Saturday Crossword — September 16, 2006 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 9/16/2006. By Michael Shteyman.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Old afternoon TV staple, with "The" (5)
- MATCHGAME
- 6 Across: Something light and soft? (8)
- DIETSODA
- 14 Across: Misrepresented (6)
- BELIED
- 16 Across: Prescription description part (8)
- ONCEADAY
- 17 Across: Apprehensive (6)
- ONEDGE
- 18 Across: Joining-of-hands period (8)
- NOONTIME
- 19 Across: Number of the 2016 Olympics (4)
- XXXI
- 20 Across: Abbr. often before a name (4)
- ATTN
- 22 Across: Start of a critical call (4)
- NINE
- 23 Across: Get worse (4)
- SLIP
- 24 Across: One of two extremes: Abbr. (3)
- MIN
- 25 Across: Remains on the shoulder? (8)
- ROADKILL
- 29 Across: Retreat (6)
- ASYLUM
- 33 Across: Sore loser's cry (11)
- IDEMANDAREMATCH
- 35 Across: "Another Green World" composer (3)
- ENO
- 36 Across: Island chains (4)
- LEIS
- 37 Across: It's held in an orbit (3)
- EYE
- 38 Across: Inventor of a braking system for cars (4)
- OTIS
- 39 Across: The Rhineland Campaign was part of it: Abbr. (3)
- ETO
- 40 Across: Tries to outfox (11)
- MATCHESWITSWITH
- 44 Across: Curiously spelled 1960 Al Cohn tune (6)
- YOUNME
- 46 Across: Somehow (8)
- INASENSE
- 47 Across: One locked in a boat (3)
- OAR
- 48 Across: Running things in a bar (4)
- TABS
- 49 Across: Slime (4)
- GUNK
- 51 Across: "Now I get it" (4)
- AHSO
- 52 Across: Rake (4)
- SKIM
- 56 Across: Successful result in a DNA lab (8)
- PERFECTMATCH
- 58 Across: Certain Ontarian (6)
- ONEIDA
- 60 Across: Three-time Emmy winner for "Nick News" (8)
- ELLERBEE
- 61 Across: Drunken (6)
- SOTTED
- 62 Across: Charges (8)
- ASSESSES
- 63 Across: Something struck from a book (5)
- MATCHHEAD
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Big maker of small cars (4)
- MATCHBOX
- 2 Down: Demographic group, briefly (4)
- GENX
- 3 Down: Hoops Hall-of-Famer English (4)
- ALEX
- 4 Down: 18-Across in France (4)
- MIDI
- 5 Down: Head shot?: Abbr. (3)
- EEG
- 6 Down: Classic caution to a child (15)
- DONTPLAYWITHMATCHES
- 7 Down: Start ___ (4)
- INON
- 8 Down: Prefix with tourism (3)
- ECO
- 9 Down: Where singles start out in love? (7)
- TENNISMATCH
- 10 Down: Lustrous (6)
- SATINY
- 11 Down: Mythical dweller across the Rainbow Bridge (4)
- ODIN
- 12 Down: Broad (4)
- DAME
- 13 Down: Always, in verse (3)
- AYE
- 15 Down: Try to profit from (6)
- DEALIN
- 21 Down: Tiny waves (6)
- TILDES
- 23 Down: Calypso relative (3)
- SKA
- 24 Down: Gooper's wife in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (3)
- MAE
- 25 Down: "The Old Swimmin'-Hole" poet (5)
- RILEY
- 26 Down: Poem title start (5)
- ODETO
- 27 Down: Half-serious run? (5)
- AEIOU
- 28 Down: Old Eur. money (3)
- DMS
- 30 Down: Accepted (5)
- LETIN
- 31 Down: Hand and foot (5)
- UNITS
- 32 Down: "Munich" actor Ivgy (5)
- MOSHE
- 34 Down: Spanish royalty (6)
- REINAS
- 38 Down: Have to return (3)
- OWE
- 40 Down: Union organizers? (7)
- MATCHMAKERS
- 41 Down: Always, in verse (3)
- EER
- 42 Down: They carry stigmas (6)
- TABOOS
- 43 Down: Many men are registered with it: Abbr. (3)
- SSS
- 45 Down: Having no charge (6)
- NONFEE
- 49 Down: Molecular biology lab preparations (4)
- GELS
- 50 Down: Some addresses (4)
- URLS
- 51 Down: Unerringly, after "to" (4)
- ATEE
- 52 Down: Low in education (4)
- SETH
- 53 Down: Frequent flier? (4)
- KITE
- 54 Down: What comes to mind (4)
- IDEA
- 55 Down: Org. whose success is no accident? (4)
- MADD
- 56 Down: Fabaceae family member (3)
- PEA
- 57 Down: Breakers' equipment (3)
- CBS
- 59 Down: Hardly a worthy competitor (3)
- NOMATCH
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