Wednesday Crossword — May 13, 2009

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1578 clues~15-30 minBy Nancy Kavanaugh5/13/2009

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Windy City team (4 letters)
5 Across
"Me, me, me" sort (4 letters)
9 Across
Like a teddy bear (5 letters)
14 Across
Summer Games org. (4 letters)
15 Across
Radiate (4 letters)
16 Across
Steinbeck migrants (5 letters)
17 Across
Certain mortgage, briefly (4 letters)
18 Across
All over (4 letters)
19 Across
Successfully defend (5 letters)
20 Across
Spicy bar fare (12 letters)
23 Across
Turns, in a way (6 letters)
24 Across
It may have orchids or plumerias (3 letters)
25 Across
Ceremonial utterance (3 letters)
28 Across
Yellow (11 letters)
32 Across
Author Ferber (4 letters)
36 Across
Kiltie's turndown (3 letters)
37 Across
Wipe out (6 letters)
38 Across
Cape Cod town (5 letters)
40 Across
Baseball bigwigs, for short (3 letters)
42 Across
Largish combo (5 letters)
43 Across
Lacking melanin (6 letters)
45 Across
Where It.'s at (3 letters)
47 Across
"Dear" ones (4 letters)
48 Across
Game to 11 points (11 letters)
51 Across
Milk source (3 letters)
52 Across
Crew leader (3 letters)
53 Across
Place for pampering (6 letters)
58 Across
Easy preparation instruction ... or a hint to the starts of 20-, 28- and 48-Across (12 letters)
61 Across
Big cheese (5 letters)
64 Across
Form of silica (4 letters)
65 Across
Group of thousands, maybe (4 letters)
66 Across
Muscat native (5 letters)
67 Across
Comstock's find (4 letters)
68 Across
Scoreboard tally (4 letters)
69 Across
One, for one (5 letters)
70 Across
Sail support (4 letters)
71 Across
2004 Brad Pitt film (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Cuts back (5 letters)
2 Down
Finish off (5 letters)
3 Down
Super, in showbiz (5 letters)
4 Down
"Futurama" genre (5 letters)
5 Down
Buys and sells (7 letters)
6 Down
"___ expert, but ..." (4 letters)
7 Down
Op-ed's offering (4 letters)
8 Down
Freely (6 letters)
9 Down
Pardoned (8 letters)
10 Down
Luau strings (4 letters)
11 Down
Mail aid (3 letters)
12 Down
Zuider ___ (3 letters)
13 Down
Fashion monogram (3 letters)
21 Down
Tide competitor (3 letters)
22 Down
Frau's "forget it" (4 letters)
25 Down
Certain Oriental rug maker (5 letters)
26 Down
Ward off (5 letters)
27 Down
"Golden Boy" playwright (5 letters)
29 Down
Internet annoyance (3 letters)
30 Down
Red Sea land (5 letters)
31 Down
They may clash (4 letters)
32 Down
Les ___-Unis (5 letters)
33 Down
1964 Tony Randall title role (5 letters)
34 Down
Having a rough knotted surface (5 letters)
35 Down
Seed covering (4 letters)
39 Down
18 inches, give or take (8 letters)
41 Down
Radiation source (3 letters)
44 Down
Siouan speakers (4 letters)
46 Down
"Batman" villain, with "the" (7 letters)
49 Down
Sings the praises of (6 letters)
50 Down
Go back and forth in the woods? (3 letters)
54 Down
America's Cup entrant (5 letters)
55 Down
Flight part (5 letters)
56 Down
Green topping (5 letters)
57 Down
Too-too (5 letters)
58 Down
Mitchell who wrote and sang "Chelsea Morning" (4 letters)
59 Down
Per unit (4 letters)
60 Down
Jean Arp's movement (4 letters)
61 Down
Signal at Christie's (3 letters)
62 Down
"___ losing it?" (3 letters)
63 Down
Avocation, slangily (3 letters)

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