Saturday Crossword — August 27, 2011 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 8/27/2011. By Ashton Anderson.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: It may be seen in a 3-Down picture (9)
- SEXCAPADE
- 10 Across: Times up? (5)
- HIGHS
- 15 Across: Like bending over backward (9)
- ACROBATIC
- 16 Across: Lowest deck on a ship (5)
- ORLOP
- 17 Across: Feign concurrence (9)
- PLAYALONG
- 18 Across: Words of concurrence (5)
- SOAMI
- 19 Across: Bit of consolation (3)
- PAT
- 20 Across: Google rival (4)
- BING
- 21 Across: Scriveners (6)
- PENMEN
- 22 Across: Yesterday, to Yvette (4)
- HIER
- 24 Across: "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." star (6)
- NABORS
- 26 Across: Their lines have ties: Abbr. (3)
- RRS
- 27 Across: It's taken while waiting (5)
- ORDER
- 29 Across: "Le Roi d'Ys" composer (4)
- LALO
- 30 Across: Lumpkin (4)
- LOUT
- 31 Across: Bible supporter, often (3)
- PEW
- 33 Across: One may be suckered (8)
- TENTACLE
- 35 Across: Hedonist's opposite (7)
- ASCETIC
- 39 Across: Unwanted tail? (7)
- STALKER
- 40 Across: Black-and-white (8)
- SQUADCAR
- 42 Across: W.W. II agcy. (3)
- OPA
- 43 Across: Bottom of the ocean? (4)
- HULL
- 44 Across: Group sharing a coat of arms (4)
- CLAN
- 46 Across: Feeds on the farm, maybe (5)
- SLOPS
- 50 Across: Offensive time? (3)
- TET
- 51 Across: City that lost its "tallest building" distinction in 2007 (6)
- TAIPEI
- 53 Across: Not apart, in scores (4)
- ADUE
- 54 Across: Club alternative (6)
- REUBEN
- 56 Across: ID figures (4)
- SSNS
- 58 Across: ID issuer (3)
- DMV
- 59 Across: Match (5)
- AGREE
- 60 Across: "Let's roll!" (9)
- ITSGOTIME
- 62 Across: Long (5)
- YEARN
- 63 Across: Very close game, e.g. (9)
- NAILBITER
- 64 Across: Bloody Sunday march site (5)
- SELMA
- 65 Across: Like some skiing and swimming (9)
- FREESTYLE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: "The tenth Muse," per Plato (6)
- SAPPHO
- 2 Down: Oblong temptation (6)
- ECLAIR
- 3 Down: Beyond suggestive (6)
- XRATED
- 4 Down: Far from forward (3)
- COY
- 5 Down: Quatrain scheme (4)
- ABAB
- 6 Down: Author of "America by Heart" (5)
- PALIN
- 7 Down: Missing a key? (6)
- ATONAL
- 8 Down: Dope (7)
- DINGBAT
- 9 Down: Lines coming from the heart, briefly? (3)
- ECG
- 10 Down: Gardeners' aids (5)
- HOSES
- 11 Down: One letting off steam (4)
- IRON
- 12 Down: 1970s music genre (8)
- GLAMROCK
- 13 Down: What the Faroe Islands were granted in 1948 (8)
- HOMERULE
- 14 Down: Frumpy loner, stereotypically (8)
- SPINSTER
- 21 Down: "Now!" (6)
- PRONTO
- 23 Down: Undo (6)
- REPEAL
- 25 Down: Accented cries (4)
- OLES
- 28 Down: Out of practice?: Abbr. (4)
- RETD
- 30 Down: Line forgetter's substitute (6)
- LALALA
- 32 Down: Magick worker (6)
- WICCAN
- 34 Down: It causes lights to go out (4)
- TAPS
- 35 Down: Camels' resting places (8)
- ASHTRAYS
- 36 Down: Sponge alternative (8)
- SQUEEGEE
- 37 Down: Kind of awareness (8)
- CULTURAL
- 38 Down: Title locale in a 1998 Notorious B.I.G. hit (4)
- CALI
- 41 Down: The Notorious B.I.G., e.g. (7)
- RAPSTAR
- 45 Down: Tabloid nickname (6)
- NESSIE
- 47 Down: Ripley's love (6)
- ODDITY
- 48 Down: Pound (6)
- PUMMEL
- 49 Down: Very bad (6)
- SEVERE
- 51 Down: Singer ___ Marie (5)
- TEENA
- 52 Down: Fireplace (5)
- INGLE
- 55 Down: Shoulder (4)
- BERM
- 57 Down: Displays disconsolation (4)
- SOBS
- 60 Down: Like Beethoven's Sixth (3)
- INF
- 61 Down: Black-throated ___ (3)
- TIT
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