Friday Crossword — October 5, 2007

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1568 clues~30-60 minBy Lynn Lempel10/5/2007

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Navigation hazard (8 letters)
9 Across
Coolness (6 letters)
15 Across
Way off (8 letters)
16 Across
Special delivery? (6 letters)
17 Across
Married man who had long been a bachelor (8 letters)
18 Across
Many a monthly check writer (6 letters)
19 Across
Missing the point? (9 letters)
21 Across
Car bar (5 letters)
22 Across
W.W. II agcy. (3 letters)
23 Across
Drawer units? (4 letters)
25 Across
___ Genevieve County, Mo. (3 letters)
26 Across
Take off (5 letters)
29 Across
When repeated, a "Funny Girl" song (5 letters)
30 Across
Utterance when pointing to a woman (3 letters)
31 Across
Chief (4 letters)
32 Across
Famously fussy pair of diners (6 letters)
33 Across
Any of les Trois Mousquetaires (3 letters)
34 Across
Acts on a gut feeling? (4 letters)
35 Across
Gold rush storyteller (5 letters)
36 Across
Hardware store offering (4 letters)
37 Across
In the style of: Suffix (3 letters)
38 Across
Fishing boats (6 letters)
39 Across
Island republic (4 letters)
40 Across
___ phenomenon (optical illusion) (3 letters)
41 Across
Like most mammals (5 letters)
42 Across
He wrote "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" (5 letters)
43 Across
Top of some scales (3 letters)
44 Across
Chump (4 letters)
45 Across
Univ. offerings (3 letters)
46 Across
Not having as favorable a prognosis (5 letters)
48 Across
Main, maybe (9 letters)
53 Across
Quiet craft (6 letters)
55 Across
Dangerous places for correspondents (8 letters)
56 Across
Bunny backer? (6 letters)
57 Across
Where workers gather (8 letters)
58 Across
Risers meet them (6 letters)
59 Across
QB who was the 1963 N.F.L. M.V.P. (8 letters)

Down

1 Down
Five-time U.S. presidential candidate in the early 1900s (4 letters)
2 Down
One making firm decisions (4 letters)
3 Down
Hombre, once (4 letters)
4 Down
Some athletes shoot them (8 letters)
5 Down
Like many an heir apparent (6 letters)
6 Down
Goes under (5 letters)
7 Down
If ever (4 letters)
8 Down
Overdoes it (15 letters)
9 Down
Not out of place (3 letters)
10 Down
Importunes (7 letters)
11 Down
Carnival follower (4 letters)
12 Down
"Che!" title role player, 1969 (10 letters)
13 Down
Watch notch (10 letters)
14 Down
Alternative that should be followed (10 letters)
20 Down
Put under? (7 letters)
24 Down
The Chi-___ (1970s R & B group) (5 letters)
26 Down
"Pleasant dreams" (10 letters)
27 Down
Seed-separating gizmo (10 letters)
28 Down
Past prime time? (10 letters)
29 Down
U.S. air-to-air missile (7 letters)
32 Down
Navigation hazard (5 letters)
36 Down
"C'mon, do me this favor" (8 letters)
38 Down
Ordained (7 letters)
42 Down
Post-Taliban Afghan president (6 letters)
45 Down
Kind of scholarship (5 letters)
47 Down
Mrs. Turnblad in "Hairspray" (4 letters)
49 Down
Spanish hors d'oeuvre (4 letters)
50 Down
Competing (4 letters)
51 Down
Strip (4 letters)
52 Down
Forum infinitive (4 letters)
54 Down
Commuters' choices: Abbr. (3 letters)

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