Wednesday Crossword — December 25, 1996

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1574 clues~15-30 minBy N. S. Ross12/25/1996

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Garden dweller (4 letters)
5 Across
Cassius and company, in "Julius Caesar" (5 letters)
10 Across
Achievement (4 letters)
14 Across
Prefix with byte or buck (4 letters)
15 Across
Run with a hon? (5 letters)
16 Across
Site of the MGM Grand (4 letters)
17 Across
December 25 activity (15 letters)
20 Across
Severe (6 letters)
21 Across
These may get a welcome sight (8 letters)
22 Across
Pick apart (4 letters)
24 Across
Hereabout (4 letters)
25 Across
___-relief (3 letters)
28 Across
Creeks (4 letters)
30 Across
Drafted (6 letters)
34 Across
"What's the ___?" (3 letters)
35 Across
Court org. (5 letters)
37 Across
Wee bit (4 letters)
38 Across
Convivial holiday affair (15 letters)
42 Across
Pub needs (4 letters)
43 Across
Positions (5 letters)
44 Across
Part of TNT (3 letters)
45 Across
Like Clifford Odets's "Waiting for Lefty" (6 letters)
48 Across
"Whip It" rock group (4 letters)
49 Across
Smoke signal message, maybe (3 letters)
50 Across
Kind of bond (4 letters)
52 Across
Baltic port (4 letters)
54 Across
Used a caret-and-stick approach? (8 letters)
58 Across
Pinpoint (6 letters)
62 Across
Sign-off a la Clement Moore (15 letters)
64 Across
Nefariousness (4 letters)
65 Across
Opposite of viejo (5 letters)
66 Across
Campus V.I.P. (4 letters)
67 Across
___ fide (bad faith) (4 letters)
68 Across
Bit of parsley (5 letters)
69 Across
Bristle (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Sheriff Tupper of "Murder, She Wrote" (4 letters)
2 Down
Agric. or H.H.S., e.g. (4 letters)
3 Down
Ripener (4 letters)
4 Down
Frenzied (5 letters)
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Political moderate (8 letters)
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School subj. (3 letters)
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Hits, in slang (4 letters)
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Stage extension (5 letters)
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Looked lasciviously (6 letters)
10 Down
Unlimited choice (8 letters)
11 Down
Counting-out word (4 letters)
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Add to the pot (4 letters)
13 Down
Play horseshoes (4 letters)
18 Down
Mythical flier (6 letters)
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Scorch (4 letters)
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Oasis trees (5 letters)
25 Down
British swaggerer (5 letters)
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Pale (5 letters)
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Maestro Koussevitzky (5 letters)
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Sedate (5 letters)
31 Down
Habits (5 letters)
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In ___ (not yet born) (5 letters)
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Golden apple bestower (5 letters)
36 Down
Daisylike bloom (5 letters)
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Patron of Columbus (8 letters)
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Marine, informally (8 letters)
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Equiangular geometrical shape (6 letters)
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Sagan of "Cosmos" (4 letters)
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Certain missiles (6 letters)
51 Down
Mounter's assist (5 letters)
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These can be citric (5 letters)
54 Down
Gossip tidbit (4 letters)
55 Down
Suddenly bright star (4 letters)
56 Down
Spinnaker, e.g. (4 letters)
57 Down
Active one (4 letters)
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1957 Pulitzer winner (4 letters)
60 Down
"___ does it!" (4 letters)
61 Down
Sicilian sight (4 letters)
63 Down
Egg: Prefix (3 letters)

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