"How do you find your way back in the dark?"
"Just head for that big star straight on. The highway's under it. It'll take us right home."
— the last lines of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable in “The Misfits”.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Puzzle by Caleb Madison and the Jewish Association of Services for the Aged Crossword Class, edited by Will Shortz
The suffix -ana has been affixed to Mr. Nice Guy, smoking ban, one-man band and Joan of Arc producing MR NICE GUYANA (20A. Title for a South American mensch?), SMOKING BANANA (34A. Result of heating certain fruit too long?), ONE-MAN BANDANA (42A. Informal headwear that can’t be shared?) and JOAN OF ARCANA (56A. Secretive singer Baez?) — the interrelated group of this pleasant Tuesday crossword.
Other — Two entries of ten letters, MUHAMMAD ALI (11D. Self-proclaimed “astronaut of boxing”), e.g., “I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.”, PROCOL HARUM (25D. “A Whiter Shade of Pale” group), followed by four of seven, EMERITI (5D. Some academic retirees), MISFITS (44D. Final movie of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable, with “The”), NUANCED (46D. Carefully worded) and STYGIAN (9D. Hellish).
Mid-size — ANEMIA, BASINS, CLEAR, CRIMP, DETOX, ECOCAR, ENORM, EVADE, FENCE, HIPPIE, NAGAT, PAJAMA and PANAMA, PELOSI, SALVE, TBONE, UBANGI, ZOWIE (17A. “Ooh-la-la!”).
Short stuff — AABA, ACH, ACRE, ADO, AGHA, ALEC, ALOT, APBS, ARMS, ARR, CREW, CUBA, EAT, ENID, ENO, ESAU, ESSO, FEZ, HASP, HOP, ICKY, IDIG, IGOR, IMUP, IRMA, KENO, Genghis KHAN, LOB, MAUS (66A. What a Katze catches), MGM, NAPS, NAVI, NEON, NESS, NOW, PACE, Tyrannosaurus REX, ROME, SIS, SSN, STEW, TAME, TOAT, USNA, “VERY funny“.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Dealer in hot goods; 6. Siestas; 10. “No need to wake me!”; 14. Huge, poetically; 15. Tons; 16. Destination of many 1960s-’70s hijackings; 23. “Hair” extra; 26. Bro’s sibling; 27. “Gone With the Wind” studio; 28. Flight board abbr.; 29. Perfectly; 32. Tiredness; 37. Tempo; 38. Bunny’s move; 39. “Gotcha”; 47. House speaker Nancy; 49. Biblical figure whose name means “hairy” in Hebrew; 50. Easily smash able tennis shot; 51. German “Oh!”; 52. ID on I.R.S. forms; 54. Sinks; 60. Plot division; 61. Composer Stravinsky; 62. Transparent; 67. No longer wild; 68. Skirt; 69. Rifles and such; 70. Meat-and-potatoes dish; 71. Program for getting clean, briefly. DOWN: 1. Aladdin’s hat; 2. Musician Brian; 3. When repeated, a phrase of reproof; 4. Make wavy; 6. Peaceful race in “Avatar”; 7. Waugh who wrote “Island in the Sun”; 8. A facial may open them; 10. Gross; 12. Congo tributary; 13. Southernmost country in Central America; 21. Really bright, as colors; 22. John McCain’s alma mater: Abbr.; 23. Door fastener; 30. Ottoman V.I.P.; 31. Cut above the flank; 33. Sir Geraint’s faithful wife; 35. Casino game with a caller; 36. Police dept. alerts; 40. Get ___ the ground floor; 41. Runs off at the mouth; 43 Old U.S. gas brand; 45. Rhyme scheme for Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”; 47. Word before bottom or party; 48. Prius, e.g.; 53. Harass; 55. Wound soother; 57. “The Untouchables” character; 58. “I, Claudius” setting; 59. Sport with shells; 63. “___, Pray, Love” (2006 Elizabeth Gilbert best seller); 64. Hubbub.
