Crossword: ''12:11''

When ten-letter entries just aren't enough

By MATT JONES | February 13, 2008

Across
1 Actor who supposedly "destroyed the periodic table, because he only recognizes the element of surprise"
12 Pseudonym in court cases
15 How torrid relationships get
16 Direct deposit abbr.
17 Improves, as a situation
18 "Oh," in Osnabruck
19 Stimulates
20 "___ look like your maid?"
21 Dinosaur often seen battling the T. Rex in kids' books
27 Former NHL star Robitaille
28 Got hitched again
29 More isolated
31 "___ Has Cheezburger?"
32 Digital ___ camera
33 They may be checkered
34 British automaker now owned by Volkswagen
36 Turned on a point
38 Dutch painter Jan
39 Boggy marsh
40 "Molto ___!"
41 "The Adam Carolla Show" cohost Teresa
43 Part of Ali G's real name
44 "O Sole ___"
45 Want water
47 Big ISP
48 Iraqi currency
49 Single start?
50 Nice cuts
56 Part of USNA
57 The ability to hear colors, say
58 Bass ___
59 Changing life priorities

Down
1 CNN Headline News anchor Virginia
2 Prefix meaning "same"
3 Salt Lake City college athlete
4 First name in Baltimore baseball history
5 Got with a stiletto
6 Senegalese singer Youssou ___
7 "'Zat so?"
8 Open house host
9 Tells the cops about
10 "___ Got a Feeling" (song off "Let It Be")
11 Part of CBS
12 They never reach their destination
13 Emphatic denial
14 Work ___
21 Chi-town paper
22 Song played as everyone clears out of a wedding
23 "This world shan't destroy me!!!"
24 Magic position
25 ___ the Short (Charlemagne's father)
26 Eastern European
30 Curve on a weather map
32 If you're coherent, you can make it
35 Joaquin Phoenix's first name, once
36 Sassy quality
37 Say it isn't so
39 Siberians, e.g.
42 Home of Arizona's "Jazz on the Rocks" festival
43 Womb-clearing events
44 ___ Kea
46 Rashness
50 Dungeons & Dragons company
51 "Later"
52 Suffix with "employ"
53 "___ was saying..."
54 Family
55 Hollywood union, for short