Thursday, April 18, 2013
Puzzle by Stu Ockman / Edited by Will Shortz
ALPS (68A. High points of which five are found going up in this puzzle), TIDAL POOL (22A. Where seawater remains after an ebb), RACIAL PROFILING (38A. Unethical law enforcement practice), NATIONAL PASTTIME (44A. Baseball, in America), MECHANICAL POWER (54A. Engine’s output) and LEGAL PADS (67A. Long writers’ blocks?) constitute the interrelated group of this overly complicated "look-what-I-did" Thursday crossword.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. “This bag is not ___”; 8. Figures in statistics; 13. Film resident of Crab Key Island; 14. Apple, e.g.; 15. Instrument bearing the coat of arms of France’s Charles IX; 16. Go-between; 18. Pen pal?; 19. Futile; 23. Quick refreshment; 25. Apricot relative; 26. Psalm ender; 32. Eleniak of “Baywatch”; 35. “ ___ Longstocking”; 37. Earth, e.g.; 39. Breathers; 41. Strong irritation; 42. ___ charmed life; 43. Home of “The Nude Maja”; 46. Way to see the world?; 48. Early 12th-century year; 50. Switzerland’s ___ Gorge; 58. Illuminated from above; 60. Divide up; 61. Shelf on a cliff; 63. Gunk; 64. Da capo ___; 65. Push; 66. Caught on video; 67. Long writer’s blocks? —DOWN: 1. Accept, as an error; 2. Lopez with the 1965 hit “Lemon Tree”; 3. One way to see a movie; 4. Big-eared “Star Wars” character; 5. First tuba note?; 6. Stickup man on “The Wire”; 7. Jay ___ Garage (popular automotive Web site); 8. Partners in crime; 9. Western ___; 10. “Swans Reflecting Elephants” artist; 11. William and Harry attended it; 12. “Turn state-s evidence; 14. Kind of colony; 17. First part of a form to fill out; 21. Ruckuses; 24. Historical name for New Guinea; 26. Water-___; 27.Margaret Thatcher’s middle name; 29. U.S.S. ___ (W.W. II battleship); 30. TV neigh-sayer?; 31. Rive of Iberia; 32. Leprechaun’s home; 33. Scarce, to Scipio; 34. Actor who made his film debut in “Breakin’,” 1984; 36. Senorita’s silver; 39. “April Theses” writer; 40. Hosp. areas; 42. Tracked down; 43. Spoken, as evidence; 45. Cry upon walking in the front door; 47. “Taxi” worker; 49. Like some videos; 51. Perfume ingredient; 52. Exhume; 53. Doesn’t strike out in the end; 54. Flag holder; 55. She, in Seville; 56. Fast pace; 57. Center; 59. “Fur Is Dead” org.; 62. Smoke.
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