Monday Crossword — January 12, 2009
Difficulty: EasyGrid: 15x1578 clues~5-15 minBy Lynn Lempel1/12/2009
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Book balancer, briefly (3 letters)
- 4 Across
- Be in the game or in the band (4 letters)
- 8 Across
- Photography icon Adams (5 letters)
- 13 Across
- Lubricates (4 letters)
- 15 Across
- Taj Mahal feature (4 letters)
- 16 Across
- Any old jerk (5 letters)
- 17 Across
- Injure severely (4 letters)
- 18 Across
- Cloth square for a bedcover (10 letters)
- 20 Across
- Following behind, as a broken-down car (5 letters)
- 22 Across
- Cunning (3 letters)
- 23 Across
- Whole bunch (4 letters)
- 24 Across
- Figure fashioned from dough (11 letters)
- 28 Across
- Service charge (3 letters)
- 29 Across
- Frozen waffle brand (4 letters)
- 30 Across
- All-out (5 letters)
- 32 Across
- Yankee nickname starting in 2004 (4 letters)
- 35 Across
- Query (3 letters)
- 37 Across
- Quick barber jobs (5 letters)
- 40 Across
- Clothing with tabs (15 letters)
- 44 Across
- Dwelling with a smoke hole (5 letters)
- 45 Across
- Atlas page (3 letters)
- 46 Across
- Risqu? (4 letters)
- 47 Across
- Early Mexican (5 letters)
- 50 Across
- Held on to (4 letters)
- 52 Across
- Some degs. after bachelor's (3 letters)
- 54 Across
- Retailer's enticement (11 letters)
- 59 Across
- Met singer Pinza (4 letters)
- 61 Across
- "Uh-uh" (3 letters)
- 62 Across
- Pop heroes (5 letters)
- 63 Across
- "Stop!" ... or what you do to 18-, 24-, 40- and 54-Across (10 letters)
- 67 Across
- ___ 500 (4 letters)
- 68 Across
- Home of the Minotaur's labyrinth (5 letters)
- 69 Across
- Brink (4 letters)
- 70 Across
- Chief Norse god (4 letters)
- 71 Across
- "The Lion and the Mouse" storyteller (5 letters)
- 72 Across
- Roald who created Willy Wonka (4 letters)
- 73 Across
- Jiffy (3 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Chris Rock or Ellen DeGeneres (5 letters)
- 2 Down
- Steinway, e.g. (5 letters)
- 3 Down
- Justice Samuel (5 letters)
- 4 Down
- Pronto (3 letters)
- 5 Down
- Singer Rawls or Reed (3 letters)
- 6 Down
- Travelers in horse buggies (5 letters)
- 7 Down
- Scold (6 letters)
- 8 Down
- Deadly cobra (3 letters)
- 9 Down
- Spinoff of CBS's "JAG" (4 letters)
- 10 Down
- Determinant of a "best if used by" date (9 letters)
- 11 Down
- Toastmaster (5 letters)
- 12 Down
- Lerner's "Camelot" partner (5 letters)
- 14 Down
- Russian fish delicacy (9 letters)
- 19 Down
- Printing goof (4 letters)
- 21 Down
- Top part of a disguise (3 letters)
- 25 Down
- "Holy cow!" (4 letters)
- 26 Down
- Mediocre (4 letters)
- 27 Down
- "___, Brute?" (4 letters)
- 31 Down
- Place to make a scene? (9 letters)
- 32 Down
- Likely (3 letters)
- 33 Down
- "The Facts of Life" actress Charlotte (3 letters)
- 34 Down
- Night and day, say (9 letters)
- 36 Down
- Airline whose name is consecutive letters of the alphabet (3 letters)
- 38 Down
- Mingle (3 letters)
- 39 Down
- Hog's place (3 letters)
- 41 Down
- Radiation units (4 letters)
- 42 Down
- ___ Michigan (4 letters)
- 43 Down
- Grp. with clout at the gas pump (4 letters)
- 48 Down
- Sicily's erupter (4 letters)
- 49 Down
- Having an outer layer, as M&M's (6 letters)
- 51 Down
- Taro dish (3 letters)
- 52 Down
- Muhammad's birthplace (5 letters)
- 53 Down
- Sky-blue (5 letters)
- 55 Down
- "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff (5 letters)
- 56 Down
- Locales for ducks (5 letters)
- 57 Down
- Hit from Grandpa's day (5 letters)
- 58 Down
- Boy band that sang "Girlfriend" (5 letters)
- 60 Down
- Filmmaker Preminger (4 letters)
- 64 Down
- Cool, in the '40s (3 letters)
- 65 Down
- "Yuck!" (3 letters)
- 66 Down
- ___ Aviv (3 letters)
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