08.30.12 — Eggs

 

 

Thursday, August 30, 2012

 

Puzzle by Stu Ockman / Edited by Will Shortz

OOOOOO / OOOOOO (31A. With 37-Across, dairy aisle purchase), FREE RANGE (16A. Popular kind of 31- and 37-Across), EGG CARTON (55A. Holder of 31- and 37-Across), OVER EASY (10D. One way to prepare 31- and 37-Across) and ONE DOZEN (36D. Number of 31- and 37-Across in a 55-Across) constitutes the interrelated group of this Thursday crossword.

 

Other — BONE DRY, CAMILLE Saint-Saëns, CREATORS, DELTOID, DO OR DIE, EARNEST, ELANTRA, EUTERPE (41D. One of the Muses), GESTALT, IDEA MAN, LIBERACE, MANHOOD, MR DEEDS, PANACEA, REUNITED, SMACK DAB, TEE TIME, TORNADO (2D. Home wrecker).

 

Mid-size — Draw A BEAD on, AMARNA (20A. Excavation locale of an ancient Egyptian capital), AT ALL, CEDRIC Diggory, CREPE, FACE IT, Beniamino GIGLI, INTENT, KRONER, MINERS, NATALE, NEATO, PHASER, RONEE, SHEAF.

 

Short stuff — ACES, ADAM, ALF, ARMS, AT IT, AVER, BENT, CAB, DAZE, EADS, ELIS, GAL, LODE, MSG, NES, Das NEUE Testament, OOM, PALL, POOR, PORC, “Je vous en PRIE“, RAL, ROOS, SET for life, SLO, STA, TOSH, ULEE, YDS, “YOO-hoo!”.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Vigorously pursuing something; 5. Huggers; 9. Parisian pig; 13. Vein glory?; 14. Bilgewater; 15. Profess; 19. Christmas in Italia; 22. French composer Saint-Saëns; 23. “Look at the facts!”; 24. First of its kind?; 25. “Marvy!”; 26. Droughty; 30. Real stunner?; 33. Tee sign abbr.; 34. Traffic caution; 38. Gold diggers; 40. He goes to town in a 1936 movie; 46 1997 title role for Peter Fonda; 47. ____ Diggory, young wizard in the Harry Potter books; 49. It’s more than the sum of its parts; 52. Currency pegged to euros; 53. It may be hard to prove in court; 54. Muddlement; 58. Pair in a dead man’s hand; 59. Feeling of gloom; 61. Predilection; 62. Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, for two; 63. Actor George of “CSI”. — DOWN: 1. Big-nosed character of 1980s TV; 3. Visionary; 4. Start of a round; 5. Even a tiny bit; 6. Actress Blakley of “Nashville”; 7. Rangers’ home in N.Y.C.; 8. Stack of papers; 9. Cure-all; 11. Together again; 12. They make things up; 17. “Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-___” (Irish lullaby); 21. What a young buck might want to prove; 22. Object of some whistles; 27. Desperate; 28. Short marsupials?; 30. Less than fair; 32. Pah lead-in; 34. Precisely; 35. Longtime Las Vegas entertainer; 39. Wholehearted; 42. South Korean model; 43. Arm raiser; 48. Brunch item; 49. Tenor Beniamino ___; 50. S.A.S.E.’s, e.g.; 51. Stop: Abbr.; 56. Partner to do-si-do with; 57. Wii forerunner.