The Witches Show Macbeth the Descendants of Banquo by Henry Fuseli
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
~ Macbeth Act 4, scene 1
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Puzzle by Andrea Carla Michaels / Edited by Will Shortz
Oh, wait!, it’s not Shakespeare, it’s Bradbury quoting Shakespeare!, e.g., SOMETHING WICKED (36A. Start of a Ray Bradbury title … or a hint to the ends of 17-, 26-, 49- and 62-Across), which along synonyms for “wicked” — QUEEN OF MEAN (17A. Leona Helmsley epithet), HEAR NO EVIL (26A. Words under a monkey with his hands over his ears), SID VICIOUS (49A. One of the Sex Pistols) and DON’T BE CRUEL (62A. 1956 #1 Elvis hit) constitutes the interrelated group of this perfectly fiendish and friendly Monday crossword.
Other — ALTERNATIVE (13A. Plan B), IN DISREPAIR (67A. Falling apart) and a fair amount of partials, including “Play It Again, SAM”; “I’ll take that as A NO”; Quayle : Bush :: Biden : OBAMA; Entr-ACTE (musical interlude); Go the extra MILE; New York State’s ERIE Canal; All HET up (agitated), “Stop staring AT ME!”; “What’s NOT TO like?”; “it’s A FREE country!”; LEW Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s birth name); “Kitchy-kitchy-KOO!”; Summa CUM laude; Going AT IT tooth and nail; Paris’s QUAI d’Orsay; and finally, “BE IT ever so humble …”.
Mid-size — AFGHAN, ALITO, ANIMAL, C-NOTE, EROTIC (47D. XXX-rated), FARCE, FORUM, GNOME, IDLER, LONELY, MEDIC, MORALE, NAOMI, OMITS, RURAL, SENOR, SENOR, VANED, VERBS, WINCE.
Short stuff— AIM, ALEC, ALI and ALUI, ANEW, APES, BUM, CAIN (39D. Brother of Abel), CEE and CEO, COST, DIS, EARL, EDEN, ELO, EMU, ENDS, ERN, EVA, FAQS, FIR, HAS, HRS, III, ING, LEW, NYC, ONO, PIES, QBS, RPM, RTES, SAM, SIS, SLRS,TRES.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Outrageous comedy; 6. Big galoots; 18. Tree with needles; 19. Bro’s sibling; 20. Uno y dos; 26. Urban’s opposite; 33. Samuel on the Supreme Court; 34. Again from the top; 44. Supermodel Campbell; 45. Frequent “S.N.L.” host Baldwin; 52. A funny thing happened on the way to this, in an old musical; 54. Utopia; 55. Little guy in the garden; 56. Rank below a marquis; 58. Football passers, for short; 66. “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” boxer; 68. Big apple inits.; 69. Price; 70. Fails to mention. — DOWN: 1. Queries on the Internet, for short; 2. His: Fr.; 3. Blvds. And rds.; 4. Not-so-impressive grade; 5. Suffix with north or south; 7. Slapstick props; 8. One of the Gabors; 9. Mister in Mexico; 10. African hunt; 11. Zeba or zebu; 12. Esprit de corps.; 22. Mooch, as a cigarette; 23. Johnson who said “Ver-r-r-ry interesting!”; 24. Bill worth 100 smackers; 26. Possesses; 27. “Don’t Bring Me Down” rock group, for short; 28. Order between “ready” and “fire”; 29. Equipped with sails, as a windmill; 30. Gerund suffix; 35. Look that may accompany a groan; 37. Mins. And mins.; 38. Jr.’s junior; 41. Aussie bird; 45. Kabul ntive; 46. Feeling friendless; 50. Words after nouns; 51. Do-nothing; 53. Combat doc; 56. Terminates; 60. Some cameras, for short; 63. Singer Yoko; 64. Corp. bigwig; 65. 33 1/3, 45 or 78, briefly.
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