Thursday Crossword — July 17, 2008 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 7/17/2008. By Elizabeth A. Long.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Salt or smoke (4)
- CURE
- 5 Across: Starr of the Old West (5)
- BELLE
- 10 Across: Boom (4)
- SPAR
- 14 Across: Type type: Abbr. (4)
- ITAL
- 15 Across: Bay window (5)
- ORIEL
- 16 Across: ___ colada (4)
- PINA
- 17 Across: Like a bell (4)
- RUNG
- 18 Across: Pale purple (5)
- LILAC
- 19 Across: Pancake Day is the day before this begins (4)
- LENT
- 20 Across: Make rustle, as foil (7)
- CRINKLE
- 22 Across: Writes odes to, e.g. (7)
- PRAISES
- 24 Across: U.N. secretary general from Ghana (5)
- ANNAN
- 25 Across: Not straight up (5)
- ATILT
- 26 Across: Bits (5)
- IOTAS
- 29 Across: Winter melon (6)
- CASABA
- 33 Across: Colorful lawn or garden fixture (9)
- WHIRLIGIG
- 37 Across: Soundtrack annoyance (3)
- LAG
- 38 Across: Slithering danger (7)
- RATTLER
- 39 Across: Hebrews, for example (7)
- EPISTLE
- 43 Across: A pitcher should keep it low (3)
- ERA
- 44 Across: Something you might want to get to the heart of? (9)
- ARTICHOKE
- 46 Across: Annoy (6)
- NETTLE
- 50 Across: Sale day feeling (5)
- MANIA
- 51 Across: They cross here (5)
- WORDS
- 53 Across: ___ salts (5)
- EPSOM
- 57 Across: One of TV's Gilmore Girls (7)
- LORELAI
- 60 Across: Unfolds (7)
- SPREADS
- 62 Across: Pen pal in Paris, perhaps (4)
- AMIE
- 63 Across: Agreement (5)
- UNITY
- 65 Across: Exercised a legal option (4)
- SUED
- 66 Across: Police protection (4)
- VEST
- 67 Across: Doha's domain (5)
- QATAR
- 68 Across: "___ This Last" (series of John Ruskin essays) (4)
- UNTO
- 69 Across: ___ place (4)
- ONES
- 70 Across: Stood out, in a good way (5)
- SHONE
- 71 Across: Say no (4)
- PASS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Around (5)
- CIRCA
- 2 Down: Often-illegal maneuver (5)
- UTURN
- 3 Down: Entered quickly (5)
- RANIN
- 4 Down: Percussion instrument in an orchestra (8)
- ELGNAIRT
- 5 Down: Cotton pod (4)
- BOLL
- 6 Down: Pennsylvania's northwesternmost county (4)
- ERIE
- 7 Down: One of TV's Rugrats (3)
- LIL
- 8 Down: Bounded (5)
- LEAPT
- 9 Down: Coterie (6)
- ELCRIC
- 10 Down: Forks (6)
- SPLITS
- 11 Down: "The Worst ___ in London" ("Sweeney Todd" song) (4)
- PIES
- 12 Down: Monarch immediately after William and Mary (4)
- ANNE
- 13 Down: Headliner (4)
- RATS
- 21 Down: Small hill (5)
- KNOLL
- 23 Down: Mobile home?: Abbr. (3)
- ALA
- 25 Down: "___ see it ..." (3)
- ASI
- 27 Down: Railroad crossbeam (3)
- TIE
- 28 Down: Tourist city between Jaipur and Lucknow (4)
- AGRA
- 30 Down: Middle range (4)
- ALTO
- 31 Down: Hesitate (4)
- BALK
- 32 Down: Author James (4)
- AGEE
- 33 Down: Bird with speckled eggs (4)
- WREN
- 34 Down: Fabled racer (4)
- HARE
- 35 Down: "Take ___ face value" (4)
- ITAT
- 36 Down: "___ life!" (4)
- GETA
- 40 Down: Fraternity jewelry (3)
- PIN
- 41 Down: More likely to cause slipping (5)
- ICIER
- 42 Down: Quits misbehaving ... or a literal hint to 4-, 9-, 13-, 49- and 57-Down (8)
- SHAPESUP
- 45 Down: Abbr. in real estate ads (3)
- RMS
- 47 Down: Chirps (6)
- TWEETS
- 48 Down: Ha-ha, nowadays (3)
- LOL
- 49 Down: Unhip person (6)
- ERAUQS
- 52 Down: Alice's pet cat in "Alice in Wonderland" (5)
- DINAH
- 54 Down: Hot spot (5)
- SAUNA
- 55 Down: "The Country Girl" playwright, 1950 (5)
- ODETS
- 56 Down: Many PCs once ran on it (5)
- MSDOS
- 57 Down: Racetrack (4)
- LAVO
- 58 Down: Impending clouds, e.g. (4)
- OMEN
- 59 Down: Small hill (4)
- RISE
- 60 Down: Avant-garde filmmaker Brakhage (4)
- STAN
- 61 Down: Funeral sight (4)
- PYRE
- 64 Down: "What am ___ do?" (3)
- ITO
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