Thursday Crossword — May 1, 2014 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 5/1/2014. By Brandon Hensley.
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Across Answers
- 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)
- ALIEN
- 6 Across: See 1-Across (9)
- ABDUCTION
- 15 Across: Member of the chordophone family (5)
- VIOLA
- 16 Across: Bisectors pass through them (9)
- MIDPOINTS
- 17 Across: Whizzes (5)
- GENII
- 18 Across: Far south? (9)
- ANTARCTIC
- 19 Across: Site of many hangings (5)
- CLOSET
- 21 Across: Some Spanish zoo exhibits (4)
- OSOS
- 22 Across: Some glass paperweights (6)
- PRISMS
- 24 Across: Tolkien's Prancing Pony, e.g. (3)
- INN
- 26 Across: Texted, say (6)
- WROTETO
- 27 Across: Not believe in spirits? (7)
- TEETOTAL
- 32 Across: Viscosity symbols (3)
- ETAS
- 33 Across: Big, big, big (5)
- OBESE
- 36 Across: Any of the Four Noble Truths (4)
- TENET
- 37 Across: Join with (4)
- TIETO
- 39 Across: Confident, ambitious, loyal sort, supposedly (3)
- LEO
- 40 Across: Guillotine targets (4)
- TETES
- 41 Across: "Cómo" follower (4)
- ESTA
- 42 Across: Purchase on delta.com, e.g. (5)
- ETICKET
- 44 Across: M.D. grp. (3)
- HMO
- 45 Across: Raising a stink? (7)
- REEKING
- 47 Across: Focus (on) (6)
- HOMEIN
- 50 Across: "I'd rather not" (3)
- NAH
- 51 Across: Mother who appeared on two covers of Time (6)
- TERESA
- 52 Across: Former Saudi king (4)
- FAHD
- 55 Across: Some runners (5)
- COWARDS
- 56 Across: One feeling warm on the inside? (9)
- FIREEATER
- 59 Across: Ethyl acetate, e.g. (5)
- ESTER
- 63 Across: Push too far (9)
- OVEREXERT
- 64 Across: Currency worth about 1/36 of a dollar (5)
- RUBLE
- 65 Across: Clean-shaven (9)
- BEARDLESS
- 66 Across: Fit (5)
- SPASM
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Batting fig. (3)
- AVG
- 2 Down: Fiction (3)
- LIE
- 3 Down: It's charged (3)
- ION
- 4 Down: Call up (6)
- ELICIT
- 5 Down: Tool used with a hammer (6)
- NAILSET
- 6 Down: Accumulate (5)
- AMASS
- 7 Down: Intelligence researcher Alfred (4)
- BINET
- 8 Down: Chemical restricted by the Stockholm Convention (3)
- DDT
- 9 Down: ___ tree (3)
- UPA
- 10 Down: Ornamental headpiece (6)
- CORONET
- 11 Down: Nerves may cause them (4)
- TICS
- 12 Down: Loving (4)
- INTO
- 13 Down: Mayberry town drunk (4)
- OTIS
- 14 Down: Foreign policy grp. (3)
- NSC
- 20 Down: Polynesian term for an island hopper (4)
- OMOO
- 22 Down: Some positive reinforcement (6)
- PRAISE
- 23 Down: Flower-shaped decoration (6)
- ROSETTE
- 24 Down: "No worries" (5)
- ITSOK
- 25 Down: Wedding announcement word (3)
- NEE
- 26 Down: Like Seattle vis-à-vis Phoenix (5)
- WETTER
- 28 Down: Baseball great who had a career batting 1-Down of .304 (3)
- OTT
- 29 Down: Gets choppers (6)
- TEETHES
- 30 Down: Weakness (6)
- ANEMIA
- 31 Down: Pretends (5)
- LETSON
- 34 Down: "Mutiny on the Bounty" captain (5)
- BLIGH
- 35 Down: Intl. trade org. (3)
- EEC
- 38 Down: Charter ___, symbol on the Connecticut state quarter (3)
- OAK
- 42 Down: Noted stratovolcano (3)
- ETNA
- 43 Down: Heavens (4)
- ETHER
- 46 Down: "Absolutely!" (6)
- INDEED
- 48 Down: They may be barked (6)
- ORDERS
- 49 Down: Goof (6)
- MESSUP
- 51 Down: Goods stolen by the Knave of Hearts (5)
- TARTS
- 52 Down: "Lincoln" (4)
- FIVE
- 53 Down: An integral can compute it (4)
- AREA
- 54 Down: Munich mister (4)
- HERR
- 55 Down: Reacts fearfully (4)
- COWERS
- 56 Down: Waistcoat item (3)
- FOB
- 57 Down: Rose in the music world (3)
- AXL
- 58 Down: Texas has a big one (3)
- TEE
- 60 Down: Not yet on the sked (3)
- TBA
- 61 Down: Loop takers (3)
- ELS
- 62 Down: Band with the 1991 hit "Shiny Happy People" (3)
- REM
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