Wednesday Crossword — December 24, 1986

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1578 clues~15-30 minBy H. Hastings Reddall12/24/1986

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Interest measurement (4 letters)
5 Across
Hebrew word of unknown meaning (5 letters)
10 Across
Flatten a flat (4 letters)
14 Across
Jaques's septet (4 letters)
15 Across
Soap plant (5 letters)
16 Across
Butterfly's "Un bel di" (4 letters)
17 Across
Planets, nebulae, etc. (15 letters)
20 Across
Slippery one (3 letters)
21 Across
Something to wait for (4 letters)
22 Across
Snow, in Sevilla (5 letters)
23 Across
Revolver between us and Jupiter (4 letters)
24 Across
Stipulations in legal documents (7 letters)
26 Across
Kind (6 letters)
29 Across
Family of Reagan's first Sec. of State (5 letters)
30 Across
Bionomics: Abbr. (4 letters)
31 Across
Morley of "60 Minutes" (5 letters)
32 Across
Hot time in Tours (3 letters)
35 Across
Ursa Minor septet (15 letters)
39 Across
Basis of light (3 letters)
40 Across
Twenty that often need trimming (5 letters)
41 Across
Limericks man (4 letters)
42 Across
Confuse (5 letters)
43 Across
TV sitcom (6 letters)
45 Across
Liberace, for one (7 letters)
48 Across
___ code (4 letters)
49 Across
Strip a sloop (5 letters)
50 Across
Growl (4 letters)
51 Across
Iran, to Iraq (3 letters)
54 Across
Heavenly spheres (15 letters)
58 Across
Where Bhutan is (4 letters)
59 Across
Princely (5 letters)
60 Across
Sir Anthony ___ (4 letters)
61 Across
Portraitist Alice ___ (4 letters)
62 Across
Former Dodger (5 letters)
63 Across
Eradicate (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Santa Anita event (4 letters)
2 Down
Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 (4 letters)
3 Down
Relate (4 letters)
4 Down
Siam follower (3 letters)
5 Down
Second-largest planet (6 letters)
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Middle East chieftains (5 letters)
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Something borrowed (4 letters)
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Entire (3 letters)
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Semitic lang. (3 letters)
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Half a diameter (6 letters)
11 Down
First sign of the zodiac (5 letters)
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Strainer (5 letters)
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Alleviates (5 letters)
18 Down
Hind's mate (4 letters)
19 Down
Catapults or wild asses (6 letters)
23 Down
Factory (4 letters)
24 Down
Bistros (5 letters)
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Prevaricated (4 letters)
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Wagers (4 letters)
27 Down
Lover of Narcissus (4 letters)
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Christmas (4 letters)
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Handel's birthplace (5 letters)
31 Down
Elevated walking stick (5 letters)
32 Down
Foil's relative (4 letters)
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Rip apart (4 letters)
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Boots one (4 letters)
36 Down
Blue dyestuff (6 letters)
37 Down
Urchins (4 letters)
38 Down
What a hood cops at court (4 letters)
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Beast (6 letters)
43 Down
Baby's bed (6 letters)
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Not his (4 letters)
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Korean port (5 letters)
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"Radar ___" (trooper's warning) (5 letters)
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Nickname for golfer Palmer (5 letters)
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Lucasta and Christie (5 letters)
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Challenge (4 letters)
51 Down
Diminish in color (4 letters)
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U.S.S.R. city (4 letters)
53 Down
Old domestic slave (4 letters)
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Nobelist for Peace: 1949 (3 letters)
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Coretta King, ___ Scott (3 letters)
57 Down
Weems or Williams (3 letters)

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