Friday Crossword — July 10, 2015

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1572 clues~30-60 minBy Barry C. Silk7/10/2015

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Tycoon with the middle name Socrates (10 letters)
11 Across
Advantage (4 letters)
15 Across
When it's acceptable to start downing brews (10 letters)
16 Across
Pen sound (4 letters)
17 Across
Vacation spot (10 letters)
18 Across
Dog command (4 letters)
19 Across
Away from the nose (3 letters)
20 Across
See 38-Across (5 letters)
21 Across
Response to an unrevealing revelation (5 letters)
22 Across
Point of a vampire story? (4 letters)
23 Across
Bikini blasts, briefly (6 letters)
24 Across
Not going swimmingly? (6 letters)
27 Across
Ice cream purchases (6 letters)
29 Across
Many Israelis (5 letters)
30 Across
Carriage driver? (9 letters)
33 Across
Complexion changer (4 letters)
34 Across
Cousins of husks (5 letters)
35 Across
High Rhine feeder (4 letters)
36 Across
Nickname for Baltimore (9 letters)
38 Across
With 20-Across, scratched the surface for resources? (5 letters)
39 Across
Squeeze (6 letters)
40 Across
Get to (6 letters)
41 Across
Become attentive (6 letters)
43 Across
David of "Rhoda" (4 letters)
44 Across
Frequency unit (5 letters)
45 Across
German architect who spent 19 years in Spandau Prison (5 letters)
47 Across
Freon letters (3 letters)
50 Across
Shankar at Woodstock (4 letters)
51 Across
1920 birthplace of the N.F.L. (10 letters)
53 Across
Like some fans and fences: Abbr. (4 letters)
54 Across
Where Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive games record (10 letters)
55 Across
Piano pieces (4 letters)
56 Across
6 or 7 p.m., for many (10 letters)

Down

1 Down
Aron's girlfriend in "East of Eden" (4 letters)
2 Down
Bikini feature (4 letters)
3 Down
Superlative ending (4 letters)
4 Down
Precious thing in Montana's motto (3 letters)
5 Down
11th-century conquerors (7 letters)
6 Down
Histrionic skill (6 letters)
7 Down
It may be thrown around at a party (5 letters)
8 Down
Put out (4 letters)
9 Down
Sewn up (4 letters)
10 Down
Relative of calypso (3 letters)
11 Down
Item often with a hinged lid (11 letters)
12 Down
Hog's portion (10 letters)
13 Down
Not yet realized (5 letters)
14 Down
Presents unfairly (5 letters)
21 Down
Humble response to a compliment (4 letters)
22 Down
Laparoscopy technology (11 letters)
23 Down
Rides (4 letters)
24 Down
Certain W.W. II enlistee (4 letters)
25 Down
One may be built to commemorate triumph (4 letters)
26 Down
Noted Ross Perot impersonator (10 letters)
27 Down
Pretty (5 letters)
28 Down
Unpretty (4 letters)
30 Down
___-a-brac (4 letters)
31 Down
What surrounds an aperture (4 letters)
32 Down
Energizes, with "up" (4 letters)
34 Down
Top: Prefix (4 letters)
37 Down
Capital of Lorraine (4 letters)
38 Down
One delivering raspberries (7 letters)
40 Down
Round bump on a cactus (6 letters)
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Film title character who says "This is the part where you run away" (5 letters)
42 Down
Hall-of-Fame football coach Greasy (5 letters)
43 Down
Board (5 letters)
45 Down
Asian wear with pleats (4 letters)
46 Down
Nabokov novel (4 letters)
47 Down
Vanilla ___ (hot drink) (4 letters)
48 Down
Unvarying (4 letters)
49 Down
Vanilla ___ (cold drink) (4 letters)
51 Down
Trawler's catch (3 letters)
52 Down
Elect (3 letters)

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