Friday Crossword — January 6, 2012 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 1/6/2012. By David Steinberg.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Company whose jobs are often changing? (9)
- JIFFYLUBE
- 10 Across: Working group (5)
- STAFF
- 15 Across: Got to the bottom of (9)
- UNRAVELED
- 16 Across: It takes a bow at a musical performance (5)
- CELLO
- 17 Across: 1958 Buddy Holly hit (9)
- MAYBEBABY
- 18 Across: "Guaranteed relief every time" sloganeer (5)
- EXLAX
- 19 Across: Historic leader? (3)
- PRE
- 20 Across: "Dove ___" (Mozart aria) (4)
- SONO
- 21 Across: Thing (6)
- ENTITY
- 22 Across: Poetic contraction (3)
- EER
- 23 Across: Kind of strip (6)
- NOPEST
- 25 Across: Workers' org. founded by Samuel Gompers (3)
- AFL
- 26 Across: Farriers' tools (5)
- RASPS
- 29 Across: Letters signifying quality brandy (4)
- VSOP
- 30 Across: Grant-giving org. (3)
- NEA
- 31 Across: Musical with the song "Written in the Stars" (4)
- AIDA
- 33 Across: Said "There, there" to, say (7)
- SOLACED
- 36 Across: It makes the Statue of Liberty green (6)
- PATINA
- 39 Across: Guarantee (6)
- SURETY
- 40 Across: Very excited (7)
- ATINGLE
- 42 Across: The so-called Island of the Gods (4)
- BALI
- 43 Across: Head for the hills (3)
- LAM
- 44 Across: One can be tall (4)
- TALE
- 46 Across: Jerry or Jerry Lee (5)
- LEWIS
- 50 Across: Seine sight (3)
- ILE
- 51 Across: Rappers' covers (6)
- DORAGS
- 53 Across: Sign (3)
- INK
- 54 Across: Lane on Broadway (6)
- NATHAN
- 56 Across: Attack (4)
- GOAT
- 58 Across: Telephone trio (3)
- GHI
- 59 Across: Against a thing, at law (5)
- INREM
- 60 Across: 2010 Ke$ha chart-topper with a creatively spelled five-word title (9)
- WERWHOWER
- 62 Across: Clichéd (5)
- STALE
- 63 Across: Series of Nintendo games (9)
- MARIOKART
- 64 Across: Certain 49-Down (5)
- MAXIS
- 65 Across: Watersheds (9)
- DRAINAGES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: 18-footer, maybe (6)
- JUMPER
- 2 Down: Measured two-dimensionally (6)
- INAREA
- 3 Down: Chickens for dinner (6)
- FRYERS
- 4 Down: "Marvy!" (3)
- FAB
- 5 Down: Surrealist Tanguy (4)
- YVES
- 6 Down: Simon of Duran Duran (5)
- LEBON
- 7 Down: Russian ballerina Galina (7)
- ULANOVA
- 8 Down: Gets into Monk music (6)
- BEBOPS
- 9 Down: Eponym of a frozen food (3)
- EDY
- 10 Down: It may be picked up in the woods (5)
- SCENT
- 11 Down: Do a driver's no-no (4)
- TEXT
- 12 Down: Axis, e.g. (8)
- ALLIANCE
- 13 Down: Condition known medically as pes planus (8)
- FLATFEET
- 14 Down: 1967 hit with the lyric "You know you're a cute little heartbreaker" (8)
- FOXYLADY
- 21 Down: Wife, in Juárez (6)
- ESPOSA
- 24 Down: Sister of Helios (3)
- EOS
- 27 Down: Sibling, at times? (4)
- PAIN
- 28 Down: Sound really good (4)
- SING
- 32 Down: 007 player (6)
- DALTON
- 34 Down: Put to sleep (4)
- LULL
- 35 Down: Auto racer Luyendyk (4)
- ARIE
- 36 Down: "Refudiate," e.g. (8)
- PALINISM
- 37 Down: Mythical runner (8)
- ATALANTA
- 38 Down: 1990s series initially set in the year 2193 (8)
- TIMETRAX
- 41 Down: Place for a plug (3)
- EAR
- 42 Down: Mild Irish oath (7)
- BEGORRA
- 45 Down: Nike competitor (6)
- LAGEAR
- 47 Down: Move to and fro (6)
- WIGWAG
- 48 Down: Belong (6)
- INHERE
- 49 Down: Women's wear (6)
- SKIRTS
- 51 Down: Women (5)
- DAMES
- 52 Down: 2005 horror sequel (5)
- SAWII
- 55 Down: Prefix with port (4)
- HELI
- 57 Down: Fund-raising suffix (4)
- THON
- 60 Down: Iraq war subject, briefly (3)
- WMD
- 61 Down: Volga tributary (3)
- OKA
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