Monday Crossword — July 8, 2002 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 7/8/2002. By Sheldon Benardo.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Fraud (4)
SCAM
5 Across: Yemeni or Qatari (4)
ARAB
9 Across: Coffee lightener (5)
CREAM
14 Across: Show bravery (4)
DARE
15 Across: Over hill and ___ (4)
DALE
16 Across: Oscar-winning Berry (5)
HALLE
17 Across: Coal waste (4)
SLAG
18 Across: Stir up (4)
RILE
19 Across: French clerics (5)
ABBES
20 Across: Symbol marking a composer's music? (14)
FLATONONESBACH
23 Across: Early form of bridge (5)
WHIST
24 Across: Waikiki wreath (3)
LEI
25 Across: Leave (6)
DEPART
28 Across: Crossword solving, for one (7)
PASTIME
32 Across: Make happy (5)
ELATE
33 Across: Land of O'Kelly and O'Keeffe (4)
ERIN
35 Across: Woman's hairstyle (3)
BUN
36 Across: Composer's popular works? (15)
MOSTWANTEDLISZT
40 Across: Choose (3)
OPT
41 Across: Emulated Pinocchio (4)
LIED
42 Across: Close, in poetry (5)
ANEAR
43 Across: Gets hot under the collar (7)
SEESRED
46 Across: Spirited (6)
SPUNKY
47 Across: Publicize (3)
AIR
48 Across: Powell of the Bush White House (5)
COLIN
50 Across: Like the dog days of summer, for a composer? (14)
TOOHOTTOHANDEL
56 Across: Brilliance (5)
ECLAT
57 Across: One of five Norwegian kings (4)
OLAV
58 Across: Thoroughly (4)
ATOZ
60 Across: Portion (5)
SHARE
61 Across: Cry of greed (4)
MORE
62 Across: Writing of Chaucer (4)
TALE
63 Across: Marine detector (5)
SONAR
64 Across: Ages (4)
ERAS
65 Across: Verve (4)
ELAN

Down Answers

1 Down: 60's protest grp. (3)
SDS
2 Down: Baby elephant (4)
CALF
3 Down: Asia's ___ Sea (4)
ARAL
4 Down: It can provide a big jolt (8)
MEGAWATT
5 Down: Skillful (6)
ADROIT
6 Down: What the monsoon season brings (5)
RAINS
7 Down: Parcel out (5)
ALLOT
8 Down: "It's ___ real!" (4)
BEEN
9 Down: Pursues (6)
CHASES
10 Down: Cottontail (6)
RABBIT
11 Down: Exile isle for Napoleon (4)
ELBA
12 Down: One of the Baldwins (4)
ALEC
13 Down: Fit well together (4)
MESH
21 Down: Flung (5)
THREW
22 Down: African antelope (5)
ELAND
25 Down: Show cars (5)
DEMOS
26 Down: Leave via ladder, maybe (5)
ELOPE
27 Down: Stickum (5)
PASTE
28 Down: ___ Piper (4)
PIED
29 Down: "Peer Gynt" dramatist (5)
IBSEN
30 Down: Background sound in a store (5)
MUZAK
31 Down: Door (5)
ENTRY
33 Down: Oklahoma city (4)
ENID
34 Down: 1 or 95: Abbr. (3)
RTE
37 Down: Heads-up (5)
ALERT
38 Down: 10-Down fur (5)
LAPIN
39 Down: Deluge (8)
INUNDATE
44 Down: Noted Las Vegas casino (6)
SAHARA
45 Down: Disorderly one (6)
RIOTER
46 Down: Toils (away) (6)
SLAVES
48 Down: Hue (5)
COLOR
49 Down: John who wrote "Butterfield 8" (5)
OHARA
50 Down: Hardy heroine (4)
TESS
51 Down: Cuatro + cuatro (4)
OCHO
52 Down: Pearl Buck heroine (4)
OLAN
53 Down: Volume (4)
TOME
54 Down: And others, for short (4)
ETAL
55 Down: "Damn Yankees" seductress (4)
LOLA
59 Down: Kind of Buddhism (3)
ZEN

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