Saturday Crossword — April 17, 2004 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 4/17/2004. By Brendan Emmett Quigley.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Keep from practicing (6)
DISBAR
7 Across: A little hard to find (8)
SEMIRARE
15 Across: Prefix with bacteria (6)
ENTERO
16 Across: Brought to light (8)
ELICITED
17 Across: Some French wines (6)
BLANCS
18 Across: Like a cat's existence? (8)
NINEFOLD
19 Across: "Of course, what would I know?" (14)
BUTTHATSJUSTME
21 Across: Place for a monitor: Abbr. (3)
ICU
22 Across: Excited (6)
INHEAT
23 Across: English sum? (3)
IAM
25 Across: Make (out) (3)
EKE
26 Across: 6 letters (3)
MNO
27 Across: Speed (3)
HIE
29 Across: Eva's half-sister? (3)
ZSA
30 Across: Beat (5)
WEARY
32 Across: Plant used to prevent erosion on banked roadsides (6)
AXSEED
34 Across: Had a peak experience? (5)
SKIED
37 Across: Start of a revival? (3)
NEO
39 Across: Clipped (5)
TERSE
40 Across: Beats (6)
PULSES
42 Across: Market purchase (5)
SHARE
44 Across: Hi-tech bookmark (3)
URL
45 Across: Tom Sawyer's half-brother (3)
SID
47 Across: F.D.R. initiative: Abbr. (3)
WPA
48 Across: Bad from the start? (3)
MIS
51 Across: "Stupid me!" (3)
DOH
52 Across: Poles are in it (6)
EUROPE
54 Across: Treebeard in "The Lord of the Rings," e.g. (3)
ENT
55 Across: 2002 upset event (14)
SUPERBOWLXXXVI
59 Across: Try to impress, in a way (8)
NAMEDROP
60 Across: Of a heart chamber (6)
ATRIAL
61 Across: Dual (8)
TWOPHASE
62 Across: RNA constituent (6)
URACIL
63 Across: Pressed hard (8)
HARASSED
64 Across: The beginning (6)
DAYONE

Down Answers

1 Down: Gibson of pop (6)
DEBBIE
2 Down: Fortunate (6)
INLUCK
3 Down: One may be standing at a fountain (6)
STATUE
4 Down: Inclination (4)
BENT
5 Down: Early calculator of pi (10)
ARCHIMEDES
6 Down: 1982 Toto hit that won Record of the Year (7)
ROSANNA
7 Down: See 24-Down (5)
SENSE
8 Down: Wood of Hollywood (6)
ELIJAH
9 Down: Something easily forgotten (7)
MINUTIA
10 Down: Does in (4)
ICES
11 Down: Break (4)
RIFT
12 Down: Perfumery purchase (8)
ATOMIZER
13 Down: Stir hopes? (8)
RELEASES
14 Down: Roush of Cooperstown (3)
EDD
20 Down: Major irritant (5)
THORN
24 Down: With 7-Down, wasn't inane (4)
MADE
28 Down: Paper pusher's words (10)
EXTRAEXTRA
30 Down: Anderson who directed "The Royal Tenenbaums" (3)
WES
31 Down: Jubilant cry (3)
YES
33 Down: Sheepish excuse lead-in (3)
SEE
34 Down: Starch source, informally (4)
SPUD
35 Down: "The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail" director, 1945 (8)
KUROSAWA
36 Down: Bile (8)
ILLHUMOR
38 Down: "Man!" (5)
OHWOW
41 Down: Milieu for John Muir (7)
SIERRAS
43 Down: Praise (7)
APPLAUD
46 Down: Novelist ___ Heyward (6)
DUBOSE
48 Down: 1992 Michener book (6)
MEXICO
49 Down: For nothing (6)
INVAIN
50 Down: "___ Nacht" (German carol) (6)
STILLE
53 Down: Caught, in a way (5)
ROPED
56 Down: Rapper Sandra Denton's stage name (4)
PEPA
57 Down: Old English letters (4)
EDHS
58 Down: Look into? (4)
XRAY
59 Down: Kind of power (3)
NTH

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