Thursday Crossword — April 21, 1988 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 4/21/1988. By Rhonda Kraus.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Starry (6)
- ASTRAL
- 7 Across: N.H. city (6)
- NASHUA
- 13 Across: Qualm (7)
- SCRUPLE
- 15 Across: Skeptically (7)
- ASKANCE
- 17 Across: Place for a cradle? (7)
- TREETOP
- 18 Across: Small pianos (7)
- SPINETS
- 19 Across: "For ___ a jolly . . . " (3)
- HES
- 20 Across: Ayes (6)
- YESSES
- 22 Across: River isle (3)
- AIT
- 23 Across: Encountered (3)
- MET
- 24 Across: English pope (6)
- ADRIAN
- 25 Across: "Rule, Britannia" composer (4)
- ARNE
- 26 Across: Loser to Dwight (5)
- ADLAI
- 28 Across: An antelope (3)
- GNU
- 29 Across: Link again (5)
- RETIE
- 30 Across: Churchly discourses (7)
- SERMONS
- 32 Across: Dancer Katherine (6)
- DUNHAM
- 33 Across: Muck's companion (4)
- MIRE
- 34 Across: Arrived (4)
- CAME
- 35 Across: Sign of age (6)
- PATINA
- 38 Across: Sand rats' kin (7)
- GERBILS
- 41 Across: "It's ___ way to Tipperary . . . " (5)
- ALONG
- 42 Across: Come out ahead (3)
- WIN
- 43 Across: Entrances to mines (5)
- ADITS
- 45 Across: Hit hard (4)
- SLUG
- 46 Across: Sips (6)
- TASTES
- 48 Across: Jell (3)
- SET
- 49 Across: Sound of impatience (3)
- TUT
- 50 Across: Heggen's "___ Roberts" (6)
- MISTER
- 51 Across: Notice (3)
- SEE
- 52 Across: Obvious (7)
- EVIDENT
- 54 Across: Meat-filled pastry (7)
- RISSOLE
- 57 Across: Pedigree (7)
- LINEAGE
- 58 Across: Plotted (7)
- SCHEMED
- 59 Across: Type sizes (6)
- AGATES
- 60 Across: Lumberjacks (6)
- HEWERS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Wheezing condition (6)
- ASTHMA
- 2 Down: Diatribes (7)
- SCREEDS
- 3 Down: Carpenter's horse (7)
- TRESTLE
- 4 Down: Actress McClanahan (3)
- RUE
- 5 Down: Likely (3)
- APT
- 6 Down: Silent screen's Harold (5)
- LLOYD
- 7 Down: Bahamian capital (6)
- NASSAU
- 8 Down: Colo. resort (5)
- ASPEN
- 9 Down: Gear for 8 Down (4)
- SKIS
- 10 Down: Chinese dynasty (3)
- HAN
- 11 Down: Dig up (7)
- UNEARTH
- 12 Down: Sea anemone (7)
- ACTINIA
- 14 Down: Table centerpiece (7)
- EPERGNE
- 16 Down: Value (6)
- ESTEEM
- 21 Down: Transgressions (4)
- SINS
- 24 Down: Toxophilite's action (6)
- AIMING
- 25 Down: Virgil's epic (6)
- AENEID
- 27 Down: Pre-joust activity (6)
- ARMING
- 29 Down: Latin dances (6)
- RUMBAS
- 31 Down: "___ pro nobis" (3)
- ORA
- 32 Down: Book by Nabokov (3)
- DAR
- 34 Down: Hubs (7)
- CENTERS
- 35 Down: Short, light prose work (6)
- PASTEL
- 36 Down: Sediment (7)
- ALLUVIA
- 37 Down: Tipster's activity (7)
- TOUTING
- 38 Down: Essence (4)
- GIST
- 39 Down: Lithe (7)
- LISSOME
- 40 Down: Pittsburgh footballer (7)
- STEELER
- 42 Down: Squanders (6)
- WASTES
- 44 Down: Mounts for knights (6)
- STEEDS
- 46 Down: Faint hue (5)
- TINGE
- 47 Down: Film's Von Stroheim (5)
- ERICH
- 50 Down: Headcheese, e.g. (4)
- MEAT
- 53 Down: Minerva, for one (3)
- DEA
- 55 Down: Pronoun for a calico cat (3)
- SHE
- 56 Down: Stitch (3)
- SEW
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