Crossword by: Steve Blais
Theme: Flash
Themed Answers:
Card Game
Drive to Drink
Gordon Lightfoot
Frozen in Time
Flash Mob
Across Answers
1. Butter square PAT
4. Young newts EFTS
8. Most gentle TAMEST
14. Brew that may be pale or dark ALE
15. Baseball family name ALOU
16. Environmentally friendly auto ECO-CAR
17. Canasta, e.g. CARD GAME (giving “flash card”)
19. Coke competitor RC COLA
20. Hot-dish holder TRIVET
21. Fleischer of the Bush White House ARI
22. Train stopping at every sta. LOC
23. Exasperate, metaphorically DRIVE TO DRINK (giving “flash drive”)
27. Barbecue fare RIBS
30. Roamed without restraint RAN FREE
31. “The Simpsons” storekeeper APU
32. Agitate ROIL
33. Most characters on “The Big Bang Theory” NERDS
37. ’60-’70s Canadian folk-rock icon GORDON LIGHTFOOT (giving “Flash Gordon”)
41. “That’s not in the script!” evoker AD LIB
42. Competes VIES
43. Capote nickname TRU
44. Not at all deceitful ARTLESS
47. Honeyed liquor MEAD
48. The same as it was hundreds of years ago, say FROZEN IN TIME (giving “flash frozen”)
52. Stimpy’s sidekick REN
53. Promise to pay, for short IOU
54. Bottom, to baby TUSHIE
58. Uphill climb ASCENT
60. Spontaneous gathering, and a hint to the starts of 17-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across FLASH MOB
62. Bald spot coverer TOUPEE
63. “__ Misbehavin'” AIN’T
64. Plains tribe OTO
65. Takes an oath SWEARS
66. Butterfly catchers NETS
67. __ Antonio SAN
Down Answers
1. Diplomat’s goal PACT
2. Banned apple spray ALAR
3. Garr of “Tootsie” TERI
4. More than willing EAGER
5. Old-style clothes presser FLATIRON
6. Alley prowler TOM
7. “Peggy __ Got Married”: 1986 film SUE
8. Intense fear TERROR
9. Traffic backup causes ACCIDENTS
10. Comfy shoe MOC
11. Food-poisoning bacteria E COLI
12. Manicure spot SALON
13. Liner notes listing TRACK
18. Redbox rentals DVDS
21. DOJ enforcer ATF
24. Resort WSW of Boulder VAIL
25. Add some pep to ENLIVEN
26. Coral formation REEF
27. Ravi Shankar genre RAGA
28. Apple with tunes IPOD
29. Folksy Ives BURL
32. “The Bucket List” director ROB REINER
34. Repetitive learning ROTE
35. Toon explorer with a monkey friend named Boots DORA
36. It may be ear-piercing STUD
38. Rodrigo __ de Vivar: El Cid DIAZ
39. Basic idea GIST
40. Reluctant to commit HESITANT
45. Govt. securities T-NOTES
46. Sch. with a Brooklyn campus LIU
47. Interlock, as gears MESH
48. Houses with Greek letters FRATS
49. Plant anew RESOW
50. Just as planned ON CUE
51. Mandatory items MUSTS
55. Managed care gps. HMOS
56. Minuscule amount IOTA
57. Dark, to a poet EBON
59. Anti-pollution org. EPA
60. Cooling device FAN
61. Prevaricate LIE
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