Thursday Crossword — July 23, 2015 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 77 clues). Published 7/23/2015. By Timothy Polin.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Top dog in Hollywood in the 1930s (4)
- ASTA
- 5 Across: Cans (5)
- JAILS
- 10 Across: Zealot (5)
- ULTRA
- 15 Across: Burst into flames (4)
- GOUP
- 16 Across: Abrogate (5)
- ANNUL
- 17 Across: Gondor's northern ally in Middle-earth (5)
- ROHAN
- 18 Across: 42, for Mo (4)
- ATNO
- 19 Across: What 39-Across means (11)
- MAGNIFICENT
- 21 Across: Continental ___ (5)
- SHELF
- 23 Across: One who ignores bills (8)
- DEADBEAT
- 24 Across: W.W. II bond type (7)
- SERIESE
- 26 Across: Treat barbarically (6)
- ILLUSE
- 29 Across: Woodwind or wind gauge (10)
- INSTRUMENT
- 33 Across: Major showcase (4)
- EXPO
- 34 Across: Global capital inst. (3)
- IMF
- 35 Across: Comedian Dunn and others (5)
- NORAS
- 38 Across: Gloaming, to a poet (3)
- EEN
- 39 Across: Mouthful from a 1964 song (14)
- SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS
- 43 Across: Slam (3)
- DIS
- 44 Across: Number of giorni in a week (5)
- SETTE
- 45 Across: Terminal approx. (3)
- ETD
- 46 Across: On tenterhooks (4)
- ATIP
- 48 Across: Law firm employees (10)
- ASSOCIATES
- 53 Across: What shadows become as they lengthen (6)
- BEARDS
- 56 Across: The Wars of the Roses began during his reign (7)
- HENRYVI
- 57 Across: Sharp shooters? (8)
- NAILGUNS
- 61 Across: Preternatural (5)
- EERIE
- 62 Across: Musical featuring 39-Across (11)
- MARYPOPPINS
- 65 Across: Masculine side (4)
- YANG
- 66 Across: Oversupplies (5)
- GLUTS
- 67 Across: Swell (5)
- AOKAY
- 68 Across: Many moons ago (4)
- ONCE
- 69 Across: Mr. in two Oscar-winning shorts (5)
- MAGOO
- 70 Across: Short cuts (5)
- SNIPS
- 71 Across: The Pac-12's Runnin' ___ (4)
- UTES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Sports champion whose father twice represented Iran as an Olympic boxer (6)
- AGASSI
- 2 Down: "Afterward ..." (6)
- SOTHEN
- 3 Down: Workers with pitch forks? (6)
- TUNERS
- 4 Down: Nonvoting, say (8)
- APOLITICAL
- 5 Down: Quandary (3)
- JAM
- 6 Down: Floral garland (6)
- ANADEM
- 7 Down: Playwright William (4)
- INGE
- 8 Down: 1960s-'70s Soviet space program (4)
- LUNA
- 9 Down: Declined (4)
- SLID
- 10 Down: Archangel in "Paradise Lost" (5)
- URIEL
- 11 Down: Spot (6)
- LOCALE
- 12 Down: Jackie Chan action film featuring a high-tech jacket (8)
- THETUXEDO
- 13 Down: Reacted pusillanimously (3)
- RAN
- 14 Down: Member of a colonial army (3)
- ANT
- 20 Down: Kind of sting (3)
- FBI
- 22 Down: Minuscule distance units (6)
- FERMIS
- 25 Down: Subject of the 15th and 19th Amendments (5)
- SUFFRAGE
- 27 Down: False (4)
- SPECIOUS
- 28 Down: Many moons (3)
- EON
- 30 Down: Signs up (5)
- ENLISTS
- 31 Down: Fliers, e.g. (5)
- NOTICES
- 32 Down: Natural history museum attraction, for short (3)
- TREX
- 36 Down: Not together (5)
- APIECE
- 37 Down: Soup go-with (6)
- SALTINE
- 39 Down: Microsoft Office, e.g. (4)
- SUITE
- 40 Down: Grand Bazaar purchase (8)
- PERSIANRUG
- 41 Down: "Give ___ rest" (3)
- ITA
- 42 Down: Words after "Go on ..." (8)
- IDAREYOU
- 43 Down: Light application (3)
- DAB
- 47 Down: Implore (6)
- PRAYTO
- 49 Down: Rejoinder to a zinger (6)
- OHSNAP
- 50 Down: Uncompromising sort (6)
- TYRANT
- 51 Down: Bespeak (6)
- EVINCE
- 52 Down: Protracted campaigns (6)
- SIEGES
- 54 Down: Tosspot (5)
- DIPSO
- 55 Down: School zone warning (3)
- SLO
- 58 Down: University figs. (4)
- GPAS
- 59 Down: ___ reflection (4)
- UPON
- 60 Down: Supermodel Taylor (4)
- NIKI
- 62 Down: "Grand" letters (3)
- MGM
- 63 Down: Impersonating (3)
- ALA
- 64 Down: M.O.: Abbr. (3)
- SYS
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