Complete Clue List
Across
1. Tower site (Gen. 11:1-9 [NIV]) (5)
6. "Dead Souls" novelist Nikolai (5)
9. Corrode (3,4)
10. Throw out (5)
12. Bottomless pit (poet., 5)
14. Canine swimming style (5-6)
15. Dictation taker (abbr., 5)
17. With regrets (5)
19. Projecting part (5)
22. Soil (6)
23. AIM KAY toward Washington river city near Mt. Rainier (anag., 6)
24. Open a compressed computer file (5)
25. Ease (6)
26. Unstressed vowel sounds (6)
27. Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex (var., 5)
30. Remove a fastener (5)
33. Team (5)
36. Scrambled alternative (5-4,2)
37. Pageant prize (5)
38. Industrious; active (arch., 5)
39. Soothing wounded pride (7)
40. White-cell carrier (5)
41. ____ a high note (3,2)
Down
1. Sanctify (5)
2. Could BE RED, this plait of hair (anag., arch., 5)
3. Release (3,2)
4. One with endurance (6)
5. To no avail (2,4)
6. Needles (5)
7. Securely reinforced with a rope (5)
8. Rough sea (5)
11. Expert judge in matters of taste (11)
13. Free hand (U.K. spelling, 5,6)
16. Regarding that matter (7)
18. Provocative Brazilian dance (7)
19. Drop heavily (5)
20. European blackbird (5)
21. Wanderer (5)
28. Pastoral poems (6)
29. Magical potion (6)
30. Up to (5)
31. Sacred song (5)
32. Grind, as teeth (5)
33. Marsh plant (5)
34. Overturn (5)
35. Senior member (5)