Monday Crossword — August 16, 2010

Difficulty: EasyGrid: 15x1578 clues~5-15 minBy Andrea Carla Michaels and Jennifer Nutt8/16/2010

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Letter after beta (5 letters)
6 Across
Go 80 m.p.h., say (5 letters)
11 Across
Place to get a mud bath (3 letters)
14 Across
Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie ___" (5 letters)
15 Across
Uncle's special little girl (5 letters)
16 Across
Sunbathe (3 letters)
17 Across
Unpredictable sort (11 letters)
19 Across
No longer chic (3 letters)
20 Across
Italian wine province (4 letters)
21 Across
Back of a boat (3 letters)
22 Across
Kelly Clarkson and Fantasia (5 letters)
24 Across
End-of-the-week office dress policy, maybe (12 letters)
28 Across
Have high hopes (6 letters)
31 Across
Drooping, as a rabbit's ears (4 letters)
32 Across
Yucatán Indian (5 letters)
33 Across
Audition tape (4 letters)
35 Across
Cousin of an ostrich (3 letters)
38 Across
Permanently sever ties (15 letters)
42 Across
Paris's ___ de la Cité (3 letters)
43 Across
Austrian peaks (4 letters)
44 Across
Laugh-a-minute folks (5 letters)
45 Across
Appetizer, entree or dessert (4 letters)
47 Across
President of Egypt before Sadat (6 letters)
48 Across
Franciscan order member (12 letters)
53 Across
Ooze (5 letters)
54 Across
"Alley ___" (3 letters)
55 Across
Greek love god (4 letters)
59 Across
"___ Abner" (3 letters)
60 Across
What each of the characters named at the ends of 17-, 24-, 38- and 48-Across is (11 letters)
64 Across
___ Vegas (3 letters)
65 Across
French place of learning (5 letters)
66 Across
Anne Frank's hideout (5 letters)
67 Across
"Go, bullfighter!" (3 letters)
68 Across
"Give it ___!" ("Quit harping!") (5 letters)
69 Across
Like an untended garden (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Grand party (4 letters)
2 Down
"Famous" cookie guy (4 letters)
3 Down
No longer worth debating (4 letters)
4 Down
One in a jam? (8 letters)
5 Down
"What ___ the chances?" (3 letters)
6 Down
Awful mistake (5 letters)
7 Down
Ship of Columbus (5 letters)
8 Down
Early night, to a poet (3 letters)
9 Down
Environmental prefix (3 letters)
10 Down
Robert of "Meet the Parents" (6 letters)
11 Down
Got up (5 letters)
12 Down
___ Abdul, former judge of 22-Across (5 letters)
13 Down
Having the jitters (5 letters)
18 Down
24 cans of beer, e.g. (4 letters)
23 Down
Word after skinny or salsa (3 letters)
25 Down
Pisa's river (4 letters)
26 Down
Baby sheep (5 letters)
27 Down
Bloom: Sp. (4 letters)
28 Down
Both: Prefix (4 letters)
29 Down
Author Bellow (4 letters)
30 Down
"And our love become a funeral ___" (lyric from the Doors' "Light My Fire") (4 letters)
33 Down
Indian metropolis (5 letters)
34 Down
Telepath's "gift," in brief (3 letters)
35 Down
Divas have sensitive ones (4 letters)
36 Down
Apportion, with "out" (4 letters)
37 Down
Lenin's land, for short (4 letters)
39 Down
Ogden who wrote "Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker" (4 letters)
40 Down
Tehran is its capital (4 letters)
41 Down
Quaint computer insert (8 letters)
45 Down
Firecracker that fizzles (3 letters)
46 Down
Drink served with a mint leaf (6 letters)
47 Down
"Ain't gonna happen" (4 letters)
48 Down
Pablo Casals's instrument (5 letters)
49 Down
Like some symmetry (5 letters)
50 Down
Throb (5 letters)
51 Down
Christmas carols (5 letters)
52 Down
Sacred choral work (5 letters)
56 Down
Baptism or bar mitzvah (4 letters)
57 Down
Roman author of "Metamorphoses" (4 letters)
58 Down
Cabinet head: Abbr. (4 letters)
61 Down
RCA product (3 letters)
62 Down
Buck's mate (3 letters)
63 Down
Crow's call (3 letters)

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