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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Puzzle by Joe Krozel, edited by Will Shortz
Seven answers interrupted by a couple of black squares each constitutes the interrelated group of this thrashing Thursday crossword, with the individual segments capable of qualifying as answers to …some other crossword:
- CHAR / TERM / EMBER (12A. One in on the founding of a company)
- PLAN / TMAN / AGER (20A. Production site chief)
- WIN / ETAS / TER (27A. One getting a bouquet?)
- OPERA / TIN / GROOM (37A. Workplace where there are many openings)
- EAR / THAN / GEL (43A. Song played at the school dance in “Back to the Future”)
- FORT / HERE / CORD (50A. Officially)
- NOTRE / SPAS / SING (59A. Warning to intruders)
What?
Other — ARM LOCKS (36D. Judo maneuvers); ATTACHES (35D. Legal cases?); GO EAST (45A. Enter an Ivy League school, maybe), kidding, right?; MONOTONY (15D. It’s all the same), for sure!; OOLONG (47A. Chinese for “black dragon”); PECANS (7D. Certain pie toppers); RENEWERS (13D. Some passport applicants); STATIN (4D. Cholesterol medication); STEVIE (23A. Wonder of note), TITTER (44D. Nervous laugh).
Five-letter — AMPLE, CALEB, ELVER (62A. Young fish that has migrated from the Sargasso Sea), EVIAN, FRERE, GRANT, HASAT, IMAGO, JAPES, LETME, NONET, NOWIN, ORMAN, PIANO, SHULS.
Short stuff — ABLE, ACOP, APIA, ARNO, ASH, ATCO, AVOW, DIGS, ENOL, EMMA, EMPT, FISC, FOOL, GAEL, JOKE (32D. One may be running over time), KIAS, KWAI, NEER, NNE, NTS, OHS, ORCA, ONTV, ORB, ORNO, OTAY, OUSE, PEAR, RAW, ROME, SLO, TNT, TROP, VISA.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. Dull shade; 4. Road caution; 7. Place for a hammer; 17. River of York; 18. Record label of the Beatles’ “Ain’t She Sweet”; 19. Spy sent by Moses into Canaan; 25. Yes ___; 32. Makes fun of; 35. Profess; 36. It flows near the Piazzale Michelangelo; 40. Sorento and Sedona; 41. “Our Gang” approval; 42. Plentiful; 46. Kind of year: Abbr.; 56. Schubert’s “Eine kleine Trauermusik,” e.g.; 57. 1996 Gwyneth Paltrow title role; 58. River in a 1957 hit film; 63. Rubble maker, for short; 64. Some Windows systems. DOWN: 1. Rent-___; 2. Synagogues; 3. Attacks; 5. Helper’s offer; 6. Sea menace; 8. Big bug; 9. Fit; 10. Thomas Moore’s “___ Ask the Hour”; 11. Eye, to poets; 24. Something that’s stamped; 26. Green; 28. Town on Lake Geneva opposite Lausanne, Switzerland; 29. Too: Fr.; 30. Hydroxyl compound; 31. Setting for “Coriolanus”; 33. Headquarters for Polynesian Airlines; 34. Schnapps flavor; 39. Highlander; 41. Song words accompanying “Sherrie” and “Susanna”; 46. Many a French business partner; 47. “The Suze ___ Show”; 48. Kind of situation; 49. Award; 50. Half-wit; 51. Airing; 53. Pre___ (take the place of); 55. Pad; 56. Ft. Myers-to-Orlando dir.
