Thursday Crossword — February 16, 2012 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 2/16/2012. By Jim Page.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Goof (6)
- SLIPUP
- 7 Across: Boo-boo (5)
- FLUFF
- 12 Across: Player of TV's Caine (6)
- CARUSO
- 13 Across: Circus performance or concert (7)
- LIVEACT
- 16 Across: Lined, as a furnace hearth (7)
- FETTLED
- 17 Across: Representative's work (7)
- AGENTRY
- 18 Across: Nice one (3)
- UNE
- 19 Across: L.A.P.D. part (3)
- LOS
- 20 Across: Bro's greeting (7)
- WHASSUP
- 21 Across: With 29-/30-Across, wiggle room ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme (6)
- MARGIN
- 23 Across: "You ___!" (3)
- BET
- 24 Across: Stir (4)
- TODO
- 25 Across: Monty Python title character (5)
- BRIAN
- 26 Across: Chocolate dessert (6)
- MUDPIE
- 28 Across: It may have bullets (4)
- LIST
- 29 Across: See 21-Across (3)
- FOR
- 30 Across: See 21-Across (5)
- ERROR
- 33 Across: Yuma-to-Tombstone dir. (3)
- ESE
- 34 Across: Excuse (3)
- OUT
- 35 Across: It may come from a well (3)
- INK
- 36 Across: Stumble, in a way (3)
- HEM
- 38 Across: Kind of net (5)
- TRAWL
- 40 Across: Ones stuck in the hospital, for short? (3)
- IVS
- 41 Across: Approval in Rome (4)
- SISI
- 42 Across: Medicine (6)
- REMEDY
- 44 Across: Blue-roofed dining spots (5)
- IHOPS
- 45 Across: "I heard ___!" (4)
- THAT
- 48 Across: Shut-___ (3)
- INS
- 49 Across: "Hold on" (6)
- ONESEC
- 50 Across: Flushes (7)
- REDDENS
- 52 Across: Quad bike, e.g. (3)
- ATV
- 53 Across: 2011 Rose Bowl winner, for short (3)
- TCU
- 54 Across: One caught by border patrol (7)
- ILLEGAL
- 55 Across: Market town that's a suburb of London (7)
- REIGATE
- 57 Across: Folded like a fan (7)
- PLICATE
- 58 Across: Mint (6)
- CREATE
- 59 Across: Gaffe (5)
- BONER
- 60 Across: Screwup (6)
- HOWLER
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Film planner (9)
- SCENARIST
- 2 Down: Slugabed (9)
- LATERISER
- 3 Down: First subway line in N.Y.C. (3)
- IRT
- 4 Down: Grab a parking spot (6)
- PULLIN
- 5 Down: Hit with, as a pickup line (5)
- USEON
- 6 Down: Jet engine housings (4)
- PODS
- 7 Down: Imperfect (6)
- FLAWED
- 8 Down: Implements for "writing" on computer screens (9)
- LIGHTPENS
- 9 Down: Part of the face whose name is derived from the Latin for "grape" (4)
- UVEA
- 10 Down: 1960s title sitcom character (7)
- FENSTER
- 11 Down: Tubby (5)
- FATSO
- 14 Down: Gunk (4)
- CRUD
- 15 Down: Misprint (4)
- TYPO
- 16 Down: Flub (6)
- FUMBLE
- 22 Down: Old gang weapon (3)
- GAT
- 23 Down: Prickly seedcase (3)
- BUR
- 26 Down: Vocabulaire part (3)
- MOT
- 27 Down: Get to (3)
- IRK
- 29 Down: Rant (9)
- FULMINATE
- 31 Down: School whose football stadium is nicknamed the Horseshoe (9)
- OHIOSTATE
- 32 Down: Obeyer, as of laws (9)
- RESPECTER
- 34 Down: "You ___ me" (3)
- OWE
- 35 Down: Brown, e.g. (3)
- IVY
- 37 Down: Muff (6)
- MISCUE
- 39 Down: Like New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (7)
- ARTDECO
- 40 Down: Wallet items, in brief (3)
- IDS
- 41 Down: Lord Byron's "___ Walks in Beauty" (3)
- SHE
- 43 Down: Tony-winning playwright Eve (6)
- ENSLER
- 44 Down: Seen (6)
- INVIEW
- 45 Down: Pratfall (4)
- TRIP
- 46 Down: The pits (4)
- HELL
- 47 Down: It's not scripted (5)
- ADLIB
- 49 Down: New Mexico county (5)
- OTERO
- 51 Down: Susan of Broadway's "Beauty and the Beast" (4)
- EGAN
- 52 Down: Eyebrow shape (4)
- ARCH
- 56 Down: Miss at a hoedown (3)
- GAL
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