Crossword

No. 1207

Note: The answers to the five starred clues have a very unusual property in common. What is it? And can you think of a familiar two-word exclamation, of five and three letters, respectively, that shares that property?

ACROSS

1 1, for 45° 8 Spotlight hog 11 Circuit 14 Radio component 15 1961 Literature Nobelist Andric 16 Words of homage 17 *First Supreme Court chief justice 18 Bungles 20 Conciliatory offering 21 *It’s west of Okinawa 22 Johnny who sang on the duet “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” 25 Beverage that contains taurine 26 Part of a stage 27 Bluejacket 28 Draft choice 29 Still competing 30 Show ___ 31 The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conference, informally 34 Bank statement abbr. 35 *Sort with a full schedule 37 Essen article 38 Respectful greeting 40 ___ gun (sci-fi weapon) 41 Paraphernalia 42 Cougar prey 43 Medication-regulating org. 44 “I’ve seen ___” 45 Visa problem 47 Obeyed an order at the dentist’s 48 *Oil, jocularly 49 Neighbor of Ky. 50 Generally 51 *“I don’t care either way” 55 Baseball great Hodges 56 Sign of summer 57 Kitchen tools 58 Numbskull 59 “Yikes!” 60 Reachable

DOWN

1 ___ Express (train from Delhi to Agra) 2 Latin lover’s word 3 Kind of root in math 4 Crime show sound effect 5 Legally prohibit 6 Occurrences during halfmoons 7 Test 8 Word before calling or learning 9 Circumvent 10 Hypothetical settlement 11 Big bargains, maybe 12 Challenge to ___ 13 Hip-hop’s Salt-N-___ 19 Crack in the crust 21 Surprisingly, it just might work 22 Octet in “The 12 Days of Christmas” 23 Breathing problem 24 Jumps rarely attempted in women’s figure skating 27 Christmas song contraction 30 Depress, with “out” 31 Knowledge 32 Rib 33 Made a faux pas 35 Common fundraiser 36 Diva’s accessory 39 Place where one is encouraged to swear? 41 Ski slope sight 43 “How ya holdin’ up?” 44 Perpetual period in Narnia in “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” 45 ___ Stadium, home of the 49ers 46 N.J. Hudson city on the 47 Grow red, say 48 ___ party 51 Longtime news inits. 52 Currency adopted after the Meiji Restoration 53 ___ chart 54 Exploit

PUZZLE BY DAN SCHOENHOLZ