Friday Crossword — January 6, 2012

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1572 clues~30-60 minBy David Steinberg1/6/2012

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Company whose jobs are often changing? (9 letters)
10 Across
Working group (5 letters)
15 Across
Got to the bottom of (9 letters)
16 Across
It takes a bow at a musical performance (5 letters)
17 Across
1958 Buddy Holly hit (9 letters)
18 Across
"Guaranteed relief every time" sloganeer (5 letters)
19 Across
Historic leader? (3 letters)
20 Across
"Dove ___" (Mozart aria) (4 letters)
21 Across
Thing (6 letters)
22 Across
Poetic contraction (3 letters)
23 Across
Kind of strip (6 letters)
25 Across
Workers' org. founded by Samuel Gompers (3 letters)
26 Across
Farriers' tools (5 letters)
29 Across
Letters signifying quality brandy (4 letters)
30 Across
Grant-giving org. (3 letters)
31 Across
Musical with the song "Written in the Stars" (4 letters)
33 Across
Said "There, there" to, say (7 letters)
36 Across
It makes the Statue of Liberty green (6 letters)
39 Across
Guarantee (6 letters)
40 Across
Very excited (7 letters)
42 Across
The so-called Island of the Gods (4 letters)
43 Across
Head for the hills (3 letters)
44 Across
One can be tall (4 letters)
46 Across
Jerry or Jerry Lee (5 letters)
50 Across
Seine sight (3 letters)
51 Across
Rappers' covers (6 letters)
53 Across
Sign (3 letters)
54 Across
Lane on Broadway (6 letters)
56 Across
Attack (4 letters)
58 Across
Telephone trio (3 letters)
59 Across
Against a thing, at law (5 letters)
60 Across
2010 Ke$ha chart-topper with a creatively spelled five-word title (9 letters)
62 Across
Clichéd (5 letters)
63 Across
Series of Nintendo games (9 letters)
64 Across
Certain 49-Down (5 letters)
65 Across
Watersheds (9 letters)

Down

1 Down
18-footer, maybe (6 letters)
2 Down
Measured two-dimensionally (6 letters)
3 Down
Chickens for dinner (6 letters)
4 Down
"Marvy!" (3 letters)
5 Down
Surrealist Tanguy (4 letters)
6 Down
Simon of Duran Duran (5 letters)
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Russian ballerina Galina (7 letters)
8 Down
Gets into Monk music (6 letters)
9 Down
Eponym of a frozen food (3 letters)
10 Down
It may be picked up in the woods (5 letters)
11 Down
Do a driver's no-no (4 letters)
12 Down
Axis, e.g. (8 letters)
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Condition known medically as pes planus (8 letters)
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1967 hit with the lyric "You know you're a cute little heartbreaker" (8 letters)
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Wife, in Juárez (6 letters)
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Sister of Helios (3 letters)
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Sibling, at times? (4 letters)
28 Down
Sound really good (4 letters)
32 Down
007 player (6 letters)
34 Down
Put to sleep (4 letters)
35 Down
Auto racer Luyendyk (4 letters)
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"Refudiate," e.g. (8 letters)
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Mythical runner (8 letters)
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1990s series initially set in the year 2193 (8 letters)
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Place for a plug (3 letters)
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Mild Irish oath (7 letters)
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Nike competitor (6 letters)
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Move to and fro (6 letters)
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Belong (6 letters)
49 Down
Women's wear (6 letters)
51 Down
Women (5 letters)
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2005 horror sequel (5 letters)
55 Down
Prefix with port (4 letters)
57 Down
Fund-raising suffix (4 letters)
60 Down
Iraq war subject, briefly (3 letters)
61 Down
Volga tributary (3 letters)

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