Simplicity Principle

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  • 1 It's written in stone
  • 4 Port where the USS Maine exploded, igniting the Spanish-American war
  • 10 Taiwanese laptop brand
  • 14 Opposite of "hence"
  • 15 The world's largest peninsula
  • 16 Don't trust it if it's tall
  • 17 Planless trajectory
  • 19 7,349 ft., for Mexico City
  • 20 Used in a court of law
  • 21 Elbow, perhaps
  • 22 State bird of Minnesota
  • 23 Cease to bless
  • 26 Fragrant compounds
  • 29 According to
  • 30 E.R. workers
  • 31 Mechanism for a straw or a leech
  • 34 Jack, e.g.
  • 35 Causes of a warless world
  • 39 Red tape, briefly
  • 40 Crucibles
  • 41 What 25-down might've declared to Dido?
  • 42 "¿Por qué no ___ dos?" ("Why not both?")
  • 43 "Awesome!"
  • 47 Winless expert
  • 51 ___ facto
  • 52 18th-century sport bras, essentially
  • 53 Property of a sliced ball
  • 56 ___ shui
  • 57 Principle of simplicity; or, when parsed as five words, what makes the clues make sense
  • 59 Pixar's alien abductee
  • 60 Gas opposite
  • 61 Gentleman's address
  • 62 Twosome
  • 63 States
  • 64 Soccer kickoff?
  • 1 Gambling for charity
  • 2 Some Canadian quarters?
  • 3 Agatha Christie once described him as a "detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature"
  • 4 "The Studio" actress Kathryn ___
  • 5 Word with dark or fine
  • 6 Insipid
  • 7 Manual calculators
  • 8 Target of a fine-toothed comb
  • 9 Satisfied sigh
  • 10 Absolutely loved
  • 11 Krakatau and Crater Lake
  • 12 Grace
  • 13 Shifts gears, perhaps
  • 18 Origins
  • 21 "All Things Considered" broadcaster
  • 24 Reckon, casually
  • 25 He escaped from Troy
  • 27 It's bad for a bank but good for a hitter
  • 28 Rugby or Harrow, e.g.
  • 32 Some statues
  • 33 Birth control device, for short
  • 34 Its guiding principle is "everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state".
  • 35 Like leaner beef
  • 36 At all
  • 37 Self-obsession
  • 38 Day-___
  • 42 ___ Bleus, nickname for the French national soccer team
  • 44 Stand against
  • 45 Deity usually depicted wearing an Atef
  • 46 Wallflowers
  • 48 "Holy cow!"
  • 49 Class struggle?
  • 50 Gambles
  • 54 Passes
  • 55 Canadian gas brand
  • 57 1.1 million, for an average cumulus cloud (abbr.)
  • 58 Word with Big Band or Reconstruction