Wednesday Crossword — February 18, 1987 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 2/18/1987. By Kenneth Witte.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Sheds skin (5)
MOLTS
6 Across: French secular clergyman (4)
ABBE
10 Across: Bears' lairs (4)
DENS
14 Across: Idolize (5)
ADORE
15 Across: Bearing (4)
MIEN
16 Across: Dies ___ (4)
IRAE
17 Across: Presidential Chief of Staff (5)
REGAN
18 Across: "Woe is me!" (4)
ALAS
19 Across: Résumé (4)
VITA
20 Across: Be decisive (15)
CROSSTHERUBICON
23 Across: "How's that?" (3)
HEH
24 Across: Palindromic document (4)
DEED
25 Across: Doubtful (4)
IFFY
28 Across: Séance sounds (4)
RAPS
31 Across: "Three ___," Glyn novel (5)
WEEKS
35 Across: Denver Nuggets' coach (3)
MOE
36 Across: Pride of the Prado (4)
GOYA
37 Across: Word with oil or split (6)
BANANA
38 Across: Be decisive (15)
BURNONESBRIDGES
41 Across: Like a teenager's bed? (6)
UNMADE
42 Across: Plane or level (4)
TOOL
43 Across: Brown of the Band of Renown (3)
LES
44 Across: Emulates Robert Giroux (5)
EDITS
45 Across: Educator Horace (4)
MANN
46 Across: Wriggling (4)
EELY
47 Across: Native state of Meredith Willson (4)
IOWA
49 Across: Type of game or man (3)
CON
51 Across: Be decisive (15)
PUTONESFOOTDOWN
59 Across: Land in the news (4)
IRAN
60 Across: What eagles do (4)
SOAR
61 Across: Ringworm (5)
TINEA
62 Across: Taj Mahal site (4)
AGRA
63 Across: Leprechaun land (4)
ERIN
64 Across: Tinker's target (5)
EVERS
65 Across: What gropers do (4)
FEEL
66 Across: Respiratory sound (4)
RALE
67 Across: Calibrate anew (5)
RESET

Down Answers

1 Down: Grapes' residue (4)
MARC
2 Down: Baltic feeder (4)
ODER
3 Down: Trademark (4)
LOGO
4 Down: Worthless (6)
TRASHY
5 Down: Kinesthesia, for one (5)
SENSE
6 Down: Oriental nurse (4)
AMAH
7 Down: Choler (4)
BILE
8 Down: Vandykes (6)
BEARDS
9 Down: Come afterward (5)
ENSUE
10 Down: Stockholder's bonus (8)
DIVIDEND
11 Down: Greenland discoverer (4)
ERIC
12 Down: Defense org. formed in 1949 (4)
NATO
13 Down: Actor Connery (4)
SEAN
21 Down: King's support (6)
THRONE
22 Down: Lament (6)
BEWAIL
25 Down: Permeate (5)
IMBUE
26 Down: Half of a store department (5)
FOUND
27 Down: Physicist Enrico (5)
FERMI
29 Down: Parliamentary response (3)
AYE
30 Down: Vermicelli, e.g. (5)
PASTA
32 Down: Birdie's better (5)
EAGLE
33 Down: Genuflect (5)
KNEEL
34 Down: Like minxes (5)
SASSY
36 Down: Future Don Corleone? (6)
GODSON
37 Down: John Elway, for one (6)
BRONCO
39 Down: Kind of park (8)
NATIONAL
40 Down: ___ mot (3)
BON
45 Down: Hebrew Old Testament notes (6)
MASORA
46 Down: Salad ingredient (6)
ENDIVE
48 Down: River found in "sewer" (5)
WESER
50 Down: Aquatic animal (5)
OTTER
51 Down: French chanteuse (4)
PIAF
52 Down: Advance an argument (4)
URGE
53 Down: Biblical weed (4)
TARE
54 Down: Be lacking (4)
FAIL
55 Down: River in NW France (4)
ORNE
56 Down: Wallet fillers (4)
ONES
57 Down: "___ No Angels," Bogart comedy (4)
WERE
58 Down: Tammany Hall detractor (4)
NAST

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