Friday Crossword — December 16, 2005 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 12/16/2005. By Joe DiPietro.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Expire (8)
- PASSAWAY
- 9 Across: Top removed by attendants (6)
- GASCAP
- 15 Across: Be in concert (8)
- ACTASONE
- 16 Across: Library feature (6)
- ALCOVE
- 17 Across: Cormorants, e.g. (8)
- SEABIRDS
- 18 Across: Suddenly arose (6)
- LOOMED
- 19 Across: Barely move? (6)
- STREAK
- 20 Across: Cinderella's clothes (7)
- TATTERS
- 21 Across: Sister of Selene (3)
- EOS
- 22 Across: Wanes (9)
- TAPERSOFF
- 25 Across: Destructive 1999 Florida hurricane (5)
- IRENE
- 26 Across: Glower (5)
- FROWN
- 29 Across: Glower, maybe (3)
- ORB
- 32 Across: Aid in creating an idealized figure (6)
- CORSET
- 34 Across: Former lakeshore tribe (4)
- ERIE
- 35 Across: Not rot (4)
- KEEP
- 37 Across: Seed structure (5)
- OVULE
- 38 Across: Locale of the Bocca Nuova crater (4)
- ETNA
- 39 Across: Fix (4)
- REDO
- 40 Across: Camel alternatives (6)
- MERITS
- 42 Across: Alluring (3)
- HOT
- 43 Across: Thinking ___ (5)
- ALOUD
- 45 Across: "Walk Away ___" (1966 hit) (5)
- RENEE
- 46 Across: Good vantage point (9)
- FRONTSEAT
- 48 Across: You can burn it (3)
- FAT
- 51 Across: Fairy tale figures (7)
- SPRITES
- 53 Across: Cousin of a capillary (6)
- TUBULE
- 55 Across: Restaurant cry (6)
- WAITER
- 56 Across: Member of a historical trio (8)
- THEPINTA
- 58 Across: Agreement (6)
- ACCORD
- 59 Across: Exhausted (8)
- OUTOFGAS
- 60 Across: Mite-sized (6)
- TEENSY
- 61 Across: Start attacking (8)
- OPENFIRE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: So last year (5)
- PASSE
- 2 Down: Prefix with phenetidin (5)
- ACETO
- 3 Down: Cancer components (5)
- STARS
- 4 Down: "Quién ___?" (4)
- SABE
- 5 Down: Like many elephants (7)
- ASIATIC
- 6 Down: Glad-hand, as politicians are wont to do (9)
- WORKAROOM
- 7 Down: What's more (3)
- AND
- 8 Down: "I knew it!" (3)
- YES
- 9 Down: Balls (5)
- GALAS
- 10 Down: Much (6)
- ALOTOF
- 11 Down: Without even a warning (8)
- SCOTFREE
- 12 Down: Emerge (9)
- COMEFORTH
- 13 Down: Maintain (4)
- AVER
- 14 Down: Xers? (4)
- PEDS
- 20 Down: Fringe of the green? (8)
- TREELINE
- 23 Down: Misapplies (8)
- PERVERTS
- 24 Down: Guarantees (7)
- ENSURES
- 27 Down: Lush (4)
- WINO
- 28 Down: Trim (4)
- NEAT
- 29 Down: Some pods (4)
- OKRA
- 30 Down: A line winds in and out of it (4)
- REEL
- 31 Down: Fish might go over it (9)
- BEDOFRICE
- 33 Down: Powwow (9)
- TETEATETE
- 36 Down: Go all out (8)
- POURITON
- 41 Down: Attack (7)
- SETUPON
- 44 Down: Grandparents, typically (6)
- DOTERS
- 47 Down: Square (5)
- NERDY
- 48 Down: Things not wanted in locker rooms (5)
- FUNGI
- 49 Down: Sacrificial site (5)
- ALTAR
- 50 Down: Flirt (5)
- TEASE
- 51 Down: Hit hard (4)
- SWAT
- 52 Down: Clip (4)
- PACE
- 54 Down: Son of Willy Loman (4)
- BIFF
- 56 Down: "You ___?" (3)
- TOO
- 57 Down: One in the Army (3)
- HUP
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