Friday Crossword — October 3, 2003 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 10/3/2003. By Manny Nosowsky.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Encourage (7)
HEARTEN
8 Across: Technological advance of the 1950's (7)
COLORTV
15 Across: "I'm glad I came" (15)
ITSNICETOBEHERE
17 Across: Comment at the end of a good social occasion (15)
LETSDOTHISAGAIN
18 Across: La preceder (3)
TRA
19 Across: In conclusion, in Cannes (5)
ENFIN
20 Across: Duck (5)
DODGE
21 Across: "Idylls of the King" character (4)
ENID
23 Across: Removes in a putsch (5)
OUSTS
25 Across: Scale start (4)
DORE
26 Across: Isn't timid (5)
DARES
28 Across: Anti-Parkinson's drug (5)
LDOPA
30 Across: Outlying (3)
FAR
31 Across: Lou Gehrig, for one (5)
LEFTY
33 Across: "___ Came From the Holy Land" (classic poem) (4)
ASYE
34 Across: Most NPR stations (3)
FMS
35 Across: 1998 N.L. M.V.P. (9)
SAMMYSOSA
38 Across: Binge (3)
JAG
41 Across: Big sports inits. (4)
NCAA
42 Across: Lumps and bumps (5)
NODES
45 Across: School founded by Thos. Jefferson (3)
UVA
46 Across: Actress Madeline and others (5)
KAHNS
48 Across: Some Maine scenery (5)
PINES
50 Across: Coarse hominy (4)
SAMP
52 Across: Boston pops (5)
SODAS
54 Across: ___ tide (4)
NEAP
55 Across: Loss at a bald spot (5)
TREAD
57 Across: Amounts of laughter (5)
GALES
59 Across: Year Vespucci sailed to the New World (3)
MDI
60 Across: Producer of stories like you wouldn't believe (15)
WILDIMAGINATION
63 Across: Hidden asset (15)
ACEUPONESSLEEVE
64 Across: With splendor (7)
REGALLY
65 Across: Telemarketer's need (7)
HEADSET

Down Answers

1 Down: Handled, as a sword (6)
HILTED
2 Down: Godlike (7)
ETERNAL
3 Down: "Steps in Time" autobiographer (7)
ASTAIRE
4 Down: O.R. V.I.P.'s (3)
RNS
5 Down: It turns eventually (4)
TIDE
6 Down: ___-Car (5)
ECONO
7 Down: Trawler's catch (6)
NETFUL
8 Down: Super Bowl start (8)
COINTOSS
9 Down: Dict. label (3)
OBS
10 Down: Get ahead (4)
LEAD
11 Down: Burns classic (5)
OHGOD
12 Down: Recite, as from a list (7)
READOFF
13 Down: MNO on a telephone dial, e.g. (7)
TRIGRAM
14 Down: Thin coats (7)
VENEERS
16 Down: Recent times (13)
THISDAYANDAGE
22 Down: Dict. material (4)
DEFS
24 Down: Secretly watch (5)
SPYON
27 Down: Was rotten (5)
STANK
29 Down: Certain moral authority (5)
AESOP
32 Down: Some training centers (5)
YMCAS
36 Down: Termite-resistant wood (8)
MAHOGANY
37 Down: Tennis score (4)
ADIN
38 Down: Topic of a St. Augustine treatise, with "the" (7)
JUSTWAR
39 Down: Sin of the beady-eyed (7)
AVARICE
40 Down: Cause for a limp (7)
GAMELEG
43 Down: Ones at the gate, maybe (7)
ENEMIES
44 Down: Small, short-billed auk (7)
SEADOVE
47 Down: Northwest Indian (6)
SALISH
49 Down: Upright (6)
SPINET
51 Down: "The Taming of the Shrew" city (5)
PADUA
53 Down: Brains (5)
SENSE
56 Down: Natl. negotiator (4)
DIPL
58 Down: Spanish parlor (4)
SALA
61 Down: Collection of atoms: Abbr. (3)
MOL
62 Down: J.F.K. aide ___ Sorensen (3)
TED

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