02.28.13 — PRO and CON

 

 

Thursday, February 28, 2013

 

Puzzle by Joe Krozel / Edited by Will Shortz

PRO / AND / CON (1A. With 4- and 7-Across, both sides … or the missing starts for all the remaining Across answers) and the aforementioned Across answers. alternating line-by-line between PRO and CON (with the black squares forming plus and minus signs), constitutes the main feature of this odd Wednesday crossword.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 10. Plot; 12. Stops working; 14. For free; 15. Manuscript reviewer; 16. Talk; 17. Disclose; 18. Walks; 20. Like some explosions and substances; 22. German toast; 23. Bowl-shaped part of the ear; 24. Moral sense; 28. Traffic; 32. Atom parts; 33. Ban; 35. Study of verse; 36. Some golf events; 37. Family name on “Roseanne”; 38. Singer Stevens; 39. Characterized by; 41. Solidifies; 43. Be made up (of); 44. Hinders; 46. Squeezes; 48. Iran-___; 49. 1997 Nicolas Cage/John Malkovich thriller; 50. Ones jacking up prices, maybe; 54. Declared publicly; 58. Bit of mountain flora; 59. Introduction; 61. Signify; 62. Big shells; 63. Associates; 64. Show; 65. For a while; 66. French tales; 67. “Now!” — DOWN: 1. ___-Penh; 2. Rampant; 3. Something you might get your mitts on; 4. “___ Death” (Grieg work); 5. Conjunction that’s usually part of a pair; 6. Tidy up, in a way; 7. Cobra’s shape, at times; 8. French wave; 9. Declined; 11. Clears the board; 12. Complain; 13. Group of three rhyming lines; 14. They’re a couple short of C notes; 19. Cacophony; 21. Quaker cereal; 24. Laurel and Lee; 25. Astronomer’s sighting; 26. Orch. Member; 27. German article; 28. Ladies in waiting?; 29. Like some columns; 30. Keats, for one; 31. Some Security Council votes; 34. “___ pal”; 40. Picture of the Old West; 41. Twists into a knot; 42. Loses freshness; 43. Fathering; 45. Dander; 47. Narrow waterway; 50. Half of a best-seller list: Abbr.; 51. “___ hollers, let …”; 52. Overflow (with); 53. Shade of black; 54. Skips, as class; 55. Early time; 56. Counseil d’___; 57. Show, informally; 60. Test for an M.A. seeker.