Thursday Crossword — September 1, 2016 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 9/1/2016. By Ben Tausig.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Part of a house (4)
- ROOF
- 5 Across: Old-seeming (5)
- FUSTY
- 10 Across: Laborious process (4)
- SLOG
- 14 Across: Middle name of the inventor of the electrographic vote recorder (4)
- ALVA
- 15 Across: Channel for college sports (5)
- ESPNU
- 16 Across: Fatty tuna part, at a sushi restaurant (4)
- TORO
- 17 Across: Tech expert, as it were (4)
- GEEK
- 18 Across: Steamy place (5)
- SAUNA
- 19 Across: Actor Wilson (4)
- OWEN
- 20 Across: Ending with metal or mal- (4)
- WARE
- 21 Across: Lie on a beach (3)
- SUN
- 22 Across: Holistic spiritual movement (6)
- NEWAGE
- 24 Across: Blowup: Abbr. (3)
- ENL
- 25 Across: Narwhal features (5)
- TUSKS
- 27 Across: Run off, in a way (5)
- XEROX
- 28 Across: Music producer Brian (3)
- ENO
- 29 Across: Inits. on a car sticker (3)
- EPA
- 30 Across: "Oh gawd!" (3)
- UGH
- 32 Across: AC/DC single with the lyric "watch me explode" (3)
- TNT
- 33 Across: Poet who wrote of Beatrice (5)
- DANTE
- 35 Across: Unleash, as havoc (5)
- WREAK
- 37 Across: Having a variable identity, as suggested by four squares in this puzzle (11)
- GENDERFLUID
- 41 Across: Super (5)
- DANDY
- 42 Across: Final authority (5)
- SAYSO
- 45 Across: Score amts. (3)
- PTS
- 48 Across: Sight ___ (3)
- GAG
- 49 Across: ___ out (email list selection) (3)
- OPT
- 51 Across: Turf (3)
- SOD
- 52 Across: Get more mileage out of (5)
- REUSE
- 54 Across: Hyundai model with a lot of horsepower? (5)
- EQUUS
- 56 Across: Play (with) (3)
- TOY
- 57 Across: Undivided (6)
- ENTIRE
- 59 Across: Pac-12 athlete (3)
- UTE
- 60 Across: Ending of many a firm's name (4)
- SONS
- 61 Across: Topic to ask a fortuneteller about (4)
- FATE
- 62 Across: Dined watching Netflix, say (5)
- ATEIN
- 64 Across: Bonobos, e.g. (4)
- APES
- 65 Across: Cher or Dolly Parton, e.g. (4)
- ICON
- 66 Across: Cover ... or cover ___ (5)
- SHEET
- 67 Across: Tough stuff to walk through (4)
- FIRE
- 68 Across: Lucy Lawless role (4)
- XENA
- 69 Across: Curt (5)
- TERSE
- 70 Across: "Chill ..." (4)
- EASY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Cause of some allergy flare-ups (7)
- RAGWEED
- 2 Down: Mamet play inspired by the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings (7)
- OLEANNA
- 3 Down: Going on and on ... and on (8)
- OVERLONG
- 4 Down: Fabricate (4)
- MAKE
- 5 Down: Reveal a secret, say (6)
- MESSUP
- 6 Down: Patriotic chant (6)
- USAUSA
- 7 Down: Mettle (5)
- SPUNK
- 8 Down: Old channel with country music videos (3)
- TNN
- 9 Down: Chinese money (4)
- YUAN
- 10 Down: Best-selling author who was a neighbor of Twain in Hartford (5)
- STOWE
- 11 Down: Kitsch, e.g. (6)
- LOWART
- 12 Down: Snake's place, partly (6)
- OREGON
- 13 Down: Follow (6)
- GONEXT
- 23 Down: Tires (8)
- EXHAUSTS
- 25 Down: One "in love" in a 1959 top 5 hit (8)
- TEENAGER
- 26 Down: Roar producer (4)
- SURF
- 31 Down: Lock fixer? (3)
- GEL
- 34 Down: 2012 comedy with a talking bear (3)
- TED
- 35 Down: Not straight (3)
- WRY
- 36 Down: Soul producer (3)
- KIA
- 38 Down: Forensic material (3)
- DNA
- 39 Down: Beat (out) (4)
- EDGE
- 40 Down: "The Hunger Games" universe, e.g. (8)
- DYSTOPIA
- 43 Down: Neighbors of Longhorns (7)
- SOONERS
- 44 Down: Adventure (7)
- ODYSSEY
- 45 Down: It's combined at the beginning (6)
- PREMIX
- 46 Down: Certain pair in bridge (6)
- TENACE
- 47 Down: Bank robber Willie who co-wrote "Where the Money Was" (6)
- SUTTON
- 49 Down: Certain navels (6)
- OUTIES
- 50 Down: Nuyorican music legend Tito (6)
- PUENTE
- 53 Down: Tuscan city famous for horse races (5)
- SIENA
- 55 Down: Part of L.G.B.T.Q. (5)
- QUEER
- 58 Down: Right on the map (4)
- EAST
- 60 Down: Word that can precede sex (4)
- SAME
- 63 Down: Not just any (3)
- THE
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