Friday Crossword — October 18, 1985 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 10/18/1985. By Louis Sabin.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Hemispherically roofed (5)
- DOMED
- 6 Across: Actress Fawcett (6)
- FARRAH
- 12 Across: Ridicule (6)
- DERIDE
- 13 Across: Crane of fiction (7)
- ICHABOD
- 15 Across: Bridge partner, at times (6)
- RAISER
- 16 Across: What the sky is (8)
- THELIMIT
- 18 Across: Globes (4)
- ORBS
- 19 Across: Venue (4)
- SITE
- 20 Across: Poet Merriam (3)
- EVE
- 21 Across: Half of CVI (4)
- LIII
- 22 Across: ___-garde (5)
- AVANT
- 24 Across: Mud puddle (4)
- SLOP
- 25 Across: Cutting down on (9)
- LESSENING
- 27 Across: Not ___ in the world (5)
- ACARE
- 28 Across: Up to here (5)
- SATED
- 29 Across: The Fifth Republic since 1958 (6)
- FRANCE
- 30 Across: Kind of edition (7)
- REVISED
- 33 Across: Monroe and Fairchild (7)
- BLONDES
- 34 Across: Skipped town (6)
- ELOPED
- 35 Across: Extensive (5)
- BROAD
- 36 Across: Chips in (5)
- HELPS
- 37 Across: U.S.-Mexican boundary (9)
- RIOGRANDE
- 41 Across: "Hamlet" opener (4)
- ACTI
- 42 Across: Wimps (5)
- NERDS
- 43 Across: "Happy Birthday" playwright (4)
- LOOS
- 44 Across: As written, in music (3)
- STA
- 45 Across: Ouse feeder (4)
- AIRE
- 46 Across: Phony: Abbr. (4)
- IMIT
- 47 Across: Prized family possession (8)
- HEIRLOOM
- 49 Across: Alter, as a district (6)
- REZONE
- 51 Across: Court action (7)
- DRIBBLE
- 52 Across: Pop out (6)
- EMERGE
- 53 Across: Motorized flops (6)
- EDSELS
- 54 Across: Blends (5)
- FUSES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Hilliard-Mann song: 1950 (6)
- DEARIE
- 2 Down: African antelopes (6)
- ORIBIS
- 3 Down: Father of Waters (11)
- MISSISSIPPI
- 4 Down: British painter of birds (3)
- EDE
- 5 Down: "___ Rosenkavalier" (3)
- DER
- 6 Down: By ___ starts (7)
- FITSAND
- 7 Down: Like millions of backs (6)
- ACHING
- 8 Down: Role for Clark (5)
- RHETT
- 9 Down: French Jesuit missionary-lexicographer (4)
- RALE
- 10 Down: King Hezekiah's mother (3)
- ABI
- 11 Down: Roots (8)
- HOMELAND
- 12 Down: Wryly amusing (5)
- DROLL
- 14 Down: Kind of mill (7)
- DIVORCE
- 17 Down: Hogans' relatives (6)
- TEPEES
- 22 Down: Paid to play with pasteboards (5)
- ANTED
- 23 Down: Competed (4)
- VIED
- 24 Down: Shocks (11)
- SCANDALIZES
- 26 Down: Comforts (5)
- EASES
- 27 Down: Like a football crowd (5)
- AROAR
- 29 Down: Criticizes harshly (5)
- FLOGS
- 30 Down: Same story in new form (6)
- REHASH
- 31 Down: In (7)
- ELECTED
- 32 Down: "Innkeeper of Europe" (8)
- VOLTAIRE
- 33 Down: Actor Crawford, to pals (4)
- BROD
- 35 Down: Double-banked galleys (7)
- BIREMES
- 37 Down: Flatten dough again (6)
- REROLL
- 38 Down: Ruark's "Poor ___" (6)
- NOMORE
- 39 Down: Activities (6)
- DOINGS
- 40 Down: Cosmetician Lauder (5)
- ESTEE
- 42 Down: Tearful one (5)
- NIOBE
- 45 Down: Linen robes (4)
- ALBS
- 48 Down: Free (of) (3)
- RID
- 49 Down: N.B.A. whistler (3)
- REF
- 50 Down: Feathered six-footer (3)
- EMU
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