Monday Crossword — August 16, 2010 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 8/16/2010. By Andrea Carla Michaels and Jennifer Nutt.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Letter after beta (5)
- GAMMA
- 6 Across: Go 80 m.p.h., say (5)
- SPEED
- 11 Across: Place to get a mud bath (3)
- SPA
- 14 Across: Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie ___" (5)
- AMOUR
- 15 Across: Uncle's special little girl (5)
- NIECE
- 16 Across: Sunbathe (3)
- TAN
- 17 Across: Unpredictable sort (11)
- LOOSECANNON
- 19 Across: No longer chic (3)
- OUT
- 20 Across: Italian wine province (4)
- ASTI
- 21 Across: Back of a boat (3)
- AFT
- 22 Across: Kelly Clarkson and Fantasia (5)
- IDOLS
- 24 Across: End-of-the-week office dress policy, maybe (12)
- CASUALFRIDAY
- 28 Across: Have high hopes (6)
- ASPIRE
- 31 Across: Drooping, as a rabbit's ears (4)
- ALOP
- 32 Across: Yucatán Indian (5)
- MAYAN
- 33 Across: Audition tape (4)
- DEMO
- 35 Across: Cousin of an ostrich (3)
- EMU
- 38 Across: Permanently sever ties (15)
- BURNONESBRIDGES
- 42 Across: Paris's ___ de la Cité (3)
- ILE
- 43 Across: Austrian peaks (4)
- ALPS
- 44 Across: Laugh-a-minute folks (5)
- RIOTS
- 45 Across: Appetizer, entree or dessert (4)
- DISH
- 47 Across: President of Egypt before Sadat (6)
- NASSER
- 48 Across: Franciscan order member (12)
- CAPUCHINMONK
- 53 Across: Ooze (5)
- EXUDE
- 54 Across: "Alley ___" (3)
- OOP
- 55 Across: Greek love god (4)
- EROS
- 59 Across: "___ Abner" (3)
- LIL
- 60 Across: What each of the characters named at the ends of 17-, 24-, 38- and 48-Across is (11)
- TVDETECTIVE
- 64 Across: ___ Vegas (3)
- LAS
- 65 Across: French place of learning (5)
- ECOLE
- 66 Across: Anne Frank's hideout (5)
- ATTIC
- 67 Across: "Go, bullfighter!" (3)
- OLE
- 68 Across: "Give it ___!" ("Quit harping!") (5)
- AREST
- 69 Across: Like an untended garden (5)
- WEEDY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Grand party (4)
- GALA
- 2 Down: "Famous" cookie guy (4)
- AMOS
- 3 Down: No longer worth debating (4)
- MOOT
- 4 Down: One in a jam? (8)
- MUSICIAN
- 5 Down: "What ___ the chances?" (3)
- ARE
- 6 Down: Awful mistake (5)
- SNAFU
- 7 Down: Ship of Columbus (5)
- PINTA
- 8 Down: Early night, to a poet (3)
- EEN
- 9 Down: Environmental prefix (3)
- ECO
- 10 Down: Robert of "Meet the Parents" (6)
- DENIRO
- 11 Down: Got up (5)
- STOOD
- 12 Down: ___ Abdul, former judge of 22-Across (5)
- PAULA
- 13 Down: Having the jitters (5)
- ANTSY
- 18 Down: 24 cans of beer, e.g. (4)
- CASE
- 23 Down: Word after skinny or salsa (3)
- DIP
- 25 Down: Pisa's river (4)
- ARNO
- 26 Down: Baby sheep (5)
- LAMBS
- 27 Down: Bloom: Sp. (4)
- FLOR
- 28 Down: Both: Prefix (4)
- AMBI
- 29 Down: Author Bellow (4)
- SAUL
- 30 Down: "And our love become a funeral ___" (lyric from the Doors' "Light My Fire") (4)
- PYRE
- 33 Down: Indian metropolis (5)
- DELHI
- 34 Down: Telepath's "gift," in brief (3)
- ESP
- 35 Down: Divas have sensitive ones (4)
- EGOS
- 36 Down: Apportion, with "out" (4)
- METE
- 37 Down: Lenin's land, for short (4)
- USSR
- 39 Down: Ogden who wrote "Candy / Is dandy / But liquor / Is quicker" (4)
- NASH
- 40 Down: Tehran is its capital (4)
- IRAN
- 41 Down: Quaint computer insert (8)
- DISKETTE
- 45 Down: Firecracker that fizzles (3)
- DUD
- 46 Down: Drink served with a mint leaf (6)
- ICETEA
- 47 Down: "Ain't gonna happen" (4)
- NOPE
- 48 Down: Pablo Casals's instrument (5)
- CELLO
- 49 Down: Like some symmetry (5)
- AXIAL
- 50 Down: Throb (5)
- PULSE
- 51 Down: Christmas carols (5)
- NOELS
- 52 Down: Sacred choral work (5)
- MOTET
- 56 Down: Baptism or bar mitzvah (4)
- RITE
- 57 Down: Roman author of "Metamorphoses" (4)
- OVID
- 58 Down: Cabinet head: Abbr. (4)
- SECY
- 61 Down: RCA product (3)
- VCR
- 62 Down: Buck's mate (3)
- DOE
- 63 Down: Crow's call (3)
- CAW
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