Thursday Crossword — May 1, 2014

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1576 clues~15-30 minBy Brandon Hensley5/1/2014

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
With 6-Across, subject of an eerie rural legend ... illustrated by connecting nine identically filled squares in this puzzle with a closed line (5 letters)
6 Across
See 1-Across (9 letters)
15 Across
Member of the chordophone family (5 letters)
16 Across
Bisectors pass through them (9 letters)
17 Across
Whizzes (5 letters)
18 Across
Far south? (9 letters)
19 Across
Site of many hangings (5 letters)
21 Across
Some Spanish zoo exhibits (4 letters)
22 Across
Some glass paperweights (6 letters)
24 Across
Tolkien's Prancing Pony, e.g. (3 letters)
26 Across
Texted, say (6 letters)
27 Across
Not believe in spirits? (7 letters)
32 Across
Viscosity symbols (3 letters)
33 Across
Big, big, big (5 letters)
36 Across
Any of the Four Noble Truths (4 letters)
37 Across
Join with (4 letters)
39 Across
Confident, ambitious, loyal sort, supposedly (3 letters)
40 Across
Guillotine targets (4 letters)
41 Across
"Cómo" follower (4 letters)
42 Across
Purchase on delta.com, e.g. (5 letters)
44 Across
M.D. grp. (3 letters)
45 Across
Raising a stink? (7 letters)
47 Across
Focus (on) (6 letters)
50 Across
"I'd rather not" (3 letters)
51 Across
Mother who appeared on two covers of Time (6 letters)
52 Across
Former Saudi king (4 letters)
55 Across
Some runners (5 letters)
56 Across
One feeling warm on the inside? (9 letters)
59 Across
Ethyl acetate, e.g. (5 letters)
63 Across
Push too far (9 letters)
64 Across
Currency worth about 1/36 of a dollar (5 letters)
65 Across
Clean-shaven (9 letters)
66 Across
Fit (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Batting fig. (3 letters)
2 Down
Fiction (3 letters)
3 Down
It's charged (3 letters)
4 Down
Call up (6 letters)
5 Down
Tool used with a hammer (6 letters)
6 Down
Accumulate (5 letters)
7 Down
Intelligence researcher Alfred (4 letters)
8 Down
Chemical restricted by the Stockholm Convention (3 letters)
9 Down
___ tree (3 letters)
10 Down
Ornamental headpiece (6 letters)
11 Down
Nerves may cause them (4 letters)
12 Down
Loving (4 letters)
13 Down
Mayberry town drunk (4 letters)
14 Down
Foreign policy grp. (3 letters)
20 Down
Polynesian term for an island hopper (4 letters)
22 Down
Some positive reinforcement (6 letters)
23 Down
Flower-shaped decoration (6 letters)
24 Down
"No worries" (5 letters)
25 Down
Wedding announcement word (3 letters)
26 Down
Like Seattle vis-à-vis Phoenix (5 letters)
28 Down
Baseball great who had a career batting 1-Down of .304 (3 letters)
29 Down
Gets choppers (6 letters)
30 Down
Weakness (6 letters)
31 Down
Pretends (5 letters)
34 Down
"Mutiny on the Bounty" captain (5 letters)
35 Down
Intl. trade org. (3 letters)
38 Down
Charter ___, symbol on the Connecticut state quarter (3 letters)
42 Down
Noted stratovolcano (3 letters)
43 Down
Heavens (4 letters)
46 Down
"Absolutely!" (6 letters)
48 Down
They may be barked (6 letters)
49 Down
Goof (6 letters)
51 Down
Goods stolen by the Knave of Hearts (5 letters)
52 Down
"Lincoln" (4 letters)
53 Down
An integral can compute it (4 letters)
54 Down
Munich mister (4 letters)
55 Down
Reacts fearfully (4 letters)
56 Down
Waistcoat item (3 letters)
57 Down
Rose in the music world (3 letters)
58 Down
Texas has a big one (3 letters)
60 Down
Not yet on the sked (3 letters)
61 Down
Loop takers (3 letters)
62 Down
Band with the 1991 hit "Shiny Happy People" (3 letters)

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