Crossword by: Daniel Nierenberg
Above is a picture of the puzzle with completed answers for the Wednesday January 8th crossword and here is a list of the clues we were given:
ACROSS
1. __-loading: endurance strategy
5. Chance
9. Shocking weapon
14. Worker protection org.
15. Singer from County Donegal
16. Sky hue
17. *Marlin, for one
19. Prepare to make an electronic payment, say
20. Halves of fifths
21. Breaking wave feature
23. Drink for a hot day
24. Nasty expression
25. *Source of endless funds
27. “You’re dreaming”
29. Hate
30. *Common Milky Way star
34. Gallery baddies
37. Yoko of Tokyo
38. Rodeo rope
40. __-cone
41. Mount McKinley’s national park
44. *Billiards maneuver
47. Where the floor is always wet
49. Banking regulatory agcy.
50. *Part of a uniform
53. Latish wake-up time
57. Curve
58. “Woe __!”
59. “Gracias” reply
60. Spanish American grassland
62. Family relations, and what the first words of the answers to starred clues can have
64. Frequent Mastroianni costar
65. Edger’s target
66. Spacewalks, for short
67. Range with chinchillas
68. Former partners
69. Take out
DOWN
1. Profit factors
2. Rockies skiing destination
3. Avignon’s river
4. Work at a saloon
5. They may cry foul
6. Pasta ending
7. Big name in food distribution
8. Aloha State big shot
9. “There’s the fox!”
10. Nitrogenous dye
11. *Chocolate overdose consequence
12. Undermine
13. Actress Zellweger
18. Lose on purpose
22. Give a new commercial name to
25. Mademoiselle’s matriarch
26. Dress to the nines, with “up”
28. Shunned ones
30. “Maggie May” singer Stewart
31. Cincinnati-to-N.Y.C. direction
32. *What a driver’s license may serve as
33. “Swell!”
35. Eclectic musician Brian
36. Lush
39. First president to throw a ceremonial opening day pitch
42. Cry from Cathy of comics
43. Skin wounds
45. Passed, as rubber checks
46. Like aromatherapy products
48. Quick and light
50. Half a Northwest city
51. Sock synthetic
52. Take a load off
54. Credulous
55. Words after cut or close
56. Pool stroke
59. Mafia bigwigs
61. Maiden name intro
63. Have to thank (for)
Leave a Reply