08.27.12 — Lou and Company


 
Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk
 
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Monday, August 27, 2012
 
Puzzle by Michael Farabaugh / Edited by Will Shortz

LAY, LEE, LIE, LOW and LOU found in LAY-AWAY PLAN, LEE IACOCCA, LIE DOWN ON THE JOB, LOW-FAT DIET and LOU FERRIGNO (He played the Hulk) constitutes the interrelated group of this Monday crossword.
 
Other — ACOLYTE, AFROS, A TEAM, CASHIER, DEADHEAD, DIVOT, OILIES, EAST SIDE, ECOLI, EEYORE, EFFETE, FASTENS, GERMAN, GRAVEL, ICAHN, IN A SEC, INNATE, LASERS, MIMOSA, MORAY, NAOMI, OCELOT, READ TO, SOARED, TACTIC, TARRED, WOLFED.
 
Short stuff — AFAR, AHA and ATA, ANI and ANTI, BINS, CAM, CASA, COAL, DIAN, DO IN, ELF, ETTE, FLA, GOT, ILO, “Make IT SO“, JOVE, Fleur-de-LIS, MDL, NIT, NON, NUDE, OAST, OMEN and ONME, ONE and ONO, RAPT, RAUL, ROE and ROY, SELA, SHOE, SMEE, SOR, STD, SVEN, Tiny TIM, UNA, WATT, WII, YARD, YSL.
 
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. 36”; 5. Official language of Austria; Tiny ___, singer of 1968’s “Tip-Toe Thru’ the Tulips With Me”; 14. Oxford or loafer; 15. Entertain, as children at a library; 16. Singer Di-Franco; 17. Purchasing system with payments made over time; 19. Video shooter, for short; 20. Golfer’s gouge; 21. “Make ___” (Picard’s command on “Star Trek” T.N.G.”); 22. Store clerk; 25. Frilly place mats; 28. “Don’t Tread ___” (early flag motto); 29. Former Chrysler C.E.O.; 31. Elite group; 33. Home, in Honduras; 34. Goldbrick; 41. Fidel Castro’s brother; 42. Ruth’s mother-in-law; 43. Healthful food regimen, traditionally; 49. Name that comes from Old Norse for “young man”; 50. Devoted follower; 51. Buckles, as a seat belt; 53. Actress Ward; 54. Frizzy dos; 55. Assistant to Santa; 56. He played the Hulk on 1970s-’80s TV; 62. ___ v. Wade; 63. Present at birth; 64. Bump off; 65. Norm: Abbr.; 66. Flew to great heights; 67. Suffix with cigar. — DOWN: 1. Designer monogram; 2. “Eureka!”; 3. Cowboy Rogers; 4. Fan of Jerry Garcia’s band; 5. Rough road surface; 6. Donkey in “Winnie-the-Pooh”; 7. Engrossed; 8. The year 1550; 9. One step ___ time; 10. “Smoking or ___?”; 11. Ploy; 12. Very soon; 13. Brunch cocktail; 18. Nintendo game console; 21. U.N. workers’ grp.; 22. Fossil fuel; 23. Opposing; 24. Captain Hook’s mate; 25. Primatologist Fossey; 26. Hops kiln; 27. Financier Carl; 30. Food-poisoning bacteria; 32. Kind of eel; 35 What “W” stands for on a light bulb; 36. Like Michelangelo’s “David” or Rodin’s “The Thinker”; 37. Where the United Nations is in Manhattan; 38. Jupiter; 39. Warning sign; 40. Recycling containers; 43. Surgical beams; 44. Spotted wildcat; 45. Devoured, with “down”; 46. Miami’s home: Abbr.; 47. Tired or decadent; 48. Smeared with pitch; 52. Frat.’s counterpart; 54. Miles away; 57. Ssinger Yoko; 58. Acapulco article; 59. Understood; 60. Annual coll. Basketball competition; 61. Pepsi ___.

 

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