Wednesday Crossword — April 6, 1988 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 4/6/1988. By Emory H. Cain.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Winding device (5)
- SPOOL
- 6 Across: Stuff (4)
- CRAM
- 10 Across: Height: Comb. form (4)
- ACRO
- 14 Across: Reduce by 50% (5)
- HALVE
- 15 Across: Kind of brain or duck (4)
- LAME
- 16 Across: Cough or lemon follower (4)
- DROP
- 17 Across: Famed Vermonter (5)
- ALLEN
- 18 Across: "What ___ for Love," 1975 song (4)
- IDID
- 19 Across: January marcher (4)
- DIME
- 20 Across: Core (5)
- HEART
- 21 Across: Intermediary (9)
- MIDDLEMAN
- 23 Across: Ky. city or college (5)
- BEREA
- 25 Across: Thick, woolen cloths (6)
- LODENS
- 26 Across: Minn. river port (6)
- WINONA
- 29 Across: Pipe joints (4)
- TEES
- 31 Across: Dwarf buffalo (4)
- ANOA
- 32 Across: Celt (4)
- GAEL
- 34 Across: Pianist Blake (5)
- EUBIE
- 39 Across: Invaded a bastion (7)
- STORMED
- 41 Across: Statesman financier Baruch (7)
- BERNARD
- 43 Across: Honshu's other name (5)
- HONDO
- 44 Across: Fervor (4)
- ZEAL
- 46 Across: Bonn three (4)
- DREI
- 47 Across: Numerical suffix (4)
- TEEN
- 49 Across: Ore of zinc sulfide (6)
- BLENDE
- 51 Across: Draw a ___ (aim at) (6)
- BEADON
- 55 Across: Arab ruler (5)
- AMEER
- 57 Across: Aorta? (9)
- INNERTUBE
- 59 Across: Cut of beef (5)
- SHANK
- 63 Across: Arrest (4)
- STEM
- 64 Across: Presque ___, city in Me. (4)
- ISLE
- 65 Across: Setting for "Rain" (5)
- SAMOA
- 66 Across: "___ take arms . . . ": Shak. (4)
- ORTO
- 67 Across: Ruff females (4)
- REES
- 68 Across: Growing out (5)
- ENATE
- 69 Across: Rialto light (4)
- NEON
- 70 Across: Old language (4)
- ERSE
- 71 Across: One of the Fords (5)
- EDSEL
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Deposed Irani (4)
- SHAH
- 2 Down: Fence picket (4)
- PALE
- 3 Down: Spicy stew (4)
- OLLA
- 4 Down: Go ___ (take extreme action) (9)
- OVERBOARD
- 5 Down: Meager (6)
- LENTEN
- 6 Down: Region, to Keats (5)
- CLIME
- 7 Down: Project joy (7)
- RADIATE
- 8 Down: Surrounded by (4)
- AMID
- 9 Down: Tamper (6)
- MEDDLE
- 10 Down: Supplementary (5)
- ADDED
- 11 Down: Larceny, e.g. (5)
- CRIME
- 12 Down: Kind of candle (5)
- ROMAN
- 13 Down: Emulates Pandora (5)
- OPENS
- 22 Down: Bested one (5)
- LOSER
- 24 Down: Fad (4)
- RAGE
- 26 Down: Cleanse (4)
- WASH
- 27 Down: Division word (4)
- INTO
- 28 Down: Palindromic time (4)
- NOON
- 30 Down: Island off Italy (4)
- ELBA
- 33 Down: Roofing tool (4)
- ADZE
- 35 Down: Sneaky (9)
- UNDERHAND
- 36 Down: Silo neighbor (4)
- BARN
- 37 Down: Angered (4)
- IRED
- 38 Down: An Adams (4)
- EDIE
- 40 Down: Kind of home or lodge (5)
- MOTOR
- 42 Down: North Sea feeder (4)
- ELBE
- 45 Down: Gives power to (7)
- ENABLES
- 48 Down: Whole (6)
- ENTIRE
- 50 Down: Renter (6)
- LESSEE
- 51 Down: Scarce mammal (5)
- BISON
- 52 Down: ___ nous (5)
- ENTRE
- 53 Down: Highest of the Pyrenees (5)
- ANETO
- 54 Down: Incubus, for one (5)
- DEMON
- 56 Down: Reagan Attorney General (5)
- MEESE
- 58 Down: Manipulator (4)
- USER
- 60 Down: Latin-lesson word (4)
- AMAS
- 61 Down: Memo (4)
- NOTE
- 62 Down: Pauline ___, movie critic (4)
- KAEL
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