Friday Crossword — July 18, 1986 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 7/18/1986. By Jones.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Ocelots have lots of ___ (5)
- SPOTS
- 6 Across: Part of Q.E.F. (4)
- ERAT
- 10 Across: Outerwear (4)
- COAT
- 14 Across: Game fish (5)
- COBIA
- 15 Across: Tenor Maison (4)
- RENE
- 16 Across: Exclusive (4)
- ONLY
- 17 Across: Maurois's biography of Shelley (5)
- ARIEL
- 18 Across: Pro ___ (4)
- RATA
- 19 Across: Octagonal road sign (4)
- STOP
- 20 Across: Home of the Daily Planet (10)
- METROPOLIS
- 22 Across: This is below a poll (4)
- MANE
- 23 Across: Bamako is its capital (4)
- MALI
- 24 Across: Fled to wed (6)
- ELOPED
- 26 Across: Fishy sign (6)
- PISCES
- 30 Across: Device for Figaro (5)
- STROP
- 32 Across: Theta chaser (4)
- IOTA
- 33 Across: Cheerio! (4)
- TATA
- 35 Across: Expenses (5)
- COSTS
- 39 Across: Hipster's cousin (7)
- COOLCAT
- 41 Across: Doxy (7)
- TROLLOP
- 43 Across: Living "teddy bear" (5)
- KOALA
- 44 Across: Kind of rug (4)
- AREA
- 46 Across: New Rochelle campus (4)
- IONA
- 47 Across: Teed off (5)
- IRATE
- 49 Across: Garment for a Model T driver (6)
- DUSTER
- 51 Across: Catawbas, e.g. (6)
- GRAPES
- 54 Across: Proper partner (4)
- PRIM
- 56 Across: Adriatic resort (4)
- LIDO
- 57 Across: Ancient ruined city on the Nile (10)
- HELIOPOLIS
- 63 Across: Three monkeys' word (4)
- EVIL
- 64 Across: Drought ender (4)
- RAIN
- 65 Across: Byzantine empress (5)
- IRENE
- 66 Across: Eighteen-wheeler, for short (4)
- SEMI
- 67 Across: Farewells from Fabius (4)
- AVES
- 68 Across: Teton or Wasatch (5)
- RANGE
- 69 Across: Fr. holy women (4)
- STES
- 70 Across: Early dweller in what is now NW Iran (4)
- MEDE
- 71 Across: First word of many a script (5)
- ENTER
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Con (4)
- SCAM
- 2 Down: Ponder (4)
- PORE
- 3 Down: Short postmortem biog. (4)
- OBIT
- 4 Down: Layer (4)
- TIER
- 5 Down: "Sadie ___ . . . ": 1909 Berlin song (6)
- SALOME
- 6 Down: Fauntleroy (5)
- ERROL
- 7 Down: Twain or Whitman (7)
- REALIST
- 8 Down: Opposer (4)
- ANTI
- 9 Down: Ecdysiast (6)
- TEASER
- 10 Down: New York or Hong Kong (10)
- COSMOPOLIS
- 11 Down: Available (5)
- ONTAP
- 12 Down: Like Garbo (5)
- ALONE
- 13 Down: Did a pool job (5)
- TYPED
- 21 Down: Rigatoni, e.g. (5)
- PASTA
- 25 Down: Having bats in the belfry (4)
- LOCO
- 26 Down: Select (4)
- PICK
- 27 Down: M (4)
- IOOO
- 28 Down: Place to speak Greek (4)
- STOA
- 29 Down: Son of Alcathous (10)
- CALLIPOLIS
- 31 Down: "Soap" name (4)
- TATE
- 34 Down: Rat-___ (4)
- ATAT
- 36 Down: Las Vegas machine (4)
- SLOT
- 37 Down: Irish revolutionist Wolfe (4)
- TONE
- 38 Down: Gaff (4)
- SPAR
- 40 Down: Forty-year-old org. (4)
- CARE
- 42 Down: Media medium (5)
- RADIO
- 45 Down: Echoed (7)
- REPLIED
- 48 Down: Place for a sadhu (6)
- ASHRAM
- 50 Down: Strike caller (6)
- UMPIRE
- 51 Down: Co-star of "Cagney and Lacey" (5)
- GLESS
- 52 Down: Fastener (5)
- RIVET
- 53 Down: "Brother, Can You Spare ___?": 1932 song (5)
- ADIME
- 55 Down: Wash cycle (5)
- RINSE
- 58 Down: Roof overhang (4)
- EAVE
- 59 Down: Algerian seaport (4)
- ORAN
- 60 Down: Period after Mardi Gras (4)
- LENT
- 61 Down: "Picnic" author (4)
- INGE
- 62 Down: Haruspex (4)
- SEER
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