Thursday Crossword — December 17, 2009
Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1578 clues~15-30 minBy Francis Heaney and Patrick Blindauer12/17/2009
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Gulf competitor (4 letters)
- 5 Across
- "What Do You Do With ___ in English?" ("Avenue Q" song) (3 letters)
- 8 Across
- Preserved, in a way (5 letters)
- 13 Across
- Vat waste (4 letters)
- 14 Across
- Hipster (3 letters)
- 15 Across
- A Previn (6 letters)
- 16 Across
- Canaanite deity (4 letters)
- 17 Across
- Tractor make, briefly (3 letters)
- 18 Across
- More sumptuously furnished (6 letters)
- 19 Across
- No holds barred (6 letters)
- 21 Across
- Craft that's the subject of this puzzle (8 letters)
- 23 Across
- Subject of "Hofmann's Potion" (3 letters)
- 25 Across
- Finish behind (5 letters)
- 26 Across
- ___ Americano (5 letters)
- 30 Across
- Customarily (5 letters)
- 32 Across
- Physical sound (3 letters)
- 35 Across
- United hub (5 letters)
- 36 Across
- ___ Haskins, 1960s-'70s N.B.A. player (4 letters)
- 37 Across
- "___, sing America": Langston Hughes (4 letters)
- 38 Across
- Spicy sauce (4 letters)
- 39 Across
- PX, e.g. (5 letters)
- 40 Across
- Line to Penn Sta. (4 letters)
- 41 Across
- Marilyn's mark (4 letters)
- 42 Across
- Kind of board (4 letters)
- 43 Across
- It may get food away from a canine (5 letters)
- 44 Across
- Had eggs, e.g. (3 letters)
- 45 Across
- Mercury and Gemini astronaut, informally (5 letters)
- 46 Across
- Forename meaning "born again" (5 letters)
- 47 Across
- Old-fashioned "Sweet!" (5 letters)
- 49 Across
- Group of pin-heads?: Abbr. (3 letters)
- 51 Across
- How the passengers went in 21-Across (8 letters)
- 54 Across
- Brute (6 letters)
- 59 Across
- Paris's Rue de ___ (6 letters)
- 60 Across
- Frank (3 letters)
- 62 Across
- National frozen dessert chain (4 letters)
- 63 Across
- Penguin from Antarctica (6 letters)
- 64 Across
- Follow relentlessly (3 letters)
- 65 Across
- Viking foe? (4 letters)
- 66 Across
- Excellence (5 letters)
- 67 Across
- Withdrawn (3 letters)
- 68 Across
- Louis VIII nickname, with "the" (4 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Hundred Days campaign planning site (4 letters)
- 2 Down
- It makes an impression (4 letters)
- 3 Down
- Navy commando (4 letters)
- 4 Down
- ___ City Hall, Nobel ceremony locale (4 letters)
- 5 Down
- Sales off. folders (5 letters)
- 6 Down
- Sound made while being fleeced? (3 letters)
- 7 Down
- Envelope abbr. (4 letters)
- 8 Down
- James of "Star Trek" (6 letters)
- 9 Down
- Allen and ___, old comedy duo (5 letters)
- 10 Down
- It fills a chest (10 letters)
- 11 Down
- Loupe user, say (4 letters)
- 12 Down
- Dagger (4 letters)
- 15 Down
- "Puh-leeze!" (7 letters)
- 20 Down
- Title role for a 1997 Oscar nominee (4 letters)
- 22 Down
- Sweet frozen treat (8 letters)
- 24 Down
- "Billy Bathgate" novelist, 1989 (8 letters)
- 26 Down
- "New York, New York" has one (5 letters)
- 27 Down
- "What ___!" ("So funny!") (5 letters)
- 28 Down
- Toppled (10 letters)
- 29 Down
- Available (4 letters)
- 31 Down
- Reason for 21-Across (5 letters)
- 33 Down
- Basketball shooting game (5 letters)
- 34 Down
- Gymnast's equipment (5 letters)
- 37 Down
- "Winnie ___ Pu" (4 letters)
- 39 Down
- Certain terrier (7 letters)
- 43 Down
- Memorable 1996 hurricane (4 letters)
- 45 Down
- Works stocked by a bookstore with a rainbow flag (6 letters)
- 48 Down
- Locale in a Carlo Levi best seller (5 letters)
- 50 Down
- Loose (5 letters)
- 51 Down
- Vehicle that makes pit stops? (4 letters)
- 52 Down
- Like some loads (4 letters)
- 53 Down
- 2:1, e.g. (4 letters)
- 55 Down
- "___ be all right" (4 letters)
- 56 Down
- Early 12th-century year (4 letters)
- 57 Down
- "Peek-___!" (4 letters)
- 58 Down
- "For Better or for Worse" cartoonist Johnston (4 letters)
- 61 Down
- "That's gotta hurt!" (3 letters)
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