Thursday Crossword — August 22, 2013 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 8/22/2013. By Stu Ockman.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Stop threatening (11)
- CALLTHEDOGSOFF
- 12 Across: "How to Marry a Millionaire" actress (3)
- BACALL
- 15 Across: One's initial response to this clue, perhaps (11)
- IHAVENOIDEA
- 16 Across: Police dept. broadcast (3)
- APB
- 17 Across: Suspended avian home (11)
- ORIOLESNEST
- 18 Across: While, in brief (3)
- THO
- 19 Across: Campaign pro (3)
- POL
- 20 Across: Bamboozled (5)
- ATSEA
- 21 Across: ___ de Guerre (French military award) (5)
- CROIX
- 23 Across: What shepherds may shepherd (4)
- EWES
- 25 Across: Superior home?: Abbr. (3)
- WIS
- 26 Across: Actors James and Scott (5)
- CAANS
- 27 Across: Kind of jet (4)
- PROP
- 29 Across: Web opening (4)
- HTTP
- 30 Across: Deterrent to swimming (5)
- ALGAE
- 33 Across: Three-time N.H.L. M.V.P. (3)
- ORR
- 34 Across: ___ trap (4)
- SETA
- 38 Across: Audition rebuff (15)
- DONTCALLUSWELLCALLYOU
- 42 Across: "Or what shall a man give in exchange for his ___?": Mark 8:37 (4)
- SOUL
- 43 Across: Sea urchin delicacy (3)
- ROE
- 44 Across: Many opera houses have them (5)
- TIERS
- 45 Across: Throw off (4)
- EMIT
- 47 Across: Dimwit (4)
- DODO
- 49 Across: Lhasa ___ (5)
- APSOS
- 51 Across: Worked (up) (3)
- HET
- 52 Across: Biltmore Estate state: Abbr. (4)
- NCAR
- 56 Across: Pooch, in Paris (5)
- CHIEN
- 57 Across: Mantles (5)
- CAPES
- 59 Across: "Ti ___" (Italian lover's declaration) (3)
- AMO
- 60 Across: Owner of Moviefone (3)
- AOL
- 61 Across: Site of W.W. II's first amphibious landing (11)
- GUADALCANAL
- 64 Across: Number of colori on the Italian flag (3)
- TRE
- 65 Across: Commercial figure holding six beer mugs (11)
- STPAULIGIRL
- 66 Across: Singer known as La Divina (3)
- CALLAS
- 67 Across: Extremely tight (11)
- TOOCLOSETOCALL
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Homer's Muse (5)
- CALLIOPE
- 2 Down: Discombobulate (5)
- THROW
- 3 Down: Two-time Olympic running gold medalist ___ Gebrselassie (5)
- HAILE
- 4 Down: Bolivian president Morales (3)
- EVO
- 5 Down: Place ___ Concorde (4)
- DELA
- 6 Down: Quick combination (6)
- ONETWO
- 7 Down: It may be full of dirt (6)
- GOSSIP
- 8 Down: Math ratios (5)
- SINES
- 9 Down: Ancient theaters (4)
- ODEA
- 10 Down: Moroccan city known as the Athens of Africa (3)
- FES
- 11 Down: Moneybags (6)
- FATCAT
- 12 Down: One being passed in a race (5)
- BATON
- 13 Down: Black fly, e.g. (5)
- APHIS
- 14 Down: Roadside fixture (4)
- CALLBOX
- 22 Down: Rogue (8)
- RAPSCALLION
- 24 Down: German wine made from fully ripe grapes (8)
- SPATLESE
- 26 Down: PC key (4)
- CTRL
- 28 Down: Reminisce about (3)
- RECALL
- 29 Down: Much of central Eur., once (3)
- HRE
- 30 Down: Circular parts (3)
- ADS
- 31 Down: Head overseas (3)
- LOO
- 32 Down: Animal whose young is a calf (3)
- GNU
- 33 Down: Be obliged (3)
- OWE
- 35 Down: Size up (3)
- EYE
- 36 Down: High, rocky hill (3)
- TOR
- 37 Down: N.S.W. locale (3)
- AUS
- 39 Down: "O'Hara's Choice" novelist (4)
- URIS
- 40 Down: Inebriate (3)
- SOT
- 41 Down: Ford last produced in 1986 (3)
- LTD
- 46 Down: In the midst of, poetically (6)
- MONGST
- 47 Down: The Blue Demons of the N.C.A.A. (6)
- DEPAUL
- 48 Down: Verdi opera (6)
- OTELLO
- 49 Down: Hoy día (5)
- AHORA
- 50 Down: Gobs (5)
- PILES
- 51 Down: Was equipped for summer heat, as an auto (5)
- HADAC
- 53 Down: "That's enough!" (5)
- CANIT
- 54 Down: Ruben ___, Phillies Gold Glove-winning shortstop (5)
- AMARO
- 55 Down: Class starter (5)
- ROLLCALL
- 56 Down: Sound of derision (4)
- CATCALL
- 57 Down: Family head (4)
- CAPO
- 58 Down: Agronomy and metallurgy: Abbr. (4)
- SCIS
- 62 Down: ___-Aztecan (language family) (3)
- UTO
- 63 Down: Historical period (3)
- AGE
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