Friday Crossword — June 30, 2000

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1568 clues~30-60 minBy Martin Ashwood-Smith6/30/2000

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Locale receiving investments (15 letters)
16 Across
Newspaper feature (15 letters)
17 Across
Quick-sketch pros (15 letters)
18 Across
Certain clamp shapes (4 letters)
19 Across
Flirts may use theirs (4 letters)
20 Across
Zairean autocrat Mobutu ___ Seko (4 letters)
21 Across
Kind of test (4 letters)
22 Across
Summer feature: Abbr. (3 letters)
24 Across
Head (4 letters)
27 Across
Codger (4 letters)
29 Across
Addressee of many a request (3 letters)
32 Across
Possible result of hesitation (15 letters)
36 Across
Hobbies and such (15 letters)
37 Across
Paris premiere of 1953 (15 letters)
38 Across
Patty Hearst kidnap grp. (3 letters)
39 Across
Insouciance (4 letters)
40 Across
Western Electric founder ___ Barton (4 letters)
41 Across
Abbr. on mariners' maps (3 letters)
42 Across
Guff (4 letters)
45 Across
Computer picture (4 letters)
48 Across
Spot (4 letters)
49 Across
Bug-eyed (4 letters)
53 Across
Ballpark figures (15 letters)
57 Across
Memorable Met conductor (15 letters)
58 Across
Gives cause for optimism (15 letters)

Down

1 Down
Fam. tree member (4 letters)
2 Down
1982 George Plimpton best seller (4 letters)
3 Down
___ infra (see below) (4 letters)
4 Down
Form of the verb "etre" (4 letters)
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Fan setting (3 letters)
6 Down
Declaim (5 letters)
7 Down
Command (5 letters)
8 Down
Acknowledge (15 letters)
9 Down
Old musical notes (4 letters)
10 Down
Big mfr. of point-of-sale terminals (3 letters)
11 Down
Day care attendee (3 letters)
12 Down
Most-wanted (5 letters)
13 Down
Dodge (4 letters)
14 Down
CPR pros (4 letters)
15 Down
Handle: Fr. (4 letters)
21 Down
Standard late-night TV fare (7 letters)
22 Down
29-Across, often (5 letters)
23 Down
Playwright Preston (7 letters)
24 Down
Central (5 letters)
25 Down
Port of ancient Rome (5 letters)
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Bickering, say (4 letters)
28 Down
"___ take arms against a sea of troubles": Shak. (4 letters)
29 Down
Botch (5 letters)
30 Down
Four Holy Roman emperors (5 letters)
31 Down
Popular computer game (4 letters)
32 Down
See 33-Down (4 letters)
33 Down
With 32-Down, things that send people to jail (5 letters)
34 Down
Gluttons (4 letters)
35 Down
Brightly colored (4 letters)
41 Down
Small bone of the middle ear (5 letters)
43 Down
Strike ___ (5 letters)
44 Down
Lip-___ (fakes it) (5 letters)
45 Down
Mark of Zorro? (4 letters)
46 Down
"The Last of the Mohicans" girl (4 letters)
47 Down
Con man? (4 letters)
48 Down
___ perpetuum (let it be everlasting) (4 letters)
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Football Hall-of-Famer Marchetti (4 letters)
50 Down
"What ___!" ("That's rich!") (4 letters)
51 Down
Kind of therapy (4 letters)
52 Down
"No returns" (4 letters)
54 Down
Prior to, to Prior (3 letters)
55 Down
Help wanted notice? (3 letters)
56 Down
"I see!" (3 letters)

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