Monday Crossword — August 6, 2012 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 8/6/2012. By Lynn Lempel.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: What a slob makes (4)
- MESS
- 5 Across: Start of a play (4)
- ACTI
- 9 Across: House, in Havana (4)
- CASA
- 13 Across: Poker pot starter (4)
- ANTE
- 14 Across: Animal used for Davy Crockett's cap (4)
- COON
- 15 Across: Ancient doctor known for his work on anatomy (5)
- GALEN
- 16 Across: *Big gamble (9)
- CRAPSHOOT
- 18 Across: Daytime host DeGeneres (5)
- ELLEN
- 19 Across: Good-looker (6)
- HOTTIE
- 20 Across: Impressive accomplishment (4)
- FEAT
- 22 Across: Scarfed down (3)
- ATE
- 23 Across: Commencement (5)
- ONSET
- 24 Across: *Election Day receptacle (9)
- BALLOTBOX
- 26 Across: Blabs (5)
- TELLS
- 28 Across: Former Chevy subcompact (4)
- AVEO
- 29 Across: Doofus (3)
- ASS
- 32 Across: Poses (for) (4)
- SITS
- 34 Across: Pass, as a law (5)
- ENACT
- 37 Across: *Result of a financial panic (7)
- BANKRUN
- 40 Across: *Tight braid (7)
- CORNROW
- 42 Across: Hogs (5)
- SWINE
- 43 Across: Desserts good for a hot day (4)
- ICES
- 45 Across: "CSI" evidence, often (3)
- DNA
- 46 Across: D.C.-based agents (4)
- FEDS
- 48 Across: Adams who photographed Yosemite (5)
- ANSEL
- 51 Across: *Series of changes from birth to death (9)
- LIFECYCLE
- 54 Across: Criticize in good fun (5)
- ROAST
- 58 Across: Low-ranking U.S.N. officer (3)
- ENS
- 59 Across: Petrol brand (4)
- ESSO
- 60 Across: Visitor to a confessional (6)
- SINNER
- 61 Across: Lagoon encircler (5)
- ATOLL
- 63 Across: *Precipitous drop in cost (9)
- PRICEDIVE
- 65 Across: Like Cinderella's stepsisters (5)
- CRUEL
- 66 Across: Verdi's opera slave girl (4)
- AIDA
- 67 Across: Sign of things to come (4)
- OMEN
- 68 Across: Loathe (4)
- HATE
- 69 Across: Gas in a DINER sign (4)
- NEON
- 70 Across: Uncool sort (4)
- NERD
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Like he-men (5)
- MACHO
- 2 Down: Energy giant that went bankrupt in 2001 (5)
- ENRON
- 3 Down: Rebounds per game and others (5)
- STATS
- 4 Down: Two trios plus one (6)
- SEPTET
- 5 Down: Pine (for) (4)
- ACHE
- 6 Down: Murmur lovingly (3)
- COO
- 7 Down: Over the speed limit (7)
- TOOFAST
- 8 Down: Big maker of microchips (5)
- INTEL
- 9 Down: Baseball's record-setting Ripken (3)
- CAL
- 10 Down: Train conductor's shout (9)
- ALLABOARD
- 11 Down: Take care of (5)
- SEETO
- 12 Down: Building wing (5)
- ANNEX
- 15 Down: Recover from (7)
- GETOVER
- 17 Down: Web locale (4)
- SITE
- 21 Down: Pie ___ mode (3)
- ALA
- 24 Down: Russian pancakes (5)
- BLINI
- 25 Down: It's south of Ky. (4)
- TENN
- 27 Down: Baton Rouge sch. (3)
- LSU
- 29 Down: Belly muscles (3)
- ABS
- 30 Down: Tool a magician uses in a woman-in-a-crate act (3)
- SAW
- 31 Down: Detects like a bloodhound (9)
- SNIFFSOUT
- 33 Down: Movie snippet (5)
- SCENE
- 35 Down: Pro's opposite (3)
- CON
- 36 Down: Old "We're up to something good" carrier (3)
- TWA
- 38 Down: Leg joint (4)
- KNEE
- 39 Down: Blood component that contains hemoglobin (7)
- REDCELL
- 41 Down: W.W. II spy org. (3)
- OSS
- 44 Down: ___ counter (dieter) (7)
- CALORIE
- 47 Down: Part of CBS: Abbr. (3)
- SYS
- 49 Down: Lake between Ohio and Ontario (4)
- ERIE
- 50 Down: 2012 Olympics locale, with a hint to the ends of the answers to the six starred clues (6)
- LONDON
- 51 Down: Dissolve and wash away, as minerals (5)
- LEACH
- 52 Down: The "I" of IM, sportswise (5)
- INTRA
- 53 Down: Network for political junkies (5)
- CSPAN
- 55 Down: Genre of the "Pokémon" TV series (5)
- ANIME
- 56 Down: Break off (5)
- SEVER
- 57 Down: General way things are going (5)
- TREND
- 60 Down: Read carefully (4)
- SCAN
- 62 Down: General at Appomattox (3)
- LEE
- 64 Down: Words that have a certain ring to them? (3)
- IDO
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