Monday Crossword — June 9, 1986 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 6/9/1986. By Virginia L. Yates.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Part of a calyx (5)
SEPAL
6 Across: What Wednesday's child is full of (3)
WOE
9 Across: Newton or Stern (5)
ISAAC
14 Across: "Phaedo" creator (5)
PLATO
15 Across: Doctor's org. (3)
AMA
16 Across: Perry Mason's secretary (5)
DELLA
17 Across: Go-getters (9)
LIVEWIRES
19 Across: Kind of ego (5)
ALTER
20 Across: Real ending (3)
IZE
21 Across: Dickens's Artful ___ (6)
DODGER
23 Across: Cunning (4)
FOXY
24 Across: Game fish (6)
TARPON
26 Across: Cover-up name (5)
ALIAS
28 Across: Cries of pain (3)
OWS
29 Across: "Gulliver's Travels," e.g. (6)
SATIRE
33 Across: Shrimp's relative (5)
PRAWN
36 Across: Dynamo (9)
GENERATOR
39 Across: Yorkshire river (4)
AIRE
40 Across: Neil or Paul (5)
SIMON
41 Across: Restrain (4)
REIN
42 Across: Motivator (9)
SPARKPLUG
44 Across: Old hat (5)
STALE
45 Across: Tie (6)
TETHER
46 Across: Sault ___ Marie (3)
STE
47 Across: S-shaped moldings (5)
OGEES
50 Across: Faux pas (6)
ERRORS
54 Across: Comedienne Pitts (4)
ZASU
57 Across: ___ State (New York) (6)
EMPIRE
59 Across: Yarn measure (3)
LEA
60 Across: Mistreat (5)
ABUSE
62 Across: Pitchers and catchers (9)
BATTERIES
64 Across: Oscar winner: 1958 (5)
NIVEN
65 Across: Before, poetically (3)
ERE
66 Across: ___ of one's trade (5)
TOOLS
67 Across: Bread ingredient (5)
YEAST
68 Across: Radiation unit (3)
REM
69 Across: Actress Spacek (5)
SISSY

Down Answers

1 Down: Like some decisions (5)
SPLIT
2 Down: A Doolittle (5)
ELIZA
3 Down: One who prepares the way (5)
PAVER
4 Down: Consumed (3)
ATE
5 Down: Facts, with "the" (7)
LOWDOWN
6 Down: Guardian's concern (4)
WARD
7 Down: The end (5)
OMEGA
8 Down: Atelier item (5)
EASEL
9 Down: Mont. neighbor (3)
IDA
10 Down: One with initiative (11)
SELFSTARTER
11 Down: Kind of sax (4)
ALTO
12 Down: Karras or Haley (4)
ALEX
13 Down: British novelist Joyce ___ (4)
CARY
18 Down: Charged atoms (4)
IONS
22 Down: An anagram for siren (5)
RISEN
25 Down: Fireballs (11)
POWERHOUSES
27 Down: Rhine feeder (3)
AAR
30 Down: Virginia willow (4)
ITEA
31 Down: Stir up (4)
ROIL
32 Down: Sea eagle (4)
ERNE
33 Down: Historian's concern (4)
PAST
34 Down: Ready for plucking (4)
RIPE
35 Down: Smell ___ (be suspicious) (4)
ARAT
36 Down: Lesage's "___ Blas" (3)
GIL
37 Down: Ostrich's cousin (3)
EMU
38 Down: Egg attachment (3)
NOG
40 Down: Wingding (5)
SPREE
43 Down: Cask (3)
KEG
44 Down: Bond and Bourbon (7)
STREETS
46 Down: Famed muralist (4)
SERT
48 Down: Glowing cinder (5)
EMBER
49 Down: Like some ribs or tires (5)
SPARE
51 Down: Mixtures (5)
OLIOS
52 Down: Staggers (5)
REELS
53 Down: Impertinent (5)
SASSY
54 Down: Absurd (4)
ZANY
55 Down: He had an Irish Rose (4)
ABIE
56 Down: Fiji's capital (4)
SUVA
58 Down: Component (4)
ITEM
61 Down: Tolkien character (3)
ENT
63 Down: Louis XIV, for one (3)
ROI

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