Friday Crossword — August 1, 1986

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1572 clues~30-60 minBy Page8/1/1986

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
"___ Butterfly" (6 letters)
7 Across
Lingua ___ (6 letters)
13 Across
Complex chemical compound (7 letters)
14 Across
Meriting (7 letters)
16 Across
Apollo's twin (7 letters)
17 Across
Item in a bowling game (7 letters)
18 Across
Additionally (3 letters)
19 Across
Ariosto's "___ Furioso" (7 letters)
21 Across
Mad ___ hatter (3 letters)
22 Across
Cabell of baseball (4 letters)
24 Across
Lima money (5 letters)
25 Across
Unique person (4 letters)
26 Across
Guadalajara girls (5 letters)
28 Across
Lon ___ of Cambodia (3 letters)
29 Across
Orion's bright spot (5 letters)
30 Across
Rummage through refuse (8 letters)
32 Across
Lay (6 letters)
33 Across
Samoan seaport (4 letters)
34 Across
___ a fuse (became irate) (4 letters)
35 Across
English transport (6 letters)
38 Across
"The ___ with a sword": Wilde (8 letters)
42 Across
Lane (5 letters)
43 Across
Darjeeling, e.g. (3 letters)
44 Across
Overjoy (5 letters)
45 Across
Sacred Nile bird (4 letters)
46 Across
Intone (5 letters)
48 Across
Mandolin's cousin (4 letters)
49 Across
Fleur-de-___ (3 letters)
50 Across
Irish writer Behan (7 letters)
52 Across
Exterminate (3 letters)
53 Across
Enlisted (7 letters)
55 Across
Turgite, e.g. (7 letters)
57 Across
Forest denizen (7 letters)
58 Across
Tiered (7 letters)
59 Across
Devious (6 letters)
60 Across
Annoy (6 letters)

Down

1 Down
Asinine (7 letters)
2 Down
City in Pa. or Wis. (7 letters)
3 Down
Tint (3 letters)
4 Down
Howitzer needs, for short (4 letters)
5 Down
Golda's kinfolk (5 letters)
6 Down
"___, vita brevis" (8 letters)
7 Down
A garden herb (6 letters)
8 Down
Incursions (5 letters)
9 Down
Pisa's river (4 letters)
10 Down
Seoul-to-Wonsan dir. (3 letters)
11 Down
Ancient name for Japan (7 letters)
12 Down
Cordial flavoring (7 letters)
13 Down
Metal plates (6 letters)
15 Down
Like some old tree stumps (6 letters)
20 Down
Fleshy plant (4 letters)
23 Down
Wild, unlettered types (7 letters)
25 Down
An Abu Dhabi asset (7 letters)
27 Down
Former Indian trooper in the British army (5 letters)
29 Down
Chaucerian overseer (5 letters)
31 Down
She wrote "This Hunger": 1945 (3 letters)
32 Down
Org. interested in French, Spanish, etc. (3 letters)
34 Down
Wave in a warlike way (8 letters)
35 Down
A banshee is one (6 letters)
36 Down
White elephants, e.g. (7 letters)
37 Down
Sparkle (7 letters)
38 Down
Soy or Roy (4 letters)
39 Down
French biographer of Byron (7 letters)
40 Down
Dresses (7 letters)
41 Down
Required (6 letters)
43 Down
" . . . and his hands formed ___ land": Psalm 95 (6 letters)
46 Down
Small waterway (5 letters)
47 Down
A pastry in Peru (5 letters)
50 Down
La ___, Trinidad (4 letters)
51 Down
Hussein's queen (4 letters)
54 Down
Gelderland city (3 letters)
56 Down
Initials often seen in 1933 (3 letters)

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