Saturday Crossword — July 3, 2004 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 7/3/2004. By Eric Berlin.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Better Business Bureau concerns (5)
SCAMS
6 Across: Hefty competition (4)
GLAD
10 Across: What someone who is out might be in (4)
COMA
14 Across: Put through the mill? (5)
PUREE
15 Across: Legal cover-up? (4)
ROBE
16 Across: Robert Burns title starter (4)
AULD
17 Across: 1986 rock autobiography (5)
ITINA
18 Across: Member of a small family (9)
ONLYCHILD
20 Across: "Six Degrees of Separation" family name (9)
KITTREDGE
22 Across: Suitor's presentation (5)
ROSES
23 Across: Where to spend birr (8)
ETHIOPIA
24 Across: John of Parliament (3)
LOO
25 Across: It's projected (13)
MOVINGPICTURE
30 Across: Browsers' place (6)
THENET
32 Across: Sturdy building material (3)
OAK
33 Across: Pique experience? (4)
SNIT
34 Across: Make a stink? (3)
ROT
35 Across: Density symbol, in physics (3)
RHO
37 Across: It may follow an etym. (3)
DEF
39 Across: Ottoman officer (3)
AGA
40 Across: Utter (4)
EMIT
42 Across: Special ability (3)
ESP
44 Across: Burrowing animal (6)
WOMBAT
46 Across: Mysterious letter writer, maybe (13)
SECRETADMIRER
49 Across: Lyricist Dubin and others (3)
ALS
50 Across: Come this close (8)
JUSTMISS
53 Across: Take, as a life (5)
CLAIM
56 Across: Humored (9)
CATEREDTO
57 Across: Curved wall used as a stage background (9)
CYCLORAMA
59 Across: Actress Georgia ___ of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (5)
ENGEL
60 Across: "Flower Petal Gown" sculptor (4)
ERTE
61 Across: Not easily angered (4)
EVEN
62 Across: Surgical tube (5)
STENT
63 Across: Ones that may get ticked? (4)
DEER
64 Across: Gathering suffix (4)
FEST
65 Across: "Me, too" (5)
SODOI

Down Answers

1 Down: Sudden increase (5)
SPIKE
2 Down: Get the job done (5)
CUTIT
3 Down: Putting two and two together, say (10)
ARITHMETIC
4 Down: Bring up (7)
MENTION
5 Down: Pirate (8)
SEAROVER
6 Down: "Beethoven" star, 1992 (6)
GRODIN
7 Down: Time of many a fairy tale (7)
LONGAGO
8 Down: Good enough to 2-Down (4)
ABLE
9 Down: "The Partridge Family" actress (3)
DEY
10 Down: Collusion (7)
CAHOOTS
11 Down: Votes overseas (4)
OUIS
12 Down: M.'s counterpart (4)
MLLE
13 Down: Contributes (4)
ADDS
19 Down: Swamp thing (4)
CROC
21 Down: Bad words (8)
EPITHETS
24 Down: "Me, too" (8)
LIKEWISE
26 Down: See 51-Down (3)
PAD
27 Down: Not mincing words? (10)
UNABRIDGED
28 Down: European capital (4)
RIGA
29 Down: Virginie, e.g. (4)
ETAT
30 Down: Dos into seis (4)
TRES
31 Down: "If a ___ is happy, it cannot fit too close": O. Henry (4)
HOME
36 Down: Mama bear, in Madrid (3)
OSA
38 Down: Keep (8)
FORTRESS
41 Down: It can be semi-attached (7)
TRAILER
43 Down: "The Murder Room" novelist (7)
PDJAMES
45 Down: Token (7)
MEMENTO
47 Down: Kids' TV character voiced by Kevin Clash (4)
ELMO
48 Down: One of "Them" (6)
MUTANT
51 Down: With 26-Down, it may be used in a pool (5)
STENO
52 Down: Longtime Chicago Symphony conductor (5)
SOLTI
53 Down: Sent a duplicate, briefly (4)
CCED
54 Down: Invention of Hermes, supposedly (4)
LYRE
55 Down: ___ gratuit (something done without apparent motive) (4)
ACTE
56 Down: Give up, slangily (4)
CAVE
58 Down: Make calls (3)
REF

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