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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Puzzle by Sarah Keller, edited by Will Shortz
BAD, BED, BID, BOD and BUD are the vowel-progressive clues for MISCHEVIOUS, PLACE TO SLEEP, OFFER, PERSON’S BUILD and FUTURE BLOOM in this tuckered-out-from-the-long-weekend Tuesday crossword.
Other — ABNORMAL (40A. Strange), ALAN LADD (22D. “Shane” star), APPOINT (27A. Name to the cabinet, say), BELABOR (42D. Beat to death, so to speak), CLEANSER (32A. Ajax or Bon Ami), ONE ACT (6D. Having no intermission), OPHELIA (5D. Shakespeare character who goes insane), PLEDGES (44A. “Animal House” beanie sporters), POT ROAST (23D. Slow-cooked beef entrée), 44D. PUERTO Vallarta, Mexico.
Five-letter — BANKS, BLURT, DIODE, EMOTE, GRETA, INDIE (The movie “Wordplay,” for one), “LA VIE en Rose” (Edith Piaf song), NANCY, OLSEN, OVATE and OVERT, POP UP, RIDES, RISEN, STEEP, TABOO, USURP, XACTO.
Short stuff — AGHA, AHAT, AIDE, AMES, ASIA, BUSY, CFL, DOE, ECU, ELKE, ESAI, FATS, FOX, HOER, IDEA, IDS, LENA (51A. Late singer Horne), LILO, LINE, LVI, NIT, NYS, ODER, OMAN, OMIT, ORC, PEN and PEEN, POS, PROB, ROSS, SAY, SEA, SING, SNOW, TEC, TILE, TOAD, TUMS, TVA, UTE, UVA, VOTE.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. No-no; 6. Late football star and FTD pitchman Merlin; 11. Driver’s lic. And such; 14. Take forcibly; 15. Sluggo’s comics pal; 16. Thing to pick; 19. Buck’s mate; 20. Two cents’ worth; 21. Morales of “La Bamba”; 22. Capital Hill worker; 30. Comic-strip light bulb; 31. Van Susteren of Fox News; 36. Weed whacker; 39. Movie pal of Stitch; 2. River pair; 43. At the drop of ___; 50. Eclude; 52. F.D.R. power project: Abbr.; 55. Blood-type abbr.; 60. Versatile vehicle, for short; 61. For all to see; 62 Not quite round; 63. Place that’s “up the river”; 64. Hobbyist’s knife brand; 65. Doesn’t hoof it. DOWN: 1. Rolaids alternative; 2. Province of ancient Rome; 3. Like the proverbial beaver; 4. Tolkien beast; 8. ___-cone; 9. Old French coin; 10. Albany is its cap.; 12. L.E.D. part; 13. High, pricewise; 18. “This ___ outrage!”; 24. Some flooring; 25. Wroclaw’s river; 26. Neptune’s realm; 27. Ottoman Empire chief; 28. “No ___!” (“Easy!”); 29. Hammer part; 32. North-of-the-border grid org.; 33. Rat on the Mob; 34. Sommer in cinema; 35. Woman depicted in “The Birth of Old Glory”; 37. Neighbor of Yemen; 38. Some are saturated; 41. Letter after pi; 45. Checkout annoyance; 46. Like some toasters and children’s books; 47. Overdo it onstage; 48. “Christ is ___!” (Easter shout); 49. Say without thinking; 52. Fly-catching creature; 53. Show of hands, e.g.; 54. Spy Aldrich; 56. Symbol of slyness; 57. Sch. Founded by Thomas Jefferson; 58. Gumshoe; 59. 56, in old Rome.
