Saturday Crossword — February 25, 2012

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1570 clues~30-60 minBy Barry C. Silk2/25/2012

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Crowds around noisily (4 letters)
5 Across
"In the Still of the Nite" doo-wop group, with "the" (10 letters)
15 Across
Beginning of time? (4 letters)
16 Across
Somewhat (10 letters)
17 Across
Korean War weapon (4 letters)
18 Across
Where to request a knish (10 letters)
19 Across
"___ the brinded cat hath mewed": Shak. (6 letters)
21 Across
Like sports cars, briefly (4 letters)
22 Across
Reagan-era teen, e.g. (3 letters)
23 Across
Modern-day stream (7 letters)
25 Across
Burgeon (4 letters)
27 Across
Like some shape shifters? (8 letters)
29 Across
Cut bits from, maybe (6 letters)
33 Across
What "-" means in a search query (3 letters)
34 Across
Big ring rivals (5 letters)
36 Across
Mark of a successful gunfighter (5 letters)
37 Across
They cause blowups (4 letters)
39 Across
Like many disabled vehicles (5 letters)
41 Across
Positions (4 letters)
42 Across
Helped supply a sushi restaurant, say (5 letters)
44 Across
Promotions may require them, for short (5 letters)
46 Across
Chile's main airline (3 letters)
47 Across
Yarn identifier (6 letters)
49 Across
Bar lines? (8 letters)
51 Across
Washout (4 letters)
53 Across
First bishop of Paris (7 letters)
54 Across
"Looky here!" (3 letters)
57 Across
___ balls (chocolaty snacks) (4 letters)
59 Across
1950 sci-fi classic (6 letters)
60 Across
Medium relative (10 letters)
63 Across
Mini successor (4 letters)
64 Across
Spy's query at the start of a meeting (10 letters)
65 Across
LeAnn Rimes's "Love ___ Army" (4 letters)
66 Across
Like legal voters (10 letters)
67 Across
Take out (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Like some top-10 people (10 letters)
2 Down
Like bull's-eyes (10 letters)
3 Down
One in a stag's litter (10 letters)
4 Down
"Aah!" (6 letters)
5 Down
Tricks (8 letters)
6 Down
1969 Peace Prize agcy. (3 letters)
7 Down
Certain stamp of approval (4 letters)
8 Down
Fifth element, per Aristotle (5 letters)
9 Down
Of atoms' spatial relationships (6 letters)
10 Down
The Hebrew Hammer of the Cleveland Indians (7 letters)
11 Down
J.F.K. speechwriter Sorensen (3 letters)
12 Down
Horned mountain dweller (4 letters)
13 Down
View from Memphis (4 letters)
14 Down
Kerfuffle (4 letters)
20 Down
Airport fleet (4 letters)
24 Down
It's south of the Banda Sea (5 letters)
26 Down
Hydroxyl compound (4 letters)
28 Down
Tinkertoy bit (5 letters)
30 Down
One of Henderson's record 1,406 (10 letters)
31 Down
Off-and-on (10 letters)
32 Down
Bit of paste (10 letters)
35 Down
2009 Tennis Hall of Fame inductee (5 letters)
38 Down
Common portrait subject (4 letters)
40 Down
Beat (8 letters)
43 Down
Actress-turned-nun Hart (7 letters)
45 Down
Abolhassan Bani-___ (first president of Iran) (4 letters)
48 Down
Clawed (6 letters)
50 Down
Russian playwright Andreyev (6 letters)
52 Down
Guideposts magazine founder (5 letters)
54 Down
"'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days" poet (4 letters)
55 Down
Take on (4 letters)
56 Down
Universal donor's type, briefly (4 letters)
58 Down
Kitchen drawer? (4 letters)
61 Down
Traffic violation, for short (3 letters)
62 Down
Okla. City-to-Tulsa direction (3 letters)

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