Friday Crossword — January 3, 1986 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 1/3/1986. By A. J. Santora.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Kinsman (3)
- SIB
- 4 Across: Army vehicle (4)
- JEEP
- 8 Across: Walt Disney's middle name (5)
- ELIAS
- 13 Across: Rhoda's TV mother (3)
- IDA
- 14 Across: Kind of saw (5)
- SABER
- 15 Across: Famed electrical engineer (5)
- TESLA
- 16 Across: A grandfather of Saul (3)
- NER
- 17 Across: Single-foot (5)
- AMBLE
- 18 Across: Reddy or Traubel (5)
- HELEN
- 19 Across: Per ___ (5)
- ANNUM
- 21 Across: Fricative (7)
- SPIRANT
- 23 Across: With 28 Across, a rock putdown (11)
- ITSNOTMUSIC
- 27 Across: ___ culpa (3)
- MEA
- 28 Across: See 23 Across (11)
- ITSADISEASE
- 30 Across: Bathgate native (4)
- SCOT
- 31 Across: Author Terkel (5)
- STUDS
- 32 Across: Alignment piece (4)
- SHIM
- 36 Across: Samlet (4)
- PARR
- 37 Across: ___-Magnon man (3)
- CRO
- 38 Across: Thrilled (4)
- SENT
- 39 Across: Painter ___-Tadema (4)
- ALMA
- 40 Across: Polish (5)
- SHINE
- 42 Across: Adam's residence (4)
- EDEN
- 43 Across: Harper Valley events (11)
- PTAMEETINGS
- 46 Across: Grand Cent. ___ (3)
- STA
- 49 Across: Quiche ingredient, sometimes (11)
- SWISSCHEESE
- 51 Across: Clot (7)
- CONGEAL
- 53 Across: Pallid (5)
- ASHEN
- 54 Across: Eastern Christian (5)
- UNIAT
- 55 Across: Utmost extent (5)
- LIMIT
- 59 Across: " . . . sat ___ tuffet" (3)
- ONA
- 60 Across: Rome's Arch of ___ (5)
- TITUS
- 61 Across: Sidestep (5)
- EVADE
- 62 Across: Agt.'s cut (3)
- PCT
- 63 Across: Do, re, mi . . . (5)
- SCALE
- 64 Across: City on the Truckee (4)
- RENO
- 65 Across: Call, in poker (3)
- SEE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Six-Day War area (5)
- SINAI
- 2 Down: Same (9)
- IDENTICAL
- 3 Down: Perform at county fairs (9)
- BARNSTORM
- 4 Down: Clog (3)
- JAM
- 5 Down: Partner of flow (3)
- EBB
- 6 Down: Slithery fish (3)
- EEL
- 7 Down: ___ luck (took chances) (11)
- PRESSEDONES
- 8 Down: Proper behavior (6)
- ETHICS
- 9 Down: Eye wickedly (4)
- LEER
- 10 Down: The Moslem world (5)
- ISLAM
- 11 Down: Coeur d'___, Idaho (5)
- ALENE
- 12 Down: Yule visitor (5)
- SANTA
- 14 Down: Where Pago Pago is (5)
- SAMOA
- 20 Down: Loosen one's belt (7)
- UNSTRAP
- 22 Down: Zadora and Lindstrom (4)
- PIAS
- 24 Down: Six-pt. scores (3)
- TDS
- 25 Down: Speaker of 23 and 28 Across (11)
- MITCHMILLER
- 26 Down: Exorbitant payment rates (7)
- USURIES
- 29 Down: Ancient ascetics (7)
- ESSENES
- 30 Down: Health farm (3)
- SPA
- 33 Down: Flies low, while spraying (9)
- HEDGEHOPS
- 34 Down: Basically (9)
- INESSENCE
- 35 Down: Map abbr. (3)
- MTN
- 40 Down: "I never ___ purple cow": Burgess (4)
- SAWA
- 41 Down: And more of same: Abbr. (3)
- ETC
- 44 Down: Harmful fly (6)
- TSETSE
- 45 Down: Peg Bracken's "___ to Cook Book" (5)
- IHATE
- 46 Down: Cottontails' tails (5)
- SCUTS
- 47 Down: Pick-me-up (5)
- TONIC
- 48 Down: O'Day of songdom (5)
- ANITA
- 50 Down: Akin on mother's side (5)
- ENATE
- 52 Down: Land of "partes tres" (4)
- GAUL
- 56 Down: "___ Got a Secret" (3)
- IVE
- 57 Down: Homo sapiens (3)
- MAN
- 58 Down: Berlin's "What'll ___?" (3)
- IDO
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