Friday Crossword — September 27, 1985 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 9/27/1985. By Gayle Dean.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Part of a lamp (4)
- HARP
- 5 Across: Created (4)
- MADE
- 9 Across: Nimbi (5)
- HALOS
- 14 Across: Pen name of Coleridge's good friend (4)
- ELIA
- 15 Across: Black, to Blake (4)
- EBON
- 16 Across: Leaning (5)
- ATILT
- 17 Across: Frank's wrap (4)
- ROLL
- 18 Across: Bewilder (4)
- DAZE
- 19 Across: Hope's "The Prisoner of ___" (5)
- ZENDA
- 20 Across: Fragile (8)
- DELICATE
- 22 Across: Aged beer (5)
- LAGER
- 23 Across: Start of a quotation (12)
- SILENCEISONE
- 26 Across: Quotation: Part II (5)
- GREAT
- 29 Across: Like some bloomers (4)
- LATE
- 30 Across: Attacked suddenly (6)
- RAIDED
- 32 Across: Reynolds or Bacharach (4)
- BURT
- 33 Across: Jekyll's milieu (3)
- LAB
- 36 Across: Land measure (4)
- ACRE
- 37 Across: A Ford who could afford a Rolls (5)
- EDSEL
- 39 Across: Ripped (4)
- TORE
- 40 Across: Apiary occupant (3)
- BEE
- 41 Across: Portico (4)
- STOA
- 42 Across: Moe, e.g. (6)
- STOOGE
- 44 Across: Last word (4)
- AMEN
- 45 Across: Quotation: Part III (5)
- ARTOF
- 46 Across: End of quotation (12)
- CONVERSATION
- 52 Across: Advantage (5)
- AVAIL
- 53 Across: Rubbed down (8)
- MASSAGED
- 57 Across: Essential (5)
- VITAL
- 58 Across: "Golden West" person (4)
- GIRL
- 59 Across: Winfield of the Yankees (4)
- DAVE
- 60 Across: Maternally cognate (5)
- ENATE
- 61 Across: Put in the pot (4)
- ANTE
- 62 Across: Unlocked (4)
- OPEN
- 63 Across: Crossed out (5)
- DELED
- 64 Across: Mail (4)
- POST
- 65 Across: Dispatched (4)
- SENT
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Animal group (4)
- HERD
- 2 Down: Medicinal plant (4)
- ALOE
- 3 Down: Small brook (4)
- RILL
- 4 Down: Fort enclosure (8)
- PALISADE
- 5 Down: Chest ornament (5)
- MEDAL
- 6 Down: Diminish (5)
- ABATE
- 7 Down: Twelve (5)
- DOZEN
- 8 Down: Abilene-to-Fort Worth dir. (3)
- ENE
- 9 Down: Author of the quotation (7)
- HAZLITT
- 10 Down: Military command (6)
- ATEASE
- 11 Down: Jargon (5)
- LINGO
- 12 Down: Bygone, in poesy (5)
- OLDEN
- 13 Down: Rubberneck (5)
- STARE
- 21 Down: Give a summons to (4)
- CITE
- 24 Down: Aid for Holmes (4)
- CLUE
- 25 Down: Some noblemen (5)
- EARLS
- 26 Down: Snatch (4)
- GRAB
- 27 Down: Drag or relay follower (4)
- RACE
- 28 Down: Ireland (4)
- EIRE
- 31 Down: Dissuade (5)
- DETER
- 32 Down: Dan Beard's org. (3)
- BSA
- 33 Down: Pillage (4)
- LOOT
- 34 Down: Jason's ship (4)
- ARGO
- 35 Down: Stroganoff ingredient (4)
- BEEF
- 38 Down: Puts on (4)
- DONS
- 39 Down: Tempestuous rages (8)
- TORNADOS
- 41 Down: Sniffed (7)
- SMELLED
- 43 Down: McCloud's hometown (4)
- TAOS
- 44 Down: Emulate Balbo (6)
- AVIATE
- 46 Down: Hollowed; undermined (5)
- CAVED
- 47 Down: Like bighorns (5)
- OVINE
- 48 Down: Of one's birth (5)
- NATAL
- 49 Down: ___ acids (5)
- AMINO
- 50 Down: Little pies (5)
- TARTS
- 51 Down: Key (5)
- ISLET
- 54 Down: Yawn (4)
- GAPE
- 55 Down: Tied (4)
- EVEN
- 56 Down: Fender blight (4)
- DENT
- 58 Down: Lacuna (3)
- GAP
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