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Universal Crossword

Edited by Timothy E. Parker August 09, 2010

ACROSS 1 "This

___" ("How strange") 6 Tax pro 9 Like many trees in winter 13 Bowler's feat 14 "___ now, brown cow?" 15 Tool for boring holes 16 Command to a scout or quarterback? 18 Drug used to treat Parkinson's disease 19 "... ___ which will live in infamy" (F.D.R.) 20 Boozing binge 21 Crowns of victory in ancient Greece 24 "On My Own" singer Patti 28 Meteorological event 29 When tripled, a real estate mantra 30 Backgammon necessity 31 Cobra's weapon 32 Trail mix morsel 33 Halftime features, sometimes 37 Farm brooder 38 Place to find

a date in the desert? 39 Where Marco Polo explored 41 One's spiritual being 43 Private pupils 45 Foils 46 Gluttons for punishment 47 Thinnish middle? 48 Ice cream dessert 49 Paying heed 52 Countdown of top tunes 56 Scottish town 57 Furious feeling 58 "Not in a million years!" 59 Cruel fellow 60 Banned insect control agent 61 "The Story of ___ H" DOWN 1 Suffix with "lobby" or "ideal" 2 Resort feature 3 Bookshelf wood, perhaps 4 More dismal 5 Make numb 6 Debt markers 7 ___ fun at (ridicule) 8 Reverence 9 Financial report

column 10 Back in time 11 Sales agent,

briefly 12 Historical

time 15 Mobile

home? 17 Saintly

headdress 20 Son of Isaac 21 Was in

command 22 Comestible

item 23 Beyond the

ordinary 24 Hankers (for) 25 Buckingham

of Fleetwood Mac 26 Crummier 27 Suffix with "respond" 29 Russian Revolution leader 31 Some charge cards 34 City of Greece

35 Parts of a harness

36 Yakked on and on

37 Towel embroidery word

40 Mule's dad 42 Come into

view 43 Push down,

as tobacco in a pipe 44 Illinois college town 46 Choral music composition 48 Feeder frequenter 49 Blood letters? 50 Haul 51 Miscalculate 52 Evaded the seeker 53 "Hail!" to Caesar 54 ___ Monte (food giant) 55 Prior, to Prior

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HIGH-STEPPING by Alex Cole

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Universal Crossword

Edited by Timothy E. Parker August 10, 2010

ACROSS 1 Grounds for

grounding? 5 Ghana's

capital 10 Generation-

spanning story 14 ___ as we speak 15 "They Died With ___ Boots On" 16 Gas station adjunct, often 17 Infamous Roman fiddler 18 Sixteen drams 19 Colored part of the eye 20 Concluding a sketch? 23 Reporter's badge word 24 Meddlesome woman 25 Passed (away), as time 28 Indefinite large number 30 Overseas currency unit 31 Garlicflavored mayonnaise 33 Exxon offering 36 Like traffic approaching construction 40 Shade of summer? 41 Wind-borne silt deposit 42 Stick in the supermarket

43 White-sale purchases

44 Least honorable

46 Open spaces in malls

49 In unison 51 Losing steam 57 Not

prerecorded 58 Informal

"byes" 59 Stork relative 60 Break the

seal on 61 Like Pisa's

most famous landmark 62 Mountain lion 63 Hoses down 64 Hawaiian geese 65 Word with "movie" or "shooting" DOWN 1 Fax or FedEx 2 Say with certainty 3 Transfusion fluids 4 January road clearer 5 Initiated repentance 6 Locomotive sounds 7 Parts of dollars 8 Puerto ___ 9 Math student's calculation, sometimes 10 "I'm just kidding!" emoticon 11 Moses' older brother

