Monday Crossword — January 12, 2009 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 1/12/2009. By Lynn Lempel.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Book balancer, briefly (3)
- CPA
- 4 Across: Be in the game or in the band (4)
- PLAY
- 8 Across: Photography icon Adams (5)
- ANSEL
- 13 Across: Lubricates (4)
- OILS
- 15 Across: Taj Mahal feature (4)
- DOME
- 16 Across: Any old jerk (5)
- SCHMO
- 17 Across: Injure severely (4)
- MAIM
- 18 Across: Cloth square for a bedcover (10)
- QUILTPIECE
- 20 Across: Following behind, as a broken-down car (5)
- INTOW
- 22 Across: Cunning (3)
- SLY
- 23 Across: Whole bunch (4)
- SLEW
- 24 Across: Figure fashioned from dough (11)
- COOKIESHAPE
- 28 Across: Service charge (3)
- FEE
- 29 Across: Frozen waffle brand (4)
- EGGO
- 30 Across: All-out (5)
- TOTAL
- 32 Across: Yankee nickname starting in 2004 (4)
- AROD
- 35 Across: Query (3)
- ASK
- 37 Across: Quick barber jobs (5)
- TRIMS
- 40 Across: Clothing with tabs (15)
- PAPERDOLLOUTFIT
- 44 Across: Dwelling with a smoke hole (5)
- TEPEE
- 45 Across: Atlas page (3)
- MAP
- 46 Across: Risqu? (4)
- SEXY
- 47 Across: Early Mexican (5)
- OLMEC
- 50 Across: Held on to (4)
- KEPT
- 52 Across: Some degs. after bachelor's (3)
- MAS
- 54 Across: Retailer's enticement (11)
- STORECOUPON
- 59 Across: Met singer Pinza (4)
- EZIO
- 61 Across: "Uh-uh" (3)
- NAH
- 62 Across: Pop heroes (5)
- IDOLS
- 63 Across: "Stop!" ... or what you do to 18-, 24-, 40- and 54-Across (10)
- CUTTHATOUT
- 67 Across: ___ 500 (4)
- INDY
- 68 Across: Home of the Minotaur's labyrinth (5)
- CRETE
- 69 Across: Brink (4)
- EDGE
- 70 Across: Chief Norse god (4)
- ODIN
- 71 Across: "The Lion and the Mouse" storyteller (5)
- AESOP
- 72 Across: Roald who created Willy Wonka (4)
- DAHL
- 73 Across: Jiffy (3)
- SEC
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Chris Rock or Ellen DeGeneres (5)
- COMIC
- 2 Down: Steinway, e.g. (5)
- PIANO
- 3 Down: Justice Samuel (5)
- ALITO
- 4 Down: Pronto (3)
- PDQ
- 5 Down: Singer Rawls or Reed (3)
- LOU
- 6 Down: Travelers in horse buggies (5)
- AMISH
- 7 Down: Scold (6)
- YELLAT
- 8 Down: Deadly cobra (3)
- ASP
- 9 Down: Spinoff of CBS's "JAG" (4)
- NCIS
- 10 Down: Determinant of a "best if used by" date (9)
- SHELFLIFE
- 11 Down: Toastmaster (5)
- EMCEE
- 12 Down: Lerner's "Camelot" partner (5)
- LOEWE
- 14 Down: Russian fish delicacy (9)
- SMOKEDEEL
- 19 Down: Printing goof (4)
- TYPO
- 21 Down: Top part of a disguise (3)
- WIG
- 25 Down: "Holy cow!" (4)
- EGAD
- 26 Down: Mediocre (4)
- SOSO
- 27 Down: "___, Brute?" (4)
- ETTU
- 31 Down: Place to make a scene? (9)
- ARTSTUDIO
- 32 Down: Likely (3)
- APT
- 33 Down: "The Facts of Life" actress Charlotte (3)
- RAE
- 34 Down: Night and day, say (9)
- OPPOSITES
- 36 Down: Airline whose name is consecutive letters of the alphabet (3)
- KLM
- 38 Down: Mingle (3)
- MIX
- 39 Down: Hog's place (3)
- STY
- 41 Down: Radiation units (4)
- REMS
- 42 Down: ___ Michigan (4)
- LAKE
- 43 Down: Grp. with clout at the gas pump (4)
- OPEC
- 48 Down: Sicily's erupter (4)
- ETNA
- 49 Down: Having an outer layer, as M&M's (6)
- COATED
- 51 Down: Taro dish (3)
- POI
- 52 Down: Muhammad's birthplace (5)
- MECCA
- 53 Down: Sky-blue (5)
- AZURE
- 55 Down: "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff (5)
- RHODA
- 56 Down: Locales for ducks (5)
- PONDS
- 57 Down: Hit from Grandpa's day (5)
- OLDIE
- 58 Down: Boy band that sang "Girlfriend" (5)
- NSYNC
- 60 Down: Filmmaker Preminger (4)
- OTTO
- 64 Down: Cool, in the '40s (3)
- HEP
- 65 Down: "Yuck!" (3)
- UGH
- 66 Down: ___ Aviv (3)
- TEL
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