Thursday Crossword — March 9, 2006 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 69 clues). Published 3/9/2006. By John Farmer.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Places to do-si-do (5)
- SQUAREDANCECLUBS
- 6 Across: With 71-Across, one way to think (with a hint to this puzzle's theme) (6)
- INSIDE
- 12 Across: Decline of the West? (6)
- SUNSET
- 14 Across: Mason jar use (7)
- CANNING
- 16 Across: Happens to, old-style (7)
- BETIDES
- 18 Across: Any "Star Wars" film (7)
- EPISODE
- 19 Across: Prefix with polar (3)
- UNI
- 20 Across: Bisector (4)
- AXIS
- 22 Across: Encourage (6)
- SPURON
- 25 Across: Drift (about) (3)
- GAD
- 27 Across: Dish eaten with a spork (4)
- SLAW
- 28 Across: "Good" cholesterol inits. (3)
- HDL
- 29 Across: Daily regimen (5)
- THREESQUAREMEALS
- 31 Across: In (4)
- AMID
- 33 Across: Mommy's triplets? (3)
- EMS
- 35 Across: Losers (8)
- ALSORANS
- 37 Across: One on the links (3)
- ACE
- 40 Across: Home of Nascar's Talladega Superspeedway: Abbr. (3)
- ALA
- 42 Across: Brightness units, for short? (3)
- IQS
- 43 Across: ___ Pepper (3)
- SGT
- 44 Across: Don who won the 1962 Cy Young award (8)
- DRYSDALE
- 47 Across: Above 13, briefly (3)
- UHF
- 49 Across: Satisfy (4)
- MEET
- 52 Across: ___ room (dorm facility) (3)
- REC
- 55 Across: Some houses are built on it (4)
- SPEC
- 57 Across: __-Blo (brand of fuse) (3)
- SLO
- 58 Across: Henry James novel set in New York City (5)
- WASHINGTONSQUARE
- 60 Across: Sacred beetle of ancient Egypt (6)
- SCARAB
- 62 Across: Tender (4)
- SORE
- 64 Across: Pokey (3)
- PEN
- 65 Across: Turns in (7)
- RETIRES
- 67 Across: Husbandry (7)
- FARMING
- 69 Across: At hand (7)
- INCLOSE
- 70 Across: "Get real!" (6)
- FACEIT
- 71 Across: See 6-Across (6)
- THEBOX
Down Answers
- 2 Down: Slake (6)
- QUENCH
- 3 Down: Loose (6)
- UNTIED
- 4 Down: Walt Whitman's "___ Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing" (3)
- ASI
- 6 Down: Something to slip on (3)
- ICE
- 7 Down: Isn't vigilant (4)
- NAPS
- 8 Down: Impertinent ones (5)
- SNIPS
- 9 Down: Parochial (7)
- INSULAR
- 10 Down: 3-D representations (8)
- DIORAMAS
- 11 Down: Funding, as a chair (8)
- ENDOWING
- 13 Down: ___ Avery of Looney Tunes (3)
- TEX
- 15 Down: ___-Y (modern youth) (3)
- GEN
- 17 Down: :-<, in a chat room (4)
- SIGH
- 21 Down: Detective writer Paretsky (4)
- SARA
- 24 Down: Jacobs Field's home, on scoreboards (3)
- CLE
- 26 Down: Poor boy provider (4)
- DELI
- 32 Down: Summer observance: Abbr. (3)
- DST
- 34 Down: Harebrained (3)
- MAD
- 36 Down: Kyrgyzstan city (3)
- OSH
- 37 Down: Fleet leader: Abbr. (3)
- ADM
- 38 Down: It's seen in the first or last quarter (8)
- CRESCENT
- 39 Down: Pirate feature (8)
- EYEPATCH
- 41 Down: Charity (4)
- ALMS
- 45 Down: Unfruitful (7)
- STERILE
- 46 Down: Catch in pots (4)
- EELS
- 48 Down: Italian monk (3)
- FRA
- 51 Down: You may hit it when you're angry (4)
- ROOF
- 53 Down: Spots (6)
- ESPIES
- 54 Down: ___ Blanc, popular wine grape (6)
- CHENIN
- 56 Down: Faux chocolate (5)
- CAROB
- 60 Down: Hindu honorific (3)
- SRI
- 61 Down: Kiss, in a Paul Anka song (4)
- BESO
- 63 Down: Battle of Britain fliers: Abbr. (3)
- RAF
- 66 Down: Make more alluring, with "up" (3)
- SEX
- 68 Down: 1974 John Wayne movie (3)
- MCQ
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