Tuesday Crossword — October 20, 1987 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 10/20/1987. By Burns.

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Across Answers

1 Across: "60 Minutes" co-host (5)
SAFER
6 Across: Charitable gift (4)
ALMS
10 Across: Style of jazz singing (4)
SCAT
14 Across: Cognizant (5)
AWARE
15 Across: Ancient Persian foe (4)
MEDE
16 Across: Do honors at teatime (4)
POUR
17 Across: Most dignified (10)
COURTLIEST
19 Across: Coney Island's ___ Park (4)
LUNA
20 Across: Literary monogram (3)
RLS
21 Across: Put on the line (4)
RISK
22 Across: Six, for the big hand (6)
THIRTY
24 Across: Respect highly (6)
ESTEEM
26 Across: Choice (6)
SELECT
28 Across: Castle material? (4)
SAND
30 Across: Puts on hold (6)
DEFERS
32 Across: Largest African antelope (5)
ELAND
35 Across: Dormant (5)
INERT
37 Across: Crewman at Henley (3)
OAR
39 Across: Lincoln Center seat (4)
LOGE
40 Across: Reduces, with "down" (5)
SLIMS
41 Across: Pull up stakes (4)
MOVE
42 Across: Glide at St. Moritz (3)
SKI
43 Across: La ___ of Milano (5)
SCALA
44 Across: Held a watch on (5)
TIMED
45 Across: Not wholly (6)
INPART
47 Across: Predicament (4)
SPOT
49 Across: Follows slavishly (6)
COPIES
51 Across: "___, one vote" (6)
ONEMAN
55 Across: Self-absorption (6)
EGOISM
57 Across: Feels poorly (4)
AILS
59 Across: Part of a royal flush (3)
ACE
60 Across: Pontifical name (4)
PIUS
61 Across: Woo (10)
PAYCOURTTO
64 Across: Concerning (4)
INRE
65 Across: Otherwise (4)
ELSE
66 Across: Miguel ___ (Mickey Mouse) (5)
RATON
67 Across: Musical from a T. S. Eliot book (4)
CATS
68 Across: New Look creator (4)
DIOR
69 Across: Wide-spouted pitchers (5)
EWERS

Down Answers

1 Down: "Le ___ du printemps": Stravinsky (5)
SACRE
2 Down: French-leave group (5)
AWOLS
3 Down: Victim of Mephistopheles (5)
FAUST
4 Down: Fall from grace (3)
ERR
5 Down: Tire with new life (7)
RETREAD
6 Down: "Lucky Jim" author (4)
AMIS
7 Down: Scallions' kin (5)
LEEKS
8 Down: A.M.A. members (3)
MDS
9 Down: Pioneers (8)
SETTLERS
10 Down: Edit film (6)
SPLICE
11 Down: Milieu for Darrow (9)
COURTROOM
12 Down: Polly, to Tom Sawyer (4)
AUNT
13 Down: Cafeteria utensil (4)
TRAY
18 Down: Describe (4)
LIMN
23 Down: Weigh by lifting (4)
HEFT
25 Down: Anglo-Saxon slave (4)
ESNE
27 Down: Swellings (6)
EDEMAS
29 Down: Widen (6)
DILATE
31 Down: Except (4)
SAVE
32 Down: Overhead rail lines (3)
ELS
33 Down: Norse god of mischief (4)
LOKI
34 Down: Henry V won here: Oct. 1415 (9)
AGINCOURT
36 Down: Nothing (3)
NIL
38 Down: Roulette bet (3)
RED
40 Down: Cut corners (8)
SCRIMPED
41 Down: Tiny arachnid (4)
MITE
43 Down: Weakens (4)
SAPS
44 Down: Shaving of a monk's head (7)
TONSURE
46 Down: Balances (6)
POISES
48 Down: Style of shirt (4)
POLO
50 Down: Authority (5)
SAYSO
52 Down: Not glossy (5)
MATTE
53 Down: Greene or Sheen (5)
ACTOR
54 Down: Signs of our times (5)
NEONS
55 Down: Long poem (4)
EPIC
56 Down: Lollobrigida (4)
GINA
58 Down: Jack Frost? (4)
ICER
62 Down: ___ Baba (3)
ALI
63 Down: Cold and damp (3)
RAW

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