Friday Crossword — August 16, 2013 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 8/16/2013. By Dana Motley.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Fighting (5)
- ATWAR
- 6 Across: Amscray (4)
- FLEE
- 10 Across: They get taken easily (4)
- SAPS
- 14 Across: ___ Road (W.W. II supply route) (5)
- BURMA
- 15 Across: Hospital bed feature (4)
- RAIL
- 16 Across: Nail (4)
- CLAW
- 17 Across: Circular side? (10)
- ONIONRINGS
- 19 Across: Unisex name meaning "born again" (4)
- RENE
- 20 Across: Many a security point (4)
- DESK
- 21 Across: Straight (10)
- ONTHELEVEL
- 23 Across: Form of "sum" (3)
- EST
- 24 Across: Sound name (5)
- PUGET
- 25 Across: Tom who won a Tony for "The Seven Year Itch" (5)
- EWELL
- 26 Across: Ones keeping on their toes? (10)
- BALLERINAS
- 29 Across: The City of a Hundred Spires (6)
- PRAGUE
- 31 Across: Triage determination (4)
- NEED
- 32 Across: Home of "NerdTV" (3)
- PBS
- 35 Across: Line of rulers (7)
- DYNASTS
- 37 Across: Big game plans? (7)
- SAFARIS
- 39 Across: Argument-ending letters (3)
- QED
- 40 Across: Short distance (4)
- STEP
- 42 Across: Occasions for bulldogging (6)
- RODEOS
- 43 Across: Hot-and-cold menu item (10)
- PIEALAMODE
- 45 Across: Mathematician Cantor who founded set theory (5)
- GEORG
- 48 Across: Going without saying? (5)
- TACIT
- 49 Across: Aid in getting back on track (3)
- MAP
- 52 Across: Means of reducing worker fatigue (10)
- ERGONOMICS
- 54 Across: Kraft Nabisco Championship org. (4)
- LPGA
- 55 Across: Color also known as endive blue (4)
- IRIS
- 56 Across: Classic Hitchcock set (10)
- BATESMOTEL
- 58 Across: Quiet place to fish (4)
- COVE
- 59 Across: Suffixes of 61-Across (4)
- ITES
- 60 Across: Rich of old films (5)
- IRENE
- 61 Across: Contents of some ledges (4)
- ORES
- 62 Across: "___ Wedding" ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show" episode) (4)
- TEDS
- 63 Across: Occasioned (5)
- LEDTO
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Flat, e.g. (5)
- ABODE
- 2 Down: Fixes flats? (5)
- TUNES
- 3 Down: Hospital patient's wear (9)
- WRISTBAND
- 4 Down: See 5-Down (4)
- AMOK
- 5 Down: With 4-Down, lost control (3)
- RAN
- 6 Down: Feature of some western wear (6)
- FRINGE
- 7 Down: Pathfinder? (7)
- LANTERN
- 8 Down: Reagan was seen a lot in them (8)
- EIGHTIES
- 9 Down: Word after who, what or where, but rarely when (4)
- ELSE
- 10 Down: Things driven on construction sites (6)
- SCREWS
- 11 Down: Anti-inflammatory product (5)
- ALEVE
- 12 Down: Authorities might sit on one (5)
- PANEL
- 13 Down: Wonderful (5)
- SWELL
- 18 Down: Kind of wheel (8)
- ROULETTE
- 22 Down: One putting the pedal to the metal (8)
- LEADFOOT
- 24 Down: Summer symbol? (8)
- PLUSSIGN
- 27 Down: One of the Eastern elite (3)
- AGA
- 28 Down: Aviation safety statistic (8)
- NEARMISS
- 29 Down: Straightaway (3)
- PDQ
- 30 Down: Manhattan choice (3)
- RYE
- 32 Down: Broken into on TV? (9)
- PREEMPTED
- 33 Down: Kind of lab (3)
- BIO
- 34 Down: Nemesis of some dodgers: Abbr. (3)
- SSS
- 36 Down: Fellow chairperson? (8)
- SEATMATE
- 38 Down: Use a 24-Down (3)
- ADD
- 41 Down: Like pigtails (7)
- PLAITED
- 43 Down: Talks tediously (6)
- PROSES
- 44 Down: Hacker's achievement (6)
- ACCESS
- 45 Down: American company whose mascot has a Cockney accent (5)
- GEICO
- 46 Down: Diamond flaw (5)
- ERROR
- 47 Down: Diagonal rib of a vault (5)
- OGIVE
- 50 Down: One getting cuts (5)
- AGENT
- 51 Down: Early: Prefix (5)
- PALEO
- 53 Down: Exit lines? (4)
- OBIT
- 54 Down: Ethnologist's interest (4)
- LORE
- 57 Down: 254,000 angstroms (3)
- MIL
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