Saturday Crossword — July 28, 2012 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 7/28/2012. By Victor Fleming and Sam Ezersky.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Part of a certain log (8)
- STARDATE
- 9 Across: Appliance maker that produced the first microwave oven for household use (1955) (6)
- TAPPAN
- 15 Across: Give lots of work ... or criticism (8)
- PILEITON
- 16 Across: In (6)
- ATHOME
- 17 Across: Dashing through the snow? (8)
- IDITAROD
- 18 Across: Landmark also known as Kissavos (6)
- MTOSSA
- 19 Across: Thick (3)
- FAT
- 20 Across: Defiant retort (6)
- MAKEME
- 22 Across: Mustang option (4)
- TTOP
- 23 Across: Beat (4)
- FLOG
- 25 Across: Like a game ending in double overtime, say (7)
- HARDWON
- 27 Across: "Copper Canyon" and "Coroner Creek" (6)
- OATERS
- 30 Across: Discompose (5)
- ABASH
- 33 Across: They may be empty in a vending machine (8)
- CALORIES
- 36 Across: Journal keeper of fiction (6)
- CRUSOE
- 37 Across: Straight (7)
- ALIGNED
- 38 Across: Certain seal (7)
- SEACALF
- 39 Across: Listing agent's principal (6)
- SELLER
- 40 Across: Genre of Lauren Weisberger's "The Devil Wears Prada" (8)
- CHICKLIT
- 41 Across: So far (5)
- ASYET
- 42 Across: Actress Sobieski (6)
- LEELEE
- 43 Across: Aids for home parties (7)
- WETBARS
- 45 Across: Draw, in a way (4)
- TOKE
- 49 Across: Federal org. with compliance officers (4)
- OSHA
- 51 Across: Like Jesus on the Shroud of Turin, many believe (6)
- IMAGED
- 54 Across: ___ esprit (3)
- BEL
- 55 Across: Capital of Iran's Fars province (6)
- SHIRAZ
- 57 Across: Faithful practice (8)
- MONOGAMY
- 59 Across: Peewee (6)
- LITTLE
- 60 Across: How hair might fall out (8)
- INCLUMPS
- 61 Across: Almost perfect, as a game (6)
- ONEHIT
- 62 Across: Pen pal? (8)
- CELLMATE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Neaten (up) (5)
- SPIFF
- 2 Down: Start of a big wave? (5)
- TIDAL
- 3 Down: O'Connor's successor (5)
- ALITO
- 4 Down: No longer serving: Abbr. (3)
- RET
- 5 Down: Geometry meas. (4)
- DIAM
- 6 Down: ___ Plus (pharmacy purchase) (4)
- ATRA
- 7 Down: Really listened (8)
- TOOKHEED
- 8 Down: Charms (7)
- ENDEARS
- 9 Down: Under control (5)
- TAMED
- 10 Down: Bygone N.Y.S.E. ticker symbol (3)
- ATT
- 11 Down: Picture-hosting Web site (11)
- PHOTOBUCKET
- 12 Down: Kind of drip (9)
- POSTNASAL
- 13 Down: "Are not!" elicitor (4)
- AMSO
- 14 Down: Spring's counterpart (4)
- NEAP
- 21 Down: Title box choice (3)
- MRS
- 24 Down: Reference program launched in 2005 (11)
- GOOGLEEARTH
- 26 Down: Top gun (6)
- WARACE
- 28 Down: Actor Will of "Up All Night" (6)
- ARNETT
- 29 Down: Second-___ (4)
- TIER
- 31 Down: Cadenzas, e.g. (4)
- SOLI
- 32 Down: Weight (4)
- HEFT
- 33 Down: Sight along una calle (4)
- CASA
- 34 Down: They may be pint-size with big heads (4)
- ALES
- 35 Down: 100% pure (9)
- LILYWHITE
- 36 Down: Put a cover on (4)
- CEIL
- 38 Down: 1976 Hall & Oates hit (8)
- SHESGONE
- 40 Down: Like many cookie jars (7)
- CERAMIC
- 42 Down: Flight (3)
- LAM
- 44 Down: "Les Pêcheurs de Perles" composer (5)
- BIZET
- 46 Down: Start to care? (5)
- OBAMA
- 47 Down: Combed, as hair (5)
- KEMPT
- 48 Down: ___ Knox, co-star of Lon Chaney in "The Mummy's Tomb" (5)
- ELYSE
- 49 Down: Olympics locale where the first figure-skating triple jump was landed (4)
- OSLO
- 50 Down: It's just over a foot (4)
- SHIN
- 52 Down: Check within, say?: Abbr. (4)
- ENCL
- 53 Down: Sweetums (4)
- DOLL
- 56 Down: Fourth caliph in Sunni Islam (3)
- ALI
- 58 Down: Jam (up) (3)
- GUM
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