THEMELESS FRIDAY -- #48 in a series ©2010BEQ
Across
1. Piddling
5. Fleetwood Mac
keyboardist Christine
10. Probes (for)
14. Cracker spread
15. 1974 thriller that
begins with the Kennedy
assassination, with "The"
17. "Step the meek owls
where ___ they ranged"
(Emerson)
18. Confused talks
19. Eric Holder and others:
Abbr.
20. 2006 Beatles mashup
album used in a Cirque du
Soleil show
21. Do a host's job at a
restuarant
22. "Just wait, it gets
juicier"
24. Pranks, in a way
27. -ess alternative
28. "Never ___" (1959
Frank Sinatra/Gina
Lollobrigida film)
29. Berry who won a 2002
NAACP Image Award
31. 1968 battle period
32. "Ondine" playwright
35. Escorting from outside
36. What a West Point
cadet will not do, per their
honor code
40. C: operating system
41. German poet Gustave
and others
42. Stoned
44. Go nowhere in
particular
46. Letter run
47. Hard workers get into
it
48. Shock: Var.
50. Wading bird
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52. Villain from Smallville
53. Astringent used in skin
care
56. Stillwater growth
57. Feature of many a
M.I.T. Mystery Hunt
58. First word, perhaps
59. Jack follower?
60. Quay components
61. Kitchen containers
Down
1. Supernumerary props
2. Breakfast drink order
3. "They're gone"
4. Bumped into
5. Asshat
6. 404
7. Healthy order of pie?
8. Thinking suffix
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9. Hockey forward
Tikkanen
10. Earlier, in poetry
11. Guitar feature
12. Bedside supply
13. Italian sonnet feature
16. 1986 World Cup
champs: Abbr.
20. Dress style
23. Maryland town on the
Chesapeake Bay
25. Some audience
members
26. Whups
29. 1947 musical that gave
us Cab Calloway's
catchphrase
30. Tense folks?
33. Depeche Mode singer
Dave
34. Terse bridge respone
61
36. More nuts
37. Will likely
38. Retroactively named
space mission of 1967
39. 1977 triple platinum
Kiss album
40. Art test challenge
43. Team with its first-ever
winning season in 2009-10
45. The first and last
European colony in China
47. Rupert ___ (Buffy the
Vampire Slayer's mentor)
49. Southpaw: Abbr.
51. It helps you keep a leg
up
54. Ethernet ___
55. Kind of dye
56. A drone