Friday Crossword — June 14, 2013

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1568 clues~30-60 minBy Patrick Berry6/14/2013

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Low interest indicator (4 letters)
5 Across
Stick (4 letters)
9 Across
"Debts and ___ are generally mixed together": Rabelais (4 letters)
13 Across
Give a second hearing? (4 letters)
14 Across
Go places (4 letters)
15 Across
Buffet table utensil (5 letters)
16 Across
His death prompted Georges Pompidou to say "France is a widow" (15 letters)
19 Across
Show stopper (15 letters)
20 Across
Church cry (7 letters)
21 Across
Spoke lovingly (5 letters)
22 Across
Vegas casino that hosts the World Series of Poker, with "the" (3 letters)
23 Across
Celebrated racehorse nicknamed "The Red Terror" (7 letters)
25 Across
Furniture usually with pillows (5 letters)
28 Across
Hangs on (5 letters)
29 Across
Surfing area? (3 letters)
31 Across
Light weapon (4 letters)
32 Across
Uppercut targets (5 letters)
33 Across
Pier 1 furniture material (4 letters)
34 Across
Not looking 100% well (3 letters)
35 Across
Bad, for good (5 letters)
36 Across
Singer Taylor (5 letters)
37 Across
Notwithstanding (7 letters)
39 Across
Soft lens's makeup (3 letters)
40 Across
Jewelry chain (5 letters)
41 Across
Ultimate problem solver (7 letters)
45 Across
Words after "Oh well" (15 letters)
48 Across
Loaded roll (15 letters)
49 Across
They rate high on the Beaufort scale (5 letters)
50 Across
Pot addition (4 letters)
51 Across
Terminus of the old Virginia and Truckee Railroad (4 letters)
52 Across
Ziploc competitor (4 letters)
53 Across
They're often bagged (4 letters)
54 Across
"This is quite a surprise!" (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Less polite way of saying "no thanks" to offered food (5 letters)
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Evidence of an allergic reaction (5 letters)
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Collides with noisily (5 letters)
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1979 film based on the life of Crystal Lee Sutton (8 letters)
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Pink fuel (6 letters)
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Opera with the aria "Recondita armonia" (5 letters)
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Volkswagen subsidiary (4 letters)
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Getting through (9 letters)
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Daphne, after her mythical transformation (6 letters)
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Wasted, as time (9 letters)
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"Phantom Lady" co-star Raines (4 letters)
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Go for (4 letters)
15 Down
Exerts oneself (6 letters)
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Survivor of two 1918 assassination attempts (5 letters)
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Rejoices tactlessly (6 letters)
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"The American Crisis" pamphleteer (5 letters)
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One of the Colonial Colleges, informally (4 letters)
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Ground water? (3 letters)
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Paperless way to read the paper (4 letters)
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Only founding member of OPEC not located in the Mideast (9 letters)
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"Come again?" (9 letters)
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Wax worker (3 letters)
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Ad agency acquisition (6 letters)
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Fried appetizer (8 letters)
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Flares (6 letters)
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Summer Triangle star (5 letters)
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Not to be disrespected (6 letters)
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River mentioned in the Rig Veda (6 letters)
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Historic caravel (5 letters)
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Bar rooms? (5 letters)
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Tennis's Dementieva (5 letters)
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Many a filling material (5 letters)
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One with a job opening? (4 letters)
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Like the leaves of a trailing arbutus (4 letters)
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Robert Louis Stevenson described it as "bottled poetry" (4 letters)

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