01.28.13 — Tools

 

 

Monday, January 28, 2013

 

Puzzle by Jaime Hutchison and Victor Fleming

Edited by Will Shortz

WHAT A TOOL (35A. Common put-down that hints at the ends of 17-, 21-, 53- and 58-Across), FUEL LEVEL (17A. Info on a dashboard gauge), MIKE HAMMER (21A. “I, the Jury” detective), MODEL PLANE (53A. Flier made from a do-it-yourself kit) and FIRE DRILL (58A. Safety exercise prompted by an alarm) constitute the interrelated group of this work-a-day Monday crossword.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES — Crossword Puzzles and Games.

Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Little prankster; 4. Does nothing; 9. Tots’ fathers; 14. Neither’s partner; 15. TV host Gibbons; 16. Go off like a volcano; 19. Countryside: Sp.; 20. Within: Prefix; 23. Big name in at glass; 25. Comic Caesar; 26. Thanksgiving side dish; 27. In layers; 28. Read leisurely; 30. French legislature; 31. Tiny misstep; 34. Newspaper opinion piece; 38. Asia’s shrunken ___ Sea; 41. Fill-ins, informally; 42. British fellow; 46. Divulges; 48. PC lookalikes, e.g.; 49. Pres. Lincoln; 50. Pop singer Carly ___ Jepsen; 52. “Aha!”; 56. Fashion magazine with a French name; 57. Rust, for example; 60. Laura and Bruce of the silver screen; 61. That is: Lat.; 62. Cambodia’s Lon ___; 63. These, to Conchita; 64. When repeated, identifies people; 65. Before, to a bard. — DOWN: 1. Overruns as pests might; 2. Canadian police officers; 3. In the sixth grade or earlier, typically; 4. Sick; 5. Judged; 6. “Deathtrap” playwright Ira; 7. Book before Daniel: Abbr.; 8. Counterpart of purchases; 9. 2010s, e.g.; 10. Biblical name for Syria; 11. Produce, as page layouts for a printer; 12. Mollify; 13. Attacked en masse; 18. Singer with the #1 R&B hit “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine”; 22. Zoo heavyweight, for short; 24. Top 10 Kiss hit with backing by the New York Philharmonic; 29. Dog command; 31. Springfield resident Disco ___; 32. Experiment site; 33. With 36-Down, “Easy!”; 36. See 3-Down; 37. Lead-in to “di” or “da” in a Beatles song; 38. With ice cream; 39. Packs again for shipping; 40. Suffered humiliation; 43. Length of a pithy joke; 44. Garrison of “A Prairie Home Companion”; 45. Actress Getty of “The Golden Girls”; 47. Discount price phrase; 48. Edam or Brie; 51. Leprechaunlike; 52. Against property, to a judge; 54. Poet ___ St. Vincent Millay; 55. Opera with a slave girl; 59. Drunk’s woe, informally.