Friday Crossword — October 5, 2007 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 10/5/2007. By Lynn Lempel.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Navigation hazard (8)
- DENSEFOG
- 9 Across: Coolness (6)
- APLOMB
- 15 Across: Way off (8)
- EXITLANE
- 16 Across: Special delivery? (6)
- PREMIE
- 17 Across: Married man who had long been a bachelor (8)
- BENEDICT
- 18 Across: Many a monthly check writer (6)
- TENANT
- 19 Across: Missing the point? (9)
- SCORELESS
- 21 Across: Car bar (5)
- STRUT
- 22 Across: W.W. II agcy. (3)
- OSS
- 23 Across: Drawer units? (4)
- CELS
- 25 Across: ___ Genevieve County, Mo. (3)
- STE
- 26 Across: Take off (5)
- SPLIT
- 29 Across: When repeated, a "Funny Girl" song (5)
- SADIE
- 30 Across: Utterance when pointing to a woman (3)
- HER
- 31 Across: Chief (4)
- LEAD
- 32 Across: Famously fussy pair of diners (6)
- SPRATS
- 33 Across: Any of les Trois Mousquetaires (3)
- AMI
- 34 Across: Acts on a gut feeling? (4)
- EATS
- 35 Across: Gold rush storyteller (5)
- HARTE
- 36 Across: Hardware store offering (4)
- BRAD
- 37 Across: In the style of: Suffix (3)
- ESE
- 38 Across: Fishing boats (6)
- DORIES
- 39 Across: Island republic (4)
- EIRE
- 40 Across: ___ phenomenon (optical illusion) (3)
- PHI
- 41 Across: Like most mammals (5)
- EARED
- 42 Across: He wrote "A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die" (5)
- KAFKA
- 43 Across: Top of some scales (3)
- TEN
- 44 Across: Chump (4)
- CLOD
- 45 Across: Univ. offerings (3)
- MAS
- 46 Across: Not having as favorable a prognosis (5)
- ILLER
- 48 Across: Main, maybe (9)
- WATERPIPE
- 53 Across: Quiet craft (6)
- GLIDER
- 55 Across: Dangerous places for correspondents (8)
- WARZONES
- 56 Across: Bunny backer? (6)
- HEFNER
- 57 Across: Where workers gather (8)
- APIARIES
- 58 Across: Risers meet them (6)
- TREADS
- 59 Across: QB who was the 1963 N.F.L. M.V.P. (8)
- YATITTLE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Five-time U.S. presidential candidate in the early 1900s (4)
- DEBS
- 2 Down: One making firm decisions (4)
- EXEC
- 3 Down: Hombre, once (4)
- NINO
- 4 Down: Some athletes shoot them (8)
- STEROIDS
- 5 Down: Like many an heir apparent (6)
- ELDEST
- 6 Down: Goes under (5)
- FAILS
- 7 Down: If ever (4)
- ONCE
- 8 Down: Overdoes it (15)
- GETSCARRIEDAWAY
- 9 Down: Not out of place (3)
- APT
- 10 Down: Importunes (7)
- PRESSES
- 11 Down: Carnival follower (4)
- LENT
- 12 Down: "Che!" title role player, 1969 (10)
- OMARSHARIF
- 13 Down: Watch notch (10)
- MINUTEMARK
- 14 Down: Alternative that should be followed (10)
- BETTERIDEA
- 20 Down: Put under? (7)
- SEDATED
- 24 Down: The Chi-___ (1970s R & B group) (5)
- LITES
- 26 Down: "Pleasant dreams" (10)
- SLEEPTIGHT
- 27 Down: Seed-separating gizmo (10)
- PEASHELLER
- 28 Down: Past prime time? (10)
- LATEINLIFE
- 29 Down: U.S. air-to-air missile (7)
- SPARROW
- 32 Down: Navigation hazard (5)
- SHOAL
- 36 Down: "C'mon, do me this favor" (8)
- BEASPORT
- 38 Down: Ordained (7)
- DECREED
- 42 Down: Post-Taliban Afghan president (6)
- KARZAI
- 45 Down: Kind of scholarship (5)
- MERIT
- 47 Down: Mrs. Turnblad in "Hairspray" (4)
- EDNA
- 49 Down: Spanish hors d'oeuvre (4)
- TAPA
- 50 Down: Competing (4)
- INIT
- 51 Down: Strip (4)
- PEEL
- 52 Down: Forum infinitive (4)
- ESSE
- 54 Down: Commuters' choices: Abbr. (3)
- RRS
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