04.10.12 — Role Reversal

Girl at Mirror, 1954, Norman Rockwell.

Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 6, 1954

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Puzzle by Gregory Philip Butler / Edited by Will Shortz

ROLE REVERSAL (51A. Plot device used in “Freaky Friday” … or a hint to the interior of 20-, 28- or 42-Across), DANIEL ORTEGA (20A. Longtime Nicaraguan president), BARREL ORGAN (26A. Instrument that’s played by turning a crank) and NAVEL ORANGE (42A. Citrus fruit originally grown in Brazil) constitute the interrelated group of this Tuesday crossword.

Other — BELTLINE (36D. Railway encircling a city), EFFEMINATE (54A. Womanish), OHIO VALLEY (18A. Wheeling, Cincinnati and Louisville are in it), OVER-RATE (38D. Think too highly of), SATIABLE (4D. Like an appetite that can be fulfilled), WAVEFORM (9D. Repeating shape on an oscilloscope) .

Mid-size — ACE TEN, AGORA, ANNAL, ANSEL, “That’s A REAL shame”, B BALL, BEGEM, BLOATER (22A. Smoked herring), BRONC, CLINT, CORRODE, DALAI Lama, DARLA, EDENS, ELATE, ELGAR, FONDA, K D LANG, NIGEL, NOVELS, OCALA, Sir William OSLER, OVALS, Car POOLER, PSHAW, R AND B, SCHORR, VENOM, VIREOS ((43D. Red-eyed birds), YES NO.

Short stuff — ALLA breve, A LOT, AREA, “Wanna BET?”, DIVA, EGO, EKE, ENID, ERIE and ERNE, EROS, ET AL, EVE, FIR, FLO, HAIR, KILO, KNEW, LIE, LIRA, NEST, NIL, NEST, OGRE, OLEO, RAGE, RAYS, RST, TEAT, TON and TOS, VEGA, WAY.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Beams; 5. “Nuts!”; 10. Had more than a feeling; 14. Region; 15. Central Florida city; 16. Singer with a reputation for being self-centered; 17. Site for a diet of worms?; 23. Hollywood’s Henry, Jane or Peter; 29. Shaq’s game; 32. Old Italian coin; 33. Trio after Q; 35. Shoreline flier; 36. Adorn with jewels; 38. It’s not butter; 39. Truck scale unit; 40. 1970s Chevy; 41. Track shapes; 46. Director Eastwood; 47. Eat away at; 57. ___ breve (2/2 time); 58. Drug unit; 59. Bruce of “Sherlock Holmes” films; 60. What a milkmaid holds; 61. God with a bow and arrow; 62. Utopias; 63. Creepy-sounding lake name? — DOWN: Genre for Smokey Robinson: 3. Kind of question; 6. Late NPR newsman; 7. “Aquarius” musical; 8. Very much; 10. “Constant Craving” singer; 11. Zilch; 12. New Year’s ___; 13. Route; 19. Lead-in to phobia; 21. List ender; 24. Alfalfa’s girl in “The Little Rascals”; 25. Photographer Adams; 27. “Pomp and Circumstance” composer; 28. Golfer’s concern; 30. Rodeo bucker; 31. One for the record books?; 34. How-___; 37. It may be inflated; 38. Think too highly of; 40. Poison; 41. Purple people eater, e.g.; 45. Dickens’s output; 48. Physician Sir William; 50. Thrill; 52. Oklahoma city; 53. Fury; 54. Barely make, with “out”; 55. It’s green year-round; 56. “Alice” waitress.