Crossword: I Love a Parade

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Halftime Crossword Grid

 

ACROSS

1. Backwoods highway (abbrev.)
4. Steals
8. Poke fun
13. Breakfast, lunch or dinner
14. River through Russia
15. Kick out of school
16. ___-Seltzer
17. Inferno
18. In the country
19. From this point on (2 words)
22. Creates compound word with Super, Bat or Aqua
23. Yang’s counterpart
24. Justin with the concert film “Never Say Never”
28. Sweater material
30. Shoe bottom
32. Make eggs like a hen
33. Where many stops are made on vacations (3 words)
36. Report card stat (abbrev.)
37. “___ You Experienced (classic rock album)
38. “___ Miserables”
39. Be partial to (2 words)
44. Sticker from a plant
45. “Excuse me … I was here first” noise
46. Hunk of gold
49. Son on “The Beverly Hillbillies”
51. Barbequed bit
52. Suffix for mod or nod
53. How big projects are tackled (5 words)
57. Starbucks size
60. Short, short skirt
61. Chemistry class model
62. Sleeping (2 words)
63. Group that approves grades of meat (abbrev.)
64. Parking lot vehicles
65. Fix your eyes on
66. Breeze (through)
67. Rock that gets smelted

DOWN

1. Hand over temporarily again
2. Dismantling, like an instrument (2 words)
3. Verve
4. Brutish person
5. Constellation with a belt
6. Roseanne’s last name
7. Killed a dragon
8. Toto’s dog breed
9. Give off, as charm
10. Busy month for the IRS (abbrev.)
11. The Caribbean, for one
12. Right angle-shaped pipe
13. Hot lava
20. Greek wrap
21. Competent
25. Type of music for B.B. King (2 words)
26. Digs in
27. Bread for a reuben
29. Regenerist skin care brand
30. Late Senator Thurmond
31. Michael of the Baltimore Ravens (whose story was turned into “The Blind Side”)
34. Donated
35. Kennedy couturier Cassini
36. Grade school supply for arts and crafts
39. Sandwich for kids, for short
40. With “The,” Gary Larson comic strip (2 words)
41. “… ___ time in the Old Town tonight…” (2 words)
42. Part of a monogram
43. Large instrument
47. Leonard who wrote “Out of Sight” and “Get Shorty”
48. Is crawling with
50. One who can’t stand something
51. “Amazing” magician famous for debunking
54. Australian birds
55. Leaning Tower town
56. It can be ordered soft or crunchy
57. Word before and after “à”
58. Doc that may be good for head colds (abbrev.)
59. League with the Heat and Thunder

 

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Halftime Crossword Solution

 

About the Author

Matt Jones is a 1998 graduate of Willamette University in Salem, Ore., where he majored in music education. Since 1994, he has also written crosswords for venues such as The New York Times, Games Magazine and Stagebill. He currently writes a syndicated weekly puzzle for more than 50 alternative newspapers across the country.

About author

Matt Jones

Matt Jones is a 1998 graduate of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, where he majored in music education. Since 1994, he has also written crosswords for venues such as The New York Times, Games Magazine and Stagebill. He currently writes a syndicated weekly puzzle for more than 50 alternative newspapers across the country.

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