Wednesday Crossword — January 28, 1987 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 1/28/1987. By Bernice Gordon.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Mendicant's request (4)
- ALMS
- 5 Across: Fiber from bananas (5)
- ABACA
- 10 Across: Slightly open (4)
- AJAR
- 14 Across: Jezebel's deity (4)
- BAAL
- 15 Across: Fabric used by decorators (5)
- NINON
- 16 Across: Actor Dastagir (4)
- SABU
- 17 Across: Gold digger's benefactor (10)
- SUGARDADDY
- 19 Across: Some Feds (4)
- TMEN
- 20 Across: Different (7)
- DIVERSE
- 21 Across: Sibelius's "Valse ___" (6)
- TRISTE
- 23 Across: Flightless bird (3)
- EMU
- 24 Across: Intrigue (6)
- SCHEME
- 26 Across: Spheres of influence (7)
- DOMAINS
- 30 Across: Forms a queue (7)
- LINESUP
- 33 Across: Kneeling figure, in art (5)
- ORANT
- 34 Across: Form of investment (5)
- ABOND
- 36 Across: Navy V.I.P. (3)
- SNO
- 37 Across: Engrossed (4)
- RAPT
- 38 Across: Taken in (5)
- STUNG
- 39 Across: Promise's partner (4)
- LICK
- 40 Across: Under the weather (3)
- ILL
- 41 Across: Film in which Jane Fonda won an Oscar (5)
- KLUTE
- 42 Across: Pulitzer Prize writer: 1918 (5)
- POOLE
- 43 Across: More squalid (7)
- SEEDIER
- 45 Across: Type of wrench (7)
- SPANNER
- 47 Across: Like the Dead Sea (6)
- SALINE
- 49 Across: Blockhead (3)
- LUG
- 50 Across: Working diligently (6)
- PLYING
- 52 Across: Freed from refuse (7)
- TRASHED
- 56 Across: Deserve (4)
- EARN
- 57 Across: Bird of the South Pacific (10)
- HONEYEATER
- 60 Across: Sulk (4)
- POUT
- 61 Across: Growing out (5)
- ENATE
- 62 Across: Virginia willow (4)
- ITEA
- 63 Across: Spot (4)
- ESPY
- 64 Across: Gave medicine to (5)
- DOSED
- 65 Across: Cut of steak (4)
- RUMP
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Liberal-arts degs. (3)
- ABS
- 2 Down: Praise (4)
- LAUD
- 3 Down: Epiphany trio (4)
- MAGI
- 4 Down: Worker for an Amazon (8)
- SLAVEANT
- 5 Down: Hit-___ driver (6)
- ANDRUN
- 6 Down: Tendency (4)
- BIAS
- 7 Down: Keith of the screen (5)
- ANDES
- 8 Down: Cape or fish (3)
- COD
- 9 Down: Porter's "___ Goes" (8)
- ANYTHING
- 10 Down: "___ Goes By," 1931 song (6)
- ASTIME
- 11 Down: Impromptu jazz performance (10)
- JAMSESSION
- 12 Down: Incite (4)
- ABET
- 13 Down: Mystical mark (4)
- RUNE
- 18 Down: Let slacken (5)
- REMIT
- 22 Down: Tear (4)
- REND
- 25 Down: Genetic offshoots (6)
- CLONES
- 26 Down: Day from Ohio (5)
- DORIS
- 27 Down: Ecclesiastical wear (5)
- ORALE
- 28 Down: Pancake topping (10)
- MAPLESYRUP
- 29 Down: Father of Jupiter (6)
- SATURN
- 31 Down: Sam, e.g. (5)
- UNCLE
- 32 Down: Game of cards (5)
- POKER
- 35 Down: However (3)
- BUT
- 38 Down: Rode over snow (8)
- SLEIGHED
- 39 Down: Unworldly intellectual (8)
- LONGHAIR
- 41 Down: Drying furnace (4)
- KILN
- 42 Down: That which refreshes (5)
- PAUSE
- 44 Down: Choice (6)
- DAINTY
- 46 Down: Enacted (6)
- PLAYED
- 48 Down: Lab vessels (5)
- ETNAS
- 50 Down: Le Moko (4)
- PEPE
- 51 Down: Where Luang Prabang is (4)
- LAOS
- 53 Down: Network of nerves (4)
- RETE
- 54 Down: "___, Brute!" (4)
- ETTU
- 55 Down: Believe (4)
- DEEM
- 58 Down: Mrs. Lennon (3)
- ONO
- 59 Down: What a fall guy takes (3)
- RAP
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