Friday Crossword — September 12, 2014 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 9/12/2014. By Michael Wiesenberg.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Queen's music (11)
- STADIUMROCK
- 12 Across: Film developer?: Abbr. (3)
- DIR
- 15 Across: "Hasta la vista!" (11)
- IMOUTTAHERE
- 16 Across: Musician with the 2012 album "Lux" (3)
- ENO
- 17 Across: Allows someone to walk, say (11)
- TAKESTHERAP
- 18 Across: Big gun on a ship: Abbr. (3)
- ADM
- 19 Across: Oxford, e.g., to its students (3)
- UNI
- 20 Across: Michael of "Juno" (4)
- CERA
- 21 Across: Oxide used in picture tubes (6)
- YTTRIA
- 23 Across: "A person who talks when you wish him to listen," per Ambrose Bierce (4)
- BORE
- 24 Across: Lead (7)
- GOFIRST
- 25 Across: Shots (6)
- PHOTOS
- 28 Across: Coddle, e.g. (8)
- BENICETO
- 29 Across: Shack (5)
- HOVEL
- 30 Across: Artistic friend of Zola (5)
- MANET
- 31 Across: Sharpshooter's skill (3)
- AIM
- 32 Across: Poet Wilfred ___ (4)
- OWEN
- 33 Across: Out of gear? (5)
- NAKED
- 34 Across: Buchanan in a bookstore (4)
- EDNA
- 35 Across: Word of logic (3)
- NOR
- 36 Across: Moving day multitude (5)
- BOXES
- 37 Across: Governor or senator follower (5)
- ELECT
- 38 Across: Caught in a web (8)
- ENSNARED
- 40 Across: Certain book, sizewise (6)
- QUARTO
- 41 Across: Makes out (7)
- DETECTS
- 42 Across: Secure neatly, as an umbrella (4)
- FURL
- 43 Across: Pioneer in the Nevada gaming industry (6)
- HARRAH
- 44 Across: One of its categories is Agency of the Year (4)
- CLIO
- 45 Across: With 46-Down, two-in-one movie players (3)
- DVD
- 48 Across: It's often an oxide (3)
- ORE
- 49 Across: Something avoided in a factory outlet (11)
- RETAILPRICE
- 52 Across: Washington and McKinley: Abbr. (3)
- MTS
- 53 Across: Commute, in a way (11)
- DRIVETOWORK
- 54 Across: Replies of confusion (3)
- EHS
- 55 Across: Stick here and there (11)
- INTERSPERSE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Archaeologists often find what they're looking for in this (4)
- SITU
- 2 Down: Counterfeiter fighter, informally (4)
- TMAN
- 3 Down: Isao of golf (4)
- AOKI
- 4 Down: At full term (3)
- DUE
- 5 Down: "No worries" (7)
- ITSCOOL
- 6 Down: Comes out with (6)
- UTTERS
- 7 Down: Skiing twins' surname (5)
- MAHRE
- 8 Down: Sister of Phoebe, in myth (4)
- RHEA
- 9 Down: "Or softly lightens ___ her face": Byron (3)
- OER
- 10 Down: Like many kids' self-made greeting cards (8)
- CRAYONED
- 11 Down: Didn't let oneself go, say (7)
- KEPTFIT
- 12 Down: Lead-in to some written advice (10)
- DEARREADER
- 13 Down: Blurred (10)
- INDISTINCT
- 14 Down: Option for a marinara base (10)
- ROMATOMATO
- 22 Down: Not too big a jerk (3)
- TIC
- 23 Down: Old bomber (4)
- BTEN
- 24 Down: A lot of what makes you you (5)
- GENES
- 25 Down: Checked in with loved ones, say (10)
- PHONEDHOME
- 26 Down: Exclamation that might be punctuated "??!?" (10)
- HOWONEARTH
- 27 Down: Put too much weight on (10)
- OVERSTRESS
- 28 Down: Like some potato chips (5)
- BAKED
- 30 Down: Ceilings (5)
- MAXES
- 33 Down: From the Union (8)
- NORTHERN
- 34 Down: Hebrew for "to the skies" (4)
- ELAL
- 36 Down: Rival of Captain Morgan (7)
- BACARDI
- 37 Down: Abba's music (7)
- EUROPOP
- 39 Down: ___ Tamid (ever-burning synagogue lamp) (3)
- NER
- 40 Down: Thick spreads (6)
- QUILTS
- 42 Down: Ace on a base (5)
- FLIER
- 44 Down: Give up (4)
- CAVE
- 45 Down: One of its fragrances is Poison (4)
- DIOR
- 46 Down: See 45-Across (4)
- VCRS
- 47 Down: Rink fooler (4)
- DEKE
- 50 Down: Small warbler (3)
- TIT
- 51 Down: Inits. of Thoreau's mentor (3)
- RWE
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