Monday Crossword — August 18, 1986 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 8/18/1986. By Evelyn Benshoof.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Poderosa family member (4)
- HOSS
- 5 Across: Thick slice of bread (4)
- SLAB
- 9 Across: Peduncle (4)
- STEM
- 13 Across: A Johnson (4)
- ARTE
- 14 Across: Jostle (5)
- SHOVE
- 15 Across: Kind of shirt (4)
- POLO
- 16 Across: Guide (4)
- LEAD
- 17 Across: Verb in a biblical admonition (5)
- COVET
- 18 Across: A Guthrie (4)
- ARLO
- 19 Across: Assail suddenly (15)
- FLYATONESTHROAT
- 22 Across: Shredded (4)
- TORE
- 23 Across: Greek goddess of dawn (3)
- EOS
- 24 Across: Wis. city (6)
- RACINE
- 27 Across: Equine pest (8)
- HORSEFLY
- 32 Across: ___ drab (5)
- OLIVE
- 33 Across: Printing mark (5)
- CARET
- 34 Across: Corded fabric (3)
- REP
- 35 Across: Sleazy bar (4)
- DIVE
- 36 Across: Founded (5)
- BASED
- 37 Across: German coal basin (4)
- SAAR
- 38 Across: Unusual shoe width (3)
- EEE
- 39 Across: Fabrics (5)
- FELTS
- 40 Across: Vivid (5)
- ALIVE
- 41 Across: Hurriedly (8)
- ONTHEFLY
- 43 Across: Something to tip (6)
- SCALES
- 44 Across: An Onassis nickname (3)
- ARI
- 45 Across: Hemplike fiber (4)
- SUNN
- 46 Across: Act forthrightly (15)
- FLYINTHETEETHOF
- 54 Across: Iranian coin (4)
- RIAL
- 55 Across: Prophetic card (5)
- TAROT
- 56 Across: One of almost 12,000 N.Y.C. vehicles (4)
- TAXI
- 57 Across: Concerning (4)
- INRE
- 58 Across: All possible (5)
- EVERY
- 59 Across: Lycian poet (4)
- OLEN
- 60 Across: Do a sitter's job (4)
- TEND
- 61 Across: Galley mark (4)
- DELE
- 62 Across: Cornmeal bread (4)
- PONE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Word with shell or sole (4)
- HALF
- 2 Down: Soviet city (4)
- OREL
- 3 Down: Tarry (4)
- STAY
- 4 Down: Tending to calm (8)
- SEDATIVE
- 5 Down: Sparkled (5)
- SHONE
- 6 Down: In tennis, nothing (4)
- LOVE
- 7 Down: City sts. (4)
- AVES
- 8 Down: Improved (8)
- BETTERED
- 9 Down: Thinly populated (6)
- SPARSE
- 10 Down: Ring contestant in Madrid (4)
- TORO
- 11 Down: Fitzgerald or Raines (4)
- ELLA
- 12 Down: Debatable (4)
- MOOT
- 14 Down: Tally (5)
- SCORE
- 20 Down: Franchot of films (4)
- TONE
- 21 Down: "A ___, of golden daffodils": Wordsworth (4)
- HOST
- 24 Down: Western exhibition (5)
- RODEO
- 25 Down: Strange (5)
- ALIEN
- 26 Down: Bush cat (5)
- CIVET
- 27 Down: Precipitate (5)
- HASTY
- 28 Down: Bauxite and galena (4)
- ORES
- 29 Down: Easily broken (5)
- FRAIL
- 30 Down: Desert (5)
- LEAVE
- 31 Down: Belgian town, to a Frenchman (5)
- YPRES
- 33 Down: Summon (4)
- CALL
- 36 Down: Was becoming to (8)
- BEFITTED
- 37 Down: Describing some desks (8)
- SLANTTOP
- 39 Down: Bouquet enhancer (4)
- FERN
- 40 Down: Skin blemish (4)
- ACNE
- 42 Down: Approved enthusiastically (6)
- HAILED
- 43 Down: Fatlike (5)
- SUETY
- 45 Down: Put away (5)
- STORE
- 46 Down: Ingredient of glass (4)
- FRIT
- 47 Down: Occupation (4)
- LINE
- 48 Down: Story (4)
- YARN
- 49 Down: Contain (4)
- HAVE
- 50 Down: Diminutive suffix (4)
- EREL
- 51 Down: Nimbus (4)
- HALO
- 52 Down: Draft animals (4)
- OXEN
- 53 Down: Choice (4)
- FINE
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