Thursday Crossword — April 24, 2003 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 4/24/2003. By Paula Gamache.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Kite feature (4)
BEAK
5 Across: Not many (4)
AFEW
9 Across: "Mr. Belvedere" co-star (5)
GRAFF
14 Across: What fans may do (4)
YELL
15 Across: Whopper (4)
TALE
16 Across: Conversation starter (5)
HELLO
17 Across: Allure shelfmate (4)
ELLE
18 Across: Harness race (4)
TROT
19 Across: Willow twig (5)
OSIER
20 Across: Phrase on the back of a buck (13)
EPLURIBUSUNUM
23 Across: It comes from the heart (5)
AORTA
25 Across: Feature of some bucks (7)
ANTLERS
26 Across: Phrase on the back of a buck (12)
INGODWETRUST
30 Across: Agnus ___ (3)
DEI
31 Across: Kind of palm (4)
SAGO
32 Across: Relative of "Oh, no!" (4)
EGAD
36 Across: De novo (4)
ANEW
38 Across: With 46-Across, phrase on the back of a buck (5)
NOVUS
41 Across: View from a hill (4)
DALE
42 Across: Between-meal bite (4)
NOSH
43 Across: Scratches (out) (4)
EKES
45 Across: PC acronym (3)
ROM
46 Across: See 38-Across (12)
ORDOSECLORUM
51 Across: Thumb one's nose at (7)
DISDAIN
54 Across: Stand (5)
ABIDE
55 Across: Phrase on the back of a buck (13)
ANNUITCOEPTIS
59 Across: Principal pipes (5)
MAINS
60 Across: Cutting the mustard (4)
ABLE
61 Across: Calamities (4)
WOES
64 Across: Loosen (5)
UNTIE
65 Across: Like some meat (4)
LEAN
66 Across: O'Neill's Christie (4)
ANNA
67 Across: Bad news for a crop farmer (5)
PESTS
68 Across: Country singer Anderson (4)
LYNN
69 Across: Tiny fraction of a min. (4)
NSEC

Down Answers

1 Down: "Toodles!" (3)
BYE
2 Down: One with electric organs (3)
EEL
3 Down: Scratch tests test for them (9)
ALLERGIES
4 Down: One who lifts a lot (6)
KLEPTO
5 Down: Farthest of the Near Islands (4)
ATTU
6 Down: "M*A*S*H" actor (4)
FARR
7 Down: "The Time Machine" leisure class (4)
ELOI
8 Down: Hotel suite amenity (6)
WETBAR
9 Down: Some trick-or-treaters (6)
GHOSTS
10 Down: Ended up (8)
RESULTED
11 Down: Dior design (5)
ALINE
12 Down: Bloom in le jardin (5)
FLEUR
13 Down: Red tape, often (5)
FORMS
21 Down: Pip and others (4)
LADS
22 Down: Three-time Burmese prime minister (3)
UNU
23 Down: Quinn of "Blink" (5)
AIDAN
24 Down: Informal bridge bid (5)
ONENO
27 Down: Blanched (3)
WAN
28 Down: It may be easily bruised (3)
EGO
29 Down: Carroll's "slithy" ones (5)
TOVES
33 Down: Posts for privates (9)
GARRISONS
34 Down: One way to think (5)
ALOUD
35 Down: "The Silence of the Lambs" director (5)
DEMME
37 Down: Edgar Award candidate (8)
WHODUNIT
39 Down: It's plucked in Polynesia (3)
UKE
40 Down: Wine label word (3)
SEC
44 Down: Blind segment (4)
SLAT
47 Down: Ups (6)
RAISES
48 Down: Telegraphic click (3)
DIT
49 Down: Available (6)
ONCALL
50 Down: Alec played him in "Star Wars" (6)
OBIWAN
51 Down: Obstruct (5)
DAMUP
52 Down: Cockamamie (5)
INANE
53 Down: Foul moods (5)
SNITS
56 Down: Follow (4)
OBEY
57 Down: Flair (4)
ELAN
58 Down: ___ Station (4)
PENN
62 Down: Route abbr. (3)
ENE
63 Down: Egg holder, of sorts (3)
SAC

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