01.24.13 — TRA

 

Neon Tetra - paraheirodon innesi © Leino Ole, Animal Planet

 

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

 

Puzzle by Michael Shteyman / Edited by Will Shortz

 

Six answers ending in TRA constitutes the interrelated group of this friendly Thursday crossword:

FRANK SINATRA (19A. Subject of a 2010 biography subtitled “The Voice”)
EXTRA (39A. Tabloid TV show co-hosted by Mario Lopez)
NISSAN SENTRA (55A. Compact since 1982)
COSA NOSTRA (11D. Dangerous family)
NEON TETRA (20D. Colorful fish)
IRAN CONTRA (29D. Affair of the 1980s)

 

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Chiquita import; 8. Sailor’s heavy jacket; 15. 1968 to the present, in tennis; 16. Gathers on the surface, as a layer of molecules; 17. Small image displayed in a browser’s address bar; 21. Marie Antoinette’s loss; 22. Title boy in a Humperdinck opera; 26. Forearm bones; 30. Word before and after “yeah”; “Whoa, baby!”; 33. It may have one or two sides; 35. Part ofa baby’s daily schedule; 37. Port ___; 38. City that’s home to three Unesco World Heritage Sites; 41. Atomic; 42. “Broccoli again?,” e.g.; 43. Tale; 44. Put on guard; 46. Hollywood’s Roberts and others; 48. Part of P.S.T.: Abbr.; 50. Several “Boris Godunov” parts; 51. Lapsed; 53. Back; 61. Brodering state; 64. Two; 65. Line of Porsches whose name is Spanish for “race”; 66. Decorative melody added above a simple musical theme; 67. With 47-Down, popular hotel chain; 68. Goddess with a golden chariot. — DOWN: 1. Sockeroo; 2. On ___ with; 3. Gulf of Finland feeder; 4. Have ___ with; 5. Unimaginative gift, maybe; 6. Sprang; 7. “Madness put to good uses,” per George Santayana; 8. Nickname for Haydn; 9. First lady of the 1910s; 10. Off course; 12. Meal morsel; 13. Type letters; 14. Medicine amt.; 23.Country lads; 24. Newsweek and others; 25. She was on the cover of back-to-back issues of Time in September 1997; 26. Metalworker’s tool; 27. Sweater material; 28. It stops at Manhattan’s Washington Square and Rockefeller Center; 29. Affair of the 1980s; 31. Bygone political inits.; 34. Sushi fish; 36. Part of the Iams logo; 40. Fraternity letters; 45. Side by side; 47. See 67-Across; 49. “You’re welcome, amigo”; 52. Line that ended in 1917; 54. Consistent with; 56. Leave rolling in the aisles; 57. “Good job!”; 58. Ride in London; 59. Rice-A-___; 60. Talk show times: Abbr.; 61. Pal; 62. “Kapow!”; 63. City community, informally.