Monday Crossword — March 25, 1985 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 3/25/1985. By Evelyn Benshoof.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Easy fly ball (5)
POPUP
6 Across: Tiff (4)
SPAT
10 Across: Battle (4)
FRAY
14 Across: Rub out (5)
ERASE
15 Across: A first name in whodunits (4)
ERLE
16 Across: Midler film, with "The" (4)
ROSE
17 Across: Carl Lewis is one (5)
RACER
18 Across: "___ creature was . . . " (4)
NOTA
19 Across: "Belvedere of Sicily" (4)
ENNA
20 Across: Generous (10)
ALTRUISTIC
22 Across: German dam (4)
EDER
23 Across: Jerk-test joint (4)
KNEE
24 Across: Escorts (6)
USHERS
26 Across: Docked, as hair (6)
BOBBED
30 Across: ___ magna, prelate's vestment (5)
CAPPA
32 Across: Heraldic band (4)
ORLE
33 Across: Poufs' kin (4)
RATS
35 Across: "What's in ___?" (5)
ANAME
39 Across: Amble (7)
SAUNTER
41 Across: Edwin Moses is one (7)
HURDLER
43 Across: Show contempt (5)
SNEER
44 Across: Unsettled (4)
OPEN
46 Across: Zest (4)
ELAN
47 Across: Not so many (5)
FEWER
49 Across: Until this time (6)
TODATE
51 Across: Folly (6)
BETISE
54 Across: Pathological suffix (4)
OSIS
56 Across: With, in Paris (4)
AVEC
57 Across: Generous (10)
BIGHEARTED
63 Across: Mechanical repetition (4)
ROTE
64 Across: Adriatic wind (4)
BORA
65 Across: Musical-scale inventor (5)
GUIDO
66 Across: Moon crater (4)
OKEN
67 Across: Catchall abbr. (4)
ETAL
68 Across: Join (5)
ENTER
69 Across: Grouse house (4)
NEST
70 Across: Spouse of a knight (4)
DAME
71 Across: Pitiless (5)
STONY

Down Answers

1 Down: Pisan's pear (4)
PERA
2 Down: Nuncupative (4)
ORAL
3 Down: Covenant (4)
PACT
4 Down: Addict (4)
USER
5 Down: Wig of yore (6)
PERUKE
6 Down: Sound judgment (5)
SENSE
7 Down: Screen or shield (7)
PROTECT
8 Down: Choir voices (4)
ALTI
9 Down: Spode item (6)
TEACUP
10 Down: Generous (10)
FREEHANDED
11 Down: Heavy-stroked script (5)
RONDE
12 Down: Actor from Kansas City (5)
ASNER
13 Down: "The ___ at the spring": Browning (5)
YEARS
21 Down: French department or river (5)
INDRE
25 Down: Bandy words (4)
SPAR
26 Down: Office bigwig (4)
BOSS
27 Down: Algerian seaport (4)
ORAN
28 Down: Cerulean (4)
BLUE
29 Down: Generous (10)
BENEFICENT
31 Down: Court star in the 70's (4)
ASHE
34 Down: Indonesian island group (4)
AROE
36 Down: Actress Nazimova (4)
ALLA
37 Down: Gist (4)
MEAT
38 Down: Petrel's cousin (4)
ERNE
40 Down: ___ bien (4)
TRES
42 Down: Free (5)
UNTIE
45 Down: Plan (7)
PROGRAM
48 Down: Like a water shrew's feet (6)
WEBBED
50 Down: Orange and Indian (6)
OSAGES
51 Down: Rank below viscount (5)
BARON
52 Down: Call forth (5)
EVOKE
53 Down: Huguenots' heads (5)
TETES
55 Down: Cleavable rock (5)
SHALE
58 Down: Smallest Greek letter (4)
IOTA
59 Down: Peewee (4)
RUNT
60 Down: Yugoslav hero (4)
TITO
61 Down: Original sin site (4)
EDEN
62 Down: Sturdy boat (4)
DORY

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