Wednesday Crossword — January 28, 1987

Difficulty: MediumGrid: 15x1574 clues~15-30 minBy Bernice Gordon1/28/1987

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Mendicant's request (4 letters)
5 Across
Fiber from bananas (5 letters)
10 Across
Slightly open (4 letters)
14 Across
Jezebel's deity (4 letters)
15 Across
Fabric used by decorators (5 letters)
16 Across
Actor Dastagir (4 letters)
17 Across
Gold digger's benefactor (10 letters)
19 Across
Some Feds (4 letters)
20 Across
Different (7 letters)
21 Across
Sibelius's "Valse ___" (6 letters)
23 Across
Flightless bird (3 letters)
24 Across
Intrigue (6 letters)
26 Across
Spheres of influence (7 letters)
30 Across
Forms a queue (7 letters)
33 Across
Kneeling figure, in art (5 letters)
34 Across
Form of investment (5 letters)
36 Across
Navy V.I.P. (3 letters)
37 Across
Engrossed (4 letters)
38 Across
Taken in (5 letters)
39 Across
Promise's partner (4 letters)
40 Across
Under the weather (3 letters)
41 Across
Film in which Jane Fonda won an Oscar (5 letters)
42 Across
Pulitzer Prize writer: 1918 (5 letters)
43 Across
More squalid (7 letters)
45 Across
Type of wrench (7 letters)
47 Across
Like the Dead Sea (6 letters)
49 Across
Blockhead (3 letters)
50 Across
Working diligently (6 letters)
52 Across
Freed from refuse (7 letters)
56 Across
Deserve (4 letters)
57 Across
Bird of the South Pacific (10 letters)
60 Across
Sulk (4 letters)
61 Across
Growing out (5 letters)
62 Across
Virginia willow (4 letters)
63 Across
Spot (4 letters)
64 Across
Gave medicine to (5 letters)
65 Across
Cut of steak (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Liberal-arts degs. (3 letters)
2 Down
Praise (4 letters)
3 Down
Epiphany trio (4 letters)
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Worker for an Amazon (8 letters)
5 Down
Hit-___ driver (6 letters)
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Tendency (4 letters)
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Keith of the screen (5 letters)
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Cape or fish (3 letters)
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Porter's "___ Goes" (8 letters)
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"___ Goes By," 1931 song (6 letters)
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Impromptu jazz performance (10 letters)
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Incite (4 letters)
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Mystical mark (4 letters)
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Let slacken (5 letters)
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Tear (4 letters)
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Genetic offshoots (6 letters)
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Day from Ohio (5 letters)
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Ecclesiastical wear (5 letters)
28 Down
Pancake topping (10 letters)
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Father of Jupiter (6 letters)
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Sam, e.g. (5 letters)
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Game of cards (5 letters)
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However (3 letters)
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Rode over snow (8 letters)
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Unworldly intellectual (8 letters)
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Drying furnace (4 letters)
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That which refreshes (5 letters)
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Choice (6 letters)
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Enacted (6 letters)
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Lab vessels (5 letters)
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Le Moko (4 letters)
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Where Luang Prabang is (4 letters)
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Network of nerves (4 letters)
54 Down
"___, Brute!" (4 letters)
55 Down
Believe (4 letters)
58 Down
Mrs. Lennon (3 letters)
59 Down
What a fall guy takes (3 letters)

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