Saturday Crossword — July 25, 1987 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 7/25/1987. By Barbara J. Weakley.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Park of hockey fame (4)
BRAD
5 Across: Tropical parrot (5)
MACAW
10 Across: Winter Palace resident (4)
TSAR
14 Across: Adjuvant (4)
AIDE
15 Across: Asian mountain range (5)
ALTAI
16 Across: VIII (4)
OCTO
17 Across: Incite (4)
GOAD
18 Across: Effort or impulse (5)
NISUS
19 Across: Like a phoenix (4)
RARA
20 Across: Orchestra section (7)
STRINGS
22 Across: Unlike most of Antarctica (7)
PEOPLED
24 Across: Mountain pass (3)
COL
25 Across: Quarters (6)
ABODES
26 Across: One sashaying in a hoedown (12)
SQUAREDANCER
32 Across: Wild; barren (5)
WASTE
33 Across: He wrote "The Proper Bostonians" (5)
AMORY
34 Across: Andress film: 1964 (3)
SHE
37 Across: French notion (4)
IDEE
38 Across: Pickle maker's need (5)
BRINE
39 Across: Actor Tamiroff (4)
AKIM
40 Across: First word of "Home, Sweet Home" (3)
MID
41 Across: Dress design (5)
ALINE
42 Across: Lace the punch (5)
SPIKE
43 Across: Home run (12)
ROUNDTRIPPER
45 Across: Drawing rooms (6)
SALONS
48 Across: John Duncan was one (3)
UTE
49 Across: Gerald Ford, once (7)
ATHLETE
51 Across: Sets upon (7)
ASSAILS
55 Across: Semitic god (4)
BAAL
56 Across: Period (5)
EPOCH
58 Across: Picot (4)
LOOP
59 Across: Otherwise (4)
ELSE
60 Across: Book by D. S. Freeman (5)
RELEE
61 Across: Cartoonist Hulme (4)
ETTA
62 Across: Erect (4)
REAR
63 Across: "Adam's Curse" poet (5)
YEATS
64 Across: Dare, in Dogpatch (4)
DAST

Down Answers

1 Down: Black sheep's burden (4)
BAGS
2 Down: Kind of act (4)
RIOT
3 Down: Hebrew month (4)
ADAR
4 Down: Consecrate (8)
DEDICATE
5 Down: Pressing machine (6)
MANGLE
6 Down: Baba and MacGraw (4)
ALIS
7 Down: Pennies: Abbr. (3)
CTS
8 Down: College teachers' org. (4)
AAUP
9 Down: Smart aleck (8)
WISEACRE
10 Down: Apathy (6)
TORPOR
11 Down: Heat milk, in a way (5)
SCALD
12 Down: " . . . as lovely as ___" (5)
ATREE
13 Down: Tobacco and Yellow Brick (5)
ROADS
21 Down: The ___, Thames estuary (4)
NORE
23 Down: Follow orders (4)
OBEY
26 Down: Emulate Leander (4)
SWIM
27 Down: Moslem judge (4)
QADI
28 Down: Put to work (4)
USED
29 Down: Singer Bobby ___: 1936-73 (5)
DARIN
30 Down: "Hev it just as you've ___ to . . . " : Kipling (5)
AMIND
31 Down: Piece for nine (5)
NONET
34 Down: Omit (4)
SKIP
35 Down: Boost in price (4)
HIKE
36 Down: Legendary Irish bride (4)
EMER
38 Down: Like some winter weather (8)
BLUSTERY
39 Down: Took to a higher court (8)
APPEALED
41 Down: Top-notch (4)
AONE
42 Down: Poses (4)
SITS
43 Down: He may be high (6)
ROLLER
44 Down: Marsh plants (6)
RUSHES
45 Down: Yataghan (5)
SABER
46 Down: Hanger in "Hamlet" (5)
ATALE
47 Down: Start of a canine name (5)
LHASA
50 Down: Inventor of a sign language (4)
EPEE
51 Down: Vinegar: Comb. form (4)
ACET
52 Down: Jot (4)
IOTA
53 Down: Realtors' assets (4)
LOTS
54 Down: Young oyster (4)
SPAT
57 Down: Biographer Winslow (3)
OLA

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