Saturday Crossword — November 1, 2003 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 66 clues). Published 11/1/2003. By Bob Peoples.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Gorges (6)
CHASMS
7 Across: Liquid offering at a "bar" (8)
SALADOIL
15 Across: Kind of valve (6)
AORTIC
16 Across: Be a segue for (8)
LEADINTO
17 Across: Asian clue collector (6)
MRMOTO
18 Across: Indefinite yes (8)
IGUESSSO
19 Across: Online newsgroup system (6)
USENET
20 Across: Occult characters? (4)
CEES
21 Across: Churned-out prose (3)
PAP
22 Across: Keep away (10)
STEERCLEAR
24 Across: Straining aid (4)
MESH
25 Across: Game ender, perhaps (4)
HORN
26 Across: Unfeminine (5)
MACHO
27 Across: Karat measure (8)
FINENESS
32 Across: Underling (6)
MENIAL
33 Across: Counterparts (7)
ANALOGS
34 Across: Fore-play? (7)
PREGAME
35 Across: Piano piece (6)
STRING
36 Across: Does up differently (8)
RESTYLES
37 Across: Pang (5)
THROE
38 Across: Natural rustler (4)
LEAF
39 Across: Dancing stimulus (4)
BEAT
40 Across: Got really upset (10)
HADKITTENS
46 Across: Invoice fig. (3)
AMT
47 Across: Chauffeur's order (4)
HOME
48 Across: Hot (6)
EROTIC
49 Across: Stored (8)
LAIDAWAY
51 Across: ___ Beach, Calif. (6)
LAGUNA
52 Across: Firecracker (8)
LIVEWIRE
53 Across: King topper (6)
DIADEM
54 Across: Pair for the court (8)
SNEAKERS
55 Across: Doesn't look good? (6)
SNEERS

Down Answers

1 Down: "The Fall" novelist (5)
CAMUS
2 Down: Physicist ___ Störmer (5)
HORST
3 Down: Foch's force (5)
ARMEE
4 Down: Something may be written in it (5)
STONE
5 Down: Top of the Catholic Church? (5)
MITER
6 Down: Sausage-wrapped British breakfast dish (9)
SCOTCHEGG
7 Down: Kitchen gadgets (7)
SLICERS
8 Down: ___ Islands, which include the Cyclades (6)
AEGEAN
9 Down: Gumbel's "Today" successor (5)
LAUER
10 Down: They're usually fruit-flavored (4)
ADES
11 Down: Bash a bit (3)
DIS
12 Down: Reduced (9)
ONSPECIAL
13 Down: "Terrible pity" (9)
ITSASHAME
14 Down: Escape mechanisms? (9)
LOOPHOLES
23 Down: Surety concern (4)
LOSS
24 Down: In sorry shape (5)
MANGY
26 Down: Track event (4)
MEET
27 Down: Bullets, so to speak (9)
FASTBALLS
28 Down: By and large (9)
INTHEMAIN
29 Down: Account (9)
NARRATIVE
30 Down: "The Sacred Wood" writer, 1920 (5)
ELIOT
31 Down: How many symphonies Chopin wrote (4)
NONE
32 Down: Great American Cookies rival (9)
MRSFIELDS
34 Down: Busiest (4)
PEAK
36 Down: Fly-by-nights? (7)
REDEYES
38 Down: Tracy's "Tortilla Flat" co-star (6)
LAMARR
40 Down: Dorough of the Backstreet Boys (5)
HOWIE
41 Down: Traffic stopper, sometimes (5)
TRAIN
42 Down: Senate wear (5)
TOGAE
43 Down: One may be full of scales (5)
ETUDE
44 Down: Eighty-___ (early Oklahoma homesteader) (5)
NINER
45 Down: Cons (5)
SCAMS
47 Down: Good watcher (4)
HAWK
50 Down: It may make a bust: Abbr. (3)
DEA

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