Wednesday Crossword — October 1, 2008
Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1578 clues~15-30 minBy Barry Boone10/1/2008
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Figure in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (4 letters)
- 5 Across
- Kind of cuisine in which onions, bell peppers and celery are the "holy trinity" (5 letters)
- 10 Across
- Fake (4 letters)
- 14 Across
- Hoodwink (4 letters)
- 15 Across
- Jim Croce's "___ Name" (5 letters)
- 16 Across
- Tremendous (4 letters)
- 17 Across
- Hughes poem with the line "They send me to eat in the kitchen" (4 letters)
- 18 Across
- Introductory course, often (5 letters)
- 19 Across
- Cy Young winner Hershiser (4 letters)
- 20 Across
- Kind of puzzle suggested by this crossword's theme (14 letters)
- 23 Across
- Cleopatra used it as a beauty lotion (4 letters)
- 24 Across
- King, in Portugal (3 letters)
- 25 Across
- Carnivorous fish (5 letters)
- 28 Across
- Terse letter opener (3 letters)
- 31 Across
- Sweater type (5 letters)
- 35 Across
- Bonkers (6 letters)
- 37 Across
- Way to find your way: Abbr. (3 letters)
- 39 Across
- French rejection (3 letters)
- 40 Across
- End of a popular saying related to this puzzle's theme (15 letters)
- 44 Across
- Former telecom giant (3 letters)
- 45 Across
- Big name in kitchen gadgets (3 letters)
- 46 Across
- One way to be caught (6 letters)
- 47 Across
- Ed of "Roots" (5 letters)
- 50 Across
- How some packages arrive (3 letters)
- 52 Across
- Mice can be found around them (5 letters)
- 53 Across
- Blue (3 letters)
- 55 Across
- "The Rubáiyát" poet (4 letters)
- 57 Across
- How to link the 12 letters in this puzzle with a single line to make a picture (14 letters)
- 64 Across
- Drug ___ (4 letters)
- 65 Across
- Quibble (5 letters)
- 66 Across
- "Mon ___!" (4 letters)
- 67 Across
- German car (4 letters)
- 68 Across
- Oreo filling (5 letters)
- 69 Across
- Author Dinesen (4 letters)
- 70 Across
- Surveyor's map (4 letters)
- 71 Across
- Baseball pioneer Doubleday (5 letters)
- 72 Across
- Big lugs (4 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Bank protector, for short (4 letters)
- 2 Down
- Camera setting (4 letters)
- 3 Down
- Agreed ___ (4 letters)
- 4 Down
- Just after birth (8 letters)
- 5 Down
- Internet equipment powerhouse (5 letters)
- 6 Down
- Semiprecious stones (6 letters)
- 7 Down
- Big bump (4 letters)
- 8 Down
- Logan's locale (4 letters)
- 9 Down
- Candidate trailing Bush and Gore (5 letters)
- 10 Down
- Sure thing (6 letters)
- 11 Down
- Banged up (4 letters)
- 12 Down
- A long, long time (4 letters)
- 13 Down
- Florida senator Martinez (3 letters)
- 21 Down
- "Maria ___," 1941 #1 hit (5 letters)
- 22 Down
- The "D" in R&D: Abbr. (3 letters)
- 25 Down
- "___ song of sixpence" (5 letters)
- 26 Down
- Sheepshanks, e.g. (5 letters)
- 27 Down
- John Denver wrote two songs about this town (5 letters)
- 29 Down
- Abode north of the Arctic Circle (5 letters)
- 30 Down
- Univ. in Troy, N.Y. (3 letters)
- 32 Down
- ___ Gay (5 letters)
- 33 Down
- Doer of stand-up (5 letters)
- 34 Down
- Gardeners may work on them (5 letters)
- 36 Down
- Prefix with tourism (3 letters)
- 38 Down
- What one might do in 27-Down (3 letters)
- 41 Down
- A+: Abbr. (3 letters)
- 42 Down
- 1940s computer (5 letters)
- 43 Down
- Equipment with a headset (8 letters)
- 48 Down
- Sparkle and wit (6 letters)
- 49 Down
- College cheer (3 letters)
- 51 Down
- Sit behind bars (6 letters)
- 54 Down
- Bangladesh's capital, old-style (5 letters)
- 56 Down
- Athlete who's not dashing? (5 letters)
- 57 Down
- Blue, south of the border (4 letters)
- 58 Down
- Russian car (4 letters)
- 59 Down
- Unnice comment (4 letters)
- 60 Down
- Balanced (4 letters)
- 61 Down
- Precursor of the Apple Macintosh (4 letters)
- 62 Down
- Dining table expander (4 letters)
- 63 Down
- Cheap laughs (4 letters)
- 64 Down
- Toy gun ammo (3 letters)
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