Thursday Crossword — August 13, 2009 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 8/13/2009. By Patrick McIntyre.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "A peculiar sort of a gal," in song (3)
- SAL
- 4 Across: Muddy (4)
- ROIL
- 8 Across: Themed events (5)
- FESTS
- 13 Across: Actor Tognazzi of "La Cage aux Folles" (3)
- UGO
- 14 Across: Seaside raptor (4)
- ERNE
- 15 Across: Allen Iverson's teammates till '06 (6)
- SIXERS
- 16 Across: Ingredient in some gum (8)
- NICOTINE
- 18 Across: Gossip (6)
- YAPPER
- 19 Across: Request that often follows "Please" (7)
- STANDBY
- 20 Across: Inceptions (6)
- ONSETS
- 21 Across: Chow (4)
- EATS
- 22 Across: Oscar Wilde or Bill Maher, for example (10)
- ICONOCLAST
- 25 Across: Some car roofs (5)
- TTOPS
- 27 Across: Like some announcements that have been lost (8)
- REPOSTED
- 28 Across: Sister who's won the U.S. Open three times (6)
- SERENA
- 30 Across: Grafton's "___ for Innocent" (3)
- IIS
- 31 Across: Curly shape (3)
- ESS
- 32 Across: Starts of some games ... and of the answers to 16-, 22-, 48 and 56-Across? (9)
- COINFLIPS
- 36 Across: R.B.I. producer, sometimes: Abbr. (3)
- DBL
- 39 Across: Holder of le trône (3)
- ROI
- 40 Across: Minnesota college (6)
- STOLAF
- 44 Across: "Hold on!" (8)
- WAITASEC
- 47 Across: Hot, after "on" (5)
- AROLL
- 48 Across: Like some passes (10)
- INCOMPLETE
- 51 Across: Mambo king Puente (4)
- TITO
- 52 Across: Contravenes (6)
- DENIES
- 53 Across: They give you control (7)
- REMOTES
- 55 Across: Fang (6)
- CANINE
- 56 Across: Cedar and hemlock (8)
- CONIFERS
- 57 Across: Lightly sprayed (6)
- MISTED
- 58 Across: Mathematician Post or Artin (4)
- EMIL
- 59 Across: Riddle-me-___ (3)
- REE
- 60 Across: Foreign thoughts (5)
- IDEES
- 61 Across: Kind of column (4)
- OPED
- 62 Across: New Left org. (3)
- SDS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Hackneyed movie endings (7)
- SUNSETS
- 2 Down: Perturb (7)
- AGITATE
- 3 Down: G.P.S. device, e.g. (7)
- LOCATOR
- 4 Down: Part of AARP: Abbr. (4)
- RETD
- 5 Down: Small African antelope (5)
- ORIBI
- 6 Down: "Back ___" (1974 Genesis song) (5)
- INNYC
- 7 Down: Family name of about 15% of Koreans (3)
- LEE
- 8 Down: Big bomb (6)
- FIASCO
- 9 Down: Runs out (6)
- EXPELS
- 10 Down: Having a dividing wall, in biology (7)
- SEPTATE
- 11 Down: Locks (7)
- TRESSES
- 12 Down: Map abbr. until 1991 (3)
- SSR
- 15 Down: TV Guide info (8)
- SYNOPSIS
- 17 Down: How many writers work (6)
- ONSPEC
- 20 Down: Buck ___, first black coach in Major League Baseball (Cubs, 1962) (5)
- ONEIL
- 23 Down: Opening (7)
- ORIFICE
- 24 Down: Patriot's concerns, briefly (3)
- TDS
- 26 Down: ___-Cat (3)
- SNO
- 29 Down: What machmeters measure (8)
- AIRSPEED
- 33 Down: Songs from rosy-cheeked singers, maybe (5)
- NOELS
- 34 Down: Moms and dads belong to it: Abbr. (3)
- PTA
- 35 Down: Rather (6)
- SORTOF
- 36 Down: Bad record, for short (3)
- DWI
- 37 Down: Not a long-term solution (7)
- BANDAID
- 38 Down: Certain plate (7)
- LICENSE
- 41 Down: Overstays? (7)
- LOITERS
- 42 Down: Not the same anymore (7)
- ALTERED
- 43 Down: Gets ready to brush, maybe (7)
- FLOSSES
- 45 Down: This evening, on posters (6)
- TONITE
- 46 Down: Organic compounds with nitrogen (6)
- AMINES
- 49 Down: Step heavily (on) (5)
- TROMP
- 50 Down: Start of a counting rhyme (5)
- EENIE
- 54 Down: Like Clark Kent's manner (4)
- MILD
- 55 Down: Third year in the reign of Edward the Elder (3)
- CMI
- 56 Down: Corp. honcho (3)
- CEO
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