diff --git a/lucene/queries/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQuery.java b/lucene/queries/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQuery.java
index d730e8a7cfd..53ed403fdfe 100644
--- a/lucene/queries/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQuery.java
+++ b/lucene/queries/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQuery.java
@@ -157,10 +157,7 @@ public class CommonTermsQuery extends Query {
     final TermContext[] contextArray = new TermContext[terms.size()];
     final Term[] queryTerms = this.terms.toArray(new Term[0]);
     collectTermContext(reader, leaves, contextArray, queryTerms);
-    Query q = buildQuery(maxDoc, contextArray, queryTerms);
-    System.out.println(reader);
-    System.out.println(q);
-    return q;
+    return buildQuery(maxDoc, contextArray, queryTerms);
   }
   
   protected Query buildQuery(final int maxDoc,
@@ -175,20 +172,15 @@ public class CommonTermsQuery extends Query {
     BooleanQuery query = new BooleanQuery(true);
     for (int i = 0; i < queryTerms.length; i++) {
       TermContext termContext = contextArray[i];
-      
       if (termContext == null) {
-        System.out.println("term: " + queryTerms[i] + " context: " + -1 + " maxTermFrequency: " + maxTermFrequency + " LOW");
-
         lowFreq.add(new TermQuery(queryTerms[i]), lowFreqOccur);
       } else {
         if ((maxTermFrequency >= 1f && termContext.docFreq() > maxTermFrequency)
             || (termContext.docFreq() > (int) Math.ceil(maxTermFrequency
                 * (float) maxDoc))) {
-          System.out.println("term: " + queryTerms[i] + " context: " + termContext.docFreq() + " maxTermFrequency: " + maxTermFrequency + " HIGH");
           highFreq
               .add(new TermQuery(queryTerms[i], termContext), highFreqOccur);
         } else {
-          System.out.println("term: " + queryTerms[i] + " context: " + termContext.docFreq() + " maxTermFrequency: " + maxTermFrequency + " LOW");
           lowFreq.add(new TermQuery(queryTerms[i], termContext), lowFreqOccur);
         }
       }
@@ -265,6 +257,8 @@ public class CommonTermsQuery extends Query {
    * Returns true iff {@link Similarity#coord(int,int)} is disabled in scoring
    * for the high and low frequency query instance. The top level query will
    * always disable coords.
+   * 
+   * @see #CommonTermsQuery(Occur, Occur, float, boolean)
    */
   public boolean isCoordDisabled() {
     return disableCoord;
diff --git a/lucene/queries/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQueryTest.java b/lucene/queries/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQueryTest.java
index ba3bc63de7a..c551de72fb5 100644
--- a/lucene/queries/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQueryTest.java
+++ b/lucene/queries/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queries/CommonTermsQueryTest.java
@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ public class CommonTermsQueryTest extends LuceneTestCase {
       }
       
       TopDocs cqSearch = searcher.search(cq, reader.maxDoc());
+      QueryUtils.check(random(), cq, searcher);
       
       TopDocs verifySearch = searcher.search(verifyQuery, reader.maxDoc());
       assertEquals(verifySearch.totalHits, cqSearch.totalHits);
@@ -276,18 +277,6 @@ public class CommonTermsQueryTest extends LuceneTestCase {
       }
       
       assertTrue(hits.isEmpty());
-      
-      /*
-       *  need to force merge here since QueryUtils adds checks based
-       *  on leave readers which have different statistics than the top
-       *  level reader if we have more than one segment. This could 
-       *  result in a different query / results.
-       */
-      w.forceMerge(1); 
-      DirectoryReader reader2 = w.getReader();
-      QueryUtils.check(random(), cq, newSearcher(reader2));
-      reader2.close();
-
     } finally {
       reader.close();
       wrapper.close();