Wednesday Crossword — July 15, 1987 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 7/15/1987. By Irene Smullyan.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Repair a ship (5)
- REFIT
- 6 Across: London apartment (4)
- FLAT
- 10 Across: Cob or drake (4)
- MALE
- 14 Across: Writer Calvino (5)
- ITALO
- 15 Across: Dancer Montes (4)
- LOLA
- 16 Across: Egyptian deity (4)
- ISIS
- 17 Across: Deliberately soften criticism (15)
- PULLONESPUNCHES
- 20 Across: Editor's disclaimer (3)
- SIC
- 21 Across: Tipsters (5)
- TOUTS
- 22 Across: Goddess of peace (5)
- IRENE
- 23 Across: Ocean vessel (5)
- OILER
- 25 Across: Glacial term (5)
- STOSS
- 26 Across: Bituminous coal (6)
- CANNEL
- 28 Across: Scottish garb (5)
- TREWS
- 30 Across: Mimicked (4)
- APED
- 31 Across: Emulate Edward VIII (8)
- ABDICATE
- 35 Across: Give up (15)
- THROWINTHETOWEL
- 39 Across: Islandic state of Australia (8)
- TASMANIA
- 40 Across: A fortune-teller's guide (4)
- PALM
- 41 Across: Bury (5)
- INTER
- 42 Across: Type of type (6)
- STEREO
- 44 Across: Released (5)
- LETGO
- 46 Across: "___ Foolish Things . . . ," 1935 song (5)
- THESE
- 47 Across: Pertaining to pitch (5)
- TONAL
- 48 Across: Indo-Chinese or Thai (5)
- ASIAN
- 50 Across: Jackie Onassis, ___ Bouvier (3)
- NEE
- 53 Across: Use foul play (15)
- HITBELOWTHEBELT
- 56 Across: City on the Oka (4)
- OREL
- 57 Across: Indigo (4)
- ANIL
- 58 Across: Italian poet: 1544-95 (5)
- TASSO
- 59 Across: Desiccated (4)
- SERE
- 60 Across: Any Greek commune (4)
- DEME
- 61 Across: Lazy ___ (5)
- SUSAN
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Tears (4)
- RIPS
- 2 Down: Needle case (4)
- ETUI
- 3 Down: Breeders of hunting birds (9)
- FALCONERS
- 4 Down: Indisposed (3)
- ILL
- 5 Down: Flute sound (6)
- TOOTLE
- 6 Down: ___-de-lis (5)
- FLEUR
- 7 Down: "Paradise ___" (4)
- LOST
- 8 Down: Pennines, e.g. (4)
- ALPS
- 9 Down: Kind of cross (3)
- TAU
- 10 Down: Scientific apparatus (11)
- MICROSCOPES
- 11 Down: Residue (5)
- ASHES
- 12 Down: Legal claims (5)
- LIENS
- 13 Down: Existence (4)
- ESSE
- 18 Down: Carol (4)
- NOEL
- 19 Down: Dolt (6)
- NITWIT
- 24 Down: Not easily discouraged (11)
- INDOMITABLE
- 25 Down: Santa ___, Holy See, in Sevilla (4)
- SEDE
- 26 Down: A U.S. suffragette (4)
- CATT
- 27 Down: U.S. disease-prevention org. (4)
- APHA
- 28 Down: Turkic tongue (5)
- TATAR
- 29 Down: Presidential monogram (3)
- RBH
- 32 Down: Cognizance (9)
- AWARENESS
- 33 Down: Distant: Prefix (4)
- TELE
- 34 Down: Patron saint of sailors (4)
- ELMO
- 36 Down: Falsify; juggle (6)
- WANGLE
- 37 Down: Division word (4)
- INTO
- 38 Down: Never, in Sonneberg (3)
- NIE
- 42 Down: Former Iranian ruler (4)
- SHAH
- 43 Down: Principles (6)
- TENETS
- 44 Down: French area, rich in coal (5)
- LOIRE
- 45 Down: Join a contest (5)
- ENTER
- 46 Down: Boxer's quest (5)
- TITLE
- 47 Down: Tonkin group (4)
- THOS
- 48 Down: Tops (4)
- AONE
- 49 Down: Do the trudgen (4)
- SWIM
- 51 Down: Lohengrin's beloved (4)
- ELSA
- 52 Down: Harrow rival (4)
- ETON
- 54 Down: A. E. Housman hero (3)
- LAD
- 55 Down: Building: Ger. (3)
- BAU
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