Saturday Crossword — December 25, 1999 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 12/25/1999. By John Scott Marrone.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Santa's flight? (5)
- ORBIT
- 6 Across: Barry Manilow song locale (4)
- COPA
- 10 Across: Buster (4)
- NARC
- 14 Across: Seasonal songs (5)
- NOELS
- 15 Across: Selfish sort (4)
- USER
- 16 Across: Skin aid (4)
- ALOE
- 17 Across: Celebrity born Christmas 1924 (10)
- RODSERLING
- 19 Across: Certain column (4)
- TENS
- 20 Across: Boy or girl preceder (4)
- ATTA
- 21 Across: Unwrap (4)
- OPEN
- 22 Across: Nursery rhyme food (5)
- CURDS
- 23 Across: Question usually asked with raised eyebrows (3)
- MOI
- 24 Across: Celebrity born Christmas 1821 (11)
- CLARABARTON
- 26 Across: Beat (6)
- PUMMEL
- 28 Across: "Potemkin" setting (6)
- ODESSA
- 29 Across: Lift (5)
- STEAL
- 30 Across: Trunk's locale (4)
- REAR
- 33 Across: Celebrity born Christmas 1949 (11)
- SISSYSPACEK
- 38 Across: Teaser (4)
- PEST
- 39 Across: Peace on earth (5)
- AMITY
- 42 Across: Fatherland, to Flavius (6)
- PATRIA
- 47 Across: Not smooth (6)
- GAUCHE
- 48 Across: Celebrity born Christmas 1642 (11)
- ISAACNEWTON
- 52 Across: Mauna ___ (3)
- KEA
- 53 Across: Potato chip flavor (5)
- CHIVE
- 54 Across: Architect Mies van der ___ (4)
- ROHE
- 55 Across: Clue hunters, slangily (4)
- TECS
- 56 Across: Apteryx australis (4)
- KIWI
- 57 Across: Celebrity born Christmas 1918 (10)
- ANWARSADAT
- 59 Across: Gravitate (toward) (4)
- LEAN
- 60 Across: Assembly (4)
- DIET
- 61 Across: Scolding, e.g. (5)
- ABUSE
- 62 Across: Bird on a cliff (4)
- ERNE
- 63 Across: Features of British jazz? (4)
- ZEDS
- 64 Across: Had (5)
- DUPED
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Accesses (7)
- ONRAMPS
- 2 Down: Eliminate with some effort (7)
- ROOTOUT
- 3 Down: Parents' concerns on Christmas Eve (8)
- BEDTIMES
- 4 Down: "Casablanca" role (4)
- ILSA
- 5 Down: Lao-___ (3)
- TSE
- 6 Down: Part of an apology (5)
- CULPA
- 7 Down: Lawn chair material (5)
- OSIER
- 8 Down: Feather, to an ornithologist (5)
- PENNA
- 9 Down: S.A. country (3)
- ARG
- 10 Down: "___ does nothing without purpose": Aristotle (6)
- NATURE
- 11 Down: Flashing lights, say (6)
- ALERTS
- 12 Down: Sonata parts (6)
- RONDOS
- 13 Down: Many a corporate plane (6)
- CESSNA
- 18 Down: Resound (4)
- ROLL
- 22 Down: Two-timer, e.g. (3)
- CAD
- 24 Down: Art collectibles (4)
- CELS
- 25 Down: When repeated, an idyllic place (4)
- BORA
- 27 Down: Spring time in Paris (3)
- MAI
- 30 Down: Bar staple (3)
- RYE
- 31 Down: Part of a test track (3)
- ESS
- 32 Down: Inclined (3)
- APT
- 34 Down: Distance (4)
- SPAN
- 35 Down: "For the Boys" co-star, 1991 (4)
- CAAN
- 36 Down: Easily tamed bird (3)
- EMU
- 37 Down: Started again unexpectedly (8)
- KICKEDUP
- 40 Down: Start of a Perry Mason title (7)
- THECASE
- 41 Down: Fermented (7)
- YEASTED
- 42 Down: Spot (6)
- PICKLE
- 43 Down: Not so red-cheeked (6)
- ASHIER
- 44 Down: U.N. ostracizee (6)
- TAIWAN
- 45 Down: Coulee (6)
- RAVINE
- 46 Down: Christmas traveler's worry (3)
- ICE
- 47 Down: Traveler (4)
- GOER
- 49 Down: "It's a Wonderful Life" role (5)
- ERNIE
- 50 Down: Impressed and how! (5)
- WOWED
- 51 Down: "___ life!" (5)
- THATS
- 55 Down: Anthropologist's topic: Var. (4)
- TABU
- 57 Down: Chisellike tool (3)
- ADZ
- 58 Down: Down (3)
- SAD
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