Monday Crossword — June 17, 1985 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 6/17/1985. By Jones.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Bang preceder (4)
SLAM
5 Across: Some Mennonites (5)
AMISH
10 Across: Hit a fly (4)
SWAT
14 Across: Irish kings' home (4)
TARA
15 Across: Yule visitor (5)
SANTA
16 Across: Cartoonist Peter (4)
ARNO
17 Across: Sharif or Bradley (4)
OMAR
18 Across: Electrician, at times (5)
WIRER
19 Across: Kind of edition (4)
LATE
20 Across: Defense fence (8)
PALISADE
22 Across: Hung loosely (6)
DRAPED
24 Across: Fork part (4)
TINE
25 Across: Fissionable unit (4)
ATOM
26 Across: Form of protest (5)
SITIN
29 Across: Beginner (9)
NOVITIATE
34 Across: Future M.D. (6)
PREMED
36 Across: Woman, jurisprudentially (4)
FEME
37 Across: Group of whales (3)
POD
38 Across: Let up (4)
EASE
39 Across: Bizarre (5)
OUTRE
41 Across: Sidekick (4)
PARD
42 Across: An A.B.A. member (3)
ATT
43 Across: Radial, e.g. (4)
TIRE
44 Across: Tempestuous (6)
STORMY
46 Across: Ratiocination (9)
REASONING
49 Across: ___ Park, Colo. (5)
ESTES
50 Across: Energy units (4)
ERGS
51 Across: Talk wildly (4)
RANT
53 Across: E. B. Browning work (6)
SONNET
56 Across: U.S. ballistic missile (8)
REDSTONE
60 Across: Trudge (4)
PLOD
61 Across: Opus set in Troy (5)
ILIAD
63 Across: An attendant on Cleopatra (4)
IRAS
64 Across: Candy striper (4)
AIDE
65 Across: Minister's abode (5)
MANSE
66 Across: Baseball's Say Hey Kid (4)
MAYS
67 Across: Active one (4)
DOER
68 Across: Glacial ridge (5)
ESKER
69 Across: Otherwise (4)
ELSE

Down Answers

1 Down: Octagonal sign (4)
STOP
2 Down: Mongolian monk (4)
LAMA
3 Down: Soviet sea (4)
ARAL
4 Down: Nautical (8)
MARITIME
5 Down: Syene, today (5)
ASWAN
6 Down: Kind of race or voyage (6)
MAIDEN
7 Down: As to (4)
INRE
8 Down: Sault ___-Marie (3)
STE
9 Down: Dickens novel: 1854 (9)
HARDTIMES
10 Down: Garlicky sausage (6)
SALAMI
11 Down: Shawl (4)
WRAP
12 Down: ___ meridiem (4)
ANTE
13 Down: Nailed obliquely (4)
TOED
21 Down: Triangle ratio (4)
SINE
23 Down: Routine (4)
ROTE
25 Down: Affirm (4)
AVER
26 Down: Blade of grass (5)
SPEAR
27 Down: Angry (5)
IRATE
28 Down: Seed covering (5)
TESTA
30 Down: Frequently (5)
OFTEN
31 Down: Estranged (5)
APART
32 Down: Singer Mel (5)
TORME
33 Down: Mary Baker and Nelson (5)
EDDYS
35 Down: Up the river (9)
DOINGTIME
40 Down: "Exodus" author (4)
URIS
41 Down: Exciting moment at the track (8)
POSTTIME
43 Down: Ran hastily (4)
TORE
45 Down: X's (4)
TENS
47 Down: One making dispatches (6)
SENDER
48 Down: Give under-the-table lucre (6)
GREASE
52 Down: Viper or summer (5)
ADDER
53 Down: W.W. I plane (4)
SPAD
54 Down: Mixture (4)
OLIO
55 Down: Stem joint (4)
NODE
56 Down: Gretzky's milieu (4)
RINK
57 Down: Evangelist Roberts (4)
ORAL
58 Down: Some votes (4)
NAYS
59 Down: To be, to Brutus (4)
ESSE
62 Down: ___ Palmas (3)
LAS

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