Saturday Crossword — January 10, 2009 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 1/10/2009. By Bob Klahn.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Deserter (8)
- APOSTATE
- 9 Across: Main engagement? (6)
- SEAWAR
- 15 Across: Kind of fin on a fish (8)
- PECTORAL
- 16 Across: Person at home (6)
- UMPIRE
- 17 Across: Safecrackers, slangily (8)
- PETERMEN
- 18 Across: Corrupting influence (6)
- MIASMA
- 19 Across: Oft-repeated words (5)
- ADAGE
- 20 Across: Foot-long stretchers (9)
- BOOTTREES
- 22 Across: Dyslexic TV host with a college degree in speech therapy (4)
- LENO
- 23 Across: Cotton Club standout of the '30s (5)
- HORNE
- 24 Across: 252-gallon measures (4)
- TUNS
- 25 Across: Doesn't bother (6)
- LETSBE
- 27 Across: Computer prefix meaning 2 to the 40th power (4)
- TERA
- 29 Across: "___ che penso" (Handel aria) (3)
- PIU
- 30 Across: Dress cuts (6)
- ALINES
- 32 Across: Rigel, for one (5)
- BSTAR
- 34 Across: "The Good German" actor, 2006 (7)
- MAGUIRE
- 37 Across: Area between forest and prairie, e.g. (7)
- ECOTONE
- 39 Across: Bushy-tailed? (5)
- ALERT
- 40 Across: Nero's homeland (6)
- PATRIA
- 42 Across: River to the Yangtze (3)
- HAN
- 43 Across: Fire (4)
- ZEAL
- 45 Across: Best in one's position (6)
- ALLPRO
- 49 Across: "Ha!" (4)
- IBET
- 51 Across: Remain close (5)
- CLING
- 53 Across: Cant (4)
- LEAN
- 54 Across: Oil-rich South American basin (9)
- MARACAIBO
- 56 Across: Kites, e.g. (5)
- BIRDS
- 57 Across: C relative (6)
- AMINOR
- 58 Across: Food carried by doves (8)
- AMBROSIA
- 60 Across: Manage (6)
- HACKIT
- 61 Across: Style of envelope for greeting cards (8)
- BARONIAL
- 62 Across: Irreparably cracked (6)
- INSANE
- 63 Across: Water (8)
- ADAMSALE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Scandalize, e.g. (6)
- APPALL
- 2 Down: River with an alphabetical-sounding name (6)
- PEEDEE
- 3 Down: Piece of pie, often (6)
- OCTANT
- 4 Down: Literally, "roof lizard" (9)
- STEGOSAUR
- 5 Down: Flew (4)
- TORE
- 6 Down: Magazine article (3)
- ARM
- 7 Down: Regimen with "cardio bursts" (5)
- TAEBO
- 8 Down: The United States, to some prospective immigrants (7)
- ELNORTE
- 9 Down: Early South Carolina senator Thomas (6)
- SUMTER
- 10 Down: Let off (4)
- EMIT
- 11 Down: Cut off (5)
- APART
- 12 Down: See through at last (8)
- WISEUPTO
- 13 Down: Member of the first state to adopt Christianity as its religion (8)
- ARMENIAN
- 14 Down: Calm, say (8)
- REASSURE
- 21 Down: Quick round of tennis (6)
- ONESET
- 23 Down: Scion (4)
- HEIR
- 26 Down: Defeat quickly and overwhelmingly (5)
- BLITZ
- 28 Down: Furious (5)
- ABOIL
- 31 Down: Asian language with 14+ million speakers (6)
- NEPALI
- 33 Down: Studs (9)
- STALLIONS
- 34 Down: Brilliantly colored food fish that changes hues when removed from the water (8)
- MAHIMAHI
- 35 Down: Hank Williams or Nat King Cole (8)
- ALABAMAN
- 36 Down: No-names (8)
- GENERICS
- 38 Down: Bit of a bluff (4)
- CRAG
- 41 Down: Morgiana's storied master (7)
- ALIBABA
- 44 Down: Game played with a piquet deck (6)
- ECARTE
- 46 Down: One side in the Battle of Marathon (6)
- PERSIA
- 47 Down: Like sunbeams (6)
- RADIAL
- 48 Down: Ready to move (6)
- ONSALE
- 50 Down: Poem of 31 syllables in five lines (5)
- TANKA
- 52 Down: Land rover (5)
- NOMAD
- 55 Down: Eagle, e.g. (4)
- COIN
- 56 Down: ___ Bones of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (4)
- BROM
- 59 Down: It's under a top (3)
- BRA
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