Monday Crossword — December 13, 2004 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 12/13/2004. By Sarah Keller.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Drug buster, for short (4)
NARC
5 Across: Apartments (5)
FLATS
10 Across: Arizona city (4)
MESA
14 Across: Mishmash (4)
OLIO
15 Across: Scoundrel (5)
ROGUE
16 Across: Kuwaiti leader (4)
EMIR
17 Across: Group voting the same way (4)
BLOC
18 Across: Car from Japan (5)
ACURA
19 Across: It may be carried with a guitar (4)
TUNE
20 Across: Unexpectedly (12)
OUTOFTHEBLUE
23 Across: Dismal, in poetry (5)
DREAR
24 Across: Not just anger (7)
OUTRAGE
28 Across: "___ out!" (ump's call) (3)
YER
29 Across: Mine finds (4)
ORES
33 Across: Grassy Argentine plains (6)
PAMPAS
34 Across: Gap and Toys 'R' Us, e.g. (6)
STORES
36 Across: Verb not in the king's English (4)
AINT
37 Across: Unexpectedly (13)
WITHNOWARNING
41 Across: Pro ___ (proportionally) (4)
RATA
42 Across: Followed smoothly (6)
SEGUED
43 Across: Natural to a creature (6)
INBRED
46 Across: Rocker David Lee ___ (4)
ROTH
47 Across: Sup (3)
EAT
50 Across: "Saturday Night Fever" group, with "the" (7)
BEEGEES
52 Across: "Where the deer and the antelope play" (5)
RANGE
54 Across: Unexpectedly (12)
ALLOFASUDDEN
58 Across: Shoot (by) (4)
WHIZ
61 Across: Decree (5)
EDICT
62 Across: Family rooms (4)
DENS
63 Across: Detest (4)
HATE
64 Across: Delay leaving (5)
TARRY
65 Across: Stow cargo (4)
LADE
66 Across: Reason to put a clothespin on your nose (4)
ODOR
67 Across: Earl of ___, favorite of Queen Elizabeth I (5)
ESSEX
68 Across: Pitching stats, for short (4)
ERAS

Down Answers

1 Down: Opposite of everyone (6)
NOBODY
2 Down: That certain something (6)
ALLURE
3 Down: Violent troublemaker (6)
RIOTER
4 Down: Beverage with a marshmallow (5)
COCOA
5 Down: Pledges' group, for short (4)
FRAT
6 Down: ___ Ness monster (4)
LOCH
7 Down: Flulike symptoms (4)
AGUE
8 Down: Supercharged engine (5)
TURBO
9 Down: Close tightly (6)
SEALUP
10 Down: Parking ticket issuer (9)
METERMAID
11 Down: Flightless Australian bird (3)
EMU
12 Down: Break a Commandment (3)
SIN
13 Down: "___ you there?" (3)
ARE
21 Down: Foam (5)
FROTH
22 Down: Actress Hagen (3)
UTA
25 Down: Neat as ___ (4)
APIN
26 Down: Jets or Sharks, in "West Side Story" (4)
GANG
27 Down: Not an exact fig. (3)
EST
30 Down: Howard of "Happy Days" (3)
RON
31 Down: Archer of myth (4)
EROS
32 Down: Waste conduit (5)
SEWER
34 Down: Telescope user (9)
STARGAZER
35 Down: Palm starch (4)
SAGO
37 Down: Decrease gradually (4)
WANE
38 Down: "Can ___ true?" (4)
ITBE
39 Down: Same old same old (3)
RUT
40 Down: Kind of jacket (5)
NEHRU
41 Down: "Spare" item at a barbecue (3)
RIB
44 Down: Snakelike fish (3)
EEL
45 Down: Erase (6)
DELETE
47 Down: Make lovable (6)
ENDEAR
48 Down: Slate (6)
AGENDA
49 Down: Present and future (6)
TENSES
51 Down: Ice cream concoctions (5)
SODAS
53 Down: Confuse (5)
ADDLE
55 Down: Some evergreens (4)
FIRS
56 Down: Land unit (4)
ACRE
57 Down: River to the underworld (4)
STYX
58 Down: Group with the rock opera "Tommy," with "the" (3)
WHO
59 Down: Owned (3)
HAD
60 Down: Judge Lance of the O. J. Simpson case (3)
ITO

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