12 Mill fodder 13 On the ocean

or in a fog 21 Anger 22 Skeptical sort 25 Wagon train's

direction 26 Dance to a

ukulele 27 Branding rod 28 Cows'

chorus 29 Words after

"chicken" and before "king" 31 Has birthdays 32 It is in most dialogue? 33 Mighty wind 34 Leaves speechless 35 Part of an armed bandit 37 Trojan War epic 38 Wordless "yes" 39 Flowery

vitamin C sources 43 Sheets, tablecloths, etc. 44 Lifts, as morale 45 Santa ___ (city in California) 46 Softly lit 47 Third-rate writing 48 Heavy metal fastener 49 "Won't Get Fooled ___" (The Who tune) 50 Took illegally 52 "Not if ___ help it!" 53 Evening, in advertising 54 Touch the border of 55 Bean variety 56 Former absolute ruler

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THE END IS NEAR by Armond Greene

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Universal Crossword

Edited by Timothy E. Parker August 11, 2010

ACROSS 1 ___ serif

(type style) 5 Prime

invitees 10 Matinee

follower? 14 Malarial

symptom 15 Vision-

improving device 16 Actress Campbell 17 Suburbanite's fundraiser 19 Not loose-fitting 20 Bride's path 21 Master thespians they're not 22 Contents of some barrels 23 Villainous expressions 25 Gambler's milieu 27 FBI employee 29 Benchclearing incident 32 Young bucks 35 Loose overcoat 39 Center of activity 40 Santa ___ winds 41 Not give up 42 Phoenix-toPhilly dir. 43 Motor lodge 44 Make a formal retraction 45 Low, sturdy cart 46 Chocolate bean

48 About 2.2 lbs 50 Credits

follow it 54 Dig with the

snout (Var.) 58 Sickly, as a

complexion 60 Pasture

chorus 62 Plait 63 Attack,

cat-style 64 One place to

relax 66 Dance done

in grass skirts 67 Occur as a result 68 1958 Pulitzer winner James 69 Slippery and slithery 70 It's on the Aire 71 View from 64-Across DOWN 1 Stories that span generations 2 Time and ___ 3 Person with a bedside manner 4 Sailor's bearings 5 Tavern order 6 Flirtatious batter? 7 Asimov or Newton 8 Town of a civil rights march 9 Rapunzel feature 10 Non compos mentis 11 Certain

scout leader 12 Egg, to a

biologist 13 Brand of

building blocks 18 Antibiotic target 24 Rani's garment (Var.) 26 Does not exist 28 Cop who might go undercover 30 Bluefin, for one 31 Old wedding vow word 32 Secular 33 Noted tutor in Siam 34 Big band venue 36 Group overseeing U.S. property 37 Chain piece 38 Showing signs of life

41 Propel, as into action

45 Threshold 47 "Be that as it

may ..." 49 T-ball

pitches 51 See 41-Down 52 "___ will ever

guess!" 53 Wasteland

shrub 55 Evergreen

forest of subarctic lands 56 Luxury ship 57 Double-___ sword 58 Tooth or tummy problem 59 Swing around, nautically 61 Kind of ballistic missile 65 "For ___ a jolly good ..."

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HOME SWEET HOME by Carol Ross

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Universal Crossword

Edited by Timothy E. Parker August 12, 2010

ACROSS 1 Excessive

temper tantrum 5 Not right 10 Where to head 'em off 14 Banded quartz 15 Hyundai's home: South ___ 16 Embarrassing defeat 17 Giving the expected value, as a purchase 20 Siesta sound 21 Books that suffer where and tear? 22 Vessels like Noah's 25 Pueblo dwellers 26 Red Sox legend Williams 29 Yogi or Smokey 31 AM receivers 35 "Who ___?" (common riddle ending) 36 Photo holder 38 "Meet Me ___ Louis" 39 Minor sacrifice 43 Gambling game 44 ___-Saxon 45 Four-stringed Hawaiian instrument, briefly 46 Cry in "A Streetcar Named

Desire" 49 "Dr. No" star

Connery 50 ___ in tango 51 Ad ___

(improvises) 53 Children's

author Blyton 55 Having strata 58 Like "The

Twilight Zone" 62 It's desired while shopping 65 O'Neill's Christie 66 "___ of God" (1985 movie) 67 Facial tissue additive 68 Eagerly anticipating 69 Tractor man John 70 Separate with force DOWN 1 Grandstand divisions 2 In a bit, to the bard 3 Pita-wrapped sandwich 4 Hollywood walk-on 5 Clanton at the O.K. Corral 6 Eleven on calendars 7 Surveyor's measurement 8 Capital city of Western Australia 9 President after Polk 10 1988 Connery film

