12/23/17
Smartypants Saturday
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1A
Burn a little bit
Char
5A
Jelly container
Jar
8A
James Bond or Austin Powers, for example
Spy
11A
Muscle of the upper arm, informally
Bicep
13A
King Kong was one
Ape
14A
Big gun lobby: Abbr.
NRA
15A
With 48-Across, “60 Minutes” correspondent who scored Obama’s last TV interview as president
Steve
16A
Mountain pass
Gap
17A
MacBook laptop model
Air
18A
Sphere
Orb
20A
Give up one’s job
Resign
22A
“60 Minutes” correspondent who’s a former moderator of “Face the Nation”: 2 wds.
Lesley Stahl
26A
Salted snack often shaped like a knot
Pretzel
27A
Home to Arizona State’s largest campus
Tempe
30A
Test for many college seniors: Abbr.
GRE
31A
Political title for Chuck Schumer: Abbr.
Sen
33A
Thin battery size
AAA
34A
Item in the plus column
Asset
37A
“Mary ____” (Julie Andrews movie)
Poppins
40A
“60 Minutes” correspondent who met Pope Francis in 2015: 2 wds.
Scott Pelley
42A
Traveling from town to town, like a rock band: 2 wds.
On Tour
44A
____ de cologne
Eau
45A
Largest US teachers’ union: Abbr.
NEA
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
46A
“The Princess and the ____” (fairy tale)
Pea
48A
See 15-Across
Kroft
52A
Used ___ salesman
Car
53A
Body part with a lobe
Ear
54A
“Sexy ____” (Beatles song)
Sadie
55A
Hectic hospital wards: Abbr.
ERs
56A
And others: Abbr.
ETC
57A
Give as a loan
Lend
1D
“60 Minutes” network
CBS
2D
Successful guess in Battleship
Hit
3D
Card that may be “in the hole”
Ace
4D
What the Founding Fathers did against England
Revolt
5D
Show from which “NCIS” was spun off
Jag
6D
No longer together
Apart
7D
Do over again
Repeat
8D
Messages sent via the post office: 2 wds.
Snail Mail
9D
Overly righteous type
Prig
10D
Wool for knitting
Yarn
12D
Actress Rosie of “White Men Can’t Jump”
Perez
19D
They allow tournament seeds to skip early rounds of play
Byes
21D
“___ sells seashells by the seashore” (tongue twister)
She
22D
Group for female athletes who swing clubs: Abbr.
LPGA
23D
Gets something wrong
Errs
24D
Suffers from a blow to the head: 2 wds.
Sees Stars
25D
Slumbered
Slept
28D
Glass section of a window
Pane
29D
Simple
Easy
32D
“Uh-uh”
Nope
35D
___-friendly (good for the Earth)
Eco
36D
Bald guy’s fake hair
Toupee
38D
“Twin ____” (show that was revived in 2017)
Peaks
39D
Opposite of singular, in grammar
Plural
41D
Pay everyone’s bill
Treat
42D
Just a single time
Once
43D
“As ___ as I can tell …”
Near
47D
Cannonball’s curved path
Arc
49D
Keats’s “____ on a Grecian Urn”
Ode
50D
What a scuba diver wears on the foot
Fin
51D
Journalist Koppel
Ted