Monday Crossword — August 6, 2012
Difficulty: EasyGrid: 15x1578 clues~5-15 minBy Lynn Lempel8/6/2012
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- What a slob makes (4 letters)
- 5 Across
- Start of a play (4 letters)
- 9 Across
- House, in Havana (4 letters)
- 13 Across
- Poker pot starter (4 letters)
- 14 Across
- Animal used for Davy Crockett's cap (4 letters)
- 15 Across
- Ancient doctor known for his work on anatomy (5 letters)
- 16 Across
- *Big gamble (9 letters)
- 18 Across
- Daytime host DeGeneres (5 letters)
- 19 Across
- Good-looker (6 letters)
- 20 Across
- Impressive accomplishment (4 letters)
- 22 Across
- Scarfed down (3 letters)
- 23 Across
- Commencement (5 letters)
- 24 Across
- *Election Day receptacle (9 letters)
- 26 Across
- Blabs (5 letters)
- 28 Across
- Former Chevy subcompact (4 letters)
- 29 Across
- Doofus (3 letters)
- 32 Across
- Poses (for) (4 letters)
- 34 Across
- Pass, as a law (5 letters)
- 37 Across
- *Result of a financial panic (7 letters)
- 40 Across
- *Tight braid (7 letters)
- 42 Across
- Hogs (5 letters)
- 43 Across
- Desserts good for a hot day (4 letters)
- 45 Across
- "CSI" evidence, often (3 letters)
- 46 Across
- D.C.-based agents (4 letters)
- 48 Across
- Adams who photographed Yosemite (5 letters)
- 51 Across
- *Series of changes from birth to death (9 letters)
- 54 Across
- Criticize in good fun (5 letters)
- 58 Across
- Low-ranking U.S.N. officer (3 letters)
- 59 Across
- Petrol brand (4 letters)
- 60 Across
- Visitor to a confessional (6 letters)
- 61 Across
- Lagoon encircler (5 letters)
- 63 Across
- *Precipitous drop in cost (9 letters)
- 65 Across
- Like Cinderella's stepsisters (5 letters)
- 66 Across
- Verdi's opera slave girl (4 letters)
- 67 Across
- Sign of things to come (4 letters)
- 68 Across
- Loathe (4 letters)
- 69 Across
- Gas in a DINER sign (4 letters)
- 70 Across
- Uncool sort (4 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Like he-men (5 letters)
- 2 Down
- Energy giant that went bankrupt in 2001 (5 letters)
- 3 Down
- Rebounds per game and others (5 letters)
- 4 Down
- Two trios plus one (6 letters)
- 5 Down
- Pine (for) (4 letters)
- 6 Down
- Murmur lovingly (3 letters)
- 7 Down
- Over the speed limit (7 letters)
- 8 Down
- Big maker of microchips (5 letters)
- 9 Down
- Baseball's record-setting Ripken (3 letters)
- 10 Down
- Train conductor's shout (9 letters)
- 11 Down
- Take care of (5 letters)
- 12 Down
- Building wing (5 letters)
- 15 Down
- Recover from (7 letters)
- 17 Down
- Web locale (4 letters)
- 21 Down
- Pie ___ mode (3 letters)
- 24 Down
- Russian pancakes (5 letters)
- 25 Down
- It's south of Ky. (4 letters)
- 27 Down
- Baton Rouge sch. (3 letters)
- 29 Down
- Belly muscles (3 letters)
- 30 Down
- Tool a magician uses in a woman-in-a-crate act (3 letters)
- 31 Down
- Detects like a bloodhound (9 letters)
- 33 Down
- Movie snippet (5 letters)
- 35 Down
- Pro's opposite (3 letters)
- 36 Down
- Old "We're up to something good" carrier (3 letters)
- 38 Down
- Leg joint (4 letters)
- 39 Down
- Blood component that contains hemoglobin (7 letters)
- 41 Down
- W.W. II spy org. (3 letters)
- 44 Down
- ___ counter (dieter) (7 letters)
- 47 Down
- Part of CBS: Abbr. (3 letters)
- 49 Down
- Lake between Ohio and Ontario (4 letters)
- 50 Down
- 2012 Olympics locale, with a hint to the ends of the answers to the six starred clues (6 letters)
- 51 Down
- Dissolve and wash away, as minerals (5 letters)
- 52 Down
- The "I" of IM, sportswise (5 letters)
- 53 Down
- Network for political junkies (5 letters)
- 55 Down
- Genre of the "Pokémon" TV series (5 letters)
- 56 Down
- Break off (5 letters)
- 57 Down
- General way things are going (5 letters)
- 60 Down
- Read carefully (4 letters)
- 62 Down
- General at Appomattox (3 letters)
- 64 Down
- Words that have a certain ring to them? (3 letters)
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