Friday Crossword — February 25, 2000

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1570 clues~30-60 minBy William S. Cotter2/25/2000

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Backyard item (9 letters)
10 Across
Woman of La Mancha (5 letters)
15 Across
The earth's is largely iron (9 letters)
16 Across
Foucault's "This Is Not ___" (5 letters)
17 Across
Ceres, for one (9 letters)
18 Across
The sky, maybe (5 letters)
19 Across
Spanish article (3 letters)
20 Across
Exuviates (5 letters)
22 Across
Bygone money (3 letters)
23 Across
Long (4 letters)
25 Across
Wage ___ (6 letters)
28 Across
"Rob Roy" star, 1995 (6 letters)
31 Across
He played himself in "Being John Malkovich" (8 letters)
33 Across
Ancient ascetic (6 letters)
34 Across
The gamut, in retailing (8 letters)
35 Across
Accept, but maybe unhappily (7 letters)
37 Across
Get clobbered (8 letters)
41 Across
Optimal number of golf strokes (6 letters)
46 Across
Noted bell ringer (8 letters)
47 Across
PepsiCo product (6 letters)
48 Across
Persist (6 letters)
49 Across
Literally, "injured" (4 letters)
50 Across
Kit ___ (3 letters)
51 Across
Super Bowl XXV site (5 letters)
56 Across
Street wear? (3 letters)
57 Across
Circus prop (5 letters)
60 Across
Important crossing points (9 letters)
63 Across
It might get you a ride (5 letters)
64 Across
Teflon, for one (9 letters)
65 Across
Wooer of Merope, in myth (5 letters)
66 Across
Lags (9 letters)

Down

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Many a crop-duster (7 letters)
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Prepares to remove (7 letters)
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Grinds (7 letters)
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Pursuit of satori (3 letters)
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Metric measure (3 letters)
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Batting avgs., e.g. (4 letters)
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"Fiddle-faddle!" (4 letters)
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Gannon University city (4 letters)
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Demond's 70's TV co-star (4 letters)
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Start to adjust? (3 letters)
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Co. formed in a 1958 merger (3 letters)
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1956 Literature Nobelist Juan Ramón ___ (7 letters)
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Having the characteristics of both sexes (7 letters)
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Figures watched at night? (7 letters)
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Barricade (7 letters)
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Suffix with Brooklyn (3 letters)
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Match, as a description (6 letters)
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Coll. in Troy, N.Y. (3 letters)
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Discounted (6 letters)
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Sitcom with Dick and Joanna (7 letters)
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Slightly blue (5 letters)
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Addition of sorts (3 letters)
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Succor (3 letters)
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Addresses (7 letters)
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Snoopy, as he sometimes fancied himself (7 letters)
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1950 nonfiction best seller (7 letters)
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School subj. (3 letters)
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1977 "Gnomes" best-selling author Huygen (3 letters)
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Like some flames (7 letters)
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Snide retort (7 letters)
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Cousins of houseflies (7 letters)
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Ticket sellers: Abbr. (4 letters)
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"Beetle Bailey" creator Walker (4 letters)
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Bygone TV host (4 letters)
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Actor whose last name has three letters of his first (4 letters)
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Fierce type, astrologically (3 letters)
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Statler Bros. broadcaster (3 letters)
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Mutton serving (3 letters)
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Like a popular Beethoven minuet (3 letters)

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