; 64. Magazine staffers, for short.