Monday Crossword — November 18, 1985 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 11/18/1985. By Frank Geary.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Highlands girl (4)
LASS
5 Across: Lily's relative (5)
CAMAS
10 Across: Thick slice (4)
SLAB
14 Across: Vow (4)
OATH
15 Across: Mountain ridge (5)
ARETE
16 Across: Aureola (4)
HALO
17 Across: Extent (4)
AREA
18 Across: Erstwhile Turkish V.I.P. (5)
PASHA
19 Across: Assert (4)
AVER
20 Across: The little troublemaker (15)
DENNISTHEMENACE
23 Across: Superlative ending (3)
EST
24 Across: British stool pigeon (4)
NARK
25 Across: Flying mammal (3)
BAT
28 Across: Bonanza State (7)
MONTANA
31 Across: Kind of pocket (3)
FOB
34 Across: Diva's song (4)
ARIA
36 Across: Composer Ain (3)
NOA
37 Across: Nonsense (5)
TRIPE
39 Across: The hard-working girl (15)
TILLIETHETOILER
43 Across: Paris abducted her (5)
HELEN
44 Across: Crude metal (3)
ORE
45 Across: Simple (4)
MERE
46 Across: Overhead trains (3)
ELS
47 Across: Nobelist in Medicine: 1907 (7)
LAVERAN
51 Across: Occupied a chair (3)
SAT
52 Across: "A ___ of Two Cities" (4)
TALE
53 Across: Sea gull (3)
MEW
55 Across: The spinach eater (15)
POPEYETHESAILOR
63 Across: Neighbor of Iraq (4)
IRAN
64 Across: Heat or meat (5)
ROAST
65 Across: Knob (4)
NODE
66 Across: Put down (4)
LAID
67 Across: Coat with an alloy of lead and tin (5)
TERNE
68 Across: Canadian Indian (4)
CREE
69 Across: Concludes (4)
ENDS
70 Across: Fall flower (5)
ASTER
71 Across: Crowd (4)
HERD

Down Answers

1 Down: Burden (4)
LOAD
2 Down: Rhine feeder (4)
AARE
3 Down: Gun or actress (4)
STEN
4 Down: Ladd film: 1953 (5)
SHANE
5 Down: Acme of achievement (8)
CAPSTONE
6 Down: Smell ___ (be suspicious) (4)
ARAT
7 Down: Entangle (4)
MESH
8 Down: Greek goddess of wisdom (6)
ATHENA
9 Down: Mariner (6)
SEAMAN
10 Down: Cut of beef (5)
SHANK
11 Down: Melted rock (4)
LAVA
12 Down: Pianist Templeton (4)
ALEC
13 Down: Drill (4)
BORE
21 Down: Doctrine (3)
ISM
22 Down: Muse of poetry (5)
ERATO
25 Down: Lave (5)
BATHE
26 Down: Prankster in "The Tempest" (5)
ARIEL
27 Down: Cultivates (5)
TILLS
29 Down: "Tell it ___ in Gath" (3)
NOT
30 Down: Lake in the West (5)
TAHOE
31 Down: Plumbers' tools (5)
FILES
32 Down: "Carmen" is one (5)
OPERA
33 Down: Visorless cap (5)
BERET
35 Down: Lager's relative (3)
ALE
38 Down: Border (3)
RIM
40 Down: Buhlwork (5)
INLAY
41 Down: "To ___ is human": Pope (3)
ERR
42 Down: Truck driver (8)
TEAMSTER
48 Down: Watchword for a soldado (6)
ALERTA
49 Down: Prohibits (6)
VETOES
50 Down: A.F.T. rival (3)
NEA
52 Down: Cares for (5)
TENDS
54 Down: Hoisting machine (5)
WINCH
55 Down: Nap (4)
PILE
56 Down: Seaport in Algeria (4)
ORAN
57 Down: ___ in full (4)
PAID
58 Down: Stag (4)
HART
59 Down: Slave of yore (4)
ESNE
60 Down: Learning (4)
LORE
61 Down: It joins the Neisse near Frankfurt (4)
ODER
62 Down: Donna or Rex (4)
REED

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