Thursday Crossword — October 18, 2001 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 10/18/2001. By Elizabeth C. Gorski.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Related on the mother's side (5)
ENATE
6 Across: Card game with the 13 spades laid out (4)
FARO
10 Across: Unadorned (4)
BALD
14 Across: Expensive watch (5)
ROLEX
15 Across: Fine horse (4)
ARAB
16 Across: "That's ___!" (4)
ALIE
17 Across: Dessert made with pineapple (10)
UPSIDEDOWNCAKE
19 Across: Deli order (4)
NOVA
20 Across: Some facial features (4)
TICS
21 Across: Out-and-out (5)
UTTER
22 Across: Like some golf balls (4)
TEED
23 Across: Six, in Tuscany (3)
SEI
24 Across: Phone trio (3)
MNO
25 Across: Body of work (6)
OEUVRE
27 Across: Was considered special (5)
RATED
29 Across: Flip (4)
UPEND
31 Across: Strauss's "___ Heldenleben" (3)
EIN
32 Across: Play stations? (6)
ARENAS
34 Across: Produced (5)
SIRED
36 Across: Alliance (4)
BLOC
39 Across: Car opener? (5)
RENTA
41 Across: Gridiron move (4)
PASS
42 Across: Left ventricle attachment (5)
AORTA
44 Across: Hunk (6)
ADONIS
46 Across: William, to Diana (3)
SON
47 Across: Partied, so to speak (4)
GOTDOWN
49 Across: Sentences (5)
DOOMS
52 Across: Very soon (6)
INASEC
54 Across: Chamber worker?: Abbr. (3)
SEN
55 Across: Part of i.o.u. (3)
OWE
57 Across: Old ___, Conn. (4)
LYME
58 Across: "___ letter" (office order) (5)
TAKEA
61 Across: War maker (4)
ARES
62 Across: Wild goat (4)
IBEX
63 Across: Title song of a Duke Ellington album (10)
UPTOWNDOWNBEAT
65 Across: Gérard Depardieu work (4)
CINE
66 Across: One may be turning (4)
LANE
67 Across: Make merry (5)
ELATE
68 Across: Red army? (4)
ANTS
69 Across: Caltech grad: Abbr. (4)
ENGR
70 Across: Be economical with (5)
REUSE

Down Answers

1 Down: Explodes (5)
ERUPTS
2 Down: More of a buttinsky (6)
NOSIER
3 Down: Concert pianist de Larrocha (6)
ALICIA
4 Down: Nugent and Turner (4)
TEDS
5 Down: Letters ending a PC code file name (3)
EXE
6 Down: See 35-Down (5)
FACTO
7 Down: "I smell ___!" (4)
ARAT
8 Down: Shed item (4)
RAKE
9 Down: Shakespearean fairy (6)
OBERON
10 Down: African language (5)
BANTU
11 Down: Soap ingredient (8)
ALOEVERA
12 Down: Rental stables (8)
LIVERIES
13 Down: They get you nowhere (8)
DEADENDS
18 Down: Where they say "G'day!" (6)
DOWNUNDER
24 Down: Riviera vista (3)
MER
26 Down: Cosmo staff (3)
EDS
28 Down: Social grace (4)
TACT
29 Down: Yo-yoing (5)
UPANDDOWN
30 Down: This, to Jorge (4)
ESTO
33 Down: Like some drink orders (4)
NEAT
35 Down: With 6-Down, a logician's phrase (4)
IPSO
36 Down: Vatican attraction (8)
BASILICA
37 Down: Zoo, so to speak (8)
LOONYBIN
38 Down: Gargoyle, e.g. (8)
ORNAMENT
40 Down: Like native llamas (6)
ANDEAN
43 Down: Ripen (3)
AGE
45 Down: Charged item (3)
ION
48 Down: Eightfold (6)
OCTUPLE
50 Down: Doctor in an H. G. Wells title (6)
MOREAU
51 Down: Workout wear (6)
SWEATS
53 Down: Battle of the ___ (5)
SEXES
54 Down: One who'll put you in stitches? (5)
SEWER
56 Down: Name on an atomizer (5)
ESTEE
59 Down: ___ impasse (4)
ATAN
60 Down: King ___ (4)
KONG
61 Down: Competent (4)
ABLE
64 Down: Sedative, informally (3)
DOWNER

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