Friday Crossword — December 19, 1986 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 12/19/1986. By Eugene T. Maleska.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Touchstone's companion (6)
- AUDREY
- 7 Across: Famed film director–script writer (6)
- WILDER
- 13 Across: Green ___, lady in a 1580 ballad (7)
- SLEEVES
- 15 Across: Get (7)
- RECEIVE
- 16 Across: Composer of "The Devil's Trill" (7)
- TARTINI
- 17 Across: Fined (7)
- AMERCED
- 18 Across: Actor Wallach (3)
- ELI
- 19 Across: Settled (7)
- LOCATED
- 21 Across: Annoy (3)
- TRY
- 22 Across: Fish resembling a roach (4)
- RUDD
- 24 Across: Italian automotive center (5)
- TURIN
- 25 Across: Adduce (4)
- CITE
- 26 Across: Pochards (5)
- SMEES
- 28 Across: Add up (3)
- TOT
- 29 Across: Mercury's talaria (5)
- SHOES
- 30 Across: Bar at the bar (5)
- ESTOP
- 32 Across: "The Lost ___,"1945 film (7)
- WEEKEND
- 34 Across: King Hadad's land (4)
- EDOM
- 36 Across: Ancient ambulatory (4)
- STOA
- 37 Across: "Five Graves ___," 1943 film (7)
- TOCAIRO
- 40 Across: Feed feasters for a fee (5)
- CATER
- 43 Across: Bevels, tilts or whines (5)
- CANTS
- 44 Across: Davis or Ryder (3)
- CUP
- 46 Across: Shunned one (5)
- LEPER
- 48 Across: Beauvais blockheads (4)
- ANES
- 49 Across: Hosted a bash (5)
- THREW
- 51 Across: ___ Gauche, Paris (4)
- RIVE
- 52 Across: Mayan Indian (3)
- MAM
- 53 Across: Controversialist (7)
- ERISTIC
- 55 Across: An O'Neill (3)
- TIP
- 56 Across: Experience enhancing self-esteem (7)
- EGOTRIP
- 58 Across: City in Colo. (7)
- ALAMOSA
- 60 Across: Altar screen (7)
- REREDOS
- 61 Across: Vegetarian's course (7)
- LEGUMES
- 62 Across: Punta ___, Chilean port (6)
- ARENAS
- 63 Across: Loathe (6)
- DETEST
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Late bloomers (6)
- ASTERS
- 2 Down: Poe poem (7)
- ULALUME
- 3 Down: Mocks (7)
- DERIDES
- 4 Down: Soak timber (3)
- RET
- 5 Down: Christie's "___ Under the Sun" (4)
- EVIL
- 6 Down: " . . . enter ___": Matt. 10:5 (5)
- YENOT
- 7 Down: " . . . ___ are a little breed": Tennyson (5)
- WEMEN
- 8 Down: Hit a puck too far (4)
- ICED
- 9 Down: Irish sea god (3)
- LER
- 10 Down: Asset for an actor (7)
- DICTION
- 11 Down: Turned inside out (7)
- EVERTED
- 12 Down: Does a beautician's job (6)
- REDYES
- 14 Down: Just as, to Justinian (5)
- SICUT
- 15 Down: Rheas, e.g. (7)
- RATITES
- 20 Down: In single file (4)
- AROW
- 23 Down: Emulates Holmes (7)
- DETECTS
- 25 Down: Con man (7)
- CHEATER
- 27 Down: Concoctions by some jerks (5)
- SODAS
- 29 Down: Kin of "Prosit!" (5)
- SKOAL
- 31 Down: Next, to Solti (3)
- POI
- 33 Down: Bel Kaufman's "Love, ___" (3)
- ETC
- 35 Down: Role for Donat or O'Toole (7)
- MRCHIPS
- 37 Down: Scarlet ___ (red robin) (7)
- TANAGER
- 38 Down: "Just ___ Chance," Crosby hit (7)
- ONEMORE
- 39 Down: Bear, in Brest (4)
- OURS
- 41 Down: Abstract (7)
- EPITOME
- 42 Down: Emends (7)
- REVISES
- 43 Down: Sine qua non for 7 Across (6)
- CAMERA
- 45 Down: Potpourri item (5)
- PETAL
- 47 Down: One of three squares (6)
- REPAST
- 49 Down: Graces and Gorgons (5)
- TRIOS
- 50 Down: Enticed (5)
- WILED
- 53 Down: Wagnerian earth goddess (4)
- ERDA
- 54 Down: D. C. Fisher's "The Squirrel ___" (4)
- CAGE
- 57 Down: Kind of strike (3)
- TEN
- 59 Down: Theban mother goddess (3)
- MUT
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