Wednesday Crossword — October 9, 2013 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 10/9/2013. By Jason Flinn.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Exposure units (4)
RADS
5 Across: Like many a superhero (5)
CAPED
10 Across: Cheater's sound, maybe (4)
PSST
14 Across: Biblical twin (4)
ESAU
15 Across: First in a line of Russian grand princes (5)
IVANI
16 Across: Jazzy James (4)
ETTA
17 Across: With 20-Across, story by 42-Across on which the movie "Blade Runner" is based (15)
DOANDROIDSDREAM
20 Across: See 17-Across (15)
OFELECTRICSHEEP
21 Across: Best-suited for a job (6)
ABLEST
22 Across: Kind of lily (5)
CALLA
23 Across: Cold war foe, slangily (6)
COMMIE
26 Across: Cause of a dramatic death in Shakespeare (3)
ASP
27 Across: Go ballistic (5)
ERUPT
28 Across: Displace (4)
BUMP
31 Across: Music magazine founded by Bob Guccione Jr. (4)
SPIN
35 Across: Disloyal sort (3)
RAT
36 Across: Like bits of old music in some new music (7)
SAMPLED
39 Across: Keats creation (3)
ODE
40 Across: One going for a little bite? (4)
FLEA
42 Across: Author Philip K. ___ (4)
DICK
43 Across: XXX (5)
ADULT
45 Across: Cleanse (3)
RID
47 Across: Auctioned investments, in brief (6)
TNOTES
48 Across: Affright (5)
ALARM
51 Across: Eat, eat, eat (6)
PIGOUT
54 Across: With 59-Across, story by 42-Across on which the movie "Total Recall" is based (15)
WECANREMEMBERIT
59 Across: See 54-Across (15)
FORYOUWHOLESALE
60 Across: Together, in Toulouse (4)
UNIE
61 Across: Swiss miss of fiction (5)
HEIDI
62 Across: African antelope (4)
ORYX
63 Across: "Shane" star Alan (4)
LADD
64 Across: Put back in the fold (5)
REPEN
65 Across: "Gnarly!" (4)
NEAT

Down Answers

1 Down: Request after a failure, sometimes (4)
REDO
2 Down: Since (4)
ASOF
3 Down: Christine ___, heroine of "The Phantom of the Opera" (4)
DAAE
4 Down: Light that darkens (7)
SUNLAMP
5 Down: Club (6)
CIRCLE
6 Down: "Let's take ___" (5)
AVOTE
7 Down: Competition category in bridge and skating (5)
PAIRS
8 Down: Break off a relationship (5)
ENDIT
9 Down: Kind of brake (4)
DISC
10 Down: Noncommittal response (7)
PERHAPS
11 Down: Andrew Carnegie's industry (5)
STEEL
12 Down: Author Madame de ___ (5)
STAEL
13 Down: Home of the N.H.L.'s Lightning (5)
TAMPA
18 Down: Accountants put them on the left (6)
DEBITS
19 Down: Mil. awards (4)
DSCS
23 Down: Humorist Bennett (4)
CERF
24 Down: Like some contraceptives (4)
ORAL
25 Down: Remote button (4)
MUTE
26 Down: Bruiser (3)
APE
28 Down: Ascap rival (3)
BMI
29 Down: It's scanned in a store, for short (3)
UPC
30 Down: U2 song paying tribute to an American icon (3)
MLK
32 Down: Sulk (4)
POUT
33 Down: Run while standing still (4)
IDLE
34 Down: Takes home (4)
NETS
37 Down: Throw in (3)
ADD
38 Down: View from Budapest (6)
DANUBE
41 Down: Ready for battle (7)
ARRAYED
44 Down: Cares for maybe too much (7)
DOTESON
46 Down: "___ expert, but ..." (4)
IMNO
47 Down: "One ringy-dingy" comic (6)
TOMLIN
48 Down: Ghastly (5)
AWFUL
49 Down: "Bleeding Love" singer Lewis (5)
LEONA
50 Down: Astringent (5)
ACRID
51 Down: Bird that's as small as it sounds (5)
PEWEE
52 Down: Beatnik's "gotcha" (5)
IMHIP
53 Down: Sparkly rock (5)
GEODE
55 Down: Essen's river (4)
RUHR
56 Down: Like hurricanes in January (4)
RARE
57 Down: Three-time N.H.L. All-Star Kovalchuk (4)
ILYA
58 Down: "u r so funny ... lmao," e.g. (4)
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