02.15.11 — The Usual

"Round up the usual suspects". Casablanca

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Puzzle by Paula Gamache, edited by Will Shortz

Common, average, usual and regular found within COMMON KNOWLEDGE (17A. Something everybody is aware of), AVERAGE HEIGHT (26A. It’s not very short and not very tall), USUAL SUSPECTS (46A. They may be rounded up after a crime, with “the”) and REGULAR GASOLINE (60A. Cheapest choice at the pump) comprise the interrelated group of this ordinary Tuesday crossword.

Other — AENEAS (22A. Trojan War hero), BEWARE (9D. “Watch out now”), COLLAR, GO BUST, HOMBRE, LANAIS, NAVAHO (18D. Like the land that includes Monument Valley), OHIOAN, ROENTGEN (10D. Winner of the first Nobel Prize in Physics, 1901), SUPERS, THETAS (25D. Sorority members such as Ann-Margret and Laura Bush), Artist Henri de TOULOUSE-Lautrec.

Five-letter — ADIEU, “There’s A HOLE in my Bucket” (children’s song), ALOOF, ARKIN, ELIHU, FANTA, HEART, LEO IV, MACHU, NASAL, OBITS (38A. Expiration notices?), SEW ON, TRIOS, U-HAUL, VEERS, VIEWS, TRIOS.

Short stuff — AGES, A LOT (2D Oodles), ANTI, A-ONE, ASS, CDI and CDS, COMA, DEAN,DIET, EGAD, EROS, ERR, EXO, HERO, I-BAR, IGOR, LOAD, LSAT, MACS, MEGA, NAIL, OF A, OINK, OLDE, OLEG, ORES, RARE, RBI, REV, ROMA, ROY, SAKS, SIDE, SLY, STAB and STUB, TONS (7D. Oodles), TROT, UNO and UFO.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. ___ Picchu (site of Incan ruins); 6. It’s returned by a ticket-taker; 10. “Arrivederci ___”; 14. Standoffish; 15. Topnotch; 16. Designer Cassini; 20. Stick with a stick; 21. Nincompoop; 23. Gun, as an engine; 25. Gait faster than a walk; 32. 401, in old Rome; 34. Changes course suddenly; 36. Plan that changes courses; 40. It can scratch an itch; 41. Attach with needle and thread; 43. Do-it-youself relocation rental; 45. Orbison who san “Oh, Pretty Woman”; 49. Exam for an aspiring J.D.; 50. Prefix with sphere; 51. Buckeye; 54. Goof up; 56. Mutual fund charge; 63. Freud’s libido; 64. Letter-shaped beam; 65. Orange or grape soda brand; 66. Peeved; 67. Fries, to a burger; 68. Alan or Adam of filmdom. — DOWN: 1. Non-P.C. choices?; 3. State it’s not good to be in; 4. Man, in Havana; 5. Sci-fi sight; 6. Noted Fifth Avenue emporium; 8. Numero ___; 11. Shoppe description; 12. Huge: Prefix; 13. Matures; 19. Sainted ninth-century pope; 24. Elizabethan ___; 26. “Farewell”; 27. Pros and cons; 28. Lose one’s shirt, in business; 29. Yale of Yale University; 30. What the Tin Woodman sought from the Wizard of Oz; 31. The Ghostbusters and the Police; 32. D.J.’s collection; 35. Cunning; 39. Apartment building overseers, informally; 42. Twangy-sounding; 44. Comics villain ___ Luthor; 47. Hawaiian verandas; 48. Arrest; 51. Lucky strikes?; 52. Subway fare?; 53. Composer Stravinsky; 54. Oath of old; 55. Burger order specification; 57. Piggy plaint; 58. Dead set against; 59. Watergate figure John; 61. Cleanup hitter’s stat; 62. “Anatomy ___ Murder”.