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Puzzle by Mark Feldman
ROUND-TRIP TICKET (65A. Traveler’s option … or what you won’t get on a 17-, 27- or 48-Across?), HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN (17A. 1980s TV series starring Michael Landon), ROAD TO PERDITION (27A. 2002 Tom Hanks/Paul Newman film) and BRIDGE TO NOWHERE (48A. Onetime Alaska boondoggle) are the interrelated group of this Monday crossword.
Other — AX HEAD (4D. Cutting part of a lumberjack’s tool), HONCHO (51D. Top dog), REDDENED (40D. Blushed), TEAMSTER(10D. Professional truck driver) and the pairs of ETNA and LAVA; BRAIN (43A. Cranium contents) and MENSA (38A. Organization for geniuses); WWII (50D. Hitler started it: Abbr.) and PEACE (16. Result of an armistice).
Five-letter — AMATI, ATLAS, ATSEA, ERATO, INANE, INNER, INUSE, METER, NANCE, NEEDY, OATER, OSIER, OTARU (39A. Japanese port), PINOT, RABIN, RHOMB (27D. Oblique-angled, four-sided figure).
Short stuff — ACES, AHA, AIM, ALEX, ALIT, ALPS, AONE, APE, BAHA and BAMA, DEM, DROP, DRY, EINE, ELS, EMIT, GATE and SATE, GRIN, HAIL, HAM, HEED, HEWN, IDES, LAYS, LIMB, MAST, MEGS, MIRA, MOM, NAB, NEC, ONUS, OSSA, OTIS, PERK, PITA, SENT, SEWS, SOT and SLOT, SPUR, TSK, TUNE, TWO, UKES, URGE, WAIT.
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Remaining clues — ACROSS: 1. The Crimson Tide, informally; 5. Swiss peaks; 9. Rand McNally product; 14. Author Haley of “Roots” fame; 15. “___ Caesar!”; 20. Confused; 21. Fill to excess; 22. Sail holder; 23. A Sharpshooter needs a good one; 25. Golf pro Ernie; 36. Easter roast; 37. Actress Sorvino; 42. Catch red-handed; 44. Parking space adjunct; 45. Elevator inventor Elisha; 47. Big Japanese computer maker: Abbr.; 52. One in a blue state majority: Abbr.; 53. A pair; 54. Yard entrance; 57. Time of danger for Caesar; 61. Occupied, as a lavatory; 68. Near the center; 69. Burden; 70. Rough-___ (not smoothly finished); 71. Impoverished; 72. Reserved parking space for an exec, maybe; 73. Bones, anatomically. DOWN: 1. ___ Men (“Who Let the Dogs Out” group); 2. Touched down; 3. Computer capacity, in brief; 4. Cutting part of a lumberjack’s tool; 5. Idea person’s exclamation; 6. Puts down; 7. ___ bread; 8. One-armed bandit; 9. Animal that beats its chest; 11. Volcano’s output; 12. King beaters; 13. Already in the mail; 18. Word repeated before “Don’t Tell Me!”; 19. Obey; 24. Pop’s partner; 26. What a do-it-yourself swing may hang from; 28. Western, in slang; 29. Classic violin maker; 30. ___ grigio (wine); 31. Muse of love poetry; 32. Israel’s Yitzhak; 33. Nonsensical; 34. Willow whose twigs are used in basketry; 35. F.D.R. veep John ___ Garner; 41. Encourage; 46. Drunkard; 49. Send out, as rays; 54. Sheepish look, maybe; 55. Popular steak sauce; 56. Something to sing along to; 58. Go south, as a stock market; 59. “___ Klein Nachtmusk”; 60. Thing on a cowboy’s boot; 62. Hawaiian instruments, informally; 63. Stitches; 64. Sicily’s Mt. ___; 66. Drought-stricken; 67. “Shame on you!”
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