Saturday Crossword — August 17, 2002 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 8/17/2002. By Frank Longo.

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Across Answers

1 Across: One may be fair (6)
MAIDEN
7 Across: Stocking, sometimes (4)
MASK
11 Across: Rook's call (3)
CAW
14 Across: Anatomical parts that touch, as eyelids to eyeballs (6)
ADNEXA
15 Across: "___ Perpetua" (Idaho's motto) (4)
ESTO
16 Across: Slangy intensifier (3)
OLA
17 Across: Significant other (15)
DOMESTICPARTNER
20 Across: French cordial flavoring (4)
ANIS
21 Across: Sheep follower (3)
ISH
22 Across: Splits, old-style (6)
REAVES
23 Across: Creation at the Creation (3)
MAN
24 Across: ___ chance (4)
NOTA
25 Across: Renaissance patron (4)
ESTE
26 Across: Fails to take action (15)
SITSONONESHANDS
31 Across: With 13-Down, they may include taste tests (4)
COLA
32 Across: In this localité (3)
ICI
33 Across: When repeated, extreme (3)
TOO
34 Across: Major recessions affect them (15)
GLOBALECONOMIES
39 Across: Hunger (3)
YEN
40 Across: The second Mrs. Sinatra (3)
AVA
41 Across: Donald Duck's nephews, e.g. (4)
TRIO
42 Across: Damsel-in-distress tale, maybe (15)
MEDIEVALROMANCE
48 Across: Words after woe (4)
ISME
49 Across: Motor attachment (4)
HOSE
50 Across: Providence (3)
GOD
51 Across: One may have chips (6)
BETTOR
53 Across: Alley ___ (3)
OOP
54 Across: Kind of proprietor (4)
SOLE
55 Across: "Where Eagles Dare" novelist (15)
ALISTAIRMACLEAN
58 Across: Océano feeder (3)
RIO
59 Across: They may be massaged (4)
EGOS
60 Across: Dante translator John (6)
CIARDI
61 Across: Use a booth, perhaps (3)
TAN
62 Across: Peace Nobelist Cassin (4)
RENE
63 Across: Female spider's creation (6)
EGGSAC

Down Answers

1 Down: House keepers (6)
MADAMS
2 Down: 50-Across, in Hebrew (6)
ADONAI
3 Down: Unused (15)
INMINTCONDITION
4 Down: Fiddle duet? (4)
DEES
5 Down: George Strait's "All My ___ Live in Texas" (3)
EXS
6 Down: Country standard (15)
NATIONALAVERAGE
7 Down: Ride simulator of a sort (15)
MECHANICALHORSE
8 Down: Sacred object in ancient Egypt (3)
ASP
9 Down: Daydreams (15)
STARESINTOSPACE
10 Down: Cult leader in 1993 news (6)
KORESH
11 Down: Delegates (15)
CONVENTIONGOERS
12 Down: Sheltered (4)
ALEE
13 Down: See 31-Across (4)
WARS
18 Down: What a colon may mean (4)
ISTO
19 Down: "Later" (4)
TATA
24 Down: "She's Gotta Have It" girl (4)
NOLA
27 Down: Break down (3)
SOB
28 Down: Prefix with sphere (3)
ECO
29 Down: Female antelope (3)
DOE
30 Down: Kind of pad (3)
SOS
34 Down: Y provision (3)
GYM
35 Down: "East of Eden" character (3)
LEE
36 Down: Stowe slave (3)
EVA
37 Down: "Her ___" (song from "Miss Saigon") (4)
ORME
38 Down: The third Mrs. Sinatra (3)
MIA
43 Down: Adherents (4)
ISTS
44 Down: No Tony nominee, surely (6)
EMOTER
45 Down: Study, say (4)
ROOM
46 Down: Rum drink (6)
COLADA
47 Down: Blissful (6)
EDENIC
51 Down: One of the Maverick brothers (4)
BART
52 Down: "The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers" essayist (4)
ELIA
54 Down: Waste (4)
SLAG
56 Down: It's attractive (3)
ION
57 Down: Smoke (3)
CIG

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