Thursday Crossword — November 8, 2001 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 11/8/2001. By Manny Nosowsky.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Total (7)
ADDUPTO
8 Across: Sleepers (7)
PAJAMAS
15 Across: Shiraz resident (7)
IRANIAN
16 Across: Early Christian (7)
APOSTLE
17 Across: Dance floor request (15)
MAYICUTINPLEASE
19 Across: Airport northwest of LAX (3)
SFO
20 Across: Poor dancer (5)
STIFF
21 Across: Poi-producing plants (5)
TAROS
22 Across: ___ time (4)
ATNO
24 Across: Whittle (4)
PARE
26 Across: Skater Lipinski (4)
TARA
27 Across: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" writer (7)
TSELIOT
30 Across: First name on Broadway, 1951 (3)
YUL
32 Across: Rarer than rare (3)
RAW
33 Across: Knucklehead (5)
MORON
35 Across: Odysseus, to the Cyclops Polyphemus (5)
NOMAN
37 Across: Name whose reading hints at 17- and 59-Across (11)
CONNECTICUT
39 Across: "___ and the Pussycats" (2001 movie) (5)
JOSIE
40 Across: Is extremely cool, slangily (5)
ROCKS
41 Across: Peaked (3)
WAN
42 Across: Have a bawl (3)
CRY
44 Across: In addition (7)
BESIDES
48 Across: Platter player (4)
HIFI
50 Across: Responsive to the helm, in nautical lingo (4)
YARE
52 Across: Time out? (4)
COMA
53 Across: ___ decent living (5)
EARNA
55 Across: Is defeated (5)
LOSES
58 Across: Cabin bed (3)
COT
59 Across: Power broker? (15)
ELECTRICUTILITY
62 Across: Actress Day of "Foreign Correspondent" (7)
LARAINE
63 Across: Snake in the grass (7)
RATTLER
64 Across: Naps, in Nogales (7)
SIESTAS
65 Across: Escape artists (7)
ELUDERS

Down Answers

1 Down: Draws a bead on (6)
AIMSAT
2 Down: Preliminary write-ups (6)
DRAFTS
3 Down: The start of something (6)
DAYONE
4 Down: Prefix with valve (3)
UNI
5 Down: Shots, for short (4)
PICS
6 Down: Tight (4)
TAUT
7 Down: Walking quietly (8)
ONTIPTOE
8 Down: Make schnitzel, e.g. (6)
PANFRY
9 Down: Software program, briefly (3)
APP
10 Down: Shock (4)
JOLT
11 Down: "Save me ___" (movie request) (5)
ASEAT
12 Down: Bibl. landing site (8)
MTARARAT
13 Down: One who's back in the pack (7)
ALSORAN
14 Down: Go up and down (6)
SEESAW
18 Down: "___ body meet ..." (3)
IFA
23 Down: Actor Edward James ___ (5)
OLMOS
25 Down: One of the Kennedys (6)
EUNICE
28 Down: Greek column type (5)
IONIC
29 Down: Pig-headed (6)
ORNERY
31 Down: Canal features (5)
LOCKS
34 Down: A.T.M.-making co. (3)
NCR
36 Down: "Sweet and healing medicine of troubles": Horace (5)
MUSIC
37 Down: Colleague (8)
CONFRERE
38 Down: "Of course ..." (8)
TOBESURE
39 Down: Handball relative (7)
JAIALAI
41 Down: Crate that runs (6)
WHEELS
43 Down: Some Ivy Leaguers (6)
YALIES
45 Down: Easy to control (6)
DOCILE
46 Down: Ham on stage (6)
EMOTER
47 Down: Mates for forest nymphs (6)
SATYRS
49 Down: Onetime empire builders (5)
INCAS
51 Down: Sinbad's bird (3)
ROC
54 Down: Fighting (4)
ATIT
56 Down: Abbreviated Latin phrase (4)
ETAL
57 Down: In ___ (where found) (4)
SITU
60 Down: Cytoplasm material (3)
RNA
61 Down: Inc., abroad (3)
LTD

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