Saturday Crossword — September 17, 2005 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 9/17/2005. By Rich Norris.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Immodest Googling (10)
EGOSURFING
11 Across: Booted, say (4)
SHOD
15 Across: "The Three Musketeers" actress, 1948 (10)
LANATURNER
16 Across: Geometric shapes (4)
TORI
17 Across: Reran (10)
PLAYEDOVER
18 Across: Threads (4)
DUDS
19 Across: Narrow-sleeved garments (4)
ALBS
20 Across: "Wow!" (4)
EGAD
21 Across: Cornering challenges (5)
ESSES
22 Across: New York college founded by Franciscans (5)
SIENA
24 Across: Course error (5)
SLICE
26 Across: "... ___ the set of sun": "Macbeth" (3)
ERE
27 Across: Moray eel victims (6)
OCTOPI
29 Across: Together (8)
INUNISON
31 Across: Wind or water (6)
ERODER
33 Across: Ex-lax? (4)
TAUT
34 Across: Soviet W.W. II foreign affairs commissar (7)
MOLOTOV
38 Across: Island with the volcano Mt. Liamuiga (7)
STKITTS
40 Across: Paris-born painter Tanguy (4)
YVES
41 Across: Subject of Drumnadrochit village observation (6)
NESSIE
43 Across: Abbreviated (8)
CUTSHORT
45 Across: Went boldly (6)
STRODE
50 Across: Plug end (3)
OLA
51 Across: Shows a desire to get in (5)
ANTES
53 Across: 48-Down resident (5)
TEXAN
54 Across: Series about the firm McKenzie Brackman (5)
LALAW
56 Across: Large predator (4)
ORCA
58 Across: Subject of a museum in St. Petersburg, Fla. (4)
DALI
59 Across: Former Platte River dwellers (4)
OTOS
60 Across: Deli offerings (10)
ONIONROLLS
62 Across: Hat-tipper, say (4)
GENT
63 Across: Asceticism feature (10)
SELFDENIAL
64 Across: Strategic W.W. I river (4)
YSER
65 Across: Exhibit artfulness (10)
USEFINESSE

Down Answers

1 Down: Fort Bliss city (6)
ELPASO
2 Down: Like some victims of the Vandals (6)
GALLIC
3 Down: For anything (6)
ONABET
4 Down: Declines (6)
SAYSNO
5 Down: Mountain West conference player (3)
UTE
6 Down: Unrefined (4)
RUDE
7 Down: Aristophanes drama, with "The" (5)
FROGS
8 Down: Bedbound (7)
INVALID
9 Down: Poverty (9)
NEEDINESS
10 Down: Bite preceder (3)
GRR
11 Down: Censor's list: Abbr. (4)
STDS
12 Down: Watched things (8)
HOUSESAT
13 Down: Get to go ... or make go (8)
ORDEROUT
14 Down: Doesn't go along (8)
DISSENTS
21 Down: Lyrical period (3)
EEN
23 Down: Ticked off, after "in" (4)
APET
25 Down: Hoover's vice president (6)
CURTIS
28 Down: Like some transfers (6)
IRONON
30 Down: "Lord, is ___?": Matthew (3)
ITI
32 Down: Hints (9)
OVERTONES
34 Down: Science dealing with fungi (8)
MYCOLOGY
35 Down: Makes eggs, in a way (8)
OVULATES
36 Down: Much less (8)
LETALONE
37 Down: 1942 F.D.R. creation (3)
OSS
39 Down: Teenager of old comics (4)
KETT
42 Down: Barren (7)
STERILE
44 Down: Sound uncertain (3)
HAW
46 Down: Altered (6)
REDONE
47 Down: Wood sorrel genus (6)
OXALIS
48 Down: Trinity River city (6)
DALLAS
49 Down: Stick on a key? (6)
ENISLE
52 Down: Mock (5)
SCOFF
55 Down: Science class: Abbr. (4)
ASTR
57 Down: "___ quote ..." (4)
ANDI
60 Down: Sch. in Stillwater (3)
OSU
61 Down: Cartoon pooch (3)
REN

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