Thursday Crossword — July 17, 2014

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1574 clues~15-30 minBy Alan Arbesfeld7/17/2014

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Stars (4 letters)
5 Across
Blood group? (4 letters)
9 Across
Oscar nominee for "Affliction" (5 letters)
14 Across
Draft status for someone in the Public Health Service (4 letters)
15 Across
Inspect the figures? (4 letters)
16 Across
Huge, in verse (5 letters)
17 Across
Singer in the sea, literally (9 letters)
19 Across
Wrap up (5 letters)
20 Across
"Smack" (6 letters)
21 Across
B's tail? (4 letters)
23 Across
Long-distance inits. (3 letters)
24 Across
Something slipped under the counter? (5 letters)
25 Across
Feel one's ___ (be frisky) (4 letters)
26 Across
Fiction's Atticus Finch, e.g.: Abbr. (4 letters)
27 Across
Plan B, literally (12 letters)
30 Across
Place with a waiting room: Abbr. (3 letters)
33 Across
Some intellectual property, for short (3 letters)
34 Across
Literary Leonard (6 letters)
35 Across
One side of a hot-button social issue (7 letters)
38 Across
Ticked off (7 letters)
39 Across
Skylights? (6 letters)
40 Across
A.C.C. school (3 letters)
41 Across
Multinational carrier (3 letters)
42 Across
Gridiron maneuver, literally (12 letters)
46 Across
Comprehensive, in edspeak (4 letters)
47 Across
Baseball Hall-of-Famer Aparicio (4 letters)
48 Across
Dime novels and such (5 letters)
52 Across
Stocking stuffer (3 letters)
53 Across
Ollie's partner in comedy (4 letters)
54 Across
Negotiator's refusal (6 letters)
55 Across
One of Donald's exes (5 letters)
57 Across
Little kid's lift, literally (9 letters)
59 Across
Frankincense or myrrh (5 letters)
60 Across
Read but not comment, in Internet lingo (4 letters)
61 Across
Unlikely mate for a princess (4 letters)
62 Across
Big name in cosmetics (5 letters)
63 Across
Summer Olympics event (4 letters)
64 Across
Stimulate (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
10 students, for short? (5 letters)
2 Down
Like overly optimistic goals, typically (5 letters)
3 Down
Intro to biology? (5 letters)
4 Down
Teach (6 letters)
5 Down
Singer Marc with the 1991 hit "Walking in Memphis" (4 letters)
6 Down
JFK alternative (3 letters)
7 Down
Indicator of stress (7 letters)
8 Down
Must (6 letters)
9 Down
Hasbro brand (4 letters)
10 Down
In dire need of gas, say (3 letters)
11 Down
Spots (9 letters)
12 Down
Vino spot (9 letters)
13 Down
Fisherman's bane and hockey player's boon (9 letters)
18 Down
Plans to (4 letters)
22 Down
Core (7 letters)
25 Down
"All ___" (Steve Martin/Lily Tomlin comedy) (4 letters)
26 Down
Bread producers (4 letters)
28 Down
Guilty (7 letters)
29 Down
Pier grp. (3 letters)
30 Down
Gut (9 letters)
31 Down
Soul mates (9 letters)
32 Down
45 degrees (9 letters)
36 Down
Petty around Hollywood (4 letters)
37 Down
Grp. in a 1919-21 war of independence (3 letters)
38 Down
Tolkien's Prancing Pony and others (4 letters)
40 Down
Exhausting (7 letters)
43 Down
Bush successor (6 letters)
44 Down
How individual firecrackers are priced? (4 letters)
45 Down
"Friends" co-star (6 letters)
49 Down
O'Hara portrayer (5 letters)
50 Down
Tony Gwynn, notably (5 letters)
51 Down
Hard fall (5 letters)
53 Down
Ready to stand trial, in a way (4 letters)
54 Down
Sponsor of Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods (4 letters)
56 Down
Never: Ger. (3 letters)
58 Down
M.A. hopeful's hurdle (3 letters)

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