Crossword: 'It Makes No Sense'

Five things you'd better keep straight.

January 25, 2006 10:26:50 PM

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Across
1 Say yes
7 Company referred to as "Brown"
10 Little white lie
13 ___ maximi (butt muscles, scientifically)
14 As well
15 Pantyhose shade
17 Beyond comparison, in the wrong sense?
19 ___ in (get under control)
20 ___ ex machina
21 Business abbr.
22 They brought myrrh and more
23 They may sneak up on U
25 Telling non-P.C. jokes in public, for example, in the wrong sense?
28 Who Oprah meets, in a Letterman joke
30 "It ___" (dramatic self-introduction)
32 Items that may include heated seats and digital clocks in Japan
33 Leg, to a film noir detective
34 Carvey who starred in the awful "The Master of Disguise"
36 Jefferson Davis's nat.
37 Game that substitutes tackling, in the wrong sense?
43 Ending for profit or musket
44 LBJ's younger daughter
45 Hundred-Acre-Wood resident
46 Knock on the head result, in movies
50 Swindler
51 Hold up
52 Non-biased trial, in the wrong sense?
54 Tarzan portrayer Ron
56 Reason to visit the school nurse
57 "___ So High" (Tal Bachman song)
59 Recedes
62 Novelist Waugh
63 Remark of suspicion, in the wrong sense?
65 Turn glasses into sunglasses, maybe
66 "Asthma-hound" of cartoons
67 Turkey's capital
68 Original Legend of Zelda platform, for short
69 Strong insect
70 SAT taker

Down
1 "He's ___ among men..."
2 Chimney passage
3 Cartoon whose guest voices have included Leonard Nimoy, Al Gore and Beck
4 "For ___ and turn..." ("Tainted Love" lyric)
5 Football figure
6 Abbr. for odds and ends
7 "In ___" (Nirvana album)
8 Despot born with the name Saloth Sar
9 Pine ___ (cleaner brand)
10 Chicago-area institution home to the world's most powerful particle accelerator
11 Time period that shaped the Great Lakes
12 Not muted
16 Pounds, parsecs, or pecks
18 Spreading the gloom
24 Most likely to pass a white-glove inspection
26 Opulent art style
27 Chapel famous for "The Creation of Adam"
28 "That's so gross!"
29 West of the cinema
31 Company behind Hello Kitty
35 CIO's labormate
38 Puts up again, like a monument
39 Cries of pain
40 Kid likely to move multiple times
41 Hall of Famer Brock
42 Captain's writings
46 Key for Elgar's Symphony No. 1
47 Like some rebates
48 Noted creed
49 "Emma" author
53 Monk's music
55 Spills information
58 Baseball wonk's tidbit
60 Like Lady Godiva, on horseback
61 Headliner
63 George Gershwin's brother
64 Compass dir.

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