(with "The") 11 Standout

standing 12 Basks at the

beach 13 Place for a

rooter 18 Tea type 19 "___ Was a

Rollin' Stone" 23 Edible

seaweed 24 Native-born

Israeli 26 Items on a

to-do list 27 Actor M. ___

Walsh 28 Sawyer of TV 30 The

Colosseum, today 32 Database fodder 33 Japanese metropolis 34 Eyelid woes 37 Fibber of classic radio 40 Dawdle

41 Distinctive flair

42 More fashionable

47 Willing, poetically

48 Not in the country

52 Suit-able material?

54 Lift a lawyer's license

55 Singer k.d. 56 The "A"

of A.D. 57 A little force? 59 ___ of thumb 60 Clickable

image 61 Scratched

(out), as a living 62 Black sheep's plaint 63 "... ___ the land of the free ..." 64 Put into service

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PAY THE PIPER by Lucky Welles

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Universal Crossword

Edited by Timothy E. Parker August 13, 2010

ACROSS 1 Sugar units 6 Defame 11 Half a

ballroom dance 14 Person born on the largest continent 15 Exorcist's adversary 16 Ducked the seeker 17 Emulate a 23-Down 19 Street of horror films 20 Melodious composition 21 Dodge 23 Sonnet sections 26 James Clavell best seller 27 Suitors 28 "Physical" singer Newton-John 30 Mythical fertility goddess 31 Grassy plain of Latin America 32 Massage facility 35 Nothing at all 36 One buying a round 38 Disruptive noise 39 Dallas-toMemphis dir. 40 Bob's partner? 41 Darken, as a windshield 42 Tends to a dry stamp pad

44 Few and far between

46 Shop without buying

48 Stone artifacts

49 Turn back to zero

50 Small sea bird

52 Geisha's waist wrap

53 Microseism 58 Blood typing

letters 59 Thick-skinned

mammal 60 Birdbrained 61 ___ mother

(Cub Scout leader) 62 Long stories 63 Computer drive insert DOWN 1 Murphy has one 2 Abbr. in a Springsteen album title 3 One thousandth of an inch 4 Tasting sensibilities 5 One who sleeps soundly? 6 Parting word south of the border 7 Franklin and Affleck 8 Target practice need 9 Five centimes in old France 10 Undertaking 11 Incredibly inexpensive 12 "Broom-___"

(comic strip) 13 Clio hopefuls 18 They're best

kept about you 22 Seven on a sundial 23 Trough diner 24 Red dye used in a biology lab 25 Degradation of a sort 26 Pitchfork point 28 Five kings of Norway 29 "Better ___ than never" 31 Air mattress problem 33 Press tightly between the fingers 34 Primes the poker pot 36 Tornadoes 37 Surrealist painter Magritte 41 Very last

segment 43 Lamb's

ma'am 44 Separate, as

laundry 45 Layperson's

counterpart 46 Like some

shoulders 47 Hasidic

spiritual leader 48 Distinctive beliefs of a people 50 Overly proper type 51 Destructive peak in Sicily 54 "I suspected as much!" 55 Mutilate 56 Certain rock legend's widow 57 Sleep phenomenon, for short

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GROUND LEVEL by Morgan Coffey

