Tuesday Crossword — April 12, 1988 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 4/12/1988. By Kenneth Witte.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: ___ and chain (4)
- BALL
- 5 Across: Inchoative verb suffix (4)
- ESCE
- 9 Across: Petty quarrel (4)
- SPAT
- 13 Across: Antoinette or Osmond (5)
- MARIE
- 14 Across: Approach (4)
- NEAR
- 15 Across: Ashen (4)
- PALE
- 16 Across: Confused (5)
- ATSEA
- 17 Across: Colombian city (4)
- CALI
- 18 Across: A social sci. (4)
- ECON
- 19 Across: Act impetuously, N.R.A. style? (15)
- GOOFFHALFCOCKED
- 22 Across: Public house (3)
- INN
- 23 Across: John Madden exclamation (3)
- BAM
- 24 Across: O.S.S. successor (3)
- CIA
- 25 Across: Acted impetuously, N.R.A. style? (12)
- JUMPEDTHEGUN
- 31 Across: Walked nervously (5)
- PACED
- 34 Across: Leguminous plants (4)
- PEAS
- 35 Across: Wrath (3)
- IRE
- 36 Across: Stately steed (4)
- ARAB
- 37 Across: Plant louse (5)
- APHID
- 39 Across: Heavenly spirit, in Lille (4)
- ANGE
- 40 Across: Rotary device (3)
- CAM
- 41 Across: Notion (4)
- IDEA
- 42 Across: Tony Randall TV role (5)
- UNGER
- 43 Across: Impetuous, N.R.A. style? (12)
- TRIGGERHAPPY
- 47 Across: Comprehend (3)
- SEE
- 48 Across: ___ Alamos (3)
- LOS
- 49 Across: Health resort (3)
- SPA
- 52 Across: Act impetuously, N.R.A. style? (15)
- SHOOTFROMTHEHIP
- 58 Across: Sow one's ___ oats (4)
- WILD
- 59 Across: V.I.P.'s vehicle (4)
- LIMO
- 60 Across: Fanon (5)
- ORALE
- 61 Across: Not aweather (4)
- ALEE
- 62 Across: "Woe is me!" (4)
- ALAS
- 63 Across: Used a stopwatch (5)
- TIMED
- 64 Across: Foreman (4)
- BOSS
- 65 Across: Vivacious (4)
- PERT
- 66 Across: Go to ___ (deteriorate) (4)
- SEED
Down Answers
- 1 Down: ___ Rouge, La. (5)
- BATON
- 2 Down: Pyromaniac's crime (5)
- ARSON
- 3 Down: Gladly (4)
- LIEF
- 4 Down: Foliage beginning (7)
- LEAFBUD
- 5 Down: Bivouac (6)
- ENCAMP
- 6 Down: Authenticate (4)
- SEAL
- 7 Down: Young elephant (4)
- CALF
- 8 Down: Greenland discoverer (4)
- ERIC
- 9 Down: Coin (6)
- SPECIE
- 10 Down: Shipping-room activity (9)
- PACKAGING
- 11 Down: Spiny plant (4)
- ALOE
- 12 Down: Look after (4)
- TEND
- 13 Down: Visitors to infant Jesus (4)
- MAGI
- 20 Down: Noah's second son (3)
- HAM
- 21 Down: Newspaperman Adolph (4)
- OCHS
- 25 Down: Confederate general Stuart (3)
- JEB
- 26 Down: Hebrew unit of dry measure (5)
- EPHAH
- 27 Down: ___ gratia (by the grace of God) (3)
- DEI
- 28 Down: Minor minor (3)
- TAD
- 29 Down: Exhort (4)
- URGE
- 30 Down: ___-do-well (4)
- NEER
- 31 Down: Treaty (4)
- PACT
- 32 Down: Moroccan tree (4)
- ARAR
- 33 Down: Ladies' underwaists (9)
- CAMISOLES
- 37 Down: Indiana wit (3)
- ADE
- 38 Down: Through (3)
- PER
- 39 Down: Some (3)
- ANY
- 41 Down: "___ a Kick Out of You" (4)
- IGET
- 42 Down: Results (7)
- UPSHOTS
- 44 Down: Crystalline stones (6)
- GEODES
- 45 Down: Nearly (6)
- ALMOST
- 46 Down: Poker prize (3)
- POT
- 49 Down: Put to ___ (outdo) (5)
- SHAME
- 50 Down: Like some carpets (5)
- PILED
- 51 Down: Mimicked (4)
- APED
- 52 Down: Mop the deck (4)
- SWAB
- 53 Down: Hawaiian seaport (4)
- HILO
- 54 Down: Tab (4)
- FLAP
- 55 Down: Anger (4)
- RILE
- 56 Down: Poet Khayyám (4)
- OMAR
- 57 Down: Shallowest of the Great Lakes (4)
- ERIE
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