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October 2015 Crossword Answer Key

Across

1. Searching for ____ (Anne Tyler novel)

6. Expel forcefully

10. Tübingen turndown

14. Understandings

19. Playful animal

20. Dark drink

21. Word in cutesy shop names

22. Great Plains city

23. Grateful Dead song about taking the train to College Park?

26. Thurston Howell III’s wife

27. Dressed to kill, perhaps

28. School sessions

30. Identify

31. Sent to Washington

34. NL East team

35. Baiting type

37. Jacuzzi utterance

38. Academy Award won by a Georgetown student?

42. “____ true!”

43. Part of a process

45. Historic Philadelphia suburb

46. Like some inspections

48. Get ready to drive

50. “WOW!”

51. Sampras or Rose

53. Fit for the tabloids

56. Tried

59. Connects forever

60. Thunderstruck

61. Pau or Marc of the NBA

62. Have as one’s intention

64. With inside information

65. Soul pioneer ____ Scott-Heron

67. Dining-hall option at Howard?

70. Explosive palindrome

71. Very familiar with

74. Willies-inducing

75. One-named Greek

78. Website with an exclamation point

79. Baseball features

80. Decides to go with

82. Play for time

83. Word on many street signs

84. Tiny taste

86. Brownish-gray

88. Graf with 22 Grand Slam titles

90. Biblical land

93. Small amount, as of hair gel

94. To the point that

96. GW student from Rotterdam?

100. Driving force

101. Dazed

103. Senator Hatch

104. Makes a judgment regarding

106. Ms. Krabappel

107. Annoyance

110. How videos may go

111. Went to town on

113. Songs from student musicals at Catholic?

118. ____ Stage

119. Cello’s cousin

120. Rocky peak

121. It’s from the heart

122. “There you have it!” sounds

123. Concerning, on a memo

124. DCA guesses

125. Win every game, as the Nats might

Down

1. Simple sleeping structure

2. Gobbled up

3. A or Z: abbr.

4. Like Halloween decorations

5. He yelled, “Stella!”

6. Counterpart of 114 down

7. Little lake

8. Ernie with two British Open titles

9. Overseer

10. Just some

11. DC Council member Silverman

12. They’re exchanged on wedding days

13. Hawaii’s state bird

14. Sen. or gov.

15. In the midst of

16. Back talk that UVA students give their professors?

17. NYC musical institution

18. Dorothy or Gale

24. Light refractor

25. Sci-fi movie character

29. Verbalizes

31. Ginormous

32. Hall’s partner

33. “Hey, can someone pick up that AU student at Dulles?”

34. Very proper

36. Use a hammer on

39. Famed infielder, in headlines

40. Frank

41. Small bills

44. Animal that’s also a brand of sneaker

47. Sushi fish

49. Second additional thought, on a letter

51. Put on the wall

52. Potential contest winner

54. Victorious exultation

55. HHS, e.g.

57. Wolf, to Juan

58. Mr. Manning

59. Infants

62. Fable finish

63. Bane of one’s existence

64. Spoken

65. Five ____ (burger joint)

66. “____ on the roof . . .” (Elton John song)

68. Nice to look at

69. Keep watch on

72. No Einstein

73. Ohio city

76. Make after expenses

77. March Madness org.

79. Like pillows

80. Distance

81. Wolfgang Puck restaurant

84. Prominence

85. Part of, as a plot

87. Black, in poems

89. Poisonous Japanese fish

90. Welsh barker

91. Broadcasts

92. Pacific Island nation

94. Both teams having the score of

95. Rajiv Gandhi’s mother

97. Netflix category

98. Infancy, in metaphor

99. Mountain herd

102. Animals of a given region

105. Tennis ____

108. 1106

109. Conrad of Diff’rent Strokes

110. Putin, for short

112. Faux ____

114. Counterpart of 6 down

115. Before, in poems

116. 270 or 95, e.g.

117. Easily fooled person