Saturday Crossword — February 4, 2012 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 2/4/2012. By Brendan Emmett Quigley and Caleb Madison.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Navajo terrain (5)
- MESAS
- 6 Across: Chicken ___ (4)
- PARM
- 10 Across: Pack member, for short? (3)
- CIG
- 13 Across: Top (5)
- OUTDO
- 14 Across: What going 100 might result in (9)
- STEEPFINE
- 17 Across: "You ___ one" (5)
- OWEME
- 18 Across: 1980s-'90s hip-hop show co-hosted by Fab 5 Freddy (9)
- YOMTVRAPS
- 19 Across: Ingurgitate (6)
- DEVOUR
- 21 Across: Delectable (8)
- LUSCIOUS
- 22 Across: Joins (7)
- ENROLLS
- 24 Across: Food item whose name means "pounded" (5)
- PESTO
- 25 Across: "Patton" setting (7)
- TUNISIA
- 27 Across: Relieve (3)
- RID
- 28 Across: They often accompany discoveries (4)
- AHAS
- 29 Across: Congregation, metaphorically (5)
- SHEEP
- 32 Across: Org. studying viruses (3)
- NIH
- 35 Across: Be daring (15)
- PUSHTHEENVELOPE
- 39 Across: Sound after "Lower ... lower ... that's it!" (3)
- AHH
- 40 Across: Noted entertainer with a whistle (5)
- HARPO
- 41 Across: Site of a religious retreat (4)
- APSE
- 42 Across: Oaf (3)
- LUG
- 43 Across: Sneeze cause (7)
- RAGWEED
- 46 Across: Salad bar offering (5)
- BACON
- 49 Across: Writer about a bear (7)
- AAMILNE
- 51 Across: "Julie & Julia" co-star (8)
- AMYADAMS
- 53 Across: Amass (6)
- RACKUP
- 56 Across: "Bad for bacteria" brand (9)
- LISTERINE
- 58 Across: Setting for the 1996 documentary "When We Were Kings" (5)
- ZAIRE
- 59 Across: "Funny People" actor (9)
- SETHROGEN
- 60 Across: "Pietà or Revolution by Night" artist (5)
- ERNST
- 61 Across: Jerk (3)
- ASS
- 62 Across: Zip (4)
- DART
- 63 Across: "L'Amateur d'estampes" painter (5)
- DEGAS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Subjunctive, e.g. (4)
- MOOD
- 2 Down: Dutch chess grandmaster Max (4)
- EUWE
- 3 Down: First N.B.A. player to light the Olympic cauldron (9)
- STEVENASH
- 4 Down: Caution (8)
- ADMONISH
- 5 Down: French nuns (6)
- SOEURS
- 6 Down: Liberal arts dept. (3)
- PSY
- 7 Down: Midway, e.g. (5)
- ATOLL
- 8 Down: Fratricide victim of myth (5)
- REMUS
- 9 Down: "Meet the ___" (major-league fight song) (4)
- METS
- 10 Down: Bye lines? (5)
- CIAOS
- 11 Down: Data (5)
- INPUT
- 12 Down: Artist's supply (5)
- GESSO
- 15 Down: Line at a water fountain, maybe (7)
- PVCPIPE
- 16 Down: Burned out (5)
- FRIED
- 20 Down: Échecs piece (3)
- ROI
- 23 Down: Modern-day pointer (5)
- LASER
- 25 Down: Part of a bar order (4)
- TAPA
- 26 Down: "Dream on!" (4)
- UHUH
- 27 Down: King, e.g.: Abbr. (3)
- REV
- 30 Down: Like '40s boppers (3)
- HEP
- 31 Down: Colossal, to Coleridge (5)
- ENORM
- 32 Down: Christmas order (9)
- NOPEEKING
- 33 Down: Alter ___ amicus (4)
- IPSE
- 34 Down: Follow (4)
- HEED
- 36 Down: It rolls across fields (7)
- THUNDER
- 37 Down: Gorgon, e.g. (3)
- HAG
- 38 Down: Business that's always cutting back? (8)
- LAWNCARE
- 42 Down: Disinclined (5)
- LOATH
- 44 Down: Put on (3)
- AIR
- 45 Down: Like some doughnuts and eyes (6)
- GLAZED
- 46 Down: Makings of a model, maybe (5)
- BALSA
- 47 Down: Billet-doux recipients (5)
- AMIES
- 48 Down: Some bump producers (5)
- CYSTS
- 49 Down: Computer that pioneered in CD-ROMs (5)
- AMIGA
- 50 Down: Onetime Moore co-star (5)
- ASNER
- 52 Down: Longtime Yankee moniker (4)
- AROD
- 54 Down: Nocturnal bear (4)
- URSA
- 55 Down: No ___ (store sign) (4)
- PETS
- 57 Down: Rhinology expert, for short (3)
- ENT
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