The American Tobacco Company's line of baseball cards featured shortstop Honus Wagner of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1909 to 1911. In 2007, the card shown here sold for $2.8 million.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Puzzle by Gary Cee / Edited by Will Shortz
Baseball terminology, e.g., SWING, HIT, RUN, SLIDE, SCORE, found in MOOD SWING (17A. Sign of bipolar disorder), TOP TEN HIT (26A. Tune in a D. J.’s rotation), CANNONBALL RUN (37A. 1981 Burt Reynolds movie, with “The“), LANDSLIDE (53A. Electoral college blowout) and FOURSCORE (62A. Start of a Lincoln address) constitutes the interrelated group of this Wednesday crossword.
Other — ANOMALY (30D. Deviation from the norm), EGOMANIA (3D. Prima donna’s problem), MACKEREL (9D. Holy fish?), NONSENSE (38D. Gobbledygook), STELLAR (22D. First-rate), USED TO IT (40D. No longer bothered by something).
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Call from the flock; 5. Jack of “Dragnet”; 9. Not accidental; 14. Tamboura player’s music; 155. Asia’s Trans ___ Range; 16. One of a keyboard quartet; 19. Minotaur’s island; 20. Brzezinski of MSNBC; 21. When car headlights get turned on; 23. ___ kwon do; 24. Place for a rim shot; 28. ___ Solo of “Star Wars”; 29. Cabinet department until 1947; 31. Radio’s “The Lone Ranger” and others; 32. Put-in-Bay’s lake; 34. Listing in a table alphabétique; 36. Badminton call; 42. One of the DiMaggios; 43. Part of many a dish’s name; 44. Key opening?; 46. Place for weapons; 50. Poet’s planet; 52. Time to revel; 55. El Misti’s range; 57. General on Chinese menus; 58. Leering sort; 59. Stick-to-it-iveness; 60. Nut with a cupule; 62. Start of a Lincoln address; 66. Ground crew gear; 67. Not fooled by; 68. Double-decker checker; 69. Lowlife; 70. Need a bath badly; 71. Like bachelor parties. — DOWN: 1. Mechanical “bandit” feature; 2. Little Red Book author; 4. Rock bottom; 5. Tot’s glassful; 6. “The Book of ___” (2010 film); 7. Monopoly railroad; 8. Kudos, in street slang; 10. Mess up; 11. Queen of Soul, familiarly; 12. Manx cat trait; 13. 140-characters-or-fewer messages; 18. Slant; 22. First-rate; 24. ___-wolf; 25. Undercover copy, perhaps; 26. Suffix with Jumbo or beta; 27. Dynamite component, briefly; 30. Deviation from the norm; 33. Put the kibosh on; 35. Deg, earned by just one U.S. president; 39. Bath gel ingredient; 41. Cathedral area; 45. “Right you are!”; 46. Places for priests; 47. Alfalfa or Buckwheat; 48. “Jersey Shoe” nickname; 49. Help by confirming an alibi, say; 51. Places for shots; 54. Predator ___; 56. Shaving mishaps; 59. Totally get, in slang; 61. Michael Stipe’s band; 63. Beehive State tribesman; 64. Genetic inits.; 65. Deviled ___.
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