Saturday Crossword — July 28, 2012

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1570 clues~30-60 minBy Victor Fleming and Sam Ezersky7/28/2012

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Part of a certain log (8 letters)
9 Across
Appliance maker that produced the first microwave oven for household use (1955) (6 letters)
15 Across
Give lots of work ... or criticism (8 letters)
16 Across
In (6 letters)
17 Across
Dashing through the snow? (8 letters)
18 Across
Landmark also known as Kissavos (6 letters)
19 Across
Thick (3 letters)
20 Across
Defiant retort (6 letters)
22 Across
Mustang option (4 letters)
23 Across
Beat (4 letters)
25 Across
Like a game ending in double overtime, say (7 letters)
27 Across
"Copper Canyon" and "Coroner Creek" (6 letters)
30 Across
Discompose (5 letters)
33 Across
They may be empty in a vending machine (8 letters)
36 Across
Journal keeper of fiction (6 letters)
37 Across
Straight (7 letters)
38 Across
Certain seal (7 letters)
39 Across
Listing agent's principal (6 letters)
40 Across
Genre of Lauren Weisberger's "The Devil Wears Prada" (8 letters)
41 Across
So far (5 letters)
42 Across
Actress Sobieski (6 letters)
43 Across
Aids for home parties (7 letters)
45 Across
Draw, in a way (4 letters)
49 Across
Federal org. with compliance officers (4 letters)
51 Across
Like Jesus on the Shroud of Turin, many believe (6 letters)
54 Across
___ esprit (3 letters)
55 Across
Capital of Iran's Fars province (6 letters)
57 Across
Faithful practice (8 letters)
59 Across
Peewee (6 letters)
60 Across
How hair might fall out (8 letters)
61 Across
Almost perfect, as a game (6 letters)
62 Across
Pen pal? (8 letters)

Down

1 Down
Neaten (up) (5 letters)
2 Down
Start of a big wave? (5 letters)
3 Down
O'Connor's successor (5 letters)
4 Down
No longer serving: Abbr. (3 letters)
5 Down
Geometry meas. (4 letters)
6 Down
___ Plus (pharmacy purchase) (4 letters)
7 Down
Really listened (8 letters)
8 Down
Charms (7 letters)
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Under control (5 letters)
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Bygone N.Y.S.E. ticker symbol (3 letters)
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Picture-hosting Web site (11 letters)
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Kind of drip (9 letters)
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"Are not!" elicitor (4 letters)
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Spring's counterpart (4 letters)
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Title box choice (3 letters)
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Reference program launched in 2005 (11 letters)
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Top gun (6 letters)
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Actor Will of "Up All Night" (6 letters)
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Second-___ (4 letters)
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Cadenzas, e.g. (4 letters)
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Weight (4 letters)
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Sight along una calle (4 letters)
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They may be pint-size with big heads (4 letters)
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100% pure (9 letters)
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Put a cover on (4 letters)
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1976 Hall & Oates hit (8 letters)
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Like many cookie jars (7 letters)
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Flight (3 letters)
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"Les Pêcheurs de Perles" composer (5 letters)
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Start to care? (5 letters)
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Combed, as hair (5 letters)
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___ Knox, co-star of Lon Chaney in "The Mummy's Tomb" (5 letters)
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Olympics locale where the first figure-skating triple jump was landed (4 letters)
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It's just over a foot (4 letters)
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Check within, say?: Abbr. (4 letters)
53 Down
Sweetums (4 letters)
56 Down
Fourth caliph in Sunni Islam (3 letters)
58 Down
Jam (up) (3 letters)

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