05.13.13 — Monday and Mesa

Monday, May 13, 2013

Puzzle by Allan E. Parrish / Edited by Will Shortz

Anagrams of (take your pick) MESA, AMES, SAME and SEAM found in MESA ARIZONA (20A. Chicago Cubs spring training site), AMES BROTHERS (26A. “Rag Mop” hitmakers, 1950), SAME OLD STORY (48A. You’ve heard it many times before) and SEAM WELDING (56A. Metal-joining technique) constitute the interrelated group of this Monday crossword.

Other — BEAUTY SHOP (63A. Salon), EXHAUST (4D. Deplete), ROTTEN EGGS (18A Last ones in the pool, say), STUDIOS (47D. Small apartments), TRENTON (39A. New Jersey‘s capital).

Mid-size — AMBIT, ANGRY, ASHEN, ASIAN, Jane AUSTEN, CAGED, CRANE, DEEPEN, ENTERO, EXHAUST, FARRAR, Hermann HESSE, HOTEL, John LOCKE, Steve MCNAIR, MICAH, MULTI, NASAL decongestant, OBESE, OREOS, PEACH, Mitt ROMNEY, TABLA, TIE-DYE, TONTO, TOP GUN.

Short stuff — Et ALIA, AMPS, APEX, ARE and AREA, ASTI, BEGS, BOOR, EAU de cologne, ELBA, ELOI, ERS, ESP, EZIO Pinza, FERN, GNAW, HIGH, IRE, Camero IROC and IRON, ISBN, MHOS, MSG, “Thank you very MUCH“, NATO, NO NO, OONA Chaplin, OPIE, OSTE, PCB, PERP, PONY, RAHM Emanuel, “Puttin’ on the RITZ“, ROAR, ROBE, SCOW, SHAM, TOME, UKE, UMA Thurman, WOMB, ZOO.

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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Judge’s garment; 5. Plant with fronds; 9. Book after Jonah; 14. Zenith; 15. Et ___ (and others); 16. Machine at a construction site; 17. Lofty; 22. Hosp. areas for accident victims; 23. Actress Thurman; 24. Pattern for many 1960s T-shirts; 32. Prefix with task; 33. Unmannered sort; 34. Lawbreaker, in police lingo; 38. E.P.A.-proscribed compound, for short; 42. Menagerie; 43. Hoax; 45. Bone: Prefix; 46. Chinese or Japanese; 51. 1986 Tom Cruise/Val Kilmer action film; 55. “You ___ what you eat”; 65. Clothes presser; 66. Philosopher John who posited a theory of social contract; 67. Unabridged dictionary, e.g.; 68. Mrs. Charlie Chaplin; 69. White from fright, say; 70. Library ID; 71. Flat-bottomed boat. — DOWN: 1. Chicago mayor Emanuel; 2. “The Andy Griffith Show” boy; 3. Panhandles; 4. Deplete; 5. ___, Straus and Giroux (book publisher); 6. “The Time Machine” people; 8. Western mil. Alliance; 9. QB Steve who won a Payton Award; 10. Fury; 11. Like animals in a 42-Across; 12. Furious; 19. Intestinal prefix; 21 Circumference; 25. Mind reader’s ability, briefly; 26. Concert blasters; 28. Exile isle for Napoleon; 29. Seriously overweight; 30. Kemo Sabe’s sidekick; 31. Equivalent of five houses in Monopoly; 35. Basso Pinza; 36. Lion’s sound; 37. Smallish equine; 40. McCain : 2008 :: ___ : 2012; 44. Where the Knicks play in N.Y.C.; 47. Small apartments; 48. Jane who wrote “Pride and Prejudice”; 50. Become more intense; 51. Small Indian drum; 52. Nabisco cookies; 53. Fruit with a pit; 57. Italian wine area; 58. Conductance units; 59. Where a baby develops; 60. Camaro ___-Z; 61. Something you might get your hand slapped for doing; 62. Chew like a beaver; 64. Luau instrument, informally.