Monday Crossword — January 12, 2004 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 1/12/2004. By Kurt Mengel.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Birds' homes (5)
NESTS
6 Across: Order (around) (4)
BOSS
10 Across: Quaint cry of shock (4)
EGAD
14 Across: Not bottled, as beer (5)
ONTAP
15 Across: Choir voice (4)
ALTO
16 Across: Knot (4)
NODE
17 Across: Writer ___ Rogers St. Johns (5)
ADELA
18 Across: Nay opposers (4)
YEAS
19 Across: Coin opening (4)
SLOT
20 Across: Nursery rhyme bakery item (11)
HOTCROSSBUN
23 Across: Rap's Dr. ___ (3)
DRE
24 Across: Theater alert (3)
SRO
25 Across: More down and out (7)
SEEDIER
27 Across: Omaha's home: Abbr. (3)
NEB
30 Across: Burden (4)
ONUS
33 Across: Letters and packages (4)
MAIL
34 Across: Make, in arithmetic (3)
ARE
35 Across: Reception with open arms (11)
WARMWELCOME
39 Across: Was a passenger (4)
RODE
41 Across: Play on the radio (3)
AIR
42 Across: Supply-and-demand subj. (4)
ECON
43 Across: Tidy Lotto prize (11)
COOLMILLION
48 Across: Mary ___ cosmetics (3)
KAY
49 Across: Sweet Spanish dessert (4)
FLAN
50 Across: Suffix with kitchen (4)
ETTE
51 Across: Railroad stop: Abbr. (3)
STA
52 Across: Once-fashionable card game (7)
CANASTA
55 Across: PanAm rival (3)
TWA
57 Across: Doctors' org. (3)
AMA
58 Across: Scarce consolation (11)
COLDCOMFORT
64 Across: Pompeii, e.g., today (4)
RUIN
66 Across: Writer Ephron (4)
NORA
67 Across: Anouk of "La Dolce Vita" (5)
AIMEE
68 Across: Capital NNW of Copenhagen (4)
OSLO
69 Across: Slaughter of the 1940's-50's Cardinals (4)
ENOS
70 Across: ___-fatty acid (5)
TRANS
71 Across: Taking the blue ribbon (4)
BEST
72 Across: Fall mo. (4)
SEPT
73 Across: Elephant groups (5)
HERDS

Down Answers

1 Down: Ark builder (4)
NOAH
2 Down: Prefix with derm (4)
ENDO
3 Down: Leave in, as text (4)
STET
4 Down: Bathroom powders (5)
TALCS
5 Down: Songbird (7)
SPARROW
6 Down: Seabiscuit and Citation, e.g. (4)
BAYS
7 Down: Barcelona cheers (4)
OLES
8 Down: Pierces (5)
STABS
9 Down: Flip response to a complaint (7)
SOSUEME
10 Down: Naval rank: Abbr. (3)
ENS
11 Down: Famous bed tester (10)
GOLDILOCKS
12 Down: Love to pieces (5)
ADORE
13 Down: Keep (from) (5)
DETER
21 Down: Mrs. Chaplin (4)
OONA
22 Down: Patricia who won an Oscar for "Hud" (4)
NEAL
26 Down: Backgammon equipment (4)
DICE
27 Down: Drug cop (4)
NARC
28 Down: Suffix with switch (4)
EROO
29 Down: Not the most comfortable place to sleep (10)
BEDOFNAILS
31 Down: Russia's ___ Mountains (4)
URAL
32 Down: Grin (5)
SMILE
36 Down: Lawyer's document (4)
WRIT
37 Down: Palace protector (4)
MOAT
38 Down: "A Day Without Rain" singer, 2000 (4)
ENYA
40 Down: Singer Fitzgerald (4)
ELLA
44 Down: Fem. opposite (4)
MASC
45 Down: Recites (7)
INTONES
46 Down: Germany's ___ von Bismarck (4)
OTTO
47 Down: Educational innovation of the 1960's (7)
NEWMATH
52 Down: Tree with pods (5)
CAROB
53 Down: Entertain (5)
AMUSE
54 Down: By oneself (5)
ALONE
56 Down: Blazing (5)
AFIRE
59 Down: Let go (4)
DROP
60 Down: Play group? (4)
CAST
61 Down: Bridge master Sharif (4)
OMAR
62 Down: Tear (4)
REND
63 Down: "___ of the D'Urbervilles" (4)
TESS
65 Down: Word in most of the Commandments (3)
NOT

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