OnlineCrosswords.net The Big Book of Crossword Puzzles 2014-01 1 Puzzle #1 Across 1. Pickling herb 5. Anatomical passage 9. Effervescent beverages 14 . Feverish chill 15 . Yarborough high card 16 . Jong or Kane 17 . Famous forest denizen 19 . Compound in fireworks 20 . Bard's preposition 21 . Colonel's insignia 22 . One more than tri- 23 . Start of a carol's refrain 24 . Long oar 26 . Venerate 29 . One might be chronic 30 . Historic period 33 . Navy and coffee 34 . Loose, as jeans 35 . Dandy lead-in 36 . It has a low pH 37 . Plum puckered out? 38 . Puppy follower? 39 . Little shaver 40 . Bullets 41 . ''Laughing Out Loud'' Down storyteller Myron 1. Draw a line in the 18 . Becomes imminent 41 . Provide food, 42 . Terrorized street of film sand, perhaps 23 . Discovery uptown 43 . Word on a button, 2. Assistant with a 25 . Pet store purchase 44 . Bother continually sometimes hunch? 26 . Diminish in 46 . Make baskets, e.g. 44 . Frequent hangouts 3. Auto service job intensity 47 . Nasal complaint 45 . Inundated 4. Muumuu accessory 27 . Graphic transfer 48 . It may need 47 . Coiner of the term 5. Doctor's request 28 . Love of 17-Across stitches ''horsepower'' 6. Texas hometown of 29 . Gag reflex? 49 . Norwegian Nobel 48 . Bridge maven Charles Gene Autry 31 . Steel fastener Institute locale 50 . Fall color (Var.) 7. Hydroxyl compound 32 . Endorsements in 51 . Hudson Bay tribe 52 . Place name with Claro or 8. Does an interior church 52 . Rich man in ''Rich Cuarto decorator's job 34 . Disdainful Man, Poor Man'' 55 . From Tibet or Taiwan 9. Tenth of a rejections 53 . One found on a 56 . Compatriot of 17-Across millennium 37 . Desirable addition computer screen or 58 . ''Amistad'' extra 10 . Corbeled bay 38 . Vulgarian movie screen 59 . Swampy bogs window 40 . Traversed 54 . Creole cuisine 60 . Polecat's trademark 11 . Compatriot of staple 61 . Refined, as skills 17-Across 57 . The piper's son 62 . Bishoprics 12 . Super server 63 . Starling family mimic 13 . Teasdale of poetry 2 Puzzle #2 Across 1. Take great pleasure (in) 5. Longtime Southern senator 9. Diplomat 14 . Newsman Colmes 15 . "Dies __" 16 . "Common Sense" author 17 . Refine 18 . Retreat 19 . Brown and others 20 . Start of a quip 23 . They're not straight up 24 . Delighted cry 25 . They travel a long way to get here 26 . Quip, part 2 31 . Congo, formerly 34 . Notched, as a leaf 35 . Hosp. areas 36 . "The Lord of the Rings" creatures 37 . Quip, part 3 38 . Actress Swenson 39 . Supporting cheer 40 . Oil source 42 . One who peeps, perhaps Down 43 . Quip, part 4 1. Mideast religion that 21 . Marriage, for one 41 . Basic music system 45 . Calendar abbr. preaches equality 22 . Does yard work 42 . Avoid 46 . Phone sequence 2. On the wing 26 . Sandwich order 44 . Corsair and Pacer 47 . Attacks suddenly 3. One with a pole words 45 . Arm-raising events 51 . End of the quip position? 27 . Observe 47 . Period 55 . IM user 4. Church accessories 28 . Taboo 48 . Cringe 56 . Some nest eggs 5. Spring bloomers 29 . It may lead to a 49 . __ Gay 57 . Unaccounted for, in a way 6. Some degree conclusion 50 . Three-time French 58 . Quartet part requirements 30 . Pronto Open champ 59 . Sleeveless garment 7. Follow 31 . Speed (by) 51 . Seethe 60 . Graphic starter 8. Actress Polo 32 . 1968 self-titled folk 52 . Weena's race, in a 61 . Elite group 9. Serial part album Wells novel 62 . Stretches (out) 10 . Arizona native 33 . Bakery worker 53 . Jackknife, for one 63 . Historic times 11 . Grandfather clock 34 . Airline since 1948 54 . Long haul number 38 . Swamp 55 . Actress Gardner 12 . Linear 40 . Curse 13 . Unambiguous response 3 Puzzle #3 Across 1. Touch of acrimony 5. Shakespearean ''Bummer!'' 9. Move powerlessly 14 . Prepare for an exam 15 . Monologist after the news 16 . Kukla and Fran's pal 17 . A POUND here . 20 . Admits customers 21 . Beetle Bailey's pal 22 . Big bang letters 23 . They get rolled 26 . Play the part 27 . Kind of burglar 30 . and a POUND here . 36 . ''Baby Baby'' singer, 1991 38 . Light weapon? 39 . Bound along 40 . Team racing event 43 . Huge amount 44 . Half the integers 46 . Artwork overlays 48 . and a POUND here . 51 . AARP members 52 . Logger's tool 53 . Right-angled shapes Down 55 . Supplement 1. Off-the-wall answer? 24 . Big shot of industry 49 . WWII power 58 . Goats' progeny 2. Release 25 . Coastal flyer 50 . More than popular 60 . Little cases 3. Ready and willing 27 . Spy in Canaan 54 . Bed or home 64 . and a POUND here 4. Make changes 28 . ''Don't make ___!'' attachment 68 . Lake rental, often 5. Sitcom alien (''Freeze!'') 