Friday Crossword — October 18, 2002

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1570 clues~30-60 minBy Manny Nosowsky10/18/2002

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Suitability (7 letters)
8 Across
Best at buffoonery (7 letters)
15 Across
Frighten (15 letters)
17 Across
Purchase with rings (15 letters)
18 Across
Wear (6 letters)
19 Across
Adaptable aircraft (4 letters)
20 Across
Prize (3 letters)
21 Across
Paper money (5 letters)
22 Across
Mix up (4 letters)
23 Across
Hard-to-refute evidence (4 letters)
24 Across
Level (4 letters)
25 Across
Kit-Cat Club member in 18th-century London (4 letters)
26 Across
Certain puffer-uppers (5 letters)
27 Across
Include, with "in" (3 letters)
28 Across
Look (4 letters)
29 Across
Show the ropes (6 letters)
30 Across
Planter (9 letters)
32 Across
Say "I'm sorry" (6 letters)
35 Across
Wide-eyed sort (4 letters)
36 Across
Wander (3 letters)
39 Across
Go off (5 letters)
40 Across
Snippy (4 letters)
41 Across
Rustic (4 letters)
42 Across
Fencer's move (4 letters)
43 Across
Punches (4 letters)
44 Across
Barbary Coast city (5 letters)
45 Across
Map abbr. (3 letters)
46 Across
"I kiss'd thee ___ kill'd thee": Othello (4 letters)
47 Across
Shrine (6 letters)
48 Across
Nutritional group (15 letters)
51 Across
Stranded person's wish (15 letters)
52 Across
"L'enfant prodigue" composer (7 letters)
53 Across
Stiff (7 letters)

Down

1 Down
Setting for Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full" (7 letters)
2 Down
Driver's license, e.g. (7 letters)
3 Down
Brought (out) (7 letters)
4 Down
More intrusive (6 letters)
5 Down
Jugs (5 letters)
6 Down
Reward for good pitching? (4 letters)
7 Down
Maui-to-Hawaii dir. (3 letters)
8 Down
Rubenesque (6 letters)
9 Down
___ Day (5 letters)
10 Down
Buzz's companion on the moon (4 letters)
11 Down
"Am ___ your way?" (3 letters)
12 Down
Final stage (7 letters)
13 Down
Increase, as an incline (7 letters)
14 Down
Agony (7 letters)
16 Down
Surefire out (13 letters)
22 Down
Shake off (4 letters)
23 Down
Multicolored breakfast cereal (4 letters)
25 Down
___ with (dated) (4 letters)
26 Down
Head of the class (4 letters)
28 Down
Two-cupper (4 letters)
29 Down
Write of passage? (4 letters)
30 Down
Mewled (4 letters)
31 Down
"Ring out the thousand ___ of old": Tennyson (4 letters)
32 Down
Brought back (7 letters)
33 Down
Wearing (7 letters)
34 Down
Can opener (7 letters)
36 Down
Shoot-'em-up action (7 letters)
37 Down
Chisholm Trail terminus (7 letters)
38 Down
Gender-neutral (7 letters)
40 Down
Score (6 letters)
41 Down
Mess up (6 letters)
43 Down
Dramatic highlights (5 letters)
44 Down
Fiesta Bowl site (5 letters)
46 Down
They'll never fly (4 letters)
47 Down
Writer Morrison (4 letters)
49 Down
With a needle: Prefix (3 letters)
50 Down
Filch (3 letters)

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