Monday Crossword — October 12, 2009 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 10/12/2009. By Richard Chisholm.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Bit of sunlight (3)
- RAY
- 4 Across: Effrontery (4)
- GALL
- 8 Across: Make equal, as the score (6)
- EVENUP
- 14 Across: Ram's mate (3)
- EWE
- 15 Across: Sting, in baby talk (4)
- OWIE
- 16 Across: Piece of luggage (6)
- VALISE
- 17 Across: ___-o'-shanter (3)
- TAM
- 18 Across: Likely result of pollution along a beach (11)
- SWIMMINGBAN
- 20 Across: "You ___ wrong!" (5)
- ARESO
- 22 Across: Peach ___ (dessert) (5)
- MELBA
- 23 Across: Title bear of 1960s TV (9)
- GENTLEBEN
- 26 Across: Says "Come on, try harder!," say (5)
- URGES
- 30 Across: Classic theater name (4)
- ROXY
- 31 Across: "Le Coq ___" (3)
- DOR
- 33 Across: Height: Abbr. (3)
- ALT
- 34 Across: "___ Marlene" (W.W. II song) (4)
- LILI
- 37 Across: Half of dos (3)
- UNO
- 39 Across: Charles Nelson ___, longtime "Match Game" panelist (6)
- REILLY
- 41 Across: Receptacle for some donations (15)
- USEDCLOTHINGBIN
- 44 Across: 1910s-'20s flivver (6)
- MODELT
- 45 Across: Make equal, as the score (3)
- TIE
- 46 Across: Simplicity (4)
- EASE
- 47 Across: Postpone, with "off" (3)
- PUT
- 48 Across: Center of a simile (3)
- ASA
- 50 Across: Peeved state (4)
- SNIT
- 52 Across: Crush, with "on" (5)
- STOMP
- 54 Across: "It's so good," in Paris (9)
- CESTSIBON
- 59 Across: Bewildered (5)
- ATSEA
- 61 Across: Milan's home (5)
- ITALY
- 62 Across: Lenten treat (11)
- HOTCROSSBUN
- 67 Across: Edge (3)
- RIM
- 68 Across: Mount where Noah landed (6)
- ARARAT
- 69 Across: President before Wilson (4)
- TAFT
- 70 Across: Adam's madam (3)
- EVE
- 71 Across: Sags (6)
- DROOPS
- 72 Across: "Scat!" (4)
- SHOO
- 73 Across: Filming locale (3)
- SET
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Change the price on at the store (5)
- RETAG
- 2 Down: In the know (5)
- AWARE
- 3 Down: The "heel" of the Arabian Peninsula (5)
- YEMEN
- 4 Down: Leave the band and strike out on one's own (6)
- GOSOLO
- 5 Down: Exclamation before "How cute!" (3)
- AWW
- 6 Down: 52, in old Rome (3)
- LII
- 7 Down: "___ at 'em!" (5)
- LEMME
- 8 Down: Good's opposite (4)
- EVIL
- 9 Down: Abigail of "Dear Abby" (8)
- VANBUREN
- 10 Down: Sir Edward who composed "Pomp and Circumstance" (5)
- ELGAR
- 11 Down: Point on a 13-Down (3)
- NIB
- 12 Down: "Made in the ___" (3)
- USA
- 13 Down: Writing implement (3)
- PEN
- 19 Down: Darn, as socks (4)
- MEND
- 21 Down: Walk purposefully (6)
- STRIDE
- 24 Down: Rejoices (6)
- EXULTS
- 25 Down: ___ means (not at all) (4)
- BYNO
- 27 Down: Emperor after Nero (5)
- GALBA
- 28 Down: ___ Island (onetime immigrants' arrival point) (5)
- ELLIS
- 29 Down: Broadway songwriter Jule (5)
- STYNE
- 32 Down: China and environs, once, with "the" (6)
- ORIENT
- 34 Down: Swellings (5)
- LUMPS
- 35 Down: Has left the office (5)
- ISOUT
- 36 Down: Caused (5)
- LEDTO
- 38 Down: Mel who was #4 at the Polo Grounds (3)
- OTT
- 40 Down: "Aha!" (6)
- IGETIT
- 42 Down: Nonsense (8)
- CLAPTRAP
- 43 Down: Sound of crowd disapproval (4)
- HISS
- 49 Down: King beaters (4)
- ACES
- 51 Down: Really digs (6)
- ISINTO
- 53 Down: Prefix with economics (5)
- MACRO
- 55 Down: Certain bridge positions (5)
- EASTS
- 56 Down: Reveals (5)
- BARES
- 57 Down: Martini go-with (5)
- OLIVE
- 58 Down: Citi Field player, for short (5)
- NYMET
- 60 Down: Bar habitués (4)
- SOTS
- 62 Down: Owned (3)
- HAD
- 63 Down: Bobby who was #4 at Boston Garden (3)
- ORR
- 64 Down: Chinese "way" (3)
- TAO
- 65 Down: "Humbug!" (3)
- BAH
- 66 Down: Sci-fi saucer (3)
- UFO
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