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Universal Crossword

Edited by Timothy E. Parker August 14, 2010

ACROSS 1 "Up, Up

and ___" 5 Equal

exchange 9 More ironic 14 Forceful wind 15 Top-of-the-line 16 How some

issues are debated 17 La Scala instrument 18 "Silent" pooch summoner 20 Curbside takeout? 22 Sordidly unpleasant 23 Some metric units of length 26 Cries of surprise 29 Santa ___ winds 30 Vigor's partner 31 Involving otherworldly practices 33 Trickery 36 One-time Naples currency 37 Legal lowlife 42 Good soil 43 Position strategically 44 High-pH hydroxide 47 "The Raven" poet's monogram 48 Tax preparer, briefly 51 Set eyes on 52 Skeptical 56 Awards night host 57 Makeup of a plumbing

labyrinth 58 Noisy warning

device in the home 63 Gold source 64 Screen legend Sophia 65 Second-tolast word of many fairy tales 66 Gaming table stacks 67 Thirty-sixinch units 68 They're made by maids, sometimes 69 Assayers' samples DOWN 1 Christie of mysteries 2 Billionaire Buffett 3 Llama's cousin 4 Breadmaker's ingredient 5 Melancholy 6 Try to attract, as new customers 7 Apprehensive feeling 8 North American flycatcher 9 Capriciousness 10 Auspicious, as one's future 11 Cousin in a kooky family 12 Building wing shape, sometimes 13 Ham on ___ 19 Do violence to 21 Humble

dwelling 24 Easily split

mineral 25 Make

corrections to, as text 26 Elevator pioneer 27 Successful end to recruiting 28 Harry Potter's lightning bolt, e.g. 32 Do in, as a dragon 33 Russian parliamentary body 34 Most of Antarctica 35 Native American abode, once 37 ___ and alack 38 Burrowing mammal 39 Make gingerbread men 40 Attired

41 "Jump into Daddy's lap!"

45 Psychological thresholds

46 Cuzco empire builder

48 Xerox machine, e.g.

49 Latin jazz great Tito

50 Estimate the value of

53 Hollywood star, for short

54 Plunder, old-style

55 Dance with the bar set low

56 ___ out a living (just got by)

58 Full of cunning 59 Ostrich's

extinct cousin 60 Boston

Bruins great Bobby 61 Carpet color for VIPs 62 Bride's new title

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WHAT'S FOR DIN DIN? by Eric Carmelo

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Universal Crossword

Edited by Timothy E. Parker August 15, 2010

ACROSS 1 Surname

on "Good Times" 6 Softest mineral on the Mohs scale 10 "My Name Is ___" (former NBC sitcom) 14 Sired 15 Dump problem 16 MRI predecessor 17 Wayne, aka Batman 18 Wingless parasites 19 Very large 20 Not up on all these newfangled gadgets 23 A Beatle bride 24 Thick piece of concrete 25 He's no gentleman 28 False pretense 31 Blot on one's reputation 35 Toward the sheltered side, at sea 37 "Peter and the Wolf" woodwind 39 Travel reference 40 Checked up (on) 43 Drive-through lane marking 44 Style of the '20s and '30s 45 France's

Coty 46 Sailor 48 Treat like a

pariah 50 Former VP

Quayle 51 TV deputy 53 Tended tots 55 Be last in line 62 Expel, as a

leader 63 Mocking

remark 64 Gathered, as

fallen leaves 66 Bulging

earthenware vessel 67 Graceful horse 68 Flexible weaving material 69 Boat-bottom part 70 Ripped 71 Darling of "Peter Pan" DOWN 1 Tidal withdrawal 2 Part of a sentence 3 Feverish state 4 Triangular snack 5 Pilsner holders 6 Was a fink 7 Comstock entrance 8 Lomond and Ness, e.g. 9 Angler's baskets 10 Show participant 11 Jack-in-thepulpit

12 Fires and angry people may do it

13 Caustic substances

21 "Not happening!"

22 Mongol invader

25 Outdoor eateries

26 Without companions

27 River-mouth area

29 Out for the night

30 Methods, as of transportation

32 Stuck together, in a way

33 ___ Carta 34 Extremely

pale 36 Fundamental

or essential 38 Make an

impression

41 Certain Borneo native (Var.)

42 Provide with shelter

47 Nutty candy 49 Straight's

partner 52 Name in the

Nixon White House 54 Try to rile 55 Enter criminal charges against 56 Wield a scepter 57 Spot in the sea 58 Tahoe transport 59 Goddess of youth 60 In the same family tree 61 Clarinet attachment 65 Unbuttered, as toast

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CELLAR DWELLER by Henry Quarters

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