Friday Crossword — April 5, 2013 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 66 clues). Published 4/5/2013. By Peter Wentz.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Begins (8)
KICKSOFF
9 Across: Common sights in the Rockies (6)
ASPENS
15 Across: Expiate (8)
ATONEFOR
16 Across: Meaty Applebee's morsel (6)
RIBLET
17 Across: Half of an old comic film duo (8)
PAKETTLE
18 Across: It includes picking the place (6)
EXACTA
19 Across: Woody Guthrie and others (5)
OKIES
20 Across: Adam Smith or Ethan Allen (5)
DEIST
22 Across: The "needle" part of needle grass (3)
AWN
23 Across: Scottish sprout (6)
WEELAD
25 Across: Item on a Christmas list (3)
TOY
26 Across: Party person, for short (3)
POL
27 Across: Horse show demonstrations (5)
GAITS
30 Across: Desperate (4)
DIRE
31 Across: Pop punk band with the 2002 triple-platinum album "The Young and the Hopeless" (13)
GOODCHARLOTTE
35 Across: Last song heard on Disneyland's Splash Mountain (13)
ZIPADEEDOODAH
36 Across: Relatively important meeting? (13)
FAMILYREUNION
37 Across: Top (4)
ACME
38 Across: Take without credit (5)
AUDIT
39 Across: Ball-bearing piece (3)
TEE
40 Across: Field of three Nobel Prizes: Abbr. (3)
SCI
42 Across: Big game show prize (6)
NEWCAR
47 Across: Pal 4 life (3)
BFF
48 Across: People without a religious affiliation, in modern lingo (5)
NONES
51 Across: ___ Island (5)
RHODE
52 Across: Stops lying (6)
ARISES
54 Across: Bug (8)
VWBEETLE
56 Across: Like some operations (6)
COVERT
57 Across: Prime, as bonds (8)
AAARATED
58 Across: Works in the kitchen (6)
KNEADS
59 Across: Court luminaries (8)
NBASTARS

Down Answers

1 Down: "Batman" comics sound (5)
KAPOW
2 Down: "___ your point" (5)
ITAKE
3 Down: NPR's Roberts (5)
COKIE
4 Down: Request at a palace, maybe (5)
KNEEL
5 Down: Gives oneself something to aim for (9)
SETSAGOAL
6 Down: Frequently, quaintly (3)
OFT
7 Down: Dog-ear, e.g. (4)
FOLD
8 Down: Word on a bingo card (4)
FREE
9 Down: Kindergarten comeback (5)
ARESO
10 Down: Babe Ruth mark broken by Roger Maris (5)
SIXTY
11 Down: Kegler's org. (3)
PBA
12 Down: Noted cliff in Yosemite Valley (9)
ELCAPITAN
13 Down: Balance sheet figure (8)
NETWORTH
14 Down: Frequent Jack Kirby comics collaborator (7)
STANLEE
21 Down: "Well, that one doesn't work" (7)
ITSADUD
24 Down: Pops (5)
DADDY
28 Down: Relative of sleet (7)
ICERAIN
29 Down: Grp. whose flag has 12 stars (5)
THEEU
30 Down: Awarder of a thimble to Alice, in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (4)
DODO
31 Down: "Up top!" (9)
GIMMEFIVE
32 Down: Anthony's XM Radio partner (4)
OPIE
33 Down: Samurai who's lost his lord (5)
RONIN
34 Down: Laggards (9)
LOITERERS
35 Down: "High School Musical" actor (8)
ZACEFRON
36 Down: Greasy part of pork (7)
FATBACK
40 Down: Mortimer of old radio (5)
SNERD
41 Down: Figure on a manufacturer's balance sheet (5)
COSTS
43 Down: Puffed ___ (5)
WHEAT
44 Down: It's baked in Italy (5)
COTTA
45 Down: Pioneer in psychoanalysis (5)
ADLER
46 Down: Exemplars of thinness (5)
REEDS
49 Down: "___ Almighty" (2007 film) (4)
EVAN
50 Down: Q-tip, e.g. (4)
SWAB
53 Down: Salt source (3)
SEA
55 Down: Bit of barnyard onomatopoeia (3)
BAA

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