Thursday, September 13, 2012
Puzzle by Matt Ginsberg / Edited by Will Shortz
Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 and Q5, e.g., WHY / ARE / FRENCH / OMELETTES / SMALL and A1, A2, A3 and A4, e.g., BECAUSE / ONE EGG / IS AN / OEUF constitutes the interrelated group of this Thursday crossword.
Other — ARMOIRE, AROUSES, ARRAIGN, BECAUSE, CASH COW, IGNITER, MALTESE, MONTAGE, PAY DIRT, PEN NAME, REMOUNT, SCOOPED, S-SHAPED, SPASMS, SWEET, TRAINEE, TSETSE (32A. Trypanosomiasis transmitter).
Mid-size — ACTS AS, AD LIBS, ALLOTS, ARETHA, COLORS, COMET, DUNKS, FRENCH, KYOTO, LEER AT, LIEGES, LINED, MINORS, NEESON, OBOTE, SAHIB, AT UP, SLEEPS, SMALL, SPASMS, U S MAIL, YES BUT…
Short stuff — AGIO, ALFA, AREA, A TO Z, BOCA, CECE, CEO, DEN, DIR, EAT, EGO, EROS, FRAU, HRE, IDOL, IONE, I SAY, OOZE and OUZO, PAP and PAT, Blood-RED, REST, RIAA, ROOF, SPF, TOIL, WARS, YON, ZAP.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Blather; 7. Ignores the teleprompter; 14. 109 acres, for Vatican City; 16. Lords … or subjects; 17. Over there; 18. Musical interlude; 20. Fancy basketball scores; 22. Florida city, informally; 24. Fighter o f pirates, in brief; 25. British interjection; 26. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” libation; 27. Awaited someone’s arrival before going to bed; 28. Get back on the horse; 30. Only Semitic language that’s an official language of the European Union; 33. Member of the singing Winans family; 38. Corrode; 41. Currency exchange premium; 42. Fits; 46. Accuse formally; 48. Reliable profit center; 50. Early wielder of a bow and arrow; 52. One of the Nereids in Greek myth; 53. Trouble’s partner; 54. Carrie Underwood or Taylor Hicks; 55. Uganda second P.M.; 56. A, AA and AAA; 58. Exude; 60. Too smooth; 61. Franklin with a cameo role in “The Blues Brothers” 62. Lady of the Haus; 63. Kind of stroke; 64. “Battleship” co-star, 2012; 65. Lotion abbr.; 66. Fox hole, e.g. — DOWN: 1. Good thing to hit; 2. Gets going; 3. Dr. Seuss, e.g.; 4. Does battle; 5. Charlemagne’s domain: Abbr.; 6. Excuse maker’s lead-in; 7. Romeo’s precursor?; 8. See 33-Down: Abbr.; 9. Examine like a wolf; 10. Flint, e.g.; 12. Curvy, in a way; 15. The whole kit and caboodle; 21. ___ Protocol (1997 agreement); 23. “Deep Impact” menace; 27. Is in low power mode; 29. Letters in - or on - boxes; 31. Substitutes for; 33. Corp.’s 8-Down; 36. Like some paper and garbage cans; 37. Indian master?; 38. Linda who married Paul McCartney; 39. Bedroom piece; 40. Company newbie; 43. Beat, journalistically; 44. Visual olio; 45. Smitten with; 47. Rations; 48. Salmon and coral; 51. Overhead expense?; 57. Secondary character in Aristophanes?; 59. Nuke.
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