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Crossword: ''In a Roundabout Way''

Freestyle puzzling for all.

By MATT JONES | January 31, 2012

Across
1 "Tsk, tsk"
10 They're to dye for
14 LOLcat-eating-a-cheezburger noise
15 How scripts are read
17 Taking one's sweet time
18 Harry Potter's house elf
19 It's one step up from giga-
20 To some, a "rat with wings"
21 English Channel swimmer Gertrude
24 Creatures that do a waggle dance
26 Title for Italian monks
27 Animal frequently seen as roadkill
28 Late Cars bassist Benjamin ___
29 ___ about (roams)
30 Grammys rival
31 Paid attention to a lecturer, for example
33 Worst Actor winner's prize
37 EPA concern
38 Primus lead Claypool
39 Help breaking into a puzzle
40 Explosive stuff
41 "The Little Mermaid" villain
45 Prefix before duct
46 Night spots
47 Metamorphosis parts
48 Wound (around)
50 Visual jokes
51 One of a box of 13, perhaps
52 Michael's wife, for a while
57 2007 documentary with the tagline "This might hurt a little"
58 Medicine that slows a chemical reaction
59 Like some ground beef
60 Unlikely to change...ever

Down
1 Shoe sole curve
2 Holy city?
3 Three-ingredient desserts
4 Egyptian president of the 1970s
5 Barstool dweller
6 Insurance gp.
7 Palindromic woman's name
8 Leather shoe, for short
9 Accident victim helper
10 "Quo ___?"
11 Sleep like ___
12 Devil's advocate phrase
13 It's bigger than family
16 Nighttime soap of the 1980s
20 2-in-1 shampoo-conditioner since 1987
22 Unit of light
23 Bubbled up (from)
24 Hogs
25 Cupid's Greek counterpart
29 "Nope, you're wrong!" follow-up
32 Hopping video game character
33 They're strummed with a B and D
34 Baked potato rub
35 Tendency to let things slide
36 Kumquat coat
42 Peter Lorre's role in "Casablanca"
43 American or Foreign follower
44 State
46 Put money behind, as a candidate
49 Suzanne Vega song about child abuse
52 Backtalk
53 Suffix for opal or sal
54 Single stock: abbr.
55 Program with a "Buddy List," for short
56 CEO-to-be's degree

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