Friday Crossword — May 23, 1997

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1572 clues~30-60 minBy Martin Ashwood-Smith5/23/1997

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Personal things? (3 letters)
4 Across
It's full of roots (5 letters)
9 Across
Rocky Mtn. highs? (4 letters)
13 Across
Takes home (4 letters)
15 Across
___ Conferences of 1899 and 1907 (5 letters)
16 Across
___ Maar (Picasso mistress and subject) (4 letters)
17 Across
Some Havanans (10 letters)
19 Across
Actor Morales (4 letters)
20 Across
Round rolls (7 letters)
21 Across
Sentimentality (3 letters)
23 Across
Outer limit (3 letters)
24 Across
Pizza topping (5 letters)
25 Across
One that's over due? (3 letters)
27 Across
1969 Hoffman role (5 letters)
29 Across
Author ___ Yutang (3 letters)
30 Across
"Independence Day" actor (5 letters)
32 Across
Fleetwood Mac's "Walk ___ Line" (5 letters)
33 Across
Mason attachment (3 letters)
34 Across
Commercial prefix for many cold-weather products (3 letters)
35 Across
Comic actor John (6 letters)
36 Across
Like a shake roof (7 letters)
39 Across
Mollycoddles (7 letters)
40 Across
Military demolitions expert (6 letters)
41 Across
Shoot the breeze (3 letters)
42 Across
Take a bough (3 letters)
43 Across
Nursery items (5 letters)
44 Across
Monthly service (5 letters)
46 Across
Trip (3 letters)
47 Across
French story (5 letters)
48 Across
Long ___ (3 letters)
49 Across
Millionths of a meter (5 letters)
51 Across
Singer Ocasek of the Cars (3 letters)
52 Across
Old-fashioned contraction (3 letters)
54 Across
___ one's welcome (7 letters)
56 Across
Noted name in newspapering (4 letters)
58 Across
Hospital helper (10 letters)
60 Across
"___ Three Lives" (TV oldie) (4 letters)
61 Across
"The Pirates of Penzance" heroine (5 letters)
62 Across
Roulette bet (4 letters)
63 Across
___ Jr. (acting son, familiarly) (4 letters)
64 Across
Beethoven dedicatee (5 letters)
65 Across
Antis (3 letters)

Down

1 Down
Body builder? (15 letters)
2 Down
One usually precedes 15-Across (15 letters)
3 Down
Infant's dessert, maybe (15 letters)
4 Down
"Leaving Las Vegas" co-star (4 letters)
5 Down
Hack's place (8 letters)
6 Down
Palindromic title (3 letters)
7 Down
Took a stab at? (6 letters)
8 Down
Colombian coin (4 letters)
9 Down
"The Sultan of Sulu" writer (3 letters)
10 Down
Fall short in votes (15 letters)
11 Down
50's innovation (15 letters)
12 Down
Hoped for salvation (15 letters)
14 Down
Whist variety (4 letters)
18 Down
Roulette bet (4 letters)
22 Down
They're all talk (5 letters)
26 Down
Capital city till 1960 (3 letters)
28 Down
Chemical suffixes (4 letters)
31 Down
Mouse manipulator (4 letters)
35 Down
Hood (4 letters)
37 Down
Take down ___ (4 letters)
38 Down
Right, in a way (5 letters)
39 Down
Crews' quarters (8 letters)
41 Down
Bender (3 letters)
44 Down
Invitation notation (6 letters)
45 Down
CPR pros (4 letters)
50 Down
"No man ___..." (4 letters)
53 Down
"Trust ___" (1937 hit) (4 letters)
55 Down
Ubangi tributary (4 letters)
57 Down
80's Pentagon letters (3 letters)
59 Down
Diamond stat. (3 letters)

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