Wordy Wednesday 318: Diagramless Crossword 4

WORDY WEDNESDAY #316

SECTION SIX 31 (answer)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #317

ULTERIOR MOTIVES (hint)

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WORDY WEDNESDAY #318

DIAGRAMLESS CROSSWORD 4

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This crossword has 54 entries in a 15x15 grid, obeys American crossword rules, and has standard rotational symmetry.

ACROSS
1 Ryan of Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
4 Pitiful
5 Egress
6 Noted game show contestant Jennings
9 Singer Turner
10 Fine
15 Ott of baseball
16 Expert musician
18 First half of a clue to the final answer: ? wds.
22 Trent Reznor’s band, for short
23 Poison ____
24 A neutral color
27 Lauder of cosmetics
29 Key pressed with Tab to switch windows in Windows
30 Tear
31 Second half of a clue to the final answer: ? wds.
39 Trisha of country music
40 It’s often yellow
42 Film critic Maltin
43 Scrabble piece
45 Richard of Mrs. Miniver (1942)
46 The largest continent
47 Hue
48 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's ____
DOWN
1 Magazine with a Hot 100
2 “Lose Yourself” rapper
3 Be on friendly terms: 2 wds.
4 ____ bygones be bygones
6 James of Grown Ups (2010)
7 Nobel Peace Prize winner Wiesel
8 Geek
11 Pontiac made from 1964 to 1974
12 Jul. successor
13 ____ sequitur
14 Agcy. founded in 2001
17 Leave out
19 Fight
20 All About ____
21 Tie-____
24 Sheepish comment
25 2003 film starring Ed Asner as Santa Claus
26 ____-bitty
27 Frozen wasser
28 View a sports event, say
30 Olson’s successor on The Price is Right
32 Electric ____
33 Charlotte of Diff'rent Strokes
34 ____-Magnon
35 Possess
36 Lament
37 Opening of sorts
38 Purple item in trail mix
41 Third Eye ____
44 ____ Pray Love

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