Friday Crossword — April 11, 2014

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1570 clues~30-60 minBy Peter Wentz4/11/2014

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Retreat (8 letters)
9 Across
"3 O'Clock Blues" hitmaker, 1952 (6 letters)
15 Across
"Obviously ..." (8 letters)
16 Across
Uses, as a chaise (6 letters)
17 Across
Particle ejected from an atom during ionization (8 letters)
18 Across
Home of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (6 letters)
19 Across
"Star Wars" villain name (5 letters)
20 Across
Identify (3 letters)
21 Across
Celebration of the arrival of spring (3 letters)
22 Across
Blew out (6 letters)
24 Across
Eastern hereditary title (5 letters)
26 Across
Specks (5 letters)
27 Across
Things worn at home? (9 letters)
31 Across
Like some details (4 letters)
32 Across
Maddeningly surreal (10 letters)
33 Across
"Girls" home (3 letters)
34 Across
Some adoption candidates (7 letters)
35 Across
Address found online (3 letters)
36 Across
Ones unlikely to drag their feet (10 letters)
38 Across
___ Ruess, lead singer of Fun (4 letters)
39 Across
Weep (9 letters)
40 Across
Order of ancient Greeks (5 letters)
41 Across
There might be a battery of them (5 letters)
42 Across
Rid (of) (6 letters)
43 Across
Matt's onetime "Today" co-host (3 letters)
46 Across
Runs the show, for short (3 letters)
47 Across
Like prosciutto (5 letters)
48 Across
Way over the top (6 letters)
50 Across
Head of the Catholic Church when Luther's "95 Theses" was posted (8 letters)
53 Across
Daddy Warbucks's henchman (6 letters)
54 Across
"Gracious me!" (8 letters)
55 Across
Completely safe, as a proposition (6 letters)
56 Across
Lecture series with well over a billion views (8 letters)

Down

1 Down
Century starter? (3 letters)
2 Down
Something in that vein? (3 letters)
3 Down
Line outside a club, maybe (10 letters)
4 Down
Erode (7 letters)
5 Down
Leaves of grass (6 letters)
6 Down
Ran (5 letters)
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High-level appointee (4 letters)
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It has all the answers (3 letters)
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Alternative to cords (9 letters)
10 Down
Bowls, e.g. (8 letters)
11 Down
Mauna ___ (3 letters)
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"... and who ___?" (4 letters)
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Network connection (4 letters)
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Part of a moving cloud (4 letters)
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Foe of the Vikings (7 letters)
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Tour parts (6 letters)
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Bigwig (6 letters)
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High beams (7 letters)
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Orders in a restaurant (3 letters)
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Millionaires and billionaires (7 letters)
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Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program (10 letters)
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Rapper ___ Blow (6 letters)
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Elite (6 letters)
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Part of a TV archive (9 letters)
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Model introduced in the 1990s (8 letters)
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Target of a 1972 ban (3 letters)
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"Breakfast at Tiffany's," for one (7 letters)
40 Down
Plain-spoken (6 letters)
42 Down
Took in (5 letters)
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Routing aid: Abbr. (4 letters)
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Big Apple neighborhood next to the Bowery (4 letters)
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"Christians Awake," e.g. (4 letters)
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Semaphore signals, e.g. (4 letters)
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Asian path (3 letters)
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Hog roasting locale (3 letters)
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Planet whose inhabitants age backward (3 letters)
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Pair of Dos Equis (3 letters)

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