Wednesday Crossword — October 7, 1987 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 10/7/1987. By Barbara J. Weakley.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Some August babies (4)
- LEOS
- 5 Across: One kind of rain (4)
- ACID
- 9 Across: Aide: Abbr. (4)
- ASST
- 13 Across: Affirmation (4)
- OATH
- 14 Across: Singer Patti (4)
- PAGE
- 15 Across: G.I. therapy (5)
- REHAB
- 17 Across: Eight: Prefix (4)
- OCTO
- 18 Across: Last Stuart ruler (4)
- ANNE
- 19 Across: Betel palm (5)
- ARECA
- 20 Across: Ozzie Smith, for one (9)
- SHORTSTOP
- 22 Across: Like a mad dog (5)
- RABID
- 23 Across: Coach (5)
- TUTOR
- 24 Across: Abandon a building (6)
- VACATE
- 25 Across: Nautical direction (5)
- ABAFT
- 28 Across: Send payment (5)
- REMIT
- 30 Across: Broadway Joe (6)
- NAMATH
- 32 Across: Rather or McGrew (3)
- DAN
- 33 Across: Wearing brogans (4)
- SHOD
- 37 Across: Artist's milieu (7)
- ATELIER
- 39 Across: Give new form (7)
- RESHAPE
- 41 Across: European blackbird (4)
- MERL
- 42 Across: Actor Vigoda (3)
- ABE
- 44 Across: Miner's tool (6)
- SHOVEL
- 45 Across: Friable (5)
- CRISP
- 47 Across: Good-night girl (5)
- IRENE
- 48 Across: Hearsay (6)
- REPORT
- 52 Across: Artfulness (5)
- CRAFT
- 54 Across: Grass genus (5)
- AVENA
- 55 Across: Cattle breed (9)
- SHORTHORN
- 59 Across: Like some skirts (5)
- GORED
- 60 Across: Strauss, the trousers maker (4)
- LEVI
- 61 Across: Jai ___ (4)
- ALAI
- 62 Across: Toast word (5)
- SKOAL
- 63 Across: Is indebted (4)
- OWES
- 64 Across: Singer Diamond (4)
- NEIL
- 65 Across: German duck (4)
- ENTE
- 66 Across: Anglo-Saxon laborer (4)
- ESNE
- 67 Across: Finished (4)
- DONE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: She wrote "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (4)
- LOOS
- 2 Down: "To ___ His Own," 1946 song (4)
- EACH
- 3 Down: Preminger of filmdom (4)
- OTTO
- 4 Down: Deficiency (9)
- SHORTFALL
- 5 Down: "I like . . . women who have ___": Wilde (5)
- APAST
- 6 Down: He knew Susie (6)
- CANTOR
- 7 Down: Disregarded (7)
- IGNORED
- 8 Down: Fathomless (4)
- DEEP
- 9 Down: Noah's "port of call" (6)
- ARARAT
- 10 Down: Glacial ice form (5)
- SERAC
- 11 Down: Inge pooch (5)
- SHEBA
- 12 Down: Implied (5)
- TACIT
- 16 Down: Invited (4)
- BADE
- 21 Down: ___-frutti (5)
- TUTTI
- 24 Down: Wall climbers (5)
- VINES
- 25 Down: Vietnam region: Var. (4)
- ANAM
- 26 Down: Moderate (4)
- BATE
- 27 Down: U.S. cit. (4)
- AMER
- 29 Down: Deface (3)
- MAR
- 31 Down: Courage (5)
- HEART
- 33 Down: Steno's need, sometimes (9)
- SHORTHAND
- 34 Down: Possess (4)
- HAVE
- 35 Down: Door or road preceder (4)
- OPEN
- 36 Down: Editor's notation (4)
- DELE
- 38 Down: Brett stat. (3)
- RBI
- 40 Down: Dress style (5)
- SHIFT
- 43 Down: Shuns (7)
- ESCHEWS
- 45 Down: Support (6)
- CRADLE
- 46 Down: Documented (6)
- PROVEN
- 48 Down: Riches' predecessor (4)
- RAGS
- 49 Down: Bring to mind (5)
- EVOKE
- 50 Down: Evita or Juan (5)
- PERON
- 51 Down: ___ a time (singly) (5)
- ONEAT
- 53 Down: Originate (5)
- ARISE
- 55 Down: Gin flavoring (4)
- SLOE
- 56 Down: Kitchen staple (4)
- OLEO
- 57 Down: Downpour (4)
- RAIN
- 58 Down: Cleo's river (4)
- NILE
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