Saturday Crossword — February 25, 2012 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 2/25/2012. By Barry C. Silk.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Crowds around noisily (4)
- MOBS
- 5 Across: "In the Still of the Nite" doo-wop group, with "the" (10)
- FIVESATINS
- 15 Across: Beginning of time? (4)
- ONEO
- 16 Across: Somewhat (10)
- ALITTLEBIT
- 17 Across: Korean War weapon (4)
- STEN
- 18 Across: Where to request a knish (10)
- KOSHERDELI
- 19 Across: "___ the brinded cat hath mewed": Shak. (6)
- THRICE
- 21 Across: Like sports cars, briefly (4)
- AERO
- 22 Across: Reagan-era teen, e.g. (3)
- XER
- 23 Across: Modern-day stream (7)
- WEBCAST
- 25 Across: Burgeon (4)
- RISE
- 27 Across: Like some shape shifters? (8)
- AMOEBOID
- 29 Across: Cut bits from, maybe (6)
- CENSOR
- 33 Across: What "-" means in a search query (3)
- NOT
- 34 Across: Big ring rivals (5)
- SUMOS
- 36 Across: Mark of a successful gunfighter (5)
- NOTCH
- 37 Across: They cause blowups (4)
- TNTS
- 39 Across: Like many disabled vehicles (5)
- TOWED
- 41 Across: Positions (4)
- LOCI
- 42 Across: Helped supply a sushi restaurant, say (5)
- EELED
- 44 Across: Promotions may require them, for short (5)
- RELOS
- 46 Across: Chile's main airline (3)
- LAN
- 47 Across: Yarn identifier (6)
- DYELOT
- 49 Across: Bar lines? (8)
- LEGALESE
- 51 Across: Washout (4)
- FLOP
- 53 Across: First bishop of Paris (7)
- STDENIS
- 54 Across: "Looky here!" (3)
- OHO
- 57 Across: ___ balls (chocolaty snacks) (4)
- OREO
- 59 Across: 1950 sci-fi classic (6)
- IROBOT
- 60 Across: Medium relative (10)
- MINDREADER
- 63 Across: Mini successor (4)
- NANO
- 64 Across: Spy's query at the start of a meeting (10)
- AREWEALONE
- 65 Across: LeAnn Rimes's "Love ___ Army" (4)
- ISAN
- 66 Across: Like legal voters (10)
- REGISTERED
- 67 Across: Take out (4)
- DELE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Like some top-10 people (10)
- MOSTWANTED
- 2 Down: Like bull's-eyes (10)
- ONTHEMONEY
- 3 Down: One in a stag's litter (10)
- BEERBOTTLE
- 4 Down: "Aah!" (6)
- SONICE
- 5 Down: Tricks (8)
- FAKESOUT
- 6 Down: 1969 Peace Prize agcy. (3)
- ILO
- 7 Down: Certain stamp of approval (4)
- VISA
- 8 Down: Fifth element, per Aristotle (5)
- ETHER
- 9 Down: Of atoms' spatial relationships (6)
- STERIC
- 10 Down: The Hebrew Hammer of the Cleveland Indians (7)
- ALROSEN
- 11 Down: J.F.K. speechwriter Sorensen (3)
- TED
- 12 Down: Horned mountain dweller (4)
- IBEX
- 13 Down: View from Memphis (4)
- NILE
- 14 Down: Kerfuffle (4)
- STIR
- 20 Down: Airport fleet (4)
- CABS
- 24 Down: It's south of the Banda Sea (5)
- TIMOR
- 26 Down: Hydroxyl compound (4)
- ENOL
- 28 Down: Tinkertoy bit (5)
- DOWEL
- 30 Down: One of Henderson's record 1,406 (10)
- STOLENBASE
- 31 Down: Off-and-on (10)
- OCCASIONAL
- 32 Down: Bit of paste (10)
- RHINESTONE
- 35 Down: 2009 Tennis Hall of Fame inductee (5)
- SELES
- 38 Down: Common portrait subject (4)
- SELF
- 40 Down: Beat (8)
- DOGTIRED
- 43 Down: Actress-turned-nun Hart (7)
- DOLORES
- 45 Down: Abolhassan Bani-___ (first president of Iran) (4)
- SADR
- 48 Down: Clawed (6)
- TOREAT
- 50 Down: Russian playwright Andreyev (6)
- LEONID
- 52 Down: Guideposts magazine founder (5)
- PEALE
- 54 Down: "'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days" poet (4)
- OMAR
- 55 Down: Take on (4)
- HIRE
- 56 Down: Universal donor's type, briefly (4)
- ONEG
- 58 Down: Kitchen drawer? (4)
- ODOR
- 61 Down: Traffic violation, for short (3)
- DWI
- 62 Down: Okla. City-to-Tulsa direction (3)
- ENE
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