Saturday Crossword — November 23, 1985 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 11/23/1985. By Jesse Roarke.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Knoxville event: 1982 (4)
- FAIR
- 5 Across: Flower of N.M. (5)
- YUCCA
- 10 Across: Guy, in Gloucestershire (4)
- CHAP
- 14 Across: The Lyna River, to a Berliner (4)
- ALLE
- 15 Across: Pleione's husband (5)
- ATLAS
- 16 Across: Neighbor of a Navajo (4)
- HOPI
- 17 Across: Tribune (4)
- DAIS
- 18 Across: Become innervated (5)
- REACT
- 19 Across: Crisp bread (4)
- RUSK
- 20 Across: Showed feeling (6)
- EMOTED
- 22 Across: Sadducee's opponent (8)
- PHARISEE
- 24 Across: A biographer of Ike (7)
- DONOVAN
- 26 Across: Notched, as a leaf (5)
- EROSE
- 27 Across: Purple (5)
- REGAL
- 29 Across: Restrain (6)
- TETHER
- 32 Across: Boggs of baseball (4)
- WADE
- 35 Across: Pearl Buck's "The ___" (5)
- EXILE
- 37 Across: Time long gone (4)
- YORE
- 38 Across: October Club's quaff (3)
- ALE
- 39 Across: "___ Buttermilk Sky" (3)
- OLE
- 40 Across: Cap (3)
- LID
- 41 Across: Garner (4)
- REAP
- 43 Across: Old native of Mo. (5)
- OSAGE
- 45 Across: November 13, e.g. (4)
- IDES
- 46 Across: Relative of a crab apple (6)
- MEDLAR
- 48 Across: Jeweler's weight (5)
- CARAT
- 50 Across: Certain fast horses (5)
- BARBS
- 52 Across: Swiss lake (7)
- LUCERNE
- 56 Across: Patterns (8)
- STENCILS
- 59 Across: Comport (oneself) (6)
- DEMEAN
- 60 Across: Group of Asian languages (4)
- THAI
- 61 Across: Japanese gateway (5)
- TORII
- 63 Across: Stork's kin (4)
- IBIS
- 64 Across: Skills (4)
- ARTS
- 65 Across: Separate (5)
- APART
- 66 Across: Bantu language (4)
- ZULU
- 67 Across: Reed (4)
- RUSH
- 68 Across: Meuse feeder (5)
- LESSE
- 69 Across: To be, to Caesar (4)
- ESSE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Withered (5)
- FADED
- 2 Down: Cottonwood (5)
- ALAMO
- 3 Down: Utica neighbor (5)
- ILION
- 4 Down: Give back (7)
- RESTORE
- 5 Down: Football arithmetic (7)
- YARDAGE
- 6 Down: All-purpose trk. (3)
- UTE
- 7 Down: Peal (4)
- CLAP
- 8 Down: Store (5)
- CACHE
- 9 Down: Fertility goddess (7)
- ASTARTE
- 10 Down: Ski turn, for short (7)
- CHRISTY
- 11 Down: Common; ordinary (9)
- HOUSEHOLD
- 12 Down: Church part (4)
- APSE
- 13 Down: Peak man (4)
- PIKE
- 21 Down: Verge of sorts (3)
- EVE
- 23 Down: Raun (3)
- ROE
- 25 Down: Ariadne's isle (5)
- NAXOS
- 28 Down: Flowering bush (5)
- LILAC
- 30 Down: Lake Amerind (4)
- ERIE
- 31 Down: Beatty film (4)
- REDS
- 32 Down: Close (4)
- WARM
- 33 Down: Away from the wind (4)
- ALEE
- 34 Down: Freeloaders (9)
- DEADBEATS
- 36 Down: Kind of eagle (5)
- LEGAL
- 42 Down: Toughen metal by hammering (7)
- PLANISH
- 43 Down: Ocular (7)
- ORBITAL
- 44 Down: Learned (7)
- ERUDITE
- 45 Down: List (7)
- ITEMIZE
- 47 Down: Fogbow (3)
- ARC
- 49 Down: Expert (3)
- ACE
- 51 Down: Incline (5)
- SLOPE
- 53 Down: Picture riddle (5)
- REBUS
- 54 Down: They're often filed (5)
- NAILS
- 55 Down: Follow (5)
- ENSUE
- 56 Down: White spot on a horse's forehead (4)
- STAR
- 57 Down: Word with way (4)
- THRU
- 58 Down: Sp. wives (4)
- SRAS
- 62 Down: Apr. collector (3)
- IRS
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