Thursday Crossword — August 22, 2013

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1578 clues~15-30 minBy Stu Ockman8/22/2013

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Stop threatening (11 letters)
12 Across
"How to Marry a Millionaire" actress (3 letters)
15 Across
One's initial response to this clue, perhaps (11 letters)
16 Across
Police dept. broadcast (3 letters)
17 Across
Suspended avian home (11 letters)
18 Across
While, in brief (3 letters)
19 Across
Campaign pro (3 letters)
20 Across
Bamboozled (5 letters)
21 Across
___ de Guerre (French military award) (5 letters)
23 Across
What shepherds may shepherd (4 letters)
25 Across
Superior home?: Abbr. (3 letters)
26 Across
Actors James and Scott (5 letters)
27 Across
Kind of jet (4 letters)
29 Across
Web opening (4 letters)
30 Across
Deterrent to swimming (5 letters)
33 Across
Three-time N.H.L. M.V.P. (3 letters)
34 Across
___ trap (4 letters)
38 Across
Audition rebuff (15 letters)
42 Across
"Or what shall a man give in exchange for his ___?": Mark 8:37 (4 letters)
43 Across
Sea urchin delicacy (3 letters)
44 Across
Many opera houses have them (5 letters)
45 Across
Throw off (4 letters)
47 Across
Dimwit (4 letters)
49 Across
Lhasa ___ (5 letters)
51 Across
Worked (up) (3 letters)
52 Across
Biltmore Estate state: Abbr. (4 letters)
56 Across
Pooch, in Paris (5 letters)
57 Across
Mantles (5 letters)
59 Across
"Ti ___" (Italian lover's declaration) (3 letters)
60 Across
Owner of Moviefone (3 letters)
61 Across
Site of W.W. II's first amphibious landing (11 letters)
64 Across
Number of colori on the Italian flag (3 letters)
65 Across
Commercial figure holding six beer mugs (11 letters)
66 Across
Singer known as La Divina (3 letters)
67 Across
Extremely tight (11 letters)

Down

1 Down
Homer's Muse (5 letters)
2 Down
Discombobulate (5 letters)
3 Down
Two-time Olympic running gold medalist ___ Gebrselassie (5 letters)
4 Down
Bolivian president Morales (3 letters)
5 Down
Place ___ Concorde (4 letters)
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Quick combination (6 letters)
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It may be full of dirt (6 letters)
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Math ratios (5 letters)
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Ancient theaters (4 letters)
10 Down
Moroccan city known as the Athens of Africa (3 letters)
11 Down
Moneybags (6 letters)
12 Down
One being passed in a race (5 letters)
13 Down
Black fly, e.g. (5 letters)
14 Down
Roadside fixture (4 letters)
22 Down
Rogue (8 letters)
24 Down
German wine made from fully ripe grapes (8 letters)
26 Down
PC key (4 letters)
28 Down
Reminisce about (3 letters)
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Much of central Eur., once (3 letters)
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Circular parts (3 letters)
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Head overseas (3 letters)
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Animal whose young is a calf (3 letters)
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Be obliged (3 letters)
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Size up (3 letters)
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High, rocky hill (3 letters)
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N.S.W. locale (3 letters)
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"O'Hara's Choice" novelist (4 letters)
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Inebriate (3 letters)
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Ford last produced in 1986 (3 letters)
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In the midst of, poetically (6 letters)
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The Blue Demons of the N.C.A.A. (6 letters)
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Verdi opera (6 letters)
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Hoy día (5 letters)
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Gobs (5 letters)
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Was equipped for summer heat, as an auto (5 letters)
53 Down
"That's enough!" (5 letters)
54 Down
Ruben ___, Phillies Gold Glove-winning shortstop (5 letters)
55 Down
Class starter (5 letters)
56 Down
Sound of derision (4 letters)
57 Down
Family head (4 letters)
58 Down
Agronomy and metallurgy: Abbr. (4 letters)
62 Down
___-Aztecan (language family) (3 letters)
63 Down
Historical period (3 letters)

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