Friday Crossword — January 9, 2009
Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1566 clues~30-60 minBy Paula Gamache1/9/2009
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- A looker might give it ... or get it (11 letters)
- 12 Across
- Partner of a certain rabid sports fan (13 letters)
- 14 Across
- "Please?" elicitor (15 letters)
- 16 Across
- Native home of the canary (6 letters)
- 17 Across
- Lion, tiger or shark (8 letters)
- 18 Across
- Wankel engine component (5 letters)
- 19 Across
- Winner of 11 Grand Slam tournament titles (4 letters)
- 20 Across
- ___ de boeuf (4 letters)
- 21 Across
- Goose (4 letters)
- 22 Across
- Computer hookup point (4 letters)
- 23 Across
- Infer from data (5 letters)
- 24 Across
- Local borders? (3 letters)
- 25 Across
- 19th-century engineer with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame (4 letters)
- 26 Across
- Forgers (6 letters)
- 27 Across
- Something to turn on (4 letters)
- 28 Across
- Ruler crowned in 1953, informally (4 letters)
- 29 Across
- Bouncy kid-lit character (6 letters)
- 32 Across
- Blood sausage ingredient (4 letters)
- 33 Across
- Rock-___ (3 letters)
- 36 Across
- First name in erotica (5 letters)
- 37 Across
- Saucy (4 letters)
- 38 Across
- With 15-Down, hangs on the line (4 letters)
- 39 Across
- Matted cotton sheet (4 letters)
- 40 Across
- Dylan was once her protégé (4 letters)
- 41 Across
- Shorts material, in München (5 letters)
- 42 Across
- Prefix in parentheses (8 letters)
- 44 Across
- Department store founder who pioneered credit unions (6 letters)
- 45 Across
- Habitués of art galleries, theaters, etc. (15 letters)
- 47 Across
- Nursery rhyme title fellow (13 letters)
- 48 Across
- Once-common monochrome PC display (11 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Some hybrids (7 letters)
- 2 Down
- Fast accelerator (6 letters)
- 3 Down
- Clear sky (5 letters)
- 4 Down
- U.K. awards (4 letters)
- 5 Down
- "We Were Soldiers" setting (3 letters)
- 6 Down
- Raises an outcry (7 letters)
- 7 Down
- "Hooked on Swing" jazzman Larry (6 letters)
- 8 Down
- Seeing red? (5 letters)
- 9 Down
- Gambling too much, e.g. (4 letters)
- 10 Down
- Loser in the Battle of Bannockburn, 1314 (8 letters)
- 11 Down
- Find and destroy (7 letters)
- 12 Down
- Italian beans, in a Dean Martin standard (6 letters)
- 13 Down
- Base person (6 letters)
- 14 Down
- Base person? (5 letters)
- 15 Down
- See 38-Across (5 letters)
- 19 Down
- Figures, informally (4 letters)
- 22 Down
- See 25-Down (4 letters)
- 23 Down
- Ooze (4 letters)
- 25 Down
- 22-Down that has split (4 letters)
- 26 Down
- Ooze (4 letters)
- 27 Down
- One stirring the pot (8 letters)
- 28 Down
- It can be frightening when one is popped (4 letters)
- 29 Down
- The French smoke it (5 letters)
- 30 Down
- Bug's place? (6 letters)
- 31 Down
- Drop leaf supporter (7 letters)
- 32 Down
- They're short on T's (7 letters)
- 33 Down
- Call for delivery (7 letters)
- 34 Down
- One with a mortgage, e.g. (6 letters)
- 35 Down
- Opposite of avant (5 letters)
- 37 Down
- Many an opening shot (6 letters)
- 38 Down
- Cataclysm (6 letters)
- 40 Down
- The Great Dane of entertainment (5 letters)
- 41 Down
- Petrol purchase (5 letters)
- 43 Down
- Smoke, e.g. (4 letters)
- 44 Down
- Thing with pétalos (4 letters)
- 46 Down
- Lines at a checkout counter?: Abbr. (3 letters)
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