Wednesday Crossword — February 16, 2011 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 2/16/2011. By Michael Barnhart.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Anoint with sacred oil, old-style (5)
- ANELE
- 6 Across: Cause of a scar (4)
- GASH
- 10 Across: Physics Nobelist Victor who discovered cosmic radiation (4)
- HESS
- 14 Across: Painter Magritte and others (5)
- RENES
- 15 Across: Where the Storting parliament sits (4)
- OSLO
- 16 Across: Heaps (4)
- ALOT
- 17 Across: "Twenty-One" (10)
- TVGAMESHOW
- 19 Across: Colorado feeder (4)
- GILA
- 20 Across: First American magazine to excerpt "Moby-Dick" (7)
- HARPERS
- 21 Across: Wink, e.g. (6)
- SIGNAL
- 23 Across: Son of Saddam (4)
- UDAY
- 24 Across: 2100 (10)
- NINEOCLOCK
- 27 Across: Awards four stars, say (5)
- RAVES
- 29 Across: Party planner, for short? (3)
- POL
- 30 Across: In no other place (4)
- HERE
- 31 Across: Tennis shoes, informally (6)
- SNEAKS
- 33 Across: ___ de mer (3)
- MAL
- 35 Across: 21 (11)
- DRINKINGAGE
- 40 Across: Hall-of-Fame QB Dawson (3)
- LEN
- 41 Across: 32-card game (6)
- ECARTE
- 44 Across: Setup for a switch (4)
- BAIT
- 48 Across: Fighter in gray (3)
- REB
- 50 Across: Georgia's capital, in slang (5)
- ATOWN
- 51 Across: "21 ___" (10)
- JUMPSTREET
- 54 Across: Suffix with psych- (4)
- OTIC
- 55 Across: 1950s tennis champion Gibson (6)
- ALTHEA
- 56 Across: "Great" Catherine, for one (7)
- TSARINA
- 58 Across: Former Italian P.M. Aldo (4)
- MORO
- 59 Across: Twenty-ones (10)
- BLACKJACKS
- 62 Across: ___ Lysacek, 2010 Olympic figure skating gold medalist (4)
- EVAN
- 63 Across: One of the Three B's (4)
- BACH
- 64 Across: Allan-___, Robin Hood companion (5)
- ADALE
- 65 Across: Alcoholic beverage often served warm (4)
- SAKE
- 66 Across: Where there are "many ways to have a good time," in a 1978 hit (4)
- YMCA
- 67 Across: Took back the top spot (5)
- RELED
Down Answers
- 1 Down: King ___ court (7)
- ARTHURS
- 2 Down: Resident of one of only seven states with no income tax (7)
- NEVADAN
- 3 Down: Made an impression on? (8)
- ENGRAVED
- 4 Down: 1984, e.g. (8)
- LEAPYEAR
- 5 Down: Salinger girl (4)
- ESME
- 6 Down: Rumors and such (6)
- GOSSIP
- 7 Down: Parliament residue (3)
- ASH
- 8 Down: Pavement warning (3)
- SLO
- 9 Down: "In what way?" (5)
- HOWSO
- 10 Down: Bargain (6)
- HAGGLE
- 11 Down: "Sense and Sensibility" sister (6)
- ELINOR
- 12 Down: Bond film "Quantum of ___" (6)
- SOLACE
- 13 Down: Follow closely (5)
- STALK
- 18 Down: It follows directions (3)
- ERN
- 22 Down: Freud's "I" (3)
- ICH
- 25 Down: Oscar hopeful (7)
- NOMINEE
- 26 Down: Style (4)
- ELAN
- 28 Down: Take to the slopes (3)
- SKI
- 32 Down: Wiig gig, for short (3)
- SNL
- 34 Down: Big: Abbr. (3)
- LGE
- 36 Down: Steve ___, 1990s teammate of Michael Jordan (4)
- KERR
- 37 Down: 30-Across, in Mexico (3)
- ACA
- 38 Down: Product pitched by Michael Jordan (8)
- GATORADE
- 39 Down: Blue (8)
- EROTICAL
- 42 Down: What stars do (7)
- TWINKLE
- 43 Down: Boxed in (7)
- ENCASED
- 44 Down: Watchmaker with the first U.S. TV commercial, 1941 (6)
- BULOVA
- 45 Down: Acela Express operator (6)
- AMTRAK
- 46 Down: "There's an app for that" device (6)
- IPHONE
- 47 Down: Mao ___-tung (3)
- TSE
- 49 Down: The Stylistics' "___ By Golly, Wow" (6)
- BETCHA
- 51 Down: "Bond, ___ Bond" (5)
- JAMES
- 52 Down: Housecat (5)
- TABBY
- 53 Down: "For shame!" (3)
- TSK
- 57 Down: Slightly open (4)
- AJAR
- 60 Down: Flight (3)
- LAM
- 61 Down: Duke's athletic org. (3)
- ACC
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