Friday Crossword — December 12, 2014 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 12/12/2014. By Evan Birnholz.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Person at the top of the order (6)
- ABBESS
- 7 Across: Excited (7)
- AMPEDUP
- 14 Across: Fan's output (7)
- COOLAIR
- 16 Across: Brand behind the mouthwash Plax (7)
- COLGATE
- 17 Across: Tex-Mex item (7)
- TOSTADA
- 18 Across: Robert Goulet, e.g. (7)
- CROONER
- 19 Across: Annual event held in the Theresienwiese (11)
- OKTOBERFEST
- 21 Across: Certain tube filler (4)
- NEON
- 22 Across: Slangy goodbye (10)
- KEEPITREAL
- 27 Across: Relative of a harrier (3)
- ERN
- 28 Across: All hits all the time? (5)
- FIGHT
- 29 Across: Reply on the radio (5)
- WILCO
- 30 Across: Person with important clerical duties (5)
- VICAR
- 31 Across: Tuber grown south of the border (6)
- JICAMA
- 32 Across: Tomfoolery (7)
- HIJINKS
- 35 Across: Ones trying to prevent stealing (7)
- BASEMEN
- 36 Across: Stud muffin (6)
- ADONIS
- 37 Across: Certain branches (5)
- SECTS
- 38 Across: The tropics and others (5)
- ZONES
- 39 Across: Uses maximally (5)
- MILKS
- 40 Across: Ceiling (3)
- CAP
- 43 Across: Influential figure in upward mobility? (10)
- ELISHAOTIS
- 45 Across: ___ Ball (event at Hogwarts during the Triwizard Tournament) (4)
- YULE
- 46 Across: Their best-selling (23x platinum) album had no title (11)
- LEDZEPPELIN
- 48 Across: Series of drug-related offenses? (7)
- THEWIRE
- 52 Across: Politico who wrote "The Truth (With Jokes)" (7)
- FRANKEN
- 53 Across: Skin cream ingredient (7)
- RETINOL
- 54 Across: Square snack (7)
- SALTINE
- 55 Across: Licensing requirement, maybe (7)
- EYETEST
- 56 Across: Wee (6)
- TEENSY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Start to play? (6)
- ACTONE
- 2 Down: Talk show V.I.P. (6)
- BOOKER
- 3 Down: Common ground? (6)
- BOSTON
- 4 Down: John in a studio (5)
- ELTON
- 5 Down: 9-5, e.g. (4)
- SAAB
- 6 Down: Talk show V.I.P.'s (9)
- SIDEKICKS
- 7 Down: Put up with (6)
- ACCEPT
- 8 Down: Mohamed ___, Egyptian president removed from power in July 2013 (5)
- MORSI
- 9 Down: Thickening agents? (10)
- PLOTTWISTS
- 10 Down: Psych 101 subject (3)
- EGO
- 11 Down: Judo ranking (3)
- DAN
- 12 Down: Trojan competitor (3)
- UTE
- 13 Down: So says (3)
- PER
- 15 Down: 21-Across, e.g. (7)
- RAREGAS
- 20 Down: N.H.L. players' representative Donald (4)
- FEHR
- 23 Down: Reduces to bits (5)
- RICES
- 24 Down: Land east of Babylonia (4)
- ELAM
- 25 Down: Fictional corporation that made a jet-propelled unicycle (4)
- ACME
- 26 Down: It has points of interest (4)
- LOAN
- 28 Down: This is the end (10)
- FINISHLINE
- 30 Down: Tree huggers? (5)
- VINES
- 31 Down: Half a nursery rhyme couple (9)
- JACKSPRAT
- 32 Down: Run through the gantlet, say (4)
- HAZE
- 33 Down: Pop ___ (4)
- IDOL
- 34 Down: Iowa politico Ernst (4)
- JONI
- 35 Down: Credo (7)
- BELIEFS
- 37 Down: ___ bath (4)
- SITZ
- 39 Down: Car modified for flying in "The Absent-Minded Professor" (6)
- MODELT
- 40 Down: "Home Alone" star, 1990 (6)
- CULKIN
- 41 Down: Time Lords on "Doctor Who," e.g. (6)
- ALIENS
- 42 Down: Big name in retail (6)
- PENNEY
- 44 Down: Planes, quaintly (5)
- AEROS
- 45 Down: Broadway character who sings "The Rumor" (5)
- YENTE
- 47 Down: Not that bright (4)
- PALE
- 48 Down: Number of weeks in il Giro d'Italia (3)
- TRE
- 49 Down: "Stop right there!" (3)
- HEY
- 50 Down: When le Tour de France is held (3)
- ETE
- 51 Down: Romeo's was "a most sharp sauce" (3)
- WIT
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