08.19.12 — OH, REALLY!

Sunday, August 19, 2012

“OH, REALLY?“, Puzzle by Freddie Cheng / Edited by Will Shortz

Eight common phrases with the sound of O replacing the sound of L, e.g. jingle/jingo, Jackyl/Jacko, Temple/Tempo, cycle/psycho, renal/Reno, eagle/ego, total/Toto and sickle/sicko, forming uncommon phrases, constitutes the interrelated group of this Sunday crossword:

• JINGO ALL THE WAY (23A. Ultranationalism?)
• THE DAY OF THE JACKO (39A. “Thriller” Grammy sweep?)
• TEMPO OF DOOM (48A. Speed at which the apocalypse is coming?)
• RINSE PSYCHO (64A. Obsessive-compulsive soap purger?)
• RENO FAILURE (74A. Big gambling loss in the Biggest Little City in the World?)
• AMERICAN EGO (91A. Bad precept for U.S. foreign policy?)
• TOTO ANNIHILATION (99A. Not a happy ending on the yellow brick road?)
• HAMMER AND SICKO (121A. TV detective with his unbalanced suspect?)

Other — AESOPIC (51A. Having allegorical meanings), ANTI-TAX, APOSTLE, AROUSAL, AT LONG LAST, CHA CHAS, ETCHANT, LEG CRAMPS, MARLENA Shaw, Kate MIDDLETON, Paul O’NEILLS, REFUSE HEAP (14D. Dump), RONZONI, UNDERMINE.

Mid-size — ACETIC, ADDLED, AENEID, AGENDA, ALIENS, ALPES, AMISS, ARCANE, AURATE, BLEEPS, CHESTY, CORNET, DIRGES, EASEL, Zhou ENLAI, ENOKI (5D. Japanese mushroom), ENSEAT, EXACTA, FELLA, Enrico FERMI, FINERY, GYRATE, JESUS, KEENER, LES MIZ, LOATHE, LOOFAH, MALLET, Zubin MEHTA, “Eugene O’NEGIN“, House of ORANGE, Peter O’TOOLE, PANAMA, REAPED, REPASS, SAYS SO, SEEM TO, SLIME, SONYS, STOCK, STREAK, TAUPES, TIRADE, TOTERS.

Short stuff — ACHE, AGES, AHA, ALIT, ALOE, ANA and ANO, ANIL, AOL, ARCO, CELL, CEOS, DAB, DEEP, DIOR, DRE, DSOS, DUE, Dame EDNA Everage, ELSE, EMMA, END and ENT, ESTA, EXIT, FIR, HAR and HAW, HIT, HTTP, ICEE, DEA, “Are you IN OR out?”, INRE, IRAN, I THE, LETO (113D. Consort of Zeus), LODE, LINO and LONI, MAJS, MAXI, MIAS, MNO, MTN, NEON, NEMO, NIL, ORYX, OVEN, PACK, PIE, PTA, RENT, RIOT, ROI, SELL, SERB, SKIP, SLAT, SODS, STY (13D. Dump), TOAD, TOTS, TSA, UFO, VEER, XKES.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Polo need; 7. Some ballroom dances; 14. Go by again; 20. Figures in TV’s “V”; 21. Acid, e.g.; 22. One-two wager; 25. Sunday best; 26. Keep on hand; 27. View from une chalet, maybe; 28. Reforms?; 29, Scream, so to speak; 31. Gray shades; 35. Mil. Stat; 44. Appear that way; 46. Zero; 47. More than dislike; 56. 43-Down follower; 57. Brought in; 61. Gold-compound salt; 62. Balkan native; 66. Source of indigo; 70. Kate who married a prince; 73. Classic Jags; 77. Venetian strip; 80. Louis Armstrong played one; 81. More gung-ho; 84. Excitement; 89. Former Treasury secretary Paul and former Yankee Paul; 93. Spa item; 97 L-P center; 98. Non compos mentis; 105. Choice word; 107. Do a hula, e.g.; 108. Swerve; 110. Goes (for); 112. Nastily slander; 116. Wrong; 120. What a chair may hold; 125. Solemn pieces; 126. Like the Boston Tea Partiers; 128. Opposite of dethrone; 129. Big name in pasta; 130. Curses out? — DOWN: 1. Some mil. Brass; 2. Settled down; 3. Lead-in to type; 4. Bikers’ woes; 6. J.F.K. search party?; 7. Clandestine group; 8. Link letters; 9. Joint concern; 10. Opposite of flat; 11. Part of a bray; 12. Santa ___; 15. Red-letter word; 16. Article of apparel that’s not made where you might think; 17. Like CH3CO2H; 18. Run; 19. Asserts something; 24. Plaster support; 1980s New York Philharmonic maestro; 30. Peter of “The Last Emperor”; 32. Part of some e-mail addresses; 33. Radar anomaly; 34. Class action grp.?; 36. Spanish 101 word; 37. Many-layered; 38. “Little” comics boy; 40. Rear; 41. J’adore perfumer; 42. Perennial succulent; 43. Religious figure; 45. Sandbox frequenters; 49. Manhattan Project physicist; 50. Jazz vocalist Shaw; 52. Antelope related to the gemsbok; 53. Cram; 55 Mitt Romney and others, once; 58. Pizzeria order; 59. The Lord of the Rings” tree creature; 60. U.K. mil. Decorations; 63. Con; 65. China’s Zhou ___; 66. With the bow, in music67. Really bright; 68. Memo intro; 69. Blonde Anderson; 71. Appropriate; 72. Death Row Records co-founder, familiarly; 75. Chap; 76. “Finally!”; 78. Like election laws, typically; 79. Ugly one; 82. Watson of the Harry Potter films; 83. Musical with the song “Seasons of Love”; 85. Sabotage; 86. Dump, say; 87. A long time; 88. Big vein; 90. Some Blu-ray players; 92. Louis XIV, for one; 94. Wreath source; 95. Solution reaction; 96. Miss’s partner; 99. It might result in a meltdown; 100. Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene ___”; 101. Bag handlers; 103. Broadway smash starting in ‘87; 104. Pizzeria need; 109. Chart holder; 111. Spark, so to speak; 114. Big oil exporter; 115. Mini’s counterpart; 117. Summer cooler; 118. Record problem; 119. Lays the groundwork for?; 121. Half a laugh; 122. New element in each of this puzzle’s theme answers; 123. Geog. Abbreviation; 124. Tiny application.