Friday Crossword — January 8, 1999

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1570 clues~30-60 minBy Martin Ashwood-Smith and Brendan Quigley1/8/1999

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Big name in basketball (9 letters)
10 Across
Fills up (5 letters)
15 Across
Steps up (9 letters)
16 Across
Pastry filler (5 letters)
17 Across
1892 Leoncavallo opera (9 letters)
18 Across
"Dead ___" (1991 thriller) (5 letters)
19 Across
Blue bloods (5 letters)
20 Across
Some landing sites (9 letters)
22 Across
"Under a Glass Bell" writer (3 letters)
23 Across
It's a sin (4 letters)
25 Across
"Julius Caesar" setting (6 letters)
26 Across
Thousand-plus-pager (4 letters)
28 Across
___ kebab (5 letters)
30 Across
Fuse (3 letters)
31 Across
Take off (6 letters)
33 Across
1940 Fonda role (4 letters)
35 Across
Mr. Muscles (5 letters)
36 Across
Words repeated in "If ___ meet ___..." (5 letters)
38 Across
Musical Mitchell (4 letters)
39 Across
PC key (6 letters)
41 Across
Kind of reaction (3 letters)
42 Across
Public address system? (5 letters)
43 Across
Sales force (4 letters)
47 Across
City northwest of Syracuse (6 letters)
50 Across
Court records (4 letters)
52 Across
Drops on the ground (3 letters)
53 Across
Didn't budge (9 letters)
55 Across
Coo or cuckoo (5 letters)
57 Across
Internet destinations (5 letters)
58 Across
Shut off (from) (9 letters)
60 Across
Like 11-Down (5 letters)
61 Across
Chat (9 letters)
62 Across
Inherently (5 letters)
63 Across
"Reeling in the Years" rock group (9 letters)

Down

1 Down
Trees with sawtooth-edged leaves (6 letters)
2 Down
Umberto II was its last king (6 letters)
3 Down
Afire (6 letters)
4 Down
Leave alone (4 letters)
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Oxford University college since 1326 (5 letters)
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New York's former ___ Building (3 letters)
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They have their ears close to the ground (10 letters)
8 Down
Monk, perhaps (7 letters)
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Singer Young (4 letters)
10 Down
Suffix with sea or moon (5 letters)
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Number 18 (5 letters)
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Easily detached (8 letters)
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Uttered (7 letters)
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Had a hunch (6 letters)
21 Down
Suffix with clown or brown (3 letters)
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Stamp of approval (4 letters)
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Gulf port (4 letters)
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Drip source (10 letters)
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Brit. recording giant (3 letters)
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Minim (3 letters)
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Baltic Sea tributary (4 letters)
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Trouble, so to speak (8 letters)
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Proclivity (4 letters)
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Marquis de Sade novel (7 letters)
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Military decoration (7 letters)
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Tabloid topic (6 letters)
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Like some pymts. (3 letters)
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Exchanged words? (6 letters)
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Cuenca coin (6 letters)
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Its flag has a yellow cross on a blue background (6 letters)
48 Down
Onlookers (5 letters)
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Romance (5 letters)
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Record of one year (5 letters)
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Some congratulations (4 letters)
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Like some cereal (4 letters)
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A foot wide? (3 letters)

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