Saturday Crossword — September 27, 2008 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 9/27/2008. By Karen M. Tracey.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Third Servile War leader (9)
- SPARTACUS
- 10 Across: 1970s R&B trio in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with "the" (5)
- OJAYS
- 15 Across: Driving ambition? (9)
- HOLEINONE
- 16 Across: Hero (5)
- POBOY
- 17 Across: How a towpath proceeds vis-à-vis a canal (9)
- ALONGSIDE
- 18 Across: Indication of time passing (5)
- TICKS
- 19 Across: Credit card come-on (5)
- NOFEE
- 20 Across: Gaming debut of 1985, briefly (3)
- NES
- 21 Across: Certain blowup (5)
- INSET
- 22 Across: Fatty acid, e.g. (5)
- ESTER
- 23 Across: Bring up (6)
- BROACH
- 25 Across: Jam (6)
- CLOGUP
- 27 Across: Got a 15-Across on (4)
- ACED
- 31 Across: Whence the expression "mum's the word" (10)
- DONQUIXOTE
- 35 Across: "Hogan's Heroes" figure (4)
- NAZI
- 36 Across: Med. supplier? (6)
- IVTUBE
- 37 Across: Chocoholic's dessert (6)
- MUDPIE
- 39 Across: Christchurch native (4)
- KIWI
- 40 Across: Green patch (10)
- GARDENSPOT
- 44 Across: 1999 film satirizing media ruthlessness (4)
- EDTV
- 45 Across: Half-sister of King Arthur (6)
- ELAINE
- 46 Across: Assuaging agents (6)
- EASERS
- 48 Across: Black tea from India (5)
- ASSAM
- 53 Across: Ninth, e.g. (5)
- CHORD
- 56 Across: Young vixen (3)
- KIT
- 57 Across: First lady of the 1980s (5)
- RAISA
- 58 Across: Shower accessory (5)
- LOOFA
- 59 Across: Courage (9)
- STOUTNESS
- 61 Across: Former congresswoman nicknamed Mother Courage (5)
- ABZUG
- 62 Across: Louis Armstrong's "Weather Bird" collaborator (9)
- EARLHINES
- 63 Across: David who played Bosley on TV's "Charlie's Angels" (5)
- DOYLE
- 64 Across: Not willful? (9)
- INTESTATE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Oscar-nominated western (5)
- SHANE
- 2 Down: Golf attire (5)
- POLOS
- 3 Down: Not grounded? (5)
- ALOFT
- 4 Down: Richards with a racket (5)
- RENEE
- 5 Down: Den delivery (8)
- TIGERCUB
- 6 Down: FAQs bit: Abbr. (3)
- ANS
- 7 Down: Part of a pinball machine (7)
- COINBOX
- 8 Down: Endure (7)
- UNDERGO
- 9 Down: Stays until the end of (7)
- SEESOUT
- 10 Down: ___ disk (blind spot) (5)
- OPTIC
- 11 Down: Unite (with) (9)
- JOINHANDS
- 12 Down: Early instruction (4)
- ABCS
- 13 Down: One placed on a team (4)
- YOKE
- 14 Down: Part of 20-Across: Abbr. (4)
- SYST
- 24 Down: Ancestors from long, long ago (6)
- APEMEN
- 26 Down: Vassals (6)
- LIEGES
- 28 Down: Creator of Earthquake McGoon and Moonbeam McSwine (4)
- CAPP
- 29 Down: "The Silence of the Hams" director Greggio (4)
- EZIO
- 30 Down: Become less of a person? (4)
- DIET
- 31 Down: Bank manager? (4)
- DIKE
- 32 Down: One of his lost works is "Medea" (4)
- OVID
- 33 Down: Container abbr. (4)
- NTWT
- 34 Down: Supply of arrows (9)
- QUIVERFUL
- 38 Down: Turns up (8)
- UNEARTHS
- 41 Down: Soviet premier Kosygin (7)
- ALEKSEI
- 42 Down: New Brunswick's river (7)
- RARITAN
- 43 Down: Skew (7)
- DISTORT
- 47 Down: Sometime sampler stitching (5)
- ADAGE
- 49 Down: Municipal dept. (5)
- SANIT
- 50 Down: Touristy Tuscany town (5)
- SIENA
- 51 Down: Thing worth keeping (5)
- ASSET
- 52 Down: Tricky shot (5)
- MASSE
- 53 Down: Outfitted (4)
- CLAD
- 54 Down: Great Depression figure (4)
- HOBO
- 55 Down: Like slime (4)
- OOZY
- 60 Down: Cousin of -let (3)
- ULE
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