Wednesday Crossword — March 30, 2011 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 3/30/2011. By Erik Wennstrom.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Pursuit of a goal (5)
QUEST
6 Across: Yoda, for one (4)
JEDI
10 Across: Altar locale (4)
APSE
14 Across: Thompson and Watson (5)
EMMAS
15 Across: Two eighth notes, for iTunes, e.g. (4)
ICON
16 Across: Empty, in math (4)
NULL
17 Across: Cause to cower (5)
DAUNT
18 Across: Oater fare (4)
GRUB
19 Across: Understand, slangily (4)
GROK
20 Across: What a smudge may indicate (7)
ERASURE
22 Across: Foreman portrayer on "House" (4)
EPPS
23 Across: Typewriter keyboard format (6)
DVORAK
26 Across: Bluffer's undoing, in poker (4)
TELL
28 Across: Use one's scull (3)
OAR
29 Across: *Like a baby girl's laundry? (10)
PINKWASHED
34 Across: Bag brand (4)
GLAD
36 Across: One going before a judge (4)
SUER
37 Across: Corrida wear (5)
CAPES
39 Across: Done for (4)
GONE
40 Across: Eye problems (5)
STYES
42 Across: Theocratic state (4)
IRAN
43 Across: Often-mocked cars of the past (5)
YUGOS
45 Across: Jack's love in "Titanic" (4)
ROSE
46 Across: Possessing many pesos (4)
RICO
47 Across: Like light from stars moving away from us ... or like the answers to this puzzle's starred clues? (10)
REDSHIFTED
50 Across: Confirm-deny link (3)
NOR
51 Across: Opportunities for discussion (4)
FORA
52 Across: "___ touch!" (6)
MUSTNT
54 Across: Vista part: Abbr. (4)
AMER
56 Across: He had a Blue Period (7)
PICASSO
60 Across: Dolly the matchmaker (4)
LEVI
61 Across: Grow wearisome (4)
PALL
62 Across: ___ de Torquemada, Spanish inquisitor (5)
TOMAS
66 Across: Abe or Ike (4)
PREZ
67 Across: They may clash (4)
EGOS
68 Across: City on the Mohawk (5)
UTICA
69 Across: Like the Atacama (4)
SERE
70 Across: Scrubbed, as a mission (4)
NOGO
71 Across: Material for a baking dish (5)
PYREX

Down Answers

1 Down: "And that proves it" (3)
QED
2 Down: Thurman of "Pulp Fiction" (3)
UMA
3 Down: Creature on Australia's 50-cent coin (3)
EMU
4 Down: Not so off the wall (5)
SANER
5 Down: Feature of some sandals (6)
TSTRAP
6 Down: Happy people dance them (4)
JIGS
7 Down: Color of raw silk (4)
ECRU
8 Down: Ill-humored (4)
DOUR
9 Down: Still being tested (6)
INBETA
10 Down: Pasta variety (9)
ANGELHAIR
11 Down: *Newspapers read by royalty? (11)
PURPLEPRINT
12 Down: Not stay in the bucket, say (4)
SLOP
13 Down: Some lodge members (4)
ELKS
21 Down: "Sealed With ___" (5)
AKISS
23 Down: Canine, to a tot (5)
DOGGY
24 Down: Bravery, in Britain (6)
VALOUR
25 Down: *Illness caused by eating Cheetos? (11)
ORANGEFEVER
27 Down: Key near F1 (3)
ESC
30 Down: ___-Grain cereal bars (5)
NUTRI
31 Down: Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the ___ Life" (5)
KEYOF
32 Down: Take forcibly (5)
WREST
33 Down: Priest's assistant (6)
DEACON
35 Down: Freshen (9)
DEODORIZE
38 Down: Bull pen sound (5)
SNORT
41 Down: Comes across as (5)
SEEMS
44 Down: Ukr., e.g., until 1991 (3)
SSR
48 Down: Come to pass (6)
HAPPEN
49 Down: Quarrel (6)
DUSTUP
53 Down: Like a chimney sweep (5)
SOOTY
54 Down: Matterhorn's locale (4)
ALPS
55 Down: "A ___ technicality!" (4)
MERE
57 Down: "Aladdin" parrot (4)
IAGO
58 Down: Pipe problem (4)
CLOG
59 Down: Moreover (4)
ALSO
63 Down: Atlantis docked with it (3)
MIR
64 Down: Sleuth Ventura (3)
ACE
65 Down: Tenor ___ (3)
SAX

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