Thursday Crossword — January 16, 2003 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 1/16/2003. By Patrick Merrell.

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Across Answers

1 Across: With 5- and 10-Across, need for 69-, 70- and 71-Across (4)
NINE
5 Across: See 1-Across (5)
SPACE
10 Across: See 1-Across (4)
GRID
14 Across: "___ off?" (4)
ONOR
15 Across: Earthling (5)
HUMAN
16 Across: Vargas Llosa novel "___ Julia and the Scriptwriter" (4)
AUNT
17 Across: Ye follower (4)
OLDE
18 Across: Blue dyes (5)
ANILS
19 Across: Atlases, e.g.: Abbr. (4)
MTNS
20 Across: Cruelty (6)
SADISM
22 Across: Hebrew prophet (6)
ELIJAH
24 Across: Milk provider (3)
EWE
25 Across: P.D. alert (3)
APB
27 Across: Cheated (6)
GULLED
30 Across: Div. of a former union (3)
SSR
31 Across: They have big bills (7)
TOUCANS
34 Across: Outside: Prefix (3)
EXO
35 Across: Relating to life (6)
BIOTIC
36 Across: Philips product (5)
TVSET
38 Across: Label on many an advertising photo (5)
AFTER
41 Across: Washington State's Sea-___ Airport (3)
TAC
42 Across: Pantywaist (5)
SISSY
43 Across: Adherent in Iran (5)
BAHAI
44 Across: Work boot feature (6)
TOECAP
46 Across: Clockmaker Terry (3)
ELI
47 Across: How some rebukes are made (7)
CROSSLY
49 Across: "Life ___ cabaret" (3)
ISA
52 Across: Creepy-crawlies (6)
LARVAE
54 Across: 38-Down was the second one (3)
SON
55 Across: R.N.'s treatment (3)
TLC
56 Across: Rarely (6)
SELDOM
59 Across: Unconcerned retort (6)
SOWHAT
61 Across: Kind of bag (4)
TOTE
63 Across: Period (5)
STAGE
65 Across: Surrounding light (4)
HALO
66 Across: Litigious one (4)
SUER
67 Across: "And then again ..." (5)
ORNOT
68 Across: Desktop marker (4)
ICON
69 Across: With 70- and 71-Across, what the middle of this puzzle is (4)
KIDS
70 Across: See 69-Across (5)
XANDO
71 Across: See 69-Across (4)
GAME

Down Answers

1 Down: Snares (6)
NOOSES
2 Down: Marriage byproduct (6)
INLAWS
3 Down: Yes-man, perhaps (6)
NODDER
4 Down: "___ Sleep, for Every Favor" (old hymn) (4)
EREI
5 Down: It might be next to a bar of soap (7)
SHAMPOO
6 Down: Bit of wit (3)
PUN
7 Down: Provençal pal (4)
AMIE
8 Down: "Safe" or "out" (4)
CALL
9 Down: Academy graduate (6)
ENSIGN
10 Down: ___ Abdel Nasser (5)
GAMAL
11 Down: Unfeeling (8)
RUTHLESS
12 Down: Place to lay over (3)
INN
13 Down: Skid row ailment (3)
DTS
21 Down: Like Britain's Private Eye magazine (9)
SATIRICAL
23 Down: Antidrug mantra (9)
JUSTSAYNO
26 Down: Fit up against (6)
BUTTTO
28 Down: Split personalities? (4)
EXES
29 Down: Feeble-minded (4)
DOTY
32 Down: Informal goodbyes (5)
CIAOS
33 Down: Ins have it (6)
ACCESS
35 Down: She played Maude on "Maude" (3)
BEA
37 Down: Limo passenger (3)
VIP
38 Down: See 54-Across (4)
ABEL
39 Down: Scottie in the White House (4)
FALA
40 Down: Craved (8)
THIRSTED
45 Down: Nearly (7)
CLOSETO
48 Down: Ted Williams and others (6)
REDSOX
49 Down: Cornell's home (6)
ITHACA
50 Down: Winter Olympics event (6)
SLALOM
51 Down: Broadway opening? (6)
ACTONE
53 Down: Turns (5)
VEERS
57 Down: Other, in España (4)
OTRA
58 Down: "Death in Venice" author (4)
MANN
60 Down: Antiroyalist, in the Revolution (4)
WHIG
61 Down: Scolding sound (3)
TSK
62 Down: Ja, across the Rhine (3)
OUI
64 Down: Vishnu, e.g. (3)
GOD

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