Friday Crossword — October 16, 2009 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 10/16/2009. By Karen M. Tracey.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: It's often said with the eyes closed (4)
- AMEN
- 5 Across: Stunned (5)
- AGASP
- 10 Across: Floppy headgear (4)
- TAMS
- 14 Across: Writer of the history "Ab Urbe Condita" (4)
- LIVY
- 15 Across: "Beloved" heroine (5)
- SETHE
- 16 Across: Chick chaser? (4)
- ADEE
- 17 Across: London broil, often (10)
- FLANKSTEAK
- 19 Across: Cleave (4)
- REND
- 20 Across: Part of Christmas (7)
- SILENTT
- 21 Across: Longtime name in photography (7)
- MINOLTA
- 23 Across: "Where people go to dance the night away," in song (14)
- TUXEDOJUNCTION
- 25 Across: Bucolic call (3)
- BAA
- 26 Across: Limnological study (4)
- LAKE
- 27 Across: Coastal island colonists (6)
- EIDERS
- 28 Across: Up to (5)
- UNTIL
- 30 Across: Lusatian ___ (German/Polish border river) (6)
- NEISSE
- 32 Across: 1930s bomber (4)
- BTEN
- 33 Across: Brush (5)
- COPSE
- 34 Across: Some displays, briefly (4)
- CRTS
- 38 Across: What you probably have a head for (6)
- SHOWER
- 40 Across: Summer Olympics event (5)
- SKEET
- 41 Across: Like some checkups (6)
- ANNUAL
- 44 Across: 1980s Argentine president ___ Alfonsín (4)
- RAUL
- 46 Across: It has four bases (3)
- DNA
- 47 Across: Châteaubriand accompaniment, often (14)
- BEARNAISESAUCE
- 50 Across: Kids in funny shorts (7)
- OURGANG
- 51 Across: Recipients of dollars for quarters? (7)
- LESSORS
- 53 Across: Reader's digest founder of 1984 (4)
- UTNE
- 54 Across: Cut off (10)
- DISINHERIT
- 56 Across: Vote in der Bundesrat (4)
- NEIN
- 57 Across: Modern way to request participation (5)
- EVITE
- 58 Across: Male protagonist in William Inge's "Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff" (4)
- RAFE
- 59 Across: "Nuts!" (4)
- DRAT
- 60 Across: Start over, in a way (5)
- RESET
- 61 Across: Multitude (4)
- SLEW
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Film composer Clausen and others (4)
- ALFS
- 2 Down: Unlike doves (8)
- MILITANT
- 3 Down: Gauge (8)
- EVALUATE
- 4 Down: 1997 Bell Atlantic acquisition (5)
- NYNEX
- 5 Down: Court figure: Abbr. (6)
- ASSTDA
- 6 Down: More than merely meet (9)
- GETTOKNOW
- 7 Down: Partook of (3)
- ATE
- 8 Down: Popular aquatic performer (5)
- SHAMU
- 9 Down: Toy developed in China (8)
- PEKINESE
- 10 Down: Set for a reading (9)
- TAROTDECK
- 11 Down: Emperor's relative (6)
- ADELIE
- 12 Down: Guide (6)
- MENTOR
- 13 Down: Typical taxis (6)
- SEDANS
- 18 Down: Sound ominously (5)
- KNELL
- 22 Down: Spinoff of CBS's "JAG" (4)
- NCIS
- 24 Down: "Golly!" (7)
- JEEPERS
- 25 Down: Sonny (3)
- BUB
- 29 Down: Young Turk, e.g. (9)
- INSURGENT
- 31 Down: Old covenant keeper (9)
- ISRAELITE
- 33 Down: Draining aid (8)
- COLANDER
- 35 Down: Its skeleton may be used to make jewelry (8)
- REDCORAL
- 36 Down: Largest of the Canary Islands (8)
- TENERIFE
- 37 Down: Platform place: Abbr. (3)
- STA
- 39 Down: Easternmost town on Maui, on one end of 52 miles of twisty highway (4)
- HANA
- 40 Down: Fractional bit? (5)
- SLASH
- 41 Down: Be everywhere, so to speak (6)
- ABOUND
- 42 Down: Fix (6)
- NEUTER
- 43 Down: Setting for C. S. Lewis's "The Last Battle" (6)
- NARNIA
- 45 Down: Early online discussion setting (6)
- USENET
- 48 Down: "You win" (5)
- IGIVE
- 49 Down: Detox population (5)
- USERS
- 52 Down: Fuss (4)
- STEW
- 55 Down: Familial title (3)
- SIS
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