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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Puzzle by Wesley Johnson / Edited by Will Shortz
Four fifteen-letter answers clued as “So what?!” constitutes the main feature of this Tuesday crossword — DOESN’T CONCERN ME, COULDN’T CARE LESS, IT’S NOT MY PROBLEM and NO SKIN OFF MY BACK.
Mid-size — ALOHA, ANCHOR (9D. Diane Sawyer, for one), “A TRIP to the Moon”, BRIBES (Unethical payoffs), COATI, CRONY, EAVES, EMAIL, GONER, MOSTEL (4D. “Fiddler on the Roof” star), NERDS, NOW ON, OBAMA, ORBIT, PIKES, SALEM, SAMOA and SOAMI and SOAPY, SLATE, START, STORE and STOWS, TATUM, TIRES, TWANGS (50D. Regional accents), UNITS, USERS.
Short stuff — ABEL, AFEW, ALAS, ALSO, AMPS, ANTS, APP and APR, ASST, AWOL, BOCA Raton, EAR and ERA, ECOL and ECON, ELOI, ETRE, FOOT, GETS, IFNO, ISE, KALE, KOS, LENS, MONA and MONO, MRS, OCHO, ORS, OVA, PERM, PODS, POLE, POUT, PUMP, RHEA Silvia, SAUL, SAW, SENT, SKIT, SNAG, SPA, STEP.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Salon offering; 5. America’s 44th; 10. Current units; 14. ___ Rios, Jamaica; 15. Currently airing; 16. Look sullen; 20. Schedule; 21. ___ From Hawaii (1973 Elvis concert); 22. Kind of store; 23. Elizabethan ___; 25. Beginnings of embryos; 36. Surgeons’ workplaces, for short; 37. Beginning; 38. Pago Pago’s place; 39. Number two son; 41. Stockpile; 43. Israel’s first king; 44 Bridgestones, e.g.; 46. Condos, e.g.’ 48. British verb ending; 52. Viewed; 53. Site of the smallest bone in the body; 54. Hot tub locale; 57. The fellas in “GoodFellas”; 61. Slender game fishes; 68. As well; 69. One who has no chance; 70. “The Time Machine” leisure class; 71. Savvies; 72. Puts in the hold; 73. Transmitted. — DOWN: 1. Pea protectors; 2. Environmental sci.; 3. ___ Silvia, mother of Romulus and Remus; 5. Toronto’s prov.; 6. ___ Raton, Fla.; 7. M.P.’s target; 8. Like early Elvis albums; 10. Mar. follower; 11. “___ Lisa”; 12. Shell fixture; 13. Dance move; 18. Propeller-heads; 19. Icicle sites; 24. Ones putting out feelers; 26. “Regrettably …”; 27. Raccoon relative; 28. Go round and round; 29. Rehab seekers; 30. Actress O’Neal; 31. Old pal; 32. ____ to the Moon” (seminal 1902 sci-fi film); 33. Cybermessage; 34 Boozehound; 35. House of the Seven Gables locale; 40. Camera part; 42. To be, in Tours; 45. “Me, too”; 47. Like a bubble bath; 50. Regional accents; 51. Unethical payoffs; 54. Impediment; 55. Copernicus, e.g., by birth; 56. Helper: Abbr.; 58. Pick up, as a bill; 59. Kelly Clarkson’s “___ One Will Listen”; 60. Several; 62. Moolah; 63. Subj. for a Fed chairman; 64. Short comic sketch; 66. Mike Tyson stat; 67. Miss, after vows.
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