Wednesday Crossword — August 6, 2014

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1578 clues~15-30 minBy Brendan Emmett Quigley8/6/2014

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Tribal symbol of luck (4 letters)
5 Across
Printout problem (4 letters)
9 Across
Some brothers (4 letters)
13 Across
Actress ___ Rachel Wood (4 letters)
14 Across
Singer David Lee ___ (4 letters)
15 Across
Dust collector (5 letters)
16 Across
Where business is picking up? (4 letters)
17 Across
Memorable 2005 Gulf hurricane (4 letters)
18 Across
Prudential rival (5 letters)
19 Across
French chicken dish garnished with kernels? (12 letters)
22 Across
Whitish (5 letters)
25 Across
Philosopher who asked "What is enlightenment?" (4 letters)
26 Across
Quartet on an online help page? (10 letters)
30 Across
This: Sp. (4 letters)
34 Across
Rapper with the 2008 hit "Paper Planes" (3 letters)
35 Across
It can give you a lift (4 letters)
36 Across
Lie in the hot sun (5 letters)
37 Across
Frequent, in odes (3 letters)
38 Across
Dancer Duncan (7 letters)
41 Across
Company's end? (3 letters)
42 Across
Totally puzzle (5 letters)
44 Across
Key periods (4 letters)
45 Across
M.M.A. decision (3 letters)
46 Across
Bad character? (4 letters)
47 Across
What Ben stitched for his business partner? (10 letters)
50 Across
Quad part (4 letters)
52 Across
Jets' victory over the Colts in Super Bowl III, famously (5 letters)
53 Across
Royal ending to a mathematical proof? (12 letters)
59 Across
Functional (5 letters)
60 Across
Lower-class, in Leeds (4 letters)
61 Across
Warhead carrier, for short (4 letters)
65 Across
Central (5 letters)
66 Across
The Time Traveler's hosts (4 letters)
67 Across
Longtime teammate of 12-Down (4 letters)
68 Across
Something good for a scout, say (4 letters)
69 Across
Trick-or-treater's wear (4 letters)
70 Across
Ones working on a case-by-case basis?: Abbr. (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Black (3 letters)
2 Down
Cavalier's sch. (3 letters)
3 Down
Florida port, briefly (3 letters)
4 Down
Trick-or-treater's cause (6 letters)
5 Down
"It's f-f-freezing!" (4 letters)
6 Down
Choice cut (4 letters)
7 Down
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" lyricist Harbach (4 letters)
8 Down
1998 Alanis Morissette hit with a slangy misspelling (6 letters)
9 Down
Swifter (7 letters)
10 Down
Big source of coll. scholarships (4 letters)
11 Down
53 for I, e.g. (4 letters)
12 Down
Longtime teammate of 67-Across (4 letters)
15 Down
"High Hopes" lyricist Sammy (4 letters)
20 Down
How the police might investigate someone (6 letters)
21 Down
Driveway topper (3 letters)
22 Down
Not more than (6 letters)
23 Down
Deceitful (6 letters)
24 Down
Intensify (6 letters)
27 Down
Play callers, for short (3 letters)
28 Down
Drone regulator, in brief (3 letters)
29 Down
"Atten-TION!," e.g. (5 letters)
31 Down
"You're right about that" (6 letters)
32 Down
Cat collar sound (6 letters)
33 Down
Literary giant from Concord, Mass. (6 letters)
36 Down
Like the sport of jai alai (6 letters)
39 Down
"Catch-22" character who "hasn't got brains enough to be unhappy" (3 letters)
40 Down
Flat fish (3 letters)
43 Down
Patterned (after) (7 letters)
47 Down
Yearbook sect. (3 letters)
48 Down
Rapper with the autobiography "The Way I Am" (6 letters)
49 Down
John who won two Pulitzers for fiction (6 letters)
51 Down
British pound, informally (4 letters)
53 Down
British pound, informally (4 letters)
54 Down
___ Reader (4 letters)
55 Down
Article in Arnsberg (4 letters)
56 Down
Dreyfus Affair chronicler (4 letters)
57 Down
Book of Mormon prophet (4 letters)
58 Down
Classic Nestlé drink (4 letters)
62 Down
Trig. function (3 letters)
63 Down
Summer event, briefly ... or a phonetic hint to 19-, 26-, 47- and 53-Across (3 letters)
64 Down
Año part (3 letters)

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