Friday Crossword — April 11, 2014 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 4/11/2014. By Peter Wentz.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Retreat (8)
- MOVEBACK
- 9 Across: "3 O'Clock Blues" hitmaker, 1952 (6)
- BBKING
- 15 Across: "Obviously ..." (8)
- IREALIZE
- 16 Across: Uses, as a chaise (6)
- LIESON
- 17 Across: Particle ejected from an atom during ionization (8)
- DELTARAY
- 18 Across: Home of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (6)
- UGANDA
- 19 Across: "Star Wars" villain name (5)
- VADER
- 20 Across: Identify (3)
- PEG
- 21 Across: Celebration of the arrival of spring (3)
- TET
- 22 Across: Blew out (6)
- SPEWED
- 24 Across: Eastern hereditary title (5)
- RAJAH
- 26 Across: Specks (5)
- IOTAS
- 27 Across: Things worn at home? (9)
- FACEMASKS
- 31 Across: Like some details (4)
- GORY
- 32 Across: Maddeningly surreal (10)
- KAFKAESQUE
- 33 Across: "Girls" home (3)
- HBO
- 34 Across: Some adoption candidates (7)
- KITTENS
- 35 Across: Address found online (3)
- URL
- 36 Across: Ones unlikely to drag their feet (10)
- TAPDANCERS
- 38 Across: ___ Ruess, lead singer of Fun (4)
- NATE
- 39 Across: Weep (9)
- SHEDTEARS
- 40 Across: Order of ancient Greeks (5)
- DORIC
- 41 Across: There might be a battery of them (5)
- TESTS
- 42 Across: Rid (of) (6)
- DIVEST
- 43 Across: Matt's onetime "Today" co-host (3)
- ANN
- 46 Across: Runs the show, for short (3)
- MCS
- 47 Across: Like prosciutto (5)
- CURED
- 48 Across: Way over the top (6)
- TOOTOO
- 50 Across: Head of the Catholic Church when Luther's "95 Theses" was posted (8)
- POPELEOX
- 53 Across: Daddy Warbucks's henchman (6)
- THEASP
- 54 Across: "Gracious me!" (8)
- IDECLARE
- 55 Across: Completely safe, as a proposition (6)
- NOLOSE
- 56 Across: Lecture series with well over a billion views (8)
- TEDTALKS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Century starter? (3)
- MID
- 2 Down: Something in that vein? (3)
- ORE
- 3 Down: Line outside a club, maybe (10)
- VELVETROPE
- 4 Down: Erode (7)
- EATAWAY
- 5 Down: Leaves of grass (6)
- BLADES
- 6 Down: Ran (5)
- AIRED
- 7 Down: High-level appointee (4)
- CZAR
- 8 Down: It has all the answers (3)
- KEY
- 9 Down: Alternative to cords (9)
- BLUEJEANS
- 10 Down: Bowls, e.g. (8)
- BIGGAMES
- 11 Down: Mauna ___ (3)
- KEA
- 12 Down: "... and who ___?" (4)
- ISNT
- 13 Down: Network connection (4)
- NODE
- 14 Down: Part of a moving cloud (4)
- GNAT
- 20 Down: Foe of the Vikings (7)
- PACKERS
- 22 Down: Tour parts (6)
- SIGHTS
- 23 Down: Bigwig (6)
- POOBAH
- 24 Down: High beams (7)
- RAFTERS
- 25 Down: Orders in a restaurant (3)
- HAS
- 27 Down: Millionaires and billionaires (7)
- FATCATS
- 28 Down: Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program (10)
- SQUAREDEAL
- 29 Down: Rapper ___ Blow (6)
- KURTIS
- 30 Down: Elite (6)
- SELECT
- 32 Down: Part of a TV archive (9)
- KINESCOPE
- 34 Down: Model introduced in the 1990s (8)
- KATEMOSS
- 37 Down: Target of a 1972 ban (3)
- DDT
- 38 Down: "Breakfast at Tiffany's," for one (7)
- NOVELLA
- 40 Down: Plain-spoken (6)
- DIRECT
- 42 Down: Took in (5)
- DUPED
- 43 Down: Routing aid: Abbr. (4)
- ATTN
- 44 Down: Big Apple neighborhood next to the Bowery (4)
- NOHO
- 45 Down: "Christians Awake," e.g. (4)
- NOEL
- 47 Down: Semaphore signals, e.g. (4)
- CODE
- 49 Down: Asian path (3)
- TAO
- 50 Down: Hog roasting locale (3)
- PIT
- 51 Down: Planet whose inhabitants age backward (3)
- ORK
- 52 Down: Pair of Dos Equis (3)
- XES
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