Thursday Crossword — August 13, 2009

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1570 clues~15-30 minBy Patrick McIntyre8/13/2009

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
"A peculiar sort of a gal," in song (3 letters)
4 Across
Muddy (4 letters)
8 Across
Themed events (5 letters)
13 Across
Actor Tognazzi of "La Cage aux Folles" (3 letters)
14 Across
Seaside raptor (4 letters)
15 Across
Allen Iverson's teammates till '06 (6 letters)
16 Across
Ingredient in some gum (8 letters)
18 Across
Gossip (6 letters)
19 Across
Request that often follows "Please" (7 letters)
20 Across
Inceptions (6 letters)
21 Across
Chow (4 letters)
22 Across
Oscar Wilde or Bill Maher, for example (10 letters)
25 Across
Some car roofs (5 letters)
27 Across
Like some announcements that have been lost (8 letters)
28 Across
Sister who's won the U.S. Open three times (6 letters)
30 Across
Grafton's "___ for Innocent" (3 letters)
31 Across
Curly shape (3 letters)
32 Across
Starts of some games ... and of the answers to 16-, 22-, 48 and 56-Across? (9 letters)
36 Across
R.B.I. producer, sometimes: Abbr. (3 letters)
39 Across
Holder of le trône (3 letters)
40 Across
Minnesota college (6 letters)
44 Across
"Hold on!" (8 letters)
47 Across
Hot, after "on" (5 letters)
48 Across
Like some passes (10 letters)
51 Across
Mambo king Puente (4 letters)
52 Across
Contravenes (6 letters)
53 Across
They give you control (7 letters)
55 Across
Fang (6 letters)
56 Across
Cedar and hemlock (8 letters)
57 Across
Lightly sprayed (6 letters)
58 Across
Mathematician Post or Artin (4 letters)
59 Across
Riddle-me-___ (3 letters)
60 Across
Foreign thoughts (5 letters)
61 Across
Kind of column (4 letters)
62 Across
New Left org. (3 letters)

Down

1 Down
Hackneyed movie endings (7 letters)
2 Down
Perturb (7 letters)
3 Down
G.P.S. device, e.g. (7 letters)
4 Down
Part of AARP: Abbr. (4 letters)
5 Down
Small African antelope (5 letters)
6 Down
"Back ___" (1974 Genesis song) (5 letters)
7 Down
Family name of about 15% of Koreans (3 letters)
8 Down
Big bomb (6 letters)
9 Down
Runs out (6 letters)
10 Down
Having a dividing wall, in biology (7 letters)
11 Down
Locks (7 letters)
12 Down
Map abbr. until 1991 (3 letters)
15 Down
TV Guide info (8 letters)
17 Down
How many writers work (6 letters)
20 Down
Buck ___, first black coach in Major League Baseball (Cubs, 1962) (5 letters)
23 Down
Opening (7 letters)
24 Down
Patriot's concerns, briefly (3 letters)
26 Down
___-Cat (3 letters)
29 Down
What machmeters measure (8 letters)
33 Down
Songs from rosy-cheeked singers, maybe (5 letters)
34 Down
Moms and dads belong to it: Abbr. (3 letters)
35 Down
Rather (6 letters)
36 Down
Bad record, for short (3 letters)
37 Down
Not a long-term solution (7 letters)
38 Down
Certain plate (7 letters)
41 Down
Overstays? (7 letters)
42 Down
Not the same anymore (7 letters)
43 Down
Gets ready to brush, maybe (7 letters)
45 Down
This evening, on posters (6 letters)
46 Down
Organic compounds with nitrogen (6 letters)
49 Down
Step heavily (on) (5 letters)
50 Down
Start of a counting rhyme (5 letters)
54 Down
Like Clark Kent's manner (4 letters)
55 Down
Third year in the reign of Edward the Elder (3 letters)
56 Down
Corp. honcho (3 letters)

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