Friday Crossword — September 13, 2002 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 9/13/2002. By Mel Rosen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Meeting that's both business and pleasure (10)
- POWERLUNCH
- 11 Across: Boosters, for short (4)
- AMPS
- 15 Across: Fan (10)
- AFICIONADO
- 16 Across: Bush, in the 80's (4)
- VEEP
- 17 Across: Some radio productions (10)
- SIMULCASTS
- 18 Across: Stage org. (4)
- ANTA
- 19 Across: Certain "edge" (3)
- STP
- 20 Across: Starring role for Julie Christie, 1965 (4)
- LARA
- 21 Across: Hardly hardy (6)
- TENDER
- 23 Across: Control post (4)
- HELM
- 24 Across: Camping enthusiasts (7)
- TENTERS
- 25 Across: Robin Goodfellow, e.g. (6)
- SPRITE
- 28 Across: Novelist once captured by cannibals (8)
- MELVILLE
- 29 Across: Ontario natives (5)
- CREES
- 30 Across: Adams of Sinn Fein (5)
- GERRY
- 31 Across: Time on end (3)
- EON
- 32 Across: John ___, the Lone Ranger (4)
- REID
- 33 Across: Squalid (5)
- SEAMY
- 34 Across: Fictional orphan (4)
- EYRE
- 35 Across: Flat, in ads (3)
- APT
- 36 Across: Small change (5)
- CENTS
- 37 Across: Offstage aides (5)
- CUERS
- 38 Across: They're given at birth (8)
- PRENAMES
- 40 Across: Does the honors, so to speak (6)
- CARVES
- 41 Across: Rick in flicks (7)
- MORANIS
- 42 Across: 007 foe (4)
- DRNO
- 43 Across: Skirts (6)
- EVADES
- 44 Across: Put up the cash (4)
- PAID
- 45 Across: Chitchat (3)
- GAB
- 48 Across: South American monkey (4)
- TITI
- 49 Across: Password (10)
- OPENSESAME
- 52 Across: Gulf port (4)
- ADEN
- 53 Across: Garden center purchase (10)
- FERTILIZER
- 54 Across: ___-majesté (4)
- LESE
- 55 Across: Breaks down (10)
- TAKESAPART
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Avoid summer school (4)
- PASS
- 2 Down: "Well, what ___?!" (4)
- OFIT
- 3 Down: Chicken (4)
- WIMP
- 4 Down: Old French coin (3)
- ECU
- 5 Down: Brooks of little consequence (7)
- RILLETS
- 6 Down: Where it's at (6)
- LOCALE
- 7 Down: Render defenseless (5)
- UNARM
- 8 Down: Pad owner (4)
- NASA
- 9 Down: Aug. setting in K.C. (3)
- CDT
- 10 Down: Inn (8)
- HOSTELRY
- 11 Down: Sporty Studebaker (6)
- AVANTI
- 12 Down: Periodic table developer (10)
- MENDELEYEV
- 13 Down: "The Mask of Dimitrios" star, 1944 (10)
- PETERLORRE
- 14 Down: Characteristic of desert vegetation (10)
- SPARSENESS
- 22 Down: Need to keep up with the Joneses (4)
- ENVY
- 23 Down: Scurried (4)
- HIED
- 24 Down: Specifics (5)
- TERMS
- 25 Down: Recycling material (10)
- SCRAPMETAL
- 26 Down: Make available in advance (10)
- PREPROVIDE
- 27 Down: Stresses, perhaps (10)
- REITERATES
- 28 Down: Supermarket department (5)
- MEATS
- 30 Down: They're in the pool (5)
- GENES
- 33 Down: Like Bel Paese cheese (8)
- SEMISOFT
- 34 Down: It's somewhat less than a pound (4)
- EURO
- 36 Down: Staff (4)
- CANE
- 37 Down: Unit of luminous intensity (7)
- CANDELA
- 39 Down: Literature Nobelist Gordimer (6)
- NADINE
- 40 Down: Head (6)
- CRISIS
- 42 Down: Poet translated by Ciardi (5)
- DANTE
- 44 Down: Lift (up) (4)
- PERK
- 45 Down: Where Samson died (4)
- GAZA
- 46 Down: Like the top medalists at the 2000 Olympics: Abbr. (4)
- AMER
- 47 Down: Puppet of children's TV (4)
- BERT
- 50 Down: Green shade (3)
- PEA
- 51 Down: Sample (3)
- SIP
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