Wednesday Crossword — December 24, 1986 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 12/24/1986. By H. Hastings Reddall.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Interest measurement (4)
- RATE
- 5 Across: Hebrew word of unknown meaning (5)
- SELAH
- 10 Across: Flatten a flat (4)
- RASE
- 14 Across: Jaques's septet (4)
- AGES
- 15 Across: Soap plant (5)
- AMOLE
- 16 Across: Butterfly's "Un bel di" (4)
- ARIA
- 17 Across: Planets, nebulae, etc. (15)
- CELESTIALBODIES
- 20 Across: Slippery one (3)
- EEL
- 21 Across: Something to wait for (4)
- TURN
- 22 Across: Snow, in Sevilla (5)
- NIEVE
- 23 Across: Revolver between us and Jupiter (4)
- MARS
- 24 Across: Stipulations in legal documents (7)
- CLAUSES
- 26 Across: Kind (6)
- BENIGN
- 29 Across: Family of Reagan's first Sec. of State (5)
- HAIGS
- 30 Across: Bionomics: Abbr. (4)
- ECOL
- 31 Across: Morley of "60 Minutes" (5)
- SAFER
- 32 Across: Hot time in Tours (3)
- ETE
- 35 Across: Ursa Minor septet (15)
- THELITTLEDIPPER
- 39 Across: Basis of light (3)
- SOL
- 40 Across: Twenty that often need trimming (5)
- NAILS
- 41 Across: Limericks man (4)
- LEAR
- 42 Across: Confuse (5)
- ADDLE
- 43 Across: TV sitcom (6)
- CHEERS
- 45 Across: Liberace, for one (7)
- PIANIST
- 48 Across: ___ code (4)
- AREA
- 49 Across: Strip a sloop (5)
- UNRIG
- 50 Across: Growl (4)
- GNAR
- 51 Across: Iran, to Iraq (3)
- FOE
- 54 Across: Heavenly spheres (15)
- SUNMOONANDSTARS
- 58 Across: Where Bhutan is (4)
- ASIA
- 59 Across: Princely (5)
- REGAL
- 60 Across: Sir Anthony ___ (4)
- EDEN
- 61 Across: Portraitist Alice ___ (4)
- NEEL
- 62 Across: Former Dodger (5)
- REESE
- 63 Across: Eradicate (4)
- DELE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Santa Anita event (4)
- RACE
- 2 Down: Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 (4)
- AGEE
- 3 Down: Relate (4)
- TELL
- 4 Down: Siam follower (3)
- ESE
- 5 Down: Second-largest planet (6)
- SATURN
- 6 Down: Middle East chieftains (5)
- EMIRS
- 7 Down: Something borrowed (4)
- LOAN
- 8 Down: Entire (3)
- ALL
- 9 Down: Semitic lang. (3)
- HEB
- 10 Down: Half a diameter (6)
- RADIUS
- 11 Down: First sign of the zodiac (5)
- ARIES
- 12 Down: Strainer (5)
- SIEVE
- 13 Down: Alleviates (5)
- EASES
- 18 Down: Hind's mate (4)
- STAG
- 19 Down: Catapults or wild asses (6)
- ONAGRI
- 23 Down: Factory (4)
- MILL
- 24 Down: Bistros (5)
- CAFES
- 25 Down: Prevaricated (4)
- LIED
- 26 Down: Wagers (4)
- BETS
- 27 Down: Lover of Narcissus (4)
- ECHO
- 28 Down: Christmas (4)
- NOEL
- 29 Down: Handel's birthplace (5)
- HALLE
- 31 Down: Elevated walking stick (5)
- STILT
- 32 Down: Foil's relative (4)
- EPEE
- 33 Down: Rip apart (4)
- TEAR
- 34 Down: Boots one (4)
- ERRS
- 36 Down: Blue dyestuff (6)
- INDIGO
- 37 Down: Urchins (4)
- TADS
- 38 Down: What a hood cops at court (4)
- PLEA
- 42 Down: Beast (6)
- ANIMAL
- 43 Down: Baby's bed (6)
- CRADLE
- 44 Down: Not his (4)
- HERS
- 45 Down: Korean port (5)
- PUSAN
- 46 Down: "Radar ___" (trooper's warning) (5)
- INUSE
- 47 Down: Nickname for golfer Palmer (5)
- ARNIE
- 48 Down: Lucasta and Christie (5)
- ANNAS
- 50 Down: Challenge (4)
- GAGE
- 51 Down: Diminish in color (4)
- FADE
- 52 Down: U.S.S.R. city (4)
- OREL
- 53 Down: Old domestic slave (4)
- ESNE
- 55 Down: Nobelist for Peace: 1949 (3)
- ORR
- 56 Down: Coretta King, ___ Scott (3)
- NEE
- 57 Down: Weems or Williams (3)
- TED
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