Puzzles

Crossword: ''60 clues go in''

But in this themeless puzzle, only one solver reigns victorious.

By MATT JONES | March 18, 2009

090320_jonesin_puzzle

Across
1 Like excessively small pupils
7 Electricity
12 Web competition
15 Christian Bale thriller of 2000
17 Unit used regarding celery, since it requires more energy to eat it than it contains
19 Proofreader's marks meaning "take out"
20 Edible mushrooms
21 Muscles shown off by musclemen
22 Gets oneself focused
23 Go together like green and purple?
25 Entre ___
27 Like some pickings
28 Capitol Hill figure, for short
29 Combatants in a long-standing battle
30 Title for Khan
31 "I'm 100% with you," in Internet shorthand
33 Pringles competitor
34 ___ Roses (band that returned with a 2008 album)
36 Drink with a bottle cap
38 Candlestick alternative
39 It helps govern disputes offshore
40 Early South African prime minister Jan
42 It's yellow and can get baked
47 Get to the top, maybe?
48 Computer time-waster for one
49 Be a snitch
50 "Jurassic Park" dinos

Down
1 Bellyacher's noise
2 "She Believes ___" (Kenny Rogers song)
3 Jackie O couturier Cassini
4 Long-winded rants
5 Company that eventually burned down in "Office Space"
6 Fielder and Rhodes, for two
7 Have a craving
8 Like an insult comic's material, often
9 Frustrated sigh before cleaning up
10 Island that's now called Sri Lanka
11 Contacts in the back of the paper
13 Acquiesce
14 Like many freeways, width-wise
16 Drilling structures
18 Susie of "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
21 Former host Petros of Spike TV's "Pros vs. Joes"
22 Items at some tables
23 Doll of the 1960s-70s
24 The heart, to Henri
25 Tide type
26 Cleanser brand
29 Ambling pace for a horse
32 Stink
34 Weathered through
35 Hog the spotlight, perhaps
37 Queso ___ (Mexican cheese molded in baskets)
38 Stewie's teddy bear, on "Family Guy"
40 "The Baroness Redecorates" singer-songwriter Sarah
41 Roman numeral that translates to a 4-digit palindrome
43 "I'm ___ you!"
44 Put ___ on (levy)
45 Phone book-sized novel, e.g.
46 Bonanza finds