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Thursday, June 3, 2010
Puzzle by Elizabeth C. Gorski, edited by Will Shortz
ROFL, ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING — ROLLING BLACKOUT (17A. Utility’s power-saving stratagem), ON THE HALF-SHELL (25A. How oysters may be served), FLOOR-TO-CEILING (42A. Fully, in a way) and LAUGHING JACKASS (56A. Kookaburra), check it out HERE — are the interrelated group of this jovial Thursday crossword.
Other — GO BANANAS and I MISSED IT (14A. Wig out; 60A. “That blew right by me”) at nine letters, each followed by sevens and eights — ELATION (23D. “I won the lottery!” feeling), LOATHED (40D. Couldn’t take), MICROHM (9D. Tiny electrical measure), PETITES (47A. Dress shop section), SCRAWLY (20A. Like doodles).Mid-size — ACTS ON, ALKANE, Bring to AN END, BOOBS, CAROM, EL PASO, ERNIE, FRANCE, HANNAH, ILL AT ease, LENIN (40A. Red head?), LILACS (41D. Subject for Chagall and Cassatt), LOG ON, LEOXI sharing an X with LUXOR, MASHA, NIECES, “NOT IF I can help it!”, ONE-TEN, ORIGIN, PASTAS, SATAN, Composer SERGEI Prokofiev, great film score, Alexander Nevsky, TONAL, VACANT.
Short stuff — ABLE, AGRO, ALAS, ANG, AS IT were, ATTY, CAVE, EARN, EATS, EOS, GMA, HAJI, HAUL, HBO, ISLS, “Pay IT NO mind“, JAB, JIG, LOON, NELL, OBIT, PAGO, PLEA, RAG, SALT, SARG, SKEE, SLOW, SSTS, TADA, TIA, TON, TUNE, YOGA, YUL.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. “Regrettably …”; 5. Observant Muslim, at times; 9. One of the sisters in Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”; 17. A bit past lunch; 21. Locale for Osama bin Laden; 24. Lot; 32. Fools; 33. Have a reflection?; 34. Mother of the winds, in Greek myth; 37. Character in Tasso’s “Jerusalem Delivered”; 38. “Salute to the sun” discipline; 39. Mexican relative; 41. Egypt’s Temple of ___; 45. Title word after “Pineapple” or “Maple Leaf”; 46. 1994 Jodie Foster role; 47. Dress shop section; 51. Corkscrews and bow ties; 59. ___ Davis, first African-American to win a Heisman; 62. When repeated, capital city of 11,000, 63. Wears (away). DOWN: 1. Soil: Prefix; 2. Screwball; 3. Fit; 4. Curer; 5. Palindromic woman’s name; 6. Lee with a 2005 Oscar; 7. Hook alternative; 8. Lanai and Maui: Abbr.; 10. Saturated hydrocarbon; 11. Not busy; 12. Cart; 13. Case worker: Abbr.; 15. Some family reuners; 18. Follows, as advice; 22. Unoccupied; 27. Having harmony; 28. “John Adams” airer; 29. Essential part of a grand tour; 30. Pope with a 27-day pontificate; 31. Prepare to tweet, say; 35. Puppeteer Tony; 38. Broadway’s Brynner; 40. Couldn’t take; 43. Where the x and y axes meet; 44. Sun Bowl city; 47. Subject of some bargaining; 48. Make; 49. Get ready to play, say; 50. Presumptuous sort; 52. ___-Ball; 53. “I did it!”; 55. Onetime J.F.K. arrivals; 57. TV-over-breakfast inits.; 58. It’s often said to be “up”.
