8/19/16
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1D
Stake-driving hammer
MAUL
2D
Part of a chain
ISLE
3D
Defense acronym
NATO
4D
Thirst quencher
ADE
5D
Rattle
JAR
6D
Bend
STOOP
7D
Slow passage
LARGO
8D
Guitar players, slangily
AXMEN
9D
Dust jacket info
BIO
10D
Safe to put away
EDIBLE
11D
Encourage to score, as a base runner
WAVE IN
12D
Brandishes
WIELDS
17D
First name in despotism
IDI
18D
Zap
TASE
22D
Set up
FRAME
23D
NYC commuter line
LIRR
24D
Ordinal ending
ETH
25D
TV sched. uncertainty
TBA
26D
Aunt with a “Cope Book”
ERMA
27D
Divide
RIFT
30D
El __
PASO
31D
Maroon 5 singer Levine
ADAM
32D
Counter square
TILE
33D
Lake of Lombardy
COMO
35D
Auto company founder Citroën
ANDRE
36D
Golf bag item
IRON
37D
Not the best of times
LOWS
40D
Universal donor’s type, briefly
O-NEG
41D
Uvula doc
ENT
42D
”Evita” role
CHE
43D
Counterbalance
OFFSET
44D
Loan officer, e.gD
BANKER
45D
Twain’s New York resting place
ELMIRA
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
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Word Whizzle
Words Crush
46D
”Make it snappy!”
ASAP!
49D
Country about 12 times longer than its widest point
CHILE
50D
Underwear brand
HANES
51D
Zero
AUGHT
52D
Literary monogram
RLS
55D
Green attitude?
ENVY
56D
Sound often not allowed?
PEEP
57D
”It __ Right”: 1956 Platters’ hit
ISN’T
59D
Lunchbox staple, familiarly
PBJ
60D
Cinephile’s TV choice
TMC
61D
Tool sometimes used for steering
OAR
1C
”Anaconda” rapper Nicki
MINAJ
6C
Sizable chunk
SLAB
10C
”Yuck!”
EWW!
13C
Carne follower, in Mexican fare
ASADA
14C
Roll at the airport
TAXI
15C
Former Vietnamese emperor Bao __
DAI
16C
Reason kept to oneself
ULTERIOR MOTIVE (“limestone”)
19C
Barack Obama, astrologically
LEO
20C
Old Venetian magistrate
DOGE
21C
Boy in the first family
ABEL
22C
Wig out
FLIP ONE’S LID (“fieldstone”)
25C
Country singer Clark
TERRI
28C
Cold weather word
TEENS
29C
Thorny thicket
BRIAR PATCH (“birthstone”)
34C
1953 automobile innovation
AM/FM RADIO
35C
Catch something
AIL
38C
Put away
ATE
39C
Some caviar
SALMON ROE
42C
Johnny Olson catchphrase
COME ON DOWN! (“moonstone”)
43C
West Indian sorcery
OBEAH
47C
Young partner
ERNST
48C
Bum rap
FALSE CHARGE (“flagstone”)
53C
Low-cost home loan orgC
FNMA
54C
Lug
HAUL
55C
Letters left of center?
EPI-
58C
Leisurely lakeside activity, and a clue for the circled letters
SKIPPING STONES
62C
”If __ again I meet him beard to beard “: ShakC
E’ER
63C
”Yuck!”
BLEH!
64C
Whiz
MAVEN
65C
Carefree syllable
TRA
66C
Fun
JEST
67C
Sarcophagus holder
CRYPT