Puzzles

Crossword: 'Don't listen to them'

Laugh now, look stupid later

By MATT JONES | February 14, 2007

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Across
1 Company behind "Mega Man" and "Street Fighter"
7 Florida fullback, for short
10 "That's kinda funny!"
14 Get there
15 Biology class initials
16 Borstein of "Family Guy"
17 Drew Barrymore's grandfather's brother
18 A French military strategist described it in 1918 as "an interesting toy" but "with no military value"
20 Company whose founder first proposed the business concept in a college paper, earning a C
22 Sound from a tire with a hole in it
23 Celine Dion song "___ Colombe"
24 Indefinitely long time
25 "Clueless" catchphrase
26 Abbr. in some town names
27 Basenji or borzoi
30 Band originally snubbed by a label that said "Guitar music is on the way out"
34 Give a damn
35 Naturalist's response to pharmaceuticals
36 Indicator on a dashboard
37 1998 Disney movie
38 Opera buff's subject
39 Invention a British parliamentarian claimed in 1903 would not lead to a decline in riding horses
41 Earned a trophy
42 Ready to be changed
43 Little bit
44 Folk singer Williams
45 Designer Anna
46 Suffer through the stench, maybe
49 Author whose masterpiece only started selling well after he died
54 Item deemed by a hi-tech company president in 1977 to be unreasonable for home use
55 ___ control
56 It's northwest from Napoli
57 Pasture palindrome
58 Piano practice pieces
59 Gem from the Latin for "precious stone"
60 It gets caught between the sheets
61 Craving

Down
1 ___ liver (delicacy in a butcher shop)
2 First sign
3 Urges
4 Motion pictures, overseas
5 Runs into the ground
6 Donald's current wife
7 Hillside, in Scotland
8 Operating system designed by AT&T employees
9 They go to the wall
10 Van ___
11 Rueful word
12 Layers on the farm
13 Paul Bunyan's tool
19 Paid players
21 Omitted
25 "Voulez-Vous" group
26 Big name in household hints
27 Painter of trippy clocks
28 Word before sex or fixation
29 KISS frontman Simmons
30 Spring warmth
31 Object of worship, maybe
32 McKeown of folk-rock
33 Wasted
34 Island where the daiquiri was invented
37 Inspire to act
39 Fills with bubbles
40 Shaped, in Britain
42 National bank, for short
44 Way too friendly child psychologist in a "South Park" episode
46 "___ asked!"
47 Rags-to-riches author Horatio
48 V flyers
49 Procedure to "jump through"
50 Baby Spice's real first name
51 One of Nancy's predecessors
52 Talking TV horse
53 Radio host Don
54 ___-Magnon man

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