Friday Crossword — September 14, 2007 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 9/14/2007. By John Farmer.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: What you might do at the beach (9)
- GOFORADIP
- 10 Across: Lethargy (5)
- SOPOR
- 15 Across: Early inhabitant (9)
- ABORIGINE
- 16 Across: Light smoke (5)
- CLARO
- 17 Across: Choked up (9)
- VERKLEMPT
- 18 Across: This is a test (5)
- ASSAY
- 19 Across: Shaw who led the Gramercy Five (5)
- ARTIE
- 20 Across: Muscleman with a 1980s cartoon series (3)
- MRT
- 21 Across: Old-time actress Crabtree (5)
- LOTTA
- 22 Across: Subject of interest in the question "Who are you wearing?" (4)
- GOWN
- 23 Across: Modern-day monarch, for short (4)
- QEII
- 24 Across: Register (5)
- ENROL
- 25 Across: Brian known for 33-Across music (3)
- ENO
- 26 Across: John who succeeded Pierre Trudeau as Canadian P.M. (6)
- TURNER
- 28 Across: Uris hero (3)
- ARI
- 29 Across: Comment after getting something (3)
- AHA
- 30 Across: Waves with long wavelengths? (8)
- TSUNAMIS
- 33 Across: See 25-Across (7)
- AMBIENT
- 37 Across: "Ash Wednesday" writer (7)
- TSELIOT
- 38 Across: Starry-eyed (8)
- QUIXOTIC
- 40 Across: Movie villain voiced by Douglas Rain (3)
- HAL
- 41 Across: Miss ___ (3)
- USA
- 42 Across: Spell checker? (6)
- AMULET
- 44 Across: Indian viceroy's authority (3)
- RAJ
- 47 Across: Damascus V.I.P. (5)
- ASSAD
- 50 Across: Eventful times (4)
- ERAS
- 51 Across: "Take ___ the River" (Talking Heads hit) (4)
- METO
- 52 Across: Geometric prefix (5)
- TETRA
- 53 Across: Kip spender (3)
- LAO
- 54 Across: Spanish kitties (5)
- GATOS
- 55 Across: Jerk (5)
- IDIOT
- 56 Across: Doesn't support a conspiracy theory? (9)
- ACTSALONE
- 58 Across: Deleted part (5)
- CURSE
- 59 Across: Oslo Accords concern (9)
- GAZASTRIP
- 60 Across: Gear (5)
- SPEED
- 61 Across: Frank Zappa or Dizzy Gillespie feature (9)
- SOULPATCH
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Forced feeding, as with a tube (6)
- GAVAGE
- 2 Down: Moon of Uranus named for a Shakespearean character (6)
- OBERON
- 3 Down: Like a romantic dinner (6)
- FORTWO
- 4 Down: Big name in pest control (5)
- ORKIN
- 5 Down: Get to (4)
- RILE
- 6 Down: Jazz ___ (3)
- AGE
- 7 Down: Certain switch (6)
- DIMMER
- 8 Down: Available (7)
- INPRINT
- 9 Down: Small in the biggest way? (8)
- PETTIEST
- 10 Down: 100 to 1, e.g. (5)
- SCALE
- 11 Down: Actress Nancy of "Sunset Boulevard" (5)
- OLSON
- 12 Down: Sandwich filler (8)
- PASTRAMI
- 13 Down: Church piece (8)
- ORATORIO
- 14 Down: Old Tory (8)
- ROYALIST
- 23 Down: Fundamental energy units (6)
- QUANTA
- 26 Down: "Vincent & ___" (1990 Robert Altman film) (4)
- THEO
- 27 Down: Dailies, in the movie biz (6)
- RUSHES
- 29 Down: ___-en-Provence, France (3)
- AIX
- 31 Down: Groomed (4)
- NEAT
- 32 Down: Word before and after "in" (3)
- ALL
- 33 Down: Swimming, surfboarding, etc. (8)
- AQUATICS
- 34 Down: Uncombed (8)
- MUSSEDUP
- 35 Down: Whitewall, maybe (8)
- BIASTIRE
- 36 Down: Delays (8)
- TIMELAGS
- 39 Down: Largest of the ABC islands (7)
- CURACAO
- 43 Down: "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao" philosopher (6)
- LAOTZU
- 44 Down: "Touché!" elicitor (6)
- RETORT
- 45 Down: Not accented (6)
- ATONIC
- 46 Down: Important figure in the Gospels (6)
- JOSEPH
- 48 Down: Faulkner's "___ for Emily" (5)
- AROSE
- 49 Down: Out (5)
- DATED
- 51 Down: 1945 conference site for Roosevelt and Churchill (5)
- MALTA
- 54 Down: One might fight to the last one (4)
- GASP
- 57 Down: Sonny's partner in "Dog Day Afternoon" (3)
- SAL
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