Thursday, January 31, 2013
Puzzle by Mike Buckley / Edited by Will Shortz
TEAS (31A. Tetley products), TEASE (32A. Twit), TEES (34A. Tiger’s bagful) and T-SHAPES (23D. This puzzle’s theme), along with eight T-shaped spacers and all the clues beginning with the letter T constitutes the gimmick of this tiresome Thursday crossword — nothing of the aforementioned being of any consequence or help to the solution of the puzzle, regrettably a mere “look what I did” arrangement.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Toon/live action film of 1996; 9. Typewriter’s spot; 13. Tool for the scatterbrained; 15. Thereafter; 16. Tragedy-stricken; 17. “Three Sisters” playwright Chekhov; 18. Torpedo detector; 19. Trademarked Intel chip; 21. “This Little Girl of Mine” country singer ___ Young; 23. Take; 24. Telegraph suffix; 26. Told to come; 26. Tripp’s rank on “CSI Miami”: Abbr.; 28. True: Ger.; 30. Tear up; 35. Taoism, e.g.: Abbr.; 36. Technical work requirement; 37. Total; 38. Tense, maybe; 42. TV channel with “Style Report” and “Beauty Report”; 44. Tsars and others; 45. Tide’s ebb, e.g.; 48. Threaded across and down; 49. Texas hold’em action; 51. Text you might R.S.V.P. to; 52. Thing that’s highly explosive; 56. Trig functions; 57. Treating all fairly; 58. Toboggan; 59. Taxed. — DOWN: 1. Tosses, as seeds; 2. Theorem work; 3. Titan booster; 4. The Café Carlyle and others; 5. Times to start new calendarios; 6. “The __ is up!”; 7. Type of dye; 8. Target audience of Maxim; 9. Ten-spots and such; 10. Taken; 11. Traveled by Vespa; 12. Ted and others; 14. Third way, maybe; 15. “The House of the Seven Gables” locale; 20. Towering tree; 22. Tadpole’s later form, perhaps; 26. Turn a blind eye, say; 27. Turkey or chicken dish served cold; 29. Taste authority; 31. Toned quality; 34. Trumpet blares; 39. Treated for preservation, maybe; 40. Touchdowns : football :: ____ : rugby; 41. “That’s terrible!”; 43. Tec group in old France; 46. Terri with the 1980 country hit “Somebody’s Knockin”; 47. Tenor standard “___ Mio”; 50. Took (out); 53. Test figs.; 54. Tough ___; 55. Theater head: Abbr.
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