Friday Crossword — December 12, 2014
Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1568 clues~30-60 minBy Evan Birnholz12/12/2014
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Person at the top of the order (6 letters)
- 7 Across
- Excited (7 letters)
- 14 Across
- Fan's output (7 letters)
- 16 Across
- Brand behind the mouthwash Plax (7 letters)
- 17 Across
- Tex-Mex item (7 letters)
- 18 Across
- Robert Goulet, e.g. (7 letters)
- 19 Across
- Annual event held in the Theresienwiese (11 letters)
- 21 Across
- Certain tube filler (4 letters)
- 22 Across
- Slangy goodbye (10 letters)
- 27 Across
- Relative of a harrier (3 letters)
- 28 Across
- All hits all the time? (5 letters)
- 29 Across
- Reply on the radio (5 letters)
- 30 Across
- Person with important clerical duties (5 letters)
- 31 Across
- Tuber grown south of the border (6 letters)
- 32 Across
- Tomfoolery (7 letters)
- 35 Across
- Ones trying to prevent stealing (7 letters)
- 36 Across
- Stud muffin (6 letters)
- 37 Across
- Certain branches (5 letters)
- 38 Across
- The tropics and others (5 letters)
- 39 Across
- Uses maximally (5 letters)
- 40 Across
- Ceiling (3 letters)
- 43 Across
- Influential figure in upward mobility? (10 letters)
- 45 Across
- ___ Ball (event at Hogwarts during the Triwizard Tournament) (4 letters)
- 46 Across
- Their best-selling (23x platinum) album had no title (11 letters)
- 48 Across
- Series of drug-related offenses? (7 letters)
- 52 Across
- Politico who wrote "The Truth (With Jokes)" (7 letters)
- 53 Across
- Skin cream ingredient (7 letters)
- 54 Across
- Square snack (7 letters)
- 55 Across
- Licensing requirement, maybe (7 letters)
- 56 Across
- Wee (6 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Start to play? (6 letters)
- 2 Down
- Talk show V.I.P. (6 letters)
- 3 Down
- Common ground? (6 letters)
- 4 Down
- John in a studio (5 letters)
- 5 Down
- 9-5, e.g. (4 letters)
- 6 Down
- Talk show V.I.P.'s (9 letters)
- 7 Down
- Put up with (6 letters)
- 8 Down
- Mohamed ___, Egyptian president removed from power in July 2013 (5 letters)
- 9 Down
- Thickening agents? (10 letters)
- 10 Down
- Psych 101 subject (3 letters)
- 11 Down
- Judo ranking (3 letters)
- 12 Down
- Trojan competitor (3 letters)
- 13 Down
- So says (3 letters)
- 15 Down
- 21-Across, e.g. (7 letters)
- 20 Down
- N.H.L. players' representative Donald (4 letters)
- 23 Down
- Reduces to bits (5 letters)
- 24 Down
- Land east of Babylonia (4 letters)
- 25 Down
- Fictional corporation that made a jet-propelled unicycle (4 letters)
- 26 Down
- It has points of interest (4 letters)
- 28 Down
- This is the end (10 letters)
- 30 Down
- Tree huggers? (5 letters)
- 31 Down
- Half a nursery rhyme couple (9 letters)
- 32 Down
- Run through the gantlet, say (4 letters)
- 33 Down
- Pop ___ (4 letters)
- 34 Down
- Iowa politico Ernst (4 letters)
- 35 Down
- Credo (7 letters)
- 37 Down
- ___ bath (4 letters)
- 39 Down
- Car modified for flying in "The Absent-Minded Professor" (6 letters)
- 40 Down
- "Home Alone" star, 1990 (6 letters)
- 41 Down
- Time Lords on "Doctor Who," e.g. (6 letters)
- 42 Down
- Big name in retail (6 letters)
- 44 Down
- Planes, quaintly (5 letters)
- 45 Down
- Broadway character who sings "The Rumor" (5 letters)
- 47 Down
- Not that bright (4 letters)
- 48 Down
- Number of weeks in il Giro d'Italia (3 letters)
- 49 Down
- "Stop right there!" (3 letters)
- 50 Down
- When le Tour de France is held (3 letters)
- 51 Down
- Romeo's was "a most sharp sauce" (3 letters)
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