Wednesday Crossword — February 4, 1987 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 2/4/1987. By Tom W. Underhill.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Bad Ems and Evian (4)
SPAS
5 Across: ___ it (on the carpet) (5)
INFOR
10 Across: Skillful (4)
ABLE
14 Across: Fastener (4)
HASP
15 Across: Snow, to Pierre (5)
NEIGE
16 Across: Ship's prison (4)
BRIG
17 Across: Can. province (4)
ALTA
18 Across: Siegfried's slayer (5)
HAGEN
19 Across: Custor's last major (4)
RENO
20 Across: Start of a rhyme by E. C. Bentley (14)
GEORGETHETHIRD
23 Across: Sun. lecture (3)
SER
24 Across: Peter and Nicholas (5)
TSARS
25 Across: Offenbach heroine and namesakes (7)
HELENES
29 Across: " . . . ___ now speak . . . " (6)
LETHIM
33 Across: Three ___ match (3)
ONA
34 Across: Bars at the bar (6)
ESTOPS
37 Across: Byron poem (4)
LARA
38 Across: Rhyme: Part II (5)
OUGHT
40 Across: Celtic sea god (3)
LER
41 Across: Rhyme: Part III (5)
NEVER
42 Across: Spanish linen fabric (4)
CREA
43 Across: Knobbed (6)
TOROSE
45 Across: Suffix with differ (3)
ENT
46 Across: Ike's second Sec. of State (6)
HERTER
48 Across: Music of the ___ (7)
SPHERES
50 Across: Kind of knife or lock (5)
CLASP
53 Across: Prince Valiant's son (3)
ARN
54 Across: End of rhyme (14)
TOHAVEOCCURRED
60 Across: Halt (4)
LAME
61 Across: Caesar or Cato, once (5)
EDILE
62 Across: Bern's river (4)
AARE
63 Across: Foster a felon (4)
ABET
64 Across: Light-amplification device (5)
LASER
65 Across: Companion of int. (4)
PRIN
66 Across: Bits of wit (4)
PUNS
67 Across: Dirks of yore (5)
SNEES
68 Across: Dry run (4)
TEST

Down Answers

1 Down: Catch a fly (4)
SHAG
2 Down: Enclosure (4)
PALE
3 Down: Anent (4)
ASTO
4 Down: Scant (6)
SPARSE
5 Down: Belongs (7)
INHERES
6 Down: Far from slovenly (4)
NEAT
7 Down: Bout (5)
FIGHT
8 Down: Curved moldings (5)
OGEES
9 Down: Certain cars or cottages (7)
RENTALS
10 Down: Like some porcupines (8)
ABRISTLE
11 Down: ___ Rabbit or Fox (4)
BRER
12 Down: Swedish soprano (4)
LIND
13 Down: Psychiatrist's concern (3)
EGO
21 Down: Citizen ___ (French diplomat) (5)
GENET
22 Down: Otho's dom. (3)
HRE
25 Down: Moonshine (5)
HOOCH
26 Down: Habituate (5)
ENURE
27 Down: Light beer (5)
LAGER
28 Down: Norman town of W.W. II (4)
STLO
30 Down: Actress June from Rock Island (5)
HAVER
31 Down: A Forsyte (5)
IRENE
32 Down: Emporiums (5)
MARTS
35 Down: Atop, to Keats (3)
OER
36 Down: Lakers or Lions (4)
PROS
39 Down: Tomahawks (8)
HATCHETS
41 Down: Indian Prime Minister: 1947-64 (5)
NEHRU
43 Down: Emulates Gulliver (7)
TRAVELS
44 Down: Typewriter parts (7)
SPACERS
47 Down: Guido's high note (3)
ELA
49 Down: Bewitched (6)
ENRAPT
51 Down: Prussian victory site: 1870 (5)
SEDAN
52 Down: Diplomat's asset (5)
POISE
54 Down: Freud's "Totem und ___" (4)
TABU
55 Down: Harbinger (4)
OMEN
56 Down: England's ___ Hills (4)
CLEE
57 Down: Like Ben Jonson (4)
RARE
58 Down: Goddess of discord (4)
ERIS
59 Down: Reed wire (4)
DENT
60 Down: Race unit (3)
LAP

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