Friday Crossword — November 7, 1986 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 11/7/1986. By Eugene T. Maleska.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Tasso's "___ Delivered" (9)
- JERUSALEM
- 10 Across: Type of bandage (5)
- SPICA
- 15 Across: Take out (9)
- ELIMINATE
- 16 Across: Seat in an oriel (5)
- CAROL
- 17 Across: Apart (9)
- SEPARATED
- 18 Across: Swinburne's "___ of Balen" (5)
- ATALE
- 19 Across: Kett contemporary (4)
- TEEN
- 20 Across: Division of a hockey game (6)
- PERIOD
- 22 Across: Dramatist Hedberg (3)
- TOR
- 23 Across: Actor Wynn (6)
- KEENAN
- 24 Across: This bloke may be a toff (4)
- GENT
- 25 Across: " . . . the ___ was to wander in": FitzGerald (5)
- ROADI
- 29 Across: Yuletide in Roma (6)
- NATALE
- 31 Across: What tipplers do (6)
- IMBIBE
- 33 Across: Heirs (8)
- LEGATEES
- 37 Across: Unable to come about, as a sailboat (7)
- INIRONS
- 39 Across: Starts a trek (7)
- SETSOUT
- 40 Across: Dodge (8)
- SIDESTEP
- 42 Across: Slow up (6)
- RETARD
- 43 Across: The ___ Midland counties (6)
- SHIRES
- 45 Across: Verboten verbiage (5)
- NONOS
- 46 Across: Something to castigate (4)
- TEXT
- 49 Across: Check up on anew (6)
- RETEST
- 51 Across: Shandy part (3)
- ALE
- 52 Across: Nero's teacher (6)
- SENECA
- 53 Across: "For once, upon ___ and gusty day": Shak. (4)
- ARAW
- 57 Across: Infielder Dale (5)
- BERRA
- 59 Across: Lack of concern for right or wrong (9)
- AMORALITY
- 61 Across: A wee hour (5)
- ONEAM
- 62 Across: Lacy styles of book-cover decoration (9)
- DENTELLES
- 63 Across: Recorder of Munchausen's travels (5)
- RASPE
- 64 Across: Receivers of checks (9)
- ENDORSEES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Witty bit (4)
- JEST
- 2 Down: Loser to S. Grant (4)
- ELEE
- 3 Down: An adjective for old age (4)
- RIPE
- 4 Down: Ukrainian city (4)
- UMAN
- 5 Down: English title (3)
- SIR
- 6 Down: "Is man ___ or an angel?": Disraeli (5)
- ANAPE
- 7 Down: Triangular sail (6)
- LATEEN
- 8 Down: Another kind of triangle (7)
- ETERNAL
- 9 Down: Interposes (8)
- MEDIATES
- 10 Down: Marine goggler (4)
- SCAD
- 11 Down: One way to stand (3)
- PAT
- 12 Down: Fuming (5)
- IRATE
- 13 Down: Costa Rican's dollar (5)
- COLON
- 14 Down: Put on guard (5)
- ALERT
- 21 Down: Wild ass (6)
- ONAGER
- 23 Down: Block; frustrate (6)
- KIBOSH
- 24 Down: Reaches (6)
- GETSTO
- 25 Down: He wrote "The Making of an American" (4)
- RIIS
- 26 Down: Hawks' home (4)
- OMNI
- 27 Down: Make ___ for (try to get) (4)
- ABID
- 28 Down: Most calamitous (6)
- DIREST
- 30 Down: Delitescent (6)
- LATENT
- 32 Down: Undiminished (6)
- ENTIRE
- 34 Down: Of the dawn (4)
- EOAN
- 35 Down: Large kangaroo (4)
- EURO
- 36 Down: Norms: Abbr. (4)
- STDS
- 38 Down: Swain song (8)
- SERENADE
- 41 Down: Yeggs (7)
- PETEMEN
- 44 Down: A brace of shakes (6)
- SECOND
- 46 Down: Biblical mountain (5)
- TABOR
- 47 Down: Mezzo-soprano Obraztsova (5)
- ELENA
- 48 Down: Jerez, once (5)
- XERES
- 50 Down: Family name of Pius X (5)
- SARTO
- 52 Down: Updike's "The ___ Door" (4)
- SAME
- 53 Down: "___ Well . . . " (4)
- ALLS
- 54 Down: Peeve (4)
- RILE
- 55 Down: Fit to ___ (4)
- ATEE
- 56 Down: "Swiss Family Robinson" author (4)
- WYSS
- 58 Down: Shoot the breeze (3)
- RAP
- 60 Down: Atmosphere: Comb. form (3)
- AER
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