Saturday Crossword — May 2, 2009 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 5/2/2009. By Peter A. Collins.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Grunt site (3)
- STY
- 4 Across: Pageant attire (6)
- SASHES
- 10 Across: Pen name (3)
- BIC
- 13 Across: Vegetable sometimes grown as a flower (4)
- OKRA
- 14 Across: Walrus-skin boats (6)
- UMIAKS
- 15 Across: Spain's Victoria Eugenia, familiarly (3)
- ENA
- 16 Across: Seafood restaurant locale (4)
- PIER
- 17 Across: Mafia runners (6)
- BAGMEN
- 18 Across: I.C.U. figure (3)
- LPN
- 19 Across: Bad bill collector? (4)
- TMAN
- 20 Across: Perfectly, after "to" (4)
- ATEE
- 21 Across: 1847 novel involving a mutiny (4)
- OMOO
- 22 Across: Tape speed abbr. (3)
- IPS
- 23 Across: It comprises the 10-Down, 34-Across and a third part found elsewhere in the grid (11)
- TRIPLECROWN
- 26 Across: Kind of pork (6)
- MOOSHU
- 28 Across: Best Actress winner for "The Great Ziegfeld," 1936 (6)
- RAINER
- 29 Across: Musical with the song "It's the Hard-Knock Life" (5)
- ANNIE
- 30 Across: Proceed effortlessly (5)
- COAST
- 33 Across: Sample (3)
- TRY
- 34 Across: Part of the 23-Across (9)
- PREAKNESS
- 37 Across: Bit of autumn decoration (3)
- COB
- 40 Across: QB who was the Super Bowl XXXIII M.V.P. (5)
- ELWAY
- 41 Across: Itchy (5)
- EAGER
- 45 Across: Revolt (6)
- UPRISE
- 47 Across: Ball of fire (6)
- DYNAMO
- 48 Across: One that bets are on (11)
- THEFAVORITE
- 52 Across: AWOL catchers (3)
- MPS
- 53 Across: Roger of stage and screen (4)
- REES
- 54 Across: Sugar (4)
- DEAR
- 55 Across: Genealogical listings: Abbr. (4)
- RELS
- 56 Across: Certain council member: Abbr. (3)
- ALD
- 57 Across: Black mark (6)
- STIGMA
- 59 Across: Kind of reed (4)
- OBOE
- 60 Across: Standoff (3)
- TIE
- 61 Across: Birthplace of St. Clare (6)
- ASSISI
- 62 Across: Chest contents (4)
- TOYS
- 63 Across: Tarsus : foot :: incus : ___ (3)
- EAR
- 64 Across: Admits (6)
- LETSON
- 65 Across: ___ admin (3)
- SYS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Not provide fully (7)
- SKIMPON
- 2 Down: Subject of Article III Section 3 of the Constitution (7)
- TREASON
- 3 Down: Ball material (4)
- YARN
- 4 Down: One of two cars besides a Cadillac named in Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" (6)
- SUBARU
- 5 Down: The Brothers ___ (violinmakers) (5)
- AMATI
- 6 Down: Popular fraternity, familiarly (5)
- SIGEP
- 7 Down: Actress Veronica of "Hill Street Blues" (5)
- HAMEL
- 8 Down: Barely make, with "out" (3)
- EKE
- 9 Down: Job application info: Abbr. (3)
- SSN
- 10 Down: Part of the 23-Across (7)
- BELMONT
- 11 Down: Ruling (7)
- INPOWER
- 12 Down: Church office (7)
- CANONRY
- 13 Down: Perfect conditions (6)
- OPTIMA
- 21 Down: "Withhold no atom's atom ___ die": Keats (3)
- ORI
- 23 Down: The Little Flower of Jesus (7)
- THERESA
- 24 Down: Manx relative (4)
- ERSE
- 25 Down: Certain shooter (7)
- CATSEYE
- 27 Down: Sample, in a way (3)
- SIP
- 30 Down: Quote the raven? (3)
- CAW
- 31 Down: River to the Volga (3)
- OKA
- 32 Down: "___ questions?" (3)
- ANY
- 35 Down: Map abbr. (4)
- ELEV
- 36 Down: ___ Juan (3)
- SAN
- 37 Down: Marked down (7)
- CUTRATE
- 38 Down: "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!" speaker, in Shakespeare (7)
- OPHELIA
- 39 Down: One with a stake in 48-Across, say (7)
- BREEDER
- 42 Down: Nintendo product (7)
- GAMEBOY
- 43 Down: Has working (7)
- EMPLOYS
- 44 Down: Family in Upton Sinclair's "Oil!" (6)
- ROSSES
- 46 Down: Conditions (3)
- IFS
- 47 Down: Public transportation to New York's Yankee Stadium (6)
- DTRAIN
- 49 Down: Wordsworth, e.g. (5)
- ODIST
- 50 Down: Denver's ___ University (5)
- REGIS
- 51 Down: Response to a disbeliever (5)
- IAMSO
- 55 Down: Spoils (4)
- ROTS
- 57 Down: ___ the Stockbroker on "The Howard Stern Show" (3)
- SAL
- 58 Down: Literary inits. (3)
- TSE
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