Thursday Crossword — December 2, 1999

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1576 clues~15-30 minBy Mel Taub12/2/1999

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Needing to take off (5 letters)
6 Across
Naif (4 letters)
10 Across
Some 20's art (4 letters)
14 Across
Language group including Zulu (5 letters)
15 Across
Giant screen production (4 letters)
16 Across
Numbered piece (4 letters)
17 Across
Bellowing (5 letters)
18 Across
Lollapalooza (4 letters)
19 Across
Notch (4 letters)
20 Across
Might-have-been East Coast team (15 letters)
23 Across
Saratoga Springs, e.g. (3 letters)
24 Across
Stock exchange membership (4 letters)
25 Across
Item in an airline magazine (3 letters)
28 Across
Biblical "father" (4 letters)
31 Across
Collude (with) (6 letters)
35 Across
Beginning on (4 letters)
37 Across
Composer Bartók (4 letters)
39 Across
x (5 letters)
40 Across
Might-have-been Midwest team (15 letters)
43 Across
Constellation directly above the equator (5 letters)
44 Across
Up ___ good (4 letters)
45 Across
Taunt (4 letters)
46 Across
Noggin (6 letters)
48 Across
It may precede a stroke (4 letters)
50 Across
Careless (3 letters)
51 Across
Impieties (4 letters)
53 Across
Doc bloc (3 letters)
55 Across
Might-have-been West Coast team (15 letters)
63 Across
Popular cologne (4 letters)
64 Across
Pinnacle (4 letters)
65 Across
Integra, for one (5 letters)
66 Across
"Yeah, that'll ever happen" (4 letters)
67 Across
Black shade (4 letters)
68 Across
Hardly a he-man (5 letters)
69 Across
Protest (4 letters)
70 Across
Strong-willed Jane (4 letters)
71 Across
Ups (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Port in Scott's "Lord of the Isles" (4 letters)
2 Down
Show fully (4 letters)
3 Down
Sufficient for Shakespeare (4 letters)
4 Down
Ropes for steadying masts (5 letters)
5 Down
Princess whom Zeus carried off to Crete (6 letters)
6 Down
Swindle (4 letters)
7 Down
Russia/Manchuria boundary river (4 letters)
8 Down
Makes hay (5 letters)
9 Down
Oozes (6 letters)
10 Down
Idler (9 letters)
11 Down
Pacific capital (4 letters)
12 Down
Cable conduit (4 letters)
13 Down
Calls upon (4 letters)
21 Down
Browning's Ben Ezra, e.g. (5 letters)
22 Down
Mojave vegetation (5 letters)
25 Down
Street director? (5 letters)
26 Down
Houston player, formerly (5 letters)
27 Down
Salk's conquest (5 letters)
29 Down
Outdo (4 letters)
30 Down
Distant (5 letters)
32 Down
Net result? (5 letters)
33 Down
Kind of toast (5 letters)
34 Down
Elizabeth I's ill-fated favorite (5 letters)
36 Down
Bit of sustenance (9 letters)
38 Down
Italy's fertile Val d'___ (4 letters)
41 Down
Dark (5 letters)
42 Down
Doubleday, ___ (old publishing house) (5 letters)
47 Down
Intertwine (6 letters)
49 Down
Clause separator (6 letters)
52 Down
Native Indian in the British army (5 letters)
54 Down
PC character representation (5 letters)
55 Down
Effort (4 letters)
56 Down
Deftness (4 letters)
57 Down
Rose's beloved in a 1922 play (4 letters)
58 Down
"There was an Old Man with a beard" writer (4 letters)
59 Down
Toll unit (4 letters)
60 Down
Cologne ingredient (4 letters)
61 Down
Old World language (4 letters)
62 Down
Side in a vote (4 letters)

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