Friday Crossword — October 17, 2003 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 10/17/2003. By Bob Peoples.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Range where Prometheus was bound (8)
CAUCASUS
9 Across: Sample (6)
SWATCH
15 Across: Military strength (8)
ARMAMENT
16 Across: African capital southwest of Kampala (6)
KIGALI
17 Across: Lambastes (8)
RIPSINTO
18 Across: At all (6)
ONEBIT
19 Across: Reagan's first interior secretary (4)
WATT
20 Across: Skin care products (6)
TONERS
22 Across: Switch positions (3)
ONS
23 Across: Scottish singleton (3)
ANE
24 Across: Business card abbr. (3)
EXT
25 Across: With 48-Down, Inquisition judgment and execution (4)
AUTO
26 Across: Bygone blade (4)
SNEE
28 Across: Heart (4)
GIST
30 Across: Deep pink (5)
MELON
31 Across: Tech school offering (15)
HANDSONTRAINING
34 Across: Wheel (9)
BIGCHEESE
35 Across: Hidden agenda (15)
ULTERIORMOTIVES
41 Across: Part of a British cavalry (5)
SABRE
42 Across: Big name in plumbing products (4)
MOEN
43 Across: Grand Canyon craft (4)
DORY
44 Across: Shoot (4)
TWIG
45 Across: Wrap (up) (3)
SEW
46 Across: Let go (3)
CAN
47 Across: Poorly (3)
ILL
48 Across: Part of a doctor's order (6)
DOSAGE
51 Across: 1998 National League M.V.P. (4)
SOSA
52 Across: American painter of sports scenes (6)
NEIMAN
54 Across: Like Fortunato in "The Cask of Amontillado" (8)
WALLEDUP
56 Across: Harden (6)
OSSIFY
57 Across: Current gadgets (8)
AMMETERS
58 Across: Some engines (6)
VSIXES
59 Across: "You got that right!" (8)
YESSIREE

Down Answers

1 Down: Where to get a shiny body (7)
CARWASH
2 Down: Monteverdi opera (7)
ARIANNA
3 Down: Myriad (7)
UMPTEEN
4 Down: Hue (4)
CAST
5 Down: Réunion pal (3)
AMI
6 Down: On the way, in a way (4)
SENT
7 Down: "___ These Hills" (Cherokee Indian drama) (4)
UNTO
8 Down: Short distance (15)
STONESTHROWAWAY
9 Down: Women's hybrid item of apparel (5)
SKORT
10 Down: Sports column? (4)
WINS
11 Down: Basis of some divisions (3)
AGE
12 Down: Mediterranean salad (7)
TABOULI
13 Down: Vice president after Burr (7)
CLINTON
14 Down: Chart topper (7)
HITSONG
21 Down: Far-out (7)
EXTREME
25 Down: Augustan masterpiece (6)
AENEID
27 Down: 1992 U.S. Open champion (6)
EDBERG
28 Down: ___ Grant, "The Wayward Wind" singer, 1956 (4)
GOGI
29 Down: Workers make them (7)
INCOMES
30 Down: Drink served over cracked ice (4)
MIST
32 Down: Produce (4)
SIRE
33 Down: Astronomical unit (4)
AEON
35 Down: "Dear Me" theatrical memoirist (7)
USTINOV
36 Down: Unrestrained (7)
LAWLESS
37 Down: Capital east of the Black Sea (7)
TBILISI
38 Down: Speech synthesizer (7)
VOCODER
39 Down: Start of some corrections (7)
ERASURE
40 Down: Firing point, of a sort (7)
SYNAPSE
45 Down: Some TV's (5)
SONYS
48 Down: See 25-Across (4)
DAFE
49 Down: Up for it (4)
GAME
50 Down: Some blight victims (4)
ELMS
51 Down: Father of Ramses II (4)
SETI
53 Down: Crossbreed (3)
MIX
55 Down: Mystery novelist Roberts (3)
LES

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