Puzzles

Crossword: ''Triple threats''

Five names, one unusual pattern

By MATT JONES | April 16, 2009

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Across
1 Disk storage acronym
4 It may be indisputable
8 Bewildered
12 Baseball Hall-of-Famer Rod
14 "Am ___ loud?"
15 The Buckeye State
16 Boxing venue
17 Singer with the album "Mind, Body & Soul"
19 One of the Detroit Pistons' "Bad Boys" of the 1990s
21 "Strange..."
22 Nay's opposite
23 Some film ratings
26 TV's "Science Guy" Bill
27 "...___ may be the Lord" (Bob Dylan lyric)
30 Native New Zealander
32 Thanks, in Tokyo
35 Warty hopper
36 He can tell if "you might be a redneck"
39 Give in
40 Used the changing room
41 Feature of some American accents
43 Ward of "Once and Again"
44 N. ___ (Fargo's state, for short)
47 Fig. in identity theft
48 Suffix after sex or fetish
51 "M*A*S*H" episode where a clumsy nurse dates Hawkeye
53 Sister of actor Emilio and semi-regular on "The West Wing"
56 NPR books reporter and former "All Things Considered" cohost
59 Scripture that's source to yoga methods
60 Top guy at the U.
61 Buffalo's county
62 Ohio city where a Burger King worker YouTubed himself bathing in the sink in 2008
63 Photocopier problems
64 "Atlas Shrugged" author
65 Airport screening org.

Down
1 It occurs once in a blue moon
2 Ultimatum words
3 Edison's ___ Park
4 Nation with three dots in a row
5 It's split in a lab
6 He played Cliff Huxtable
7 "We're off ___ the Wizard..."
8 Frodo's film series, to fans
9 "Well, lookie here!"
10 Lust, so it's said
11 Little piggy
12 Log home
13 Salad with apples and grapes
18 Baseball feature
20 Floating at sea
23 Eeyore's pal
24 Overcast
25 Pitcher Fernandez
28 Dr. Frankenstein's assistant
29 Rides around town
31 Memo abbr.
32 Not many
33 Affectedly dainty
34 Bunches
36 Canning needs
37 Sen. Bayh
38 It's paid yearly for transportation
39 They're read by lasers
42 Property claim
44 Armless couches
45 Red blood cell deficiency
46 Peer-to-peer MP3 network
49 Unkind look
50 Jerry Stiller's comedy partner Anne
52 "Letters, ___ letters..." ("Late Show" mailbag song lyric)
53 The last two were in St. Paul in 2008 and NYC in 2004
54 Title role for Julia
55 Teary-___
56 J.F.K.'s successor
57 Peruvian singer Sumac
58 ___ de plume