Friday Crossword — December 24, 2010

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1576 clues~30-60 minBy Jay Kaskel and Daniel Kantor12/24/2010

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Not an ideal answer to "Do these jeans make me look fat?" (3 letters)
4 Across
Chief (4 letters)
8 Across
Something to unscrew on an auto (6 letters)
14 Across
Feu fighter (3 letters)
15 Across
Uncommon, in ancient Rome (4 letters)
16 Across
Land of Papá Noel (6 letters)
17 Across
N N N (3 letters)
18 Across
Carols, often (11 letters)
20 Across
Mr. Hilarious (4 letters)
22 Across
Chair: Abbr. (3 letters)
23 Across
Nonverbal congratulations (3 letters)
24 Across
Scrooge player of film (12 letters)
29 Across
It has 3,750 "steps of penitence" (7 letters)
30 Across
Intimate (5 letters)
33 Across
Down (3 letters)
34 Across
Bird, e.g., once (4 letters)
37 Across
Comment upon receiving a large bill (4 letters)
38 Across
Polar opposites? (13 letters)
42 Across
"___ doing ..." (4 letters)
43 Across
Cold capital (4 letters)
44 Across
Pique condition? (3 letters)
46 Across
Saw (5 letters)
48 Across
Entered cautiously (7 letters)
51 Across
Time before the present day? (12 letters)
54 Across
Palindromic girl's name (3 letters)
57 Across
With 67-Across, sacred symbol to Zeus (3 letters)
58 Across
TV's Anderson (4 letters)
59 Across
Song of 1859 ... or what the five circled letters represent? (11 letters)
64 Across
It's taken to calm down (3 letters)
66 Across
It takes place on board a ship at sea in "The Tempest" (6 letters)
67 Across
See 57-Across (4 letters)
68 Across
Be a certain way? (3 letters)
69 Across
Bit of candy (6 letters)
70 Across
Start of something (4 letters)
71 Across
Brief subject (3 letters)

Down

1 Down
Game ___ (3 letters)
2 Down
Its capital is Nouakchott (10 letters)
3 Down
Score keeper? (10 letters)
4 Down
Inverse trig function (6 letters)
5 Down
Exclamation heard 12 times in Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" (3 letters)
6 Down
Word on a vin bottle (3 letters)
7 Down
Head of cattle? (5 letters)
8 Down
The Iron Horse of baseball (6 letters)
9 Down
Silvery-gray (3 letters)
10 Down
19-Down employee (3 letters)
11 Down
Rough it, say (4 letters)
12 Down
Lady whom Don Giovanni tries to seduce (4 letters)
13 Down
Over (4 letters)
19 Down
Employer of 10-Downs: Abbr. (3 letters)
21 Down
"___ don't know" (3 letters)
24 Down
Fr. title (3 letters)
25 Down
Per (4 letters)
26 Down
Misinform, maybe (5 letters)
27 Down
#10 on a table (4 letters)
28 Down
Seamstress's aid (4 letters)
31 Down
Chance (10 letters)
32 Down
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" setting (10 letters)
35 Down
Lily, in Lille (3 letters)
36 Down
Flat sign (5 letters)
39 Down
Car-racing org. (4 letters)
40 Down
Van follower (4 letters)
41 Down
Tramp (4 letters)
45 Down
Chemical suffix (3 letters)
47 Down
Blue (6 letters)
49 Down
Like many winter roads (6 letters)
50 Down
Peruvian pronoun (3 letters)
52 Down
Ziering of "90210" (3 letters)
53 Down
Burlesque bits (5 letters)
54 Down
Bob Cratchit to Scrooge, e.g.: Abbr. (4 letters)
55 Down
Part of a boast (4 letters)
56 Down
Smart ___ (4 letters)
60 Down
Three-in-one M.D. (3 letters)
61 Down
Class-conscious grp.? (3 letters)
62 Down
Princeton Review subj. (3 letters)
63 Down
Part of a snicker (3 letters)
65 Down
Fresh (3 letters)

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