10.22.12 — Undercover

Monday, October 22, 2012

 

Puzzle by Joel Fagliano / Edited by Will Shortz

UNDERCOVER COP (60A. Sting cooperative .. Or a hint to 20-, 24-, 39- and 55-Across), PUBLC OPINION (20A. It’s measured by polls), PECO PARK (24A. Home of the San Diego Padres), FRANCICO PIZARRO (39A. Conqueror of the Incas) and MACO POLO (55A. Traveler to Cathay) constitute the interrelated group of this well-behaved Monday crossword.

 

Other — ALCOTT, AVIATES, CROUCH, DEEPEN, ESCAPEES, HASBRO (3D. Company that makes Scrabble), IN PAIN, JUSTIN (8A. Bieber with the 2010 hit “Baby”), OCCURS, OOMPA / LOOMPA (58D. With 53-Down, Willy Wonka employee), OUTMODE, NAPOLI, SIT PAT, SPINAL, SUN CHIPS, SUPPOSE, TANNER, THOMAS, TRUMAN, UNTIMED.

 

Five-letter — AESOP, “AS PER our agreement …”, C-NOTE, COLOR, ITALO Calvino, JUNIO, Willy LOMAN, ODDER, UP TOP (9D. Slangy request for a high-five).

 

Short stuff — ACCT, ACHE, ACRO, ALA, ANNA, ARF, “CAN’T Take My Eyes Off You“, CON, ECON, ENDS, EPEE, EPIC, EZRA Pound, FCC, IRA Gershwin, ISE, Deborah KERR, KILN, LEAD, LEES, LEVI, LIKE, NAH, NED Beatty, OAT Bran, OMEN, REAR, ROAM, RPI, SAN Andreas fault, SCH, SFO, SHIA, SLRS, TACO, TARS, TIN, TOM and TOS, TPED, UMA and UVA, VEER, VISE.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Acad. Or univ.; 4. Starring role; 14. Lyricist Gershwin; 15. Olympic event with electrified equipment; 16. Presume; 17. Lean-___ (temporary shelters); 18. Squeezing tool; 19. Not checked for speed; 23. Height: Prefix; 27. Tank engine of children’s fiction; 30. “Never mind”; 31. Some jeans; 33. Hurt; 35. Be fond of; 38. Dog’s bark; 40. Pro-s opposite; 45. Mexican snack; 46. Some cameras, for short; 47. Frankie Valli’s “___ Take My Eyes Off You”; 40. Alphabetically first state: Abbr.; 51. Seaport SE of Roma; 59. Supply-and-demand subj.; 63. Make obsolete; 66. Portent; 67. Actress Thurman; 68. Files; 69. Festooned with bathroom tissue, informally; 70. Campus in Troy, N.Y.; 71. Leather worker; 72. Sailors. — DOWN: 1. Decide against making any changes; 2. Catcher’s stance; 3. Company that makes Scrabble; 4. Jeans maker Strauss; 5. Awesome, in slang; 6. Fable writer; 7 Get worse, as losses; 8. Month after mayo; 9. Slangy request for a high-five; 10. Kind of cord or column; 11 Male turkey; 12. Suffix with expert; 123. Beatty of “Charlie Wilson’s War”; 16. Frito-Lay product once sold in a 100% compostable bag; 21. The salesman in “Death of a Salesman”; 22. Author Calvino; 25. Rump; 26. Deborah of “The King and I”; 28. Bank holding: Abbr.; 29. Sunni rival; 32. California’s second busiest airport, after LAX; 34. Fugitives; 36. Pottery oven; 37. Poet Pound; 39. Media monitoring grp.; 40. Move aimlessly; 41. 26-Down’s role in “The King and I”; 42. 1950s TV innovation; 48. Whom “Dewey Defeats” in a classic Chicago Tribune headline; 50. “Little Women” author; 52. Takes place; 53. See 58-Down; 54. Hurting; 56. Bill worth 100 smackers; 57. More peculiar; 61. Swerve; 62. Finales; 63. Kellogg’s Crackin’ ___ Bran; 64. The Cavaliers of the A.C.C.; 65. It’s atomic symbol is Sn.