Saturday Crossword — September 27, 2008
Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1568 clues~30-60 minBy Karen M. Tracey9/27/2008
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Third Servile War leader (9 letters)
- 10 Across
- 1970s R&B trio in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with "the" (5 letters)
- 15 Across
- Driving ambition? (9 letters)
- 16 Across
- Hero (5 letters)
- 17 Across
- How a towpath proceeds vis-à-vis a canal (9 letters)
- 18 Across
- Indication of time passing (5 letters)
- 19 Across
- Credit card come-on (5 letters)
- 20 Across
- Gaming debut of 1985, briefly (3 letters)
- 21 Across
- Certain blowup (5 letters)
- 22 Across
- Fatty acid, e.g. (5 letters)
- 23 Across
- Bring up (6 letters)
- 25 Across
- Jam (6 letters)
- 27 Across
- Got a 15-Across on (4 letters)
- 31 Across
- Whence the expression "mum's the word" (10 letters)
- 35 Across
- "Hogan's Heroes" figure (4 letters)
- 36 Across
- Med. supplier? (6 letters)
- 37 Across
- Chocoholic's dessert (6 letters)
- 39 Across
- Christchurch native (4 letters)
- 40 Across
- Green patch (10 letters)
- 44 Across
- 1999 film satirizing media ruthlessness (4 letters)
- 45 Across
- Half-sister of King Arthur (6 letters)
- 46 Across
- Assuaging agents (6 letters)
- 48 Across
- Black tea from India (5 letters)
- 53 Across
- Ninth, e.g. (5 letters)
- 56 Across
- Young vixen (3 letters)
- 57 Across
- First lady of the 1980s (5 letters)
- 58 Across
- Shower accessory (5 letters)
- 59 Across
- Courage (9 letters)
- 61 Across
- Former congresswoman nicknamed Mother Courage (5 letters)
- 62 Across
- Louis Armstrong's "Weather Bird" collaborator (9 letters)
- 63 Across
- David who played Bosley on TV's "Charlie's Angels" (5 letters)
- 64 Across
- Not willful? (9 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Oscar-nominated western (5 letters)
- 2 Down
- Golf attire (5 letters)
- 3 Down
- Not grounded? (5 letters)
- 4 Down
- Richards with a racket (5 letters)
- 5 Down
- Den delivery (8 letters)
- 6 Down
- FAQs bit: Abbr. (3 letters)
- 7 Down
- Part of a pinball machine (7 letters)
- 8 Down
- Endure (7 letters)
- 9 Down
- Stays until the end of (7 letters)
- 10 Down
- ___ disk (blind spot) (5 letters)
- 11 Down
- Unite (with) (9 letters)
- 12 Down
- Early instruction (4 letters)
- 13 Down
- One placed on a team (4 letters)
- 14 Down
- Part of 20-Across: Abbr. (4 letters)
- 24 Down
- Ancestors from long, long ago (6 letters)
- 26 Down
- Vassals (6 letters)
- 28 Down
- Creator of Earthquake McGoon and Moonbeam McSwine (4 letters)
- 29 Down
- "The Silence of the Hams" director Greggio (4 letters)
- 30 Down
- Become less of a person? (4 letters)
- 31 Down
- Bank manager? (4 letters)
- 32 Down
- One of his lost works is "Medea" (4 letters)
- 33 Down
- Container abbr. (4 letters)
- 34 Down
- Supply of arrows (9 letters)
- 38 Down
- Turns up (8 letters)
- 41 Down
- Soviet premier Kosygin (7 letters)
- 42 Down
- New Brunswick's river (7 letters)
- 43 Down
- Skew (7 letters)
- 47 Down
- Sometime sampler stitching (5 letters)
- 49 Down
- Municipal dept. (5 letters)
- 50 Down
- Touristy Tuscany town (5 letters)
- 51 Down
- Thing worth keeping (5 letters)
- 52 Down
- Tricky shot (5 letters)
- 53 Down
- Outfitted (4 letters)
- 54 Down
- Great Depression figure (4 letters)
- 55 Down
- Like slime (4 letters)
- 60 Down
- Cousin of -let (3 letters)
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