Thursday Crossword — March 9, 2006

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1569 clues~15-30 minBy John Farmer3/9/2006

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Places to do-si-do (5 letters)
6 Across
With 71-Across, one way to think (with a hint to this puzzle's theme) (6 letters)
12 Across
Decline of the West? (6 letters)
14 Across
Mason jar use (7 letters)
16 Across
Happens to, old-style (7 letters)
18 Across
Any "Star Wars" film (7 letters)
19 Across
Prefix with polar (3 letters)
20 Across
Bisector (4 letters)
22 Across
Encourage (6 letters)
25 Across
Drift (about) (3 letters)
27 Across
Dish eaten with a spork (4 letters)
28 Across
"Good" cholesterol inits. (3 letters)
29 Across
Daily regimen (5 letters)
31 Across
In (4 letters)
33 Across
Mommy's triplets? (3 letters)
35 Across
Losers (8 letters)
37 Across
One on the links (3 letters)
40 Across
Home of Nascar's Talladega Superspeedway: Abbr. (3 letters)
42 Across
Brightness units, for short? (3 letters)
43 Across
___ Pepper (3 letters)
44 Across
Don who won the 1962 Cy Young award (8 letters)
47 Across
Above 13, briefly (3 letters)
49 Across
Satisfy (4 letters)
52 Across
___ room (dorm facility) (3 letters)
55 Across
Some houses are built on it (4 letters)
57 Across
__-Blo (brand of fuse) (3 letters)
58 Across
Henry James novel set in New York City (5 letters)
60 Across
Sacred beetle of ancient Egypt (6 letters)
62 Across
Tender (4 letters)
64 Across
Pokey (3 letters)
65 Across
Turns in (7 letters)
67 Across
Husbandry (7 letters)
69 Across
At hand (7 letters)
70 Across
"Get real!" (6 letters)
71 Across
See 6-Across (6 letters)

Down

2 Down
Slake (6 letters)
3 Down
Loose (6 letters)
4 Down
Walt Whitman's "___ Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing" (3 letters)
6 Down
Something to slip on (3 letters)
7 Down
Isn't vigilant (4 letters)
8 Down
Impertinent ones (5 letters)
9 Down
Parochial (7 letters)
10 Down
3-D representations (8 letters)
11 Down
Funding, as a chair (8 letters)
13 Down
___ Avery of Looney Tunes (3 letters)
15 Down
___-Y (modern youth) (3 letters)
17 Down
:-<, in a chat room (4 letters)
21 Down
Detective writer Paretsky (4 letters)
24 Down
Jacobs Field's home, on scoreboards (3 letters)
26 Down
Poor boy provider (4 letters)
32 Down
Summer observance: Abbr. (3 letters)
34 Down
Harebrained (3 letters)
36 Down
Kyrgyzstan city (3 letters)
37 Down
Fleet leader: Abbr. (3 letters)
38 Down
It's seen in the first or last quarter (8 letters)
39 Down
Pirate feature (8 letters)
41 Down
Charity (4 letters)
45 Down
Unfruitful (7 letters)
46 Down
Catch in pots (4 letters)
48 Down
Italian monk (3 letters)
51 Down
You may hit it when you're angry (4 letters)
53 Down
Spots (6 letters)
54 Down
___ Blanc, popular wine grape (6 letters)
56 Down
Faux chocolate (5 letters)
60 Down
Hindu honorific (3 letters)
61 Down
Kiss, in a Paul Anka song (4 letters)
63 Down
Battle of Britain fliers: Abbr. (3 letters)
66 Down
Make more alluring, with "up" (3 letters)
68 Down
1974 John Wayne movie (3 letters)

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