Friday Crossword — April 14, 2000 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 4/14/2000. By Martin Ashwood-Smith.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: ___ signum (here is the proof) (4)
- ECCE
- 5 Across: Surprise birth (8)
- OCTUPLET
- 13 Across: Norse saint (4)
- OLAV
- 14 Across: Tyro (10)
- APPRENTICE
- 16 Across: It smells great (4)
- NOSE
- 17 Across: Well source (10)
- WATERTABLE
- 18 Across: Less thick (7)
- SPARSER
- 20 Across: Funnyman Philips (3)
- EMO
- 21 Across: Country butter (3)
- RAM
- 22 Across: Math degree (3)
- NTH
- 23 Across: Former sports org. (3)
- AFL
- 25 Across: Grub (4)
- EATS
- 26 Across: Abbr. on some mail (3)
- APO
- 28 Across: Verdi villain (4)
- IAGO
- 30 Across: German phone book section (3)
- VON
- 32 Across: Ottawa official (15)
- GOVERNORGENERAL
- 38 Across: Sled puller (15)
- ALASKANMALAMUTE
- 39 Across: Techies (15)
- SYSTEMSANALYSTS
- 40 Across: "___ on my bed my limbs I lay": Coleridge (3)
- ERE
- 41 Across: It's inflated in England (4)
- TYRE
- 42 Across: Use a shuttle (3)
- TAT
- 43 Across: A great many (4)
- GOBS
- 46 Across: Dogmatic conclusion? (3)
- ISM
- 47 Across: Electrical unit (3)
- REL
- 49 Across: Squeeze (out) (3)
- EKE
- 50 Across: Yes and no follower (3)
- SIR
- 52 Across: Utmost (7)
- EXTREME
- 56 Across: Not local (10)
- NATIONWIDE
- 59 Across: One of the Oceanides, in Greek myth (4)
- ASIA
- 60 Across: Spies (10)
- OPERATIVES
- 61 Across: Bottom lines (4)
- SUMS
- 62 Across: Parts of airplane wings (8)
- AILERONS
- 63 Across: Sign language pioneer Abbé de l'___ (4)
- EPEE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: A long time to wait (4)
- EONS
- 2 Down: Hoofbeat (4)
- CLOP
- 3 Down: Rakes (9)
- CASANOVAS
- 4 Down: Flip (5)
- EVERT
- 5 Down: Go (for) (3)
- OPT
- 6 Down: Bob's place (5)
- CREEL
- 7 Down: What-you-may-call-it? (4)
- TERM
- 8 Down: Gay Talese's "___ the Sons" (4)
- UNTO
- 9 Down: School tie? (3)
- PTA
- 10 Down: Start of a fall (5)
- LIBRA
- 11 Down: Big success (5)
- ECLAT
- 12 Down: Bursts at the seams (5)
- TEEMS
- 14 Down: Wow (3)
- AWE
- 15 Down: Ideals (8)
- PARAGONS
- 19 Down: Layabout (7)
- SHIRKER
- 24 Down: Gets organized (7)
- FORMATS
- 25 Down: Other side (5)
- ENEMY
- 26 Down: Foreign titles (4)
- AGAS
- 27 Down: Cal ___ (4)
- POLY
- 29 Down: Make ___ for oneself (5)
- ANAME
- 30 Down: Like some consonants, in phonetics (5)
- VELAR
- 31 Down: Ready for trouble (7)
- ONALERT
- 33 Down: Met bass-baritone Simon (5)
- ESTES
- 34 Down: Moon on which Heinlein's "Farmer in the Sky" is set (8)
- GANYMEDE
- 35 Down: Prepares, as grub (9)
- RUSTLESUP
- 36 Down: Lead-in to boy or girl (4)
- ATTA
- 37 Down: First word on a military memorial (4)
- LEST
- 43 Down: Niccolò Paganini's birthplace (5)
- GENOA
- 44 Down: Relative of a giraffe (5)
- OKAPI
- 45 Down: Kind of nut (5)
- BETEL
- 46 Down: Avant-gardist Robert (5)
- IRWIN
- 48 Down: Take off (5)
- ERASE
- 50 Down: Take off (4)
- SOAR
- 51 Down: Obsessed with (4)
- INTO
- 53 Down: Tic-tac-toe side (3)
- XES
- 54 Down: Charades, essentially (4)
- MIME
- 55 Down: Peacefulness (4)
- EASE
- 57 Down: Pique condition? (3)
- IRE
- 58 Down: E.R. inserts (3)
- IVS
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