55 . Basics 69 . Move like molasses 6. Bandleader Brown 29 . Competitive and 56 . ''Phooey!'' 70 . Loads 7. 1998 animated film intense 57 . Eat in style 71 . Beef source 8. Not happy with 31 . Ayn Rand shrugger 59 . Rectangular boat 72 . Chang, to Eng 9. Prairie dwellers 32 . Biggest bear, of 61 . ''Do ___ others . 73 . Finished 10 . Like something three .'' from the Jurassic 33 . Brief final remarks? 62 . Desktop image period 34 . Moray trapper 63 . Last word of the 11 . Zillions 35 . Lock that cannot year? 12 . Apply one's John be opened 65 . Digit Hancock 37 . Squire 66 . Israeli machine gun 13 . Microphone word 41 . Tooth woe 67 . Toon Chihuahua 18 . Willow for wicker 42 . Sidelines cheer 19 . St. Louis landmark 45 . Less sound 47 . 10th U.S. president 4 Puzzle #4 Across 1. Some pub patrons 6. Bean town? 10 . Room online 14 . Doctor-turned-wordsmith 15 . River through Opole 16 . Quasimodo's creator 17 . Public persona 18 . ''Be happy!'' front 20 . Happened upon 21 . Projectionist's unit 23 . City on the Trinity River 24 . Anti or semi, e.g. 26 . Turtle cover 28 . Came down to earth 30 . Daughter of Tethys, in myth 34 . ''Spoil the child'' front 38 . Mine piece 39 . Glossary entry 40 . Genetic letters 41 . State with conviction 42 . Catchall abbr. 43 . ''Three's a crowd'' front 47 . Capital near the Caspian 49 . Chronological brinks 50 . Honey badger Down 52 . It arrives before midnight 1. Pinch into folds 22 . One way out 45 . No longer in love 56 . Confront boldly 2. Dinger or tater 25 . Place in an Orwell with 59 . Beginning for dynamic or 3. Colored marble title 46 . Lilting space 4. Cribbage marker 27 . Roman lyric poet 48 . Ate away 61 . Hail from the past 5. Clinically clean 29 . Seat of kings 51 . Souper-upper? 62 . ''Warm heart'' front 6. Mother ___ 31 . Unstable star 53 . Weathercocks 64 . Jutlanders, e.g. 7. Sacred cows? 32 . Hemoglobin 54 . Tennis Hall of 66 . Grimace 8. What boys will be component Famer 67 . ''Atlas Shrugged'' hero 9. Popular design style 33 . Moist, as grass in 55 . Puts one within 68 . Lethargic of the 1920s the morning another 69 . Scratched (out) 10 . Spiny, treelike 34 . Proofer's 56 . Vertex 70 . It's pointless in the Olympics cactus ''nevermind'' 57 . Kenai Peninsula 71 . Selects the dramatis 11 . Make one's pitch? 35 . Name used in inlet personnae 12 . Uttar Pradesh city exclamations 58 . Crossword puzzle? 13 . Kiddie litter? 36 . Place for a 60 . Italy's Villa d'___ keystone 19 . Beat on 63 . Count a few sheep 37 . The two for none 65 . Santa ___ winds 41 . Church recess 43 . Vandalize 44 . Power supply 5 Puzzle #5 Across 1. Char on the grill 5. Indian princes (Var.) 10 . Neatnik's nightmare 14 . Dance at the luau 15 . Skip the big wedding 16 . Prefix with dynamic 17 . Take ___ (acknowledge applause) 18 . Humble 19 . Environmentalist's concern 20 . Techie's lament, Part I 23 . ''Unhand me!'' 24 . Like composition paper 27 . End to be attained 30 . Skyline feature, perhaps 32 . Warbucks cohort 35 . More of the lament, Part II 37 . Oft-told tales 39 . It has arms and waves 40 . Part of TVA 41 . Part III of the lament 43 . Cheer start 44 . Gives up, as an office 45 . Make an impression? 48 . Blow up Down 49 . Oktoberfest dance 1. ''We ___ Overcome'' 21 . Wine and dine 42 . Miss Kett 53 . End of the lament 2. James Hubert 22 . Zeno's home 46 . Bean counter, for 59 . Red giant now broken up Blake's nickname 25 . Kate Nelligan film short 61 . Kitchen draw 3. Drifting above 26 . Bruce and Laura 47 . Lincolnesque 62 . Grayish yellow 4. Nog ingredient 28 . Love, Italian style adjective 63 . Chase off 5. Move, in realtor's 29 . Van Pelt and 50 . Saint ___ (isle S of 64 . Send money lingo Ricardo Martinique) 65 . Famous twins' birthplace 6. Moises of baseball 30 . Classic 1953 51 . Gold standard 66 . Rightfully deserve 7. Nixon facial feature Western 52 . Reunion folks 67 . Some are deciduous 8. Impersonated 31 . Palindromist's 54 . Sewer's tuck 68 . Makes lacework, in a way 9. Kosovo native dogma 55 . Llano rarity 10 . Cheeky, to the max 32 . Full of life? 56 . Visitor's opponent 11 . Some baked 33 . To date 57 . Give off goodies 34 . Forerunner 58 . Calculating subject 12 . Oaxaca gold 36 . Executive letters 59 . Employ 13 . Quagmire 38 . Former first lady, 60 . ''___ Na Na'' ('70s somewhere musical series) 6 Puzzle #6 Across 1. Not fancy at all 5. Flora's partner 10 . "The Te of Piglet" author 14 . Where billions are 15 . Loathe 16 . Singing brothers 17 . Assures, in slang 18 . Cyberspace biggie 19 . Place 20 . Just to have a good time 23 . Lost 24 . Group with lots of hits 25 . Pi follower 27 . Museum piece 31 . "Twister" event 38 .