Friday Crossword — August 1, 1986 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 8/1/1986. By Page.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: "___ Butterfly" (6)
- MADAMA
- 7 Across: Lingua ___ (6)
- FRANCA
- 13 Across: Complex chemical compound (7)
- POLYMER
- 14 Across: Meriting (7)
- EARNING
- 16 Across: Apollo's twin (7)
- ARTEMIS
- 17 Across: Item in a bowling game (7)
- NINEPIN
- 18 Across: Additionally (3)
- TOO
- 19 Across: Ariosto's "___ Furioso" (7)
- ORLANDO
- 21 Across: Mad ___ hatter (3)
- ASA
- 22 Across: Cabell of baseball (4)
- ENOS
- 24 Across: Lima money (5)
- SOLES
- 25 Across: Unique person (4)
- ONER
- 26 Across: Guadalajara girls (5)
- NINAS
- 28 Across: Lon ___ of Cambodia (3)
- NOL
- 29 Across: Orion's bright spot (5)
- RIGEL
- 30 Across: Rummage through refuse (8)
- SCAVENGE
- 32 Across: Lay (6)
- MELODY
- 33 Across: Samoan seaport (4)
- APIA
- 34 Across: ___ a fuse (became irate) (4)
- BLEW
- 35 Across: English transport (6)
- WAGGON
- 38 Across: "The ___ with a sword": Wilde (8)
- BRAVEMAN
- 42 Across: Lane (5)
- ALLEY
- 43 Across: Darjeeling, e.g. (3)
- TEA
- 44 Across: Overjoy (5)
- ELATE
- 45 Across: Sacred Nile bird (4)
- IBIS
- 46 Across: Intone (5)
- CHANT
- 48 Across: Mandolin's cousin (4)
- LUTE
- 49 Across: Fleur-de-___ (3)
- LIS
- 50 Across: Irish writer Behan (7)
- BRENDAN
- 52 Across: Exterminate (3)
- RID
- 53 Across: Enlisted (7)
- ENTERED
- 55 Across: Turgite, e.g. (7)
- IRONORE
- 57 Across: Forest denizen (7)
- ROEDEER
- 58 Across: Tiered (7)
- STORIED
- 59 Across: Devious (6)
- SNEAKY
- 60 Across: Annoy (6)
- HARASS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Asinine (7)
- MORONIC
- 2 Down: City in Pa. or Wis. (7)
- ALTOONA
- 3 Down: Tint (3)
- DYE
- 4 Down: Howitzer needs, for short (4)
- AMMO
- 5 Down: Golda's kinfolk (5)
- MEIRS
- 6 Down: "___, vita brevis" (8)
- ARSLONGA
- 7 Down: A garden herb (6)
- FENNEL
- 8 Down: Incursions (5)
- RAIDS
- 9 Down: Pisa's river (4)
- ARNO
- 10 Down: Seoul-to-Wonsan dir. (3)
- NNE
- 11 Down: Ancient name for Japan (7)
- CIPANGO
- 12 Down: Cordial flavoring (7)
- ANISEED
- 13 Down: Metal plates (6)
- PATENS
- 15 Down: Like some old tree stumps (6)
- GNARLY
- 20 Down: Fleshy plant (4)
- ALOE
- 23 Down: Wild, unlettered types (7)
- SAVAGES
- 25 Down: An Abu Dhabi asset (7)
- OILWELL
- 27 Down: Former Indian trooper in the British army (5)
- SEPOY
- 29 Down: Chaucerian overseer (5)
- REEVE
- 31 Down: She wrote "This Hunger": 1945 (3)
- NIN
- 32 Down: Org. interested in French, Spanish, etc. (3)
- MLA
- 34 Down: Wave in a warlike way (8)
- BRANDISH
- 35 Down: A banshee is one (6)
- WAILER
- 36 Down: White elephants, e.g. (7)
- ALBINOS
- 37 Down: Sparkle (7)
- GLISTEN
- 38 Down: Soy or Roy (4)
- BEAN
- 39 Down: French biographer of Byron (7)
- MAUROIS
- 40 Down: Dresses (7)
- ATTIRES
- 41 Down: Required (6)
- NEEDED
- 43 Down: " . . . and his hands formed ___ land": Psalm 95 (6)
- THEDRY
- 46 Down: Small waterway (5)
- CREEK
- 47 Down: A pastry in Peru (5)
- TARTA
- 50 Down: La ___, Trinidad (4)
- BREA
- 51 Down: Hussein's queen (4)
- NOOR
- 54 Down: Gelderland city (3)
- EDE
- 56 Down: Initials often seen in 1933 (3)
- NRA
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