12/9/20
Wayback Wednesday
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1A
Grains in a horse’s feedbag
Oats
5A
Person who fills in for a sick teacher, for short
Sub
8A
A blast from the ____
Past
12A
Sandwich rolled in a soft tortilla
Trac
13A
School group with the slogan “Every child. One voice”: Abbr.
PTA
14A
Member of a South American empire of yore
Inca
15A
Woman who gave birth to Superman
Lara
16A
Pantyhose problem called a “ladder” in England
Run
17A
New Orleans Pelicans head coach ____ Van Gundy
Stan
18A
Actress who played Cinnamon Carter on the 1966-1973 series “Mission: Impossible”: 2 wds.
Barbara Bain
21A
Lisda of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”
Rinna
22A
With 35-Across, actor who played Rollin Hand on “Mission: Impossible”
Martin
26A
Pertaining to Peru’s mountain range
Andean
31A
Scrub at the last minute, as a rocket launch
Abort
32A
____ Moore (canned beef stew brand)
Dinty
33A
“Three’s Company” actress Joyce
Dewitt
35A
See 22-Across
Landau
36A
Recline atop: 2 wds.
Lie On
38A
Actor who played Jim Phelps on “Mission: Impossible”: 2 wds.
Peter Graves
44A
Opposite of hate
Love
45A
Number on a birthday cake
Age
46A
Individual Retrement ____: Abbr.
Acct
48A
Summit
Apex
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
49A
“You can’t ____ thing about it!”: 2 wds.
Do A
50A
Leader of Iran before 1979
Shah
51A
“My mind ___ blank”
Went
52A
Class taken by some immigrants to the USA: Abbr.
ESL
53A
Carryall bag often made of canvas
Tote
1D
Harry Potter’s pet Hedwig, for one
Owl
2D
Ethnic identity for most Saudis
Arab
3D
Amber Benson’s role on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
Tara
4D
Train for a boxing match
Spar
5D
Common ankle injury
Sprain
6D
180 change in direction: Hyph.
Uturn
7D
Yellow-skinned fruit
Banana
8D
Italian city with a famous tower whose construction began in 1173
Pisa
9D
Against: Prefix
Anti
10D
Pass across a bar code reader
Scan
11D
Almond-colored
Tan
19D
Peanut ___ sugary confection that’s cracked into shards)
Brittle
20D
Western kerchief
Bandana
22D
The ___ Hatter (Lewis Carroll character)
Mad
23D
Honest ___ (nickname of the 16th US president)
Abe
24D
Part of a sudoku puzzle
Row
25D
Prefix for “ceratops” or “angle”
Tri
27D
Earsplitting noise
Dinty
28D
Finish
End
29D
___ futre date (some time to come): 2 wds.
At A
30D
Big Apple school where Ross Geller was a professor, on “Friends”: Abbr.
NYU
34D
Angry rant
Tirade
35D
French costmetics company that owns Garnier and Redken
Loreal
37D
Round waffles sold by Kellogg’s
Eggos
38D
The only Catholic Church rank higher than cardinal
Pope
39D
Fifty-fifty
Even
40D
Send a message from a phone
Text
41D
Expansive, as a desert
Vast
42D
Reverberate
Echo
43D
“Shoo!”
Scat
44D
Attorney’s field
Law
47D
Word that appears in ten of this puzzle’s clues
The