Thursday Crossword — May 3, 2001 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 5/3/2001. By Trip Payne.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Overthrown leader (4)
SHAH
5 Across: Not out (5)
AWAKE
10 Across: See 61-Down (4)
LIFT
14 Across: Actress Lamarr (4)
HEDY
15 Across: Beau's gift (5)
ROSES
16 Across: Till fill (4)
ONES
17 Across: Speaker of the quip starting at 20-Across (10)
EMOPHILIPS
19 Across: It has the spirit (4)
CASK
20 Across: Start of a quip (14)
IMNOTAFATALIST
22 Across: Slightest (5)
LEAST
23 Across: Word of agreement (3)
AYE
24 Across: Sharp flavor (3)
NIP
26 Across: "Kate & Allie" actress Meyers (3)
ARI
27 Across: Young fowl (5)
POULT
31 Across: It could be stuffed (5)
OLIVE
33 Across: Old station identification (4)
ESSO
35 Across: Had (3)
ATE
36 Across: Main city of Devon (6)
EXETER
37 Across: Quip, part 2 (9)
BUTEVENIF
40 Across: Haunt (6)
OBSESS
43 Across: Jeff Lynne group (3)
ELO
44 Across: "My Uncle" star (4)
TATI
48 Across: Chekhov uncle (5)
VANYA
49 Across: It should set off alarms (5)
HEIST
51 Across: Informal footwear (3)
MOC
52 Across: Flutter (3)
ADO
53 Across: One of the Volcano Islands, for short (3)
IWO
55 Across: Jobs site (5)
APPLE
57 Across: Quip, part 3 (14)
IWEREWHATCOULD
62 Across: Subjoins (4)
ADDS
63 Across: End of the quip (10)
IDOABOUTIT
64 Across: Saddle, e.g. (4)
SEAT
65 Across: Tel Aviv-born person (5)
SABRA
66 Across: French jeweler Lalique (4)
RENE
67 Across: "Chickery Chick" bandleader (4)
KAYE
68 Across: Smithery employee (5)
SHOER
69 Across: Genesis source (4)
SEGA

Down Answers

1 Down: "The Glamorous Life" singer (7)
SHEILAE
2 Down: Sewing machine attachments (7)
HEMMERS
3 Down: Shelley's elegy to Keats (7)
ADONAIS
4 Down: Some needles (5)
HYPOS
5 Down: ___ cantabile (gentle, sad song) (4)
ARIA
6 Down: Whistle maker? (4)
WOLF
7 Down: China setting (4)
ASIA
8 Down: Persisted in (6)
KEPTAT
9 Down: Paper (5)
ESSAY
10 Down: Spots (4)
LOCI
11 Down: Ticked off (7)
INASNIT
12 Down: Merry (7)
FESTIVE
13 Down: "You naughty person!" (3)
TSK
18 Down: Start of many addresses (4)
HTTP
21 Down: Paul V's papal predecessor (5)
LEOXI
25 Down: Part of w.p.m. (3)
PER
28 Down: They can be rolled (4)
OATS
29 Down: Tribal language (3)
UTE
30 Down: Bank (5)
LEVEE
32 Down: It's just not right (4)
LEFT
34 Down: Follow (4)
OBEY
36 Down: TV spinoff of 1980 (4)
ENOS
38 Down: Carrier name until 1997 (5)
USAIR
39 Down: Biblical judge (3)
ELI
40 Down: Plant gametes (3)
OVA
41 Down: "I wouldn't do that" (7)
BADIDEA
42 Down: Winter break, of a sort (7)
SNOWDAY
45 Down: Person with a loss (7)
AMPUTEE
46 Down: Sexton's duty (7)
TOLLING
47 Down: Summer drink (7)
ICEDTEA
49 Down: Platform on the back of an elephant (6)
HOWDAH
50 Down: Kind of shell (4)
TACO
54 Down: Houdini's birth name (5)
WEISS
56 Down: Really rains (5)
POURS
58 Down: Princely family name of old (4)
ESTE
59 Down: Transient (4)
HOBO
60 Down: Bern is on it (4)
AARE
61 Down: With 10-Across, skier's aid (4)
TBAR
62 Down: "Shoot!" (3)
ASK

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