12.19.12 — Tomato

 

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

 

Puzzle by Mike Buckley / Edited by Will Shortz

This Wednesday’s crossword features a quotation attributed to Miles Kington, KNOWLEDGE IS / KNOWING A TOMATO / IS A FRUIT / WISDOM IS / NOT PUTTING IT IN / A FRUIT SALAD. More accurately, the quote is “Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that a tomato doesn't belong in a fruit salad."

 

Other — AT NOON, BLOTTO, EMILIO Estevez, ENJOIN, FELIPE Alou, JANE ROE, JUNIORS, LEER AT, ROSETTE, San SIMEON, SOAR TO, STEREO, STREAMS, TARTAR.

 

Five-letter — AKELA (15A. Scout pack leader), Counselor-AT-LAW, BASSO (10D. Low man on stage), CELEB, DR WHO, ELIOT, INERT, IT’S OK, KEBAB, LIEST, OSAKA, PANDA, STOAT, TEASE, TO FIT, URALS.

 

Short stuff — AKA, ALI, Cape ANN, ATE, CAD, CUT, DAB and LAB, EKG, ELI, END, ESAI Morales, GAT, GEL, GUS and GUT, GEL, HAL, IRON, ITO and ITT, JINN, KIST, LEA, NCIS, NEAR, NEO and NET, NON, OMNI, ORO, PIK, RAE, RIEN, CD-ROM, SIN, SSST, TBS, TIE and TIS, UMA and USA, WII.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Bamboo muncher; 6. Paparazzo’s target; 11. “Very Funny” network; 14. Like radon; 17. Start of a thought by British journalist Miles Kington; 20. Falstaff’s princely friend; 21. Flower-shaped decoration; 23. Thought, part 2; 27. Hardly a win-win situation?; 28. Album track; 29. A Monopoly token; 30. Thought, part 3; 34. Salon supply; 36. Places for mills, once; 37. Some varsity players; 41. “The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the ___: (Thomas Gray line); 42. Thought, part 4; 43. Morales of “Caprica”; 46. One of a deadly seven; 47. Pull down; 48. Thought, part 5; 54. Anonymous one, in court; 55. Ingested; 56. Conquistador’s booty; 57. End of the thought; 63. O.J. Simpson trial judge; 64. “When thou ___ down, thou shalt not be afraid”: Proverbs; 65. Where Sanyo is headquartered; 66. Alternative to “smoking”; 67. Brown ermine; 68. Skewered fare. — DOWN: 1. Water ___, Inc.; 2. New England’s Cape ___; 3. “The Matrix” role; 4. BBC time-traveling series; 6. Insensitive sort; 7. Heart chart, briefly; 8. Eye lustfully; 9. Poet whose work inspired “Cats”; 11. Calculus, familiarly; 12. Pie-eyed; 13. San ___ (Hearst Castle site); 18. Country music’s ___ Young Band; 22. Actor Estevez; 23. Commercial ending for Sun or Star; 24. Warm, so to speak; 25. “JAG” spinoff with Mark Harmon; 26. ___ reaction; 27. Frank McCourt memoir; 31. One of baseball’s Alous; 32. “Norma ___” (Sally Field film); 33. Thurman of “The Avengers”; 34. Gloomy guy?; 35. Wind down; 37. Spirit of Islamic myth; 38. Onetime Dodge; 39. Nanette’s “nothing”; 40. Mach 1 breaker; 42. Super Smash Bros. Brawl console; 43. Prohibit by judicial order; 44. Reach an altitude of; 45. When some do lunch; 46. Den system; 49. Eurasian range; 50. Tailored ___ (customized); 51. Old gang heater; 52. “Things could be worse”; 53. Pick on; 58. G8 member; 59. Cousin of TV’s Gomez; 60. “CSI” setting; 61. Rap sheet entry; 62. Amount of cream.