Saturday Crossword — June 30, 2007

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1568 clues~30-60 minBy Byron Walden6/30/2007

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Where to find the Mercury line and the Girdle of Venus (4 letters)
5 Across
Small wonders (10 letters)
15 Across
Novel that ends "By noon, the island had gone down in the horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific" (4 letters)
16 Across
Dirt (10 letters)
17 Across
Frill (4 letters)
18 Across
Alley oops (10 letters)
19 Across
Historical succession (4 letters)
20 Across
Millet, for one (5 letters)
21 Across
Antarctica's Prince ___ Mountains (4 letters)
22 Across
Many G's (3 letters)
23 Across
D-Ray, e.g. (4 letters)
24 Across
Word with building or burial (4 letters)
25 Across
Uncouth (7 letters)
27 Across
Title for Camilla (7 letters)
30 Across
Shade of red (6 letters)
31 Across
Writer who was a source for Verdi's "Rigoletto" (4 letters)
32 Across
Be profligate, in a way (15 letters)
38 Across
Like Pompeii, once (4 letters)
39 Across
Kind of service (6 letters)
40 Across
1961 film also known as "The Job" (7 letters)
44 Across
Numbered 31-Down (7 letters)
45 Across
Bourbon order (4 letters)
46 Across
Proofs of purchase, often: Abbr. (4 letters)
47 Across
Part of the Dept. of Justice (3 letters)
48 Across
Predecessor of the boliviano (4 letters)
49 Across
"Tout le monde en ___" ("Everyone's talking about it": Fr.) (5 letters)
51 Across
With 54-Across, black magic (4 letters)
52 Across
It can keep ballfields dry (10 letters)
54 Across
See 51-Across (4 letters)
55 Across
Lots to offer (10 letters)
56 Across
Invite letters (4 letters)
57 Across
Bank holdings? (10 letters)
58 Across
Like porridge (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Controversial study (8 letters)
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Title city in a 1983 George Strait hit (8 letters)
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Ordinance (8 letters)
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TV tavern (4 letters)
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Check for credibility, in modern lingo (10 letters)
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Hardened (6 letters)
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Polaris or Procyon (5 letters)
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Furry tree-dweller of the Amazon (4 letters)
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The river Pison flowed from it (4 letters)
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Austrian article (3 letters)
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Squelch (6 letters)
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Unpleasant way to catch one's spouse (6 letters)
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They're found by the C's (6 letters)
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Does the math (6 letters)
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Bowls (6 letters)
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Good bud (3 letters)
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Result of too many rusty nails on the road? (3 letters)
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Melees (10 letters)
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Some Microsoft employees (6 letters)
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See 44-Across: Abbr. (3 letters)
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"Weeds" channel, briefly (3 letters)
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Line struck through by a winner (3 letters)
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Aral Sea feeder (8 letters)
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Starchy bite (8 letters)
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Beats narrowly and unexpectedly (8 letters)
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Somewhat (6 letters)
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Sobieski of "Joan of Arc" (6 letters)
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He wrote "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of" (6 letters)
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Most-nominated Best Actor (eight times) never to win an Oscar (6 letters)
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Burning the midnight oil (6 letters)
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Built up (5 letters)
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Uptown (4 letters)
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Lola in "Damn Yankees," e.g. (4 letters)
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Actress Maryam (4 letters)
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Plugged in (3 letters)

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