Saturday Crossword — March 17, 2012

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1572 clues~30-60 minBy David Quarfoot3/17/2012

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
High clouds? (8 letters)
9 Across
Ancient pentathlon event (6 letters)
15 Across
Approximately .264 gallons (8 letters)
16 Across
Div. created in 1969 (6 letters)
17 Across
It gets the word out (8 letters)
18 Across
New Valentine's phrase added on Sweethearts candy in 2010 (6 letters)
19 Across
Prince Edward I. clock setting (3 letters)
20 Across
Having an underwhelmed response (5 letters)
22 Across
Essence (5 letters)
23 Across
Thought after an after-afterthought: Abbr. (4 letters)
25 Across
Freshen (5 letters)
27 Across
Scramble (4 letters)
28 Across
Hot (5 letters)
30 Across
War cry of the '60s (9 letters)
32 Across
Smooth (6 letters)
34 Across
"The Da Vinci Code" albino (5 letters)
35 Across
"Brokeback Mountain" director (3 letters)
36 Across
Hot dog's relative (3 letters)
38 Across
Cable inits. (3 letters)
39 Across
___ tree (3 letters)
42 Across
"Alas!" (5 letters)
44 Across
Flavor (6 letters)
46 Across
Hands-in-the-air phrase (9 letters)
50 Across
McCarthy cohort (5 letters)
51 Across
Big name in educational funding (4 letters)
52 Across
Spread (5 letters)
54 Across
Birds of prey (4 letters)
55 Across
Etiolates (5 letters)
57 Across
Incipience (5 letters)
59 Across
Grp. involved in the Abbottabad raid (3 letters)
60 Across
Onomatopoeic game on "The Price Is Right" (6 letters)
62 Across
Time near the end of a time range (8 letters)
64 Across
It might have a crust (6 letters)
65 Across
Sophocles tribute that begins "Numberless are the world's wonders ..." (8 letters)
66 Across
Language of the Afghan national anthem (6 letters)
67 Across
Cry from an arriving group (8 letters)

Down

1 Down
Medicate oneself, say (8 letters)
2 Down
Rampaging (8 letters)
3 Down
Check that's inked, perhaps (8 letters)
4 Down
Sharp (3 letters)
5 Down
Spray (4 letters)
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Fur source (5 letters)
7 Down
Fish of sufficient size (6 letters)
8 Down
Fur sources (7 letters)
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Slangy pronoun (3 letters)
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They're near appendices (4 letters)
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Stock in an adult store (7 letters)
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Name-brand targets? (6 letters)
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Words below an eagle (6 letters)
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A biochemical solid (6 letters)
21 Down
Dock, in a way (5 letters)
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Itinerary abbr. (3 letters)
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Spring locales (5 letters)
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Character (5 letters)
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Spikes (5 letters)
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Spring locales (5 letters)
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1997 Nielsen title role (5 letters)
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Common admission requirement (8 letters)
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Actor who might grin and bare it? (8 letters)
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Director's cutoff (8 letters)
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Chorus member? (7 letters)
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Secrecy, with "the" (7 letters)
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Game show purchase (3 letters)
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Rare dynamic marking seen in Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony (6 letters)
47 Down
Objects from everyday life (6 letters)
48 Down
United group (6 letters)
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"In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice" speaker (6 letters)
53 Down
Hold off (5 letters)
56 Down
Sketch (4 letters)
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Department head? (4 letters)
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Conceptual art pioneer (3 letters)
63 Down
Line from Homer (3 letters)

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