Saturday Crossword — March 2, 2002 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 3/2/2002. By Jim Page.

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Across Answers

1 Across: When coins came into common use (7)
IRONAGE
8 Across: Hoedown moves: Var. (7)
DOSADOS
15 Across: Go-getters (7)
DYNAMOS
16 Across: Cuckoo (7)
NUTCASE
17 Across: Finishes, as a project (7)
SEESOUT
18 Across: Constitution's home (7)
ATLANTA
19 Across: There's a holy one every yr. (4)
THUR
20 Across: Less spirited (8)
DROOPIER
21 Across: Pasta Bolognese ingredient (10)
GROUNDBEEF
24 Across: Get the big picture?: Abbr. (3)
ENL
25 Across: German diver (5)
UBOAT
26 Across: Treaty inits. (3)
OAS
27 Across: Oft-quoted Irishman (5)
WILDE
29 Across: Fraction of a sen (3)
RIN
30 Across: It can't fail (7)
SUREBET
32 Across: One putting stickers on windows, maybe (15)
USEDCARSALESMAN
38 Across: Liszt's birthplace (7)
HUNGARY
39 Across: Berbick beat him in 1981 (3)
ALI
40 Across: Supremely favored (5)
BLEST
43 Across: Dict. shelfmate (3)
ENC
44 Across: Hand on a deck (5)
BOSUN
46 Across: Nova, e.g. (3)
LOX
47 Across: Causing trouble (10)
BOTHERSOME
49 Across: A rosary bead may represent one (8)
AVEMARIA
52 Across: Been abed (4)
LAIN
53 Across: Stops using (7)
RETIRES
54 Across: Register output (7)
RECEIPT
57 Across: Some former lecturers (7)
EMERITI
58 Across: Disinclination to change (7)
INERTIA
59 Across: Postwar German chancellor, familiarly (7)
DERALTE
60 Across: Wayward offspring (7)
BADSEED

Down Answers

1 Down: Fingers (3)
IDS
2 Down: Kvass has it (3)
RYE
3 Down: Kind of relationship (8)
ONETOONE
4 Down: City on the Merrimack (6)
NASHUA
5 Down: 54-Across info (6)
AMOUNT
6 Down: Noggin (5)
GOURD
7 Down: N.Y. minutes? (3)
EST
8 Down: Human Genome Project, e.g. (11)
DNARESEARCH
9 Down: Not just short on (5)
OUTOF
10 Down: City in July 1944 news (4)
STLO
11 Down: Put ___ on (limit) (4)
ACAP
12 Down: Vice President Tompkins (6)
DANIEL
13 Down: West Flanders resort port (6)
OSTEND
14 Down: Celebrex manufacturer (6)
SEARLE
20 Down: Wish list opener (9)
DEARSANTA
21 Down: Mentor (4)
GURU
22 Down: Piazza deliveries?: Abbr. (4)
RBIS
23 Down: Communist target (11)
BOURGEOISIE
27 Down: Midget (3)
WEE
28 Down: "___ You" (song from "The Music Man") (3)
ITS
30 Down: Start of many place names (3)
SAN
31 Down: "Iron John" author Robert (3)
BLY
33 Down: The N.L. doesn't allow them (3)
DHS
34 Down: Set shout (3)
CUT
35 Down: Paneling material (8)
MASONITE
36 Down: One with an old school tie (4)
ALUM
37 Down: Cardinal with a loop (4)
NINE
40 Down: Proclaimed flamboyantly (6)
BLARED
41 Down: 1957 Elvis Presley hit (6)
LOVEME
42 Down: Revolutionary capital of New Hampshire (6)
EXETER
44 Down: Kept up (6)
BRACED
45 Down: Basket weaver's supply (6)
OSIERS
47 Down: Jake's love in "The Sun Also Rises" (5)
BRETT
48 Down: Zorro's daughter in "The Mask of Zorro" (5)
ELENA
50 Down: Red giant in Cetus (4)
MIRA
51 Down: Botanical cover (4)
ARIL
54 Down: Kid (3)
RIB
55 Down: Ice cream go-with (3)
PIE
56 Down: Little bit (3)
TAD

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