Puzzles

Crossword: ''No ham for me, thanks''

Don't be a pig about it

By MATT JONES | August 13, 2009

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Across
1 Bank savings options
4 Fast food mascot with a spherical head
8 Impairs
13 Baseballer Felipe or Moises
14 "___ a slitted sheet I sit" (tongue twister phrase)
15 Major US metal processor
16 Half-glasses?
17 Distorted Pearl Jam hit song?
19 Goth band from the late 1970s
21 Earned top honors
22 "Tru ___"
23 No later than
24 Cup alternative
25 "Go, bullfighter!"
26 Submissions to eds.
27 Lose one's resolve
30 "We Try Harder" rental company
31 Too serious
32 Like the most valuable baseball cards, e.g.
34 Group of radio users making music together?
37 Mailroom machine
38 Take down a notch
39 Nabokov heroine and namesakes
40 Copenhagen gardens
42 Common tax form, to Caesar?
45 Marshy area
46 Time magazine co-founder Henry
47 Ceramic coating
49 Come to a close
50 Dir. with a heading of 67.5 degrees
51 Base, chemically speaking
53 The act of poking fun at yellow fruit?
56 ___ San Lucas
57 Fix a manuscript
58 "La Traviata" song
59 Person who may be evil
60 Lauren who played cruise director Julie McCoy on "The Love Boat"
61 Prying
62 Leipzig-to-Dusseldorf direction

Down
1 Does some housework
2 Sweet boxful
3 California roll, for example
4 "Tak and the Power of ___" (Nickelodeon cartoon)
5 Colonel George Taylor's movie captors
6 "___ blimey!"
7 Was acquainted with
8 "An Incomplete and Inaccurate History of Sport" author Kenny
9 Priest's garment
10 Got really cold
11 Painting behind bulletproof glass since 2005
12 College hurdle, redundantly
13 Band's release
18 Second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world
20 He won a Nobel Peace Prize and a Grammy
24 Inverted
28 Section of "Carmina Burana" used in "battle to the death" movie trailers
29 Big ___, CA
30 Commedia dell'___
31 They once shared an arena with the NHL's New Jersey Devils
33 Pass out
34 Renegade, for Barack Obama
35 Fresh off the factory floor
36 "Hung" channel
37 Wager that's not very risky
41 "The ___ Cometh" (O'Neill play)
42 Parrots' larger relatives
43 Rapper who hosted "Pimp My Ride"
44 Was deceptive
46 Acts like a library
48 Prefix for vegetarian
51 Mark Harmon CBS series
52 "That's fine by me"
54 Repeated part of a Temple cheer
55 Gold, in Guatemala