Tuesday Crossword — May 23, 2006 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 5/23/2006. By Alan Arbesfeld.

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Across Answers

1 Across: What buoys do on the water (3)
BOB
4 Across: Wail (4)
BAWL
8 Across: 60-Across play (6)
GHOSTS
14 Across: Wrath (3)
IRE
15 Across: Singer India.___ (4)
ARIE
16 Across: Item obviated by cable TV (6)
AERIAL
17 Across: Hair goop (3)
GEL
18 Across: 60-Across play (11)
HEDDAGABLER
20 Across: Drink with vitamin D (4)
MILK
22 Across: Courtoom figures: Abbr. (4)
ATTS
23 Across: "Shame!" (3)
TSK
24 Across: 60-Across play (11)
ADOLLSHOUSE
27 Across: With 39-Across, a 60-Across play (3)
THE
30 Across: Chocolate source (5)
CACAO
31 Across: Thinks the cutest thing in the world (6)
ADORES
33 Across: Seriously (7)
TOHEART
38 Across: Jump (4)
LEAP
39 Across: See 27-Across (13)
MASTERBUILDER
42 Across: 45 or 78 (4)
DISC
43 Across: Weapons supply (7)
ARSENAL
44 Across: Attack (6)
LASHAT
46 Across: Dads (5)
PAPAS
50 Across: "It ___" (reply to "Who's there?") (3)
ISI
51 Across: 60-Across play (11)
THEWILDDUCK
56 Across: Gangster's gun (3)
GAT
58 Across: With 69-Across, baseball great with 2,165 career runs (4)
PETE
59 Across: Urban athlete's locale, in brief (4)
YMCA
60 Across: Playwright who died on May 23, 1906 (11)
HENRIKIBSEN
64 Across: N.Y.C. subway (3)
IRT
65 Across: "Lawrence of Arabia" star (6)
OTOOLE
66 Across: Broadway's Prof. 'iggins (4)
ENRY
67 Across: Stick in a parlor (3)
CUE
68 Across: Home of 60-Across (6)
NORWAY
69 Across: See 58-Across (4)
ROSE
70 Across: Suffix with auction (3)
EER

Down Answers

1 Down: Sandwich introduced in 1968 (6)
BIGMAC
2 Down: Maker of Tater Tots (6)
OREIDA
3 Down: Hilaire who wrote "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts" (6)
BELLOC
4 Down: "___, humbug!" (3)
BAH
5 Down: Neighborhoods (5)
AREAS
6 Down: One rectangle measure (5)
WIDTH
7 Down: Caused (5)
LEDTO
8 Down: Joke or choke (3)
GAG
9 Down: Angry, as an argument (6)
HEATED
10 Down: Eyes, poetically (4)
ORBS
11 Down: Ornamental plant with fernlike foliage (8)
SILKTREE
12 Down: Menlo Park inits. (3)
TAE
13 Down: Camera type, familiarly (3)
SLR
19 Down: Tempe sch. (3)
ASU
21 Down: Casual gathering (7)
KLATSCH
25 Down: Plunder (4)
LOOT
26 Down: Attended as an observer (5)
SATIN
28 Down: Try, as a case (4)
HEAR
29 Down: Mind reading, for short (3)
ESP
32 Down: Wife, in slang (7)
OLDLADY
34 Down: Moor plant (5)
HEATH
35 Down: Bobble (3)
ERR
36 Down: Tummy muscles (3)
ABS
37 Down: Wish to take back (3)
RUE
39 Down: Military list, quickly (4)
MIAS
40 Down: Property transferor (8)
ASSIGNOR
41 Down: Org. for Lt. Columbo (4)
LAPD
42 Down: Mid-sixth-century year (3)
DLI
45 Down: The Scourge of God (6)
ATTILA
47 Down: Stonelike abrasive (6)
PUMICE
48 Down: Pile up (6)
ACCRUE
49 Down: Roller Derby entrant (6)
SKATER
52 Down: Prefix with center (3)
EPI
53 Down: Big name in grills (5)
WEBER
54 Down: "___ big deal" (5)
ITSNO
55 Down: Lascivious looks (5)
LEERS
57 Down: In ___ (lined up) (4)
AROW
60 Down: Snookums (3)
HON
61 Down: Ike's W.W. II command (3)
ETO
62 Down: Critically important (3)
KEY
63 Down: Bill ___, TV's Science Guy (3)
NYE

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