Crossword: 'They're playing my song'

Stock characters, canned music.

By MATT JONES | February 9, 2006

Jonesin' - They're playing my song

Across
1 Like deserters
5 Clampett patriarch
8 Restroom zone
13 More than out
15 Gangster groups
17 Plumbing pipes
18 With hands on hips
19 Character introduced with a slow saxophone
21 On-call paramedic
22 1989 movie with "Weird Al" Yankovic
23 Snowboarder, to another snowboarder
24 Rice space
27 Zip
29 Eggy prefix
31 Yellowfin tuna
32 Had success at the carnival
35 Character introduced with fiddles and a banjo
39 Sprawling sales sites
40 Ending for salt or opal
41 Late AC/DC member Scott
42 "___, ya think?"
43 Chose
45 Sorority letter
47 Part of mil. addresses
49 License-losing letters, maybe
50 Character introduced with a tuba
56 Worn-out phrase?
57 Brisk tempos
59 Crayon shade
60 Some footwear
61 Winery leftovers
62 Do some surveillance
63 Morales of "NYPD Blue"

Down
1 Wake, Duke, et al.
2 Kennel sound
3 Potent start?
4 Served some soup
5 Big house
6 "___ perpetua" (Idaho's motto)
7 South Asian, casually
8 Huge success
9 Become something
10 In ___ (troubled)
11 "Three Dollar Bill, Y'all" band
12 It leads to delivery
14 Place for childhood aches
16 ___ speak
20 Fit for a king?
24 4 or 5, frequently
25 "Excuse me" noise
26 Deliverer of low blows
27 Shape with one more side than a stop sign
28 Fireplace, in England
30 Person on the better side of a velvet rope
32 "Until the End of the World" director Wenders
33 Sign of infection
34 "Nosferatu, ___ Symphonie des Grauens" (1922 movie)
36 Inflation subject?
37 Kristin Kreuk, on "Smallville"
38 Leftorium owner, on "The Simpsons"
43 Word before Mongolia
44 Little mud lover
45 Diamond stats
46 Like tropical summers
48 Breads for hummus
49 Big name in Chi-town
51 Nota ___
52 Gang's guns
53 Dismal attempt
54 Coffee dispensers
55 Bharadvaja's Twist activity
58 Money source for the permanently disabled: abbr.

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