Friday Crossword — October 18, 2002 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 10/18/2002. By Manny Nosowsky.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Suitability (7)
- APTNESS
- 8 Across: Best at buffoonery (7)
- ZANIEST
- 15 Across: Frighten (15)
- THROWASCAREINTO
- 17 Across: Purchase with rings (15)
- LOOSELEAFBINDER
- 18 Across: Wear (6)
- ATTIRE
- 19 Across: Adaptable aircraft (4)
- STOL
- 20 Across: Prize (3)
- GEM
- 21 Across: Paper money (5)
- NOTES
- 22 Across: Mix up (4)
- STIR
- 23 Across: Hard-to-refute evidence (4)
- TAPE
- 24 Across: Level (4)
- TIER
- 25 Across: Kit-Cat Club member in 18th-century London (4)
- WHIG
- 26 Across: Certain puffer-uppers (5)
- PRMEN
- 27 Across: Include, with "in" (3)
- ADD
- 28 Across: Look (4)
- PEER
- 29 Across: Show the ropes (6)
- ORIENT
- 30 Across: Planter (9)
- WINDOWBOX
- 32 Across: Say "I'm sorry" (6)
- REPENT
- 35 Across: Wide-eyed sort (4)
- NAIF
- 36 Across: Wander (3)
- GAD
- 39 Across: Go off (5)
- ERUPT
- 40 Across: Snippy (4)
- TART
- 41 Across: Rustic (4)
- RUBE
- 42 Across: Fencer's move (4)
- VOLT
- 43 Across: Punches (4)
- AWLS
- 44 Across: Barbary Coast city (5)
- TUNIS
- 45 Across: Map abbr. (3)
- ISL
- 46 Across: "I kiss'd thee ___ kill'd thee": Othello (4)
- EREI
- 47 Across: Shrine (6)
- TEMPLE
- 48 Across: Nutritional group (15)
- VITAMINBCOMPLEX
- 51 Across: Stranded person's wish (15)
- EVACUATIONPLANE
- 52 Across: "L'enfant prodigue" composer (7)
- DEBUSSY
- 53 Across: Stiff (7)
- PIEEYED
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Setting for Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full" (7)
- ATLANTA
- 2 Down: Driver's license, e.g. (7)
- PHOTOID
- 3 Down: Brought (out) (7)
- TROTTED
- 4 Down: More intrusive (6)
- NOSIER
- 5 Down: Jugs (5)
- EWERS
- 6 Down: Reward for good pitching? (4)
- SALE
- 7 Down: Maui-to-Hawaii dir. (3)
- SSE
- 8 Down: Rubenesque (6)
- ZAFTIG
- 9 Down: ___ Day (5)
- ARBOR
- 10 Down: Buzz's companion on the moon (4)
- NEIL
- 11 Down: "Am ___ your way?" (3)
- IIN
- 12 Down: Final stage (7)
- ENDGAME
- 13 Down: Increase, as an incline (7)
- STEEPEN
- 14 Down: Agony (7)
- TORMENT
- 16 Down: Surefire out (13)
- CASTIRONALIBI
- 22 Down: Shake off (4)
- SHED
- 23 Down: Multicolored breakfast cereal (4)
- TRIX
- 25 Down: ___ with (dated) (4)
- WENT
- 26 Down: Head of the class (4)
- PROF
- 28 Down: Two-cupper (4)
- PINT
- 29 Down: Write of passage? (4)
- OBIT
- 30 Down: Mewled (4)
- WEPT
- 31 Down: "Ring out the thousand ___ of old": Tennyson (4)
- WARS
- 32 Down: Brought back (7)
- REVIVED
- 33 Down: Wearing (7)
- EROSIVE
- 34 Down: Can opener (7)
- PULLTAB
- 36 Down: Shoot-'em-up action (7)
- GUNPLAY
- 37 Down: Chisholm Trail terminus (7)
- ABILENE
- 38 Down: Gender-neutral (7)
- DESEXED
- 40 Down: Score (6)
- TWENTY
- 41 Down: Mess up (6)
- RUMPLE
- 43 Down: Dramatic highlights (5)
- ARIAS
- 44 Down: Fiesta Bowl site (5)
- TEMPE
- 46 Down: They'll never fly (4)
- EMUS
- 47 Down: Writer Morrison (4)
- TONI
- 49 Down: With a needle: Prefix (3)
- ACU
- 50 Down: Filch (3)
- COP
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