04.08.13 — Open Sesame!

 

Ali Baba by Maxfield Parrish (1909)

 

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Monday, April 8, 2013

 

Puzzle by Janet R. Bender / Edited by Will Shortz

Five two-letter entries, first word beginning with O, second with S, constitute the interrelated group of this sunny beginning-of-the-week Monday crossword.

OPEN SESAME (17A. Words from Ali Baba)
OREGON STATE (25A. Beavers’ school)
OPERATING SYSTEM (37A. Windows or Unix)
ORIGINAL SIN (47A. What Jesus is said to have been born without)
OCEAN SPRAY (57A. Cranberry juice brand)

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Former British colony in the South Pacific; 5. Wide; 10. Whip; 14. Melville novel; 15. British truck; 16. Puerto ___; 19. Aware of; 20. Assassinated; 21. Range from Peru to Chile; 22. Use a shovel; 28. Cabinet department since 1977; 30. Rumple, with “up”; 31. List that goes from Appetizers to Desserts; 32. Oscar winner Davis; 34. Physicians’ org.; 41. Ave. crossers; 42. Europe’s longest river; 43. Branching-out point; 44. Nickname of a three-time A.L.M.V.P.; 45. Like many a winter sweater; 52. “Wee” boy; 53. Outspoken; 54. Hammond ___, author of “The Wreck of the Mary Deare”; 56. Prepare for publication; 62. Descartes who wrote “Cogito, ergo sum”; 63. Burning; 64. Hairdo for any of the Jackson 5; 65. Clothing; 66. Photocopier need; 67. Twist, as polling results. — DOWN: 1. Egg ___ young; 2. Little devil; 3 Vice president Biden; 4. Charged particles; 5. Like tired eyes, maybe; 6. Comic O’Donnell; 7. Arboreal ape, informally; 8. Elbow’s place; 9. Go from blond to brunet, say; 10. Is the lead singer of; 11. Singer Ronstadt; 12. Eightsome; 13. “Silly” bird; 18. Walk, as through mud; 21. Analyze, as ore; 22. Test versions; 23. Clumsy; 24. Heredity carriers; 26. Alpha’s counterpart; 27. Some parochial school teachers; 29. Work by Karel Capek; 32. Funny Radner; 33. London is the cap.; 34. Coral formation; 35. Jason’s wife in mythology; 36. Change; 38. Singer Lavigne; 39. Animated character; 40. ___-Cat; 44. Playing marbles; 45. Unreturned tennis shot; 46. Washington bills; 47. Not concealed; 48. Event with barrel racing; 49. Sweetest part of a cake; 50. Pacifists’ protest demonstration; 51. Trap; 55. Places to get massages; 57. ___ ban; 58. Corp. money person; 59. D.C.’s ___ Stadium; 60. “___ you kidding me?”; 61. “Man, that hurts!”