Friday Crossword — May 13, 1988

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1578 clues~30-60 minBy Daniel Girardi5/13/1988

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Former Asian kingdom (4 letters)
5 Across
Fictional castle (5 letters)
10 Across
Sorb (4 letters)
14 Across
Vein (4 letters)
15 Across
French spa (5 letters)
16 Across
Lorain's lake (4 letters)
17 Across
Tale by 54 Across (15 letters)
20 Across
Pico de ___, Spanish mountain (5 letters)
21 Across
Mournful cry (4 letters)
22 Across
Weaken (3 letters)
23 Across
Bone: Comb. form (4 letters)
26 Across
An, in Ansbach (3 letters)
28 Across
Poem by 54 Across (15 letters)
36 Across
Impediment (3 letters)
37 Across
Rags preceder (4 letters)
38 Across
Was solicitous (5 letters)
39 Across
Monad (4 letters)
41 Across
Williamson from Scotland (5 letters)
43 Across
Dutch liquid measures (4 letters)
44 Across
Lyrical (5 letters)
46 Across
Saarinen (4 letters)
47 Across
N.Y.C.-Boston dir. (3 letters)
48 Across
Tale by 54 Across, with "The" (15 letters)
52 Across
Manhattan chiller (3 letters)
53 Across
Bristle (4 letters)
54 Across
Creator of 17, 28, 48 and 64 Across (3 letters)
57 Across
Cpl.'s superior (4 letters)
60 Across
Sheik's land in an old song (5 letters)
64 Across
Poem by 54 Across (15 letters)
68 Across
Bothers (4 letters)
69 Across
Franciscan, e.g. (5 letters)
70 Across
Ananias (4 letters)
71 Across
A Cy Young Award winner: 1983 (4 letters)
72 Across
Indigent (5 letters)
73 Across
Where Albie Booth once starred (4 letters)

Down

1 Down
Code word for "A" (4 letters)
2 Down
High time for Cooper (4 letters)
3 Down
Direction from Mehta (4 letters)
4 Down
Skelton role (6 letters)
5 Down
Zuider follower (3 letters)
6 Down
"Die Meistersinger" heroine (3 letters)
7 Down
Birthplace of Constantine I (4 letters)
8 Down
Moro chief (4 letters)
9 Down
"The ___ Man," old radio show (6 letters)
10 Down
Cyst (3 letters)
11 Down
Statue in Piccadilly (4 letters)
12 Down
Skeezix's wife (4 letters)
13 Down
Esoteric (4 letters)
18 Down
A Gandhi contemporary (4 letters)
19 Down
Of the innominate bone (5 letters)
24 Down
Catcher-pitcher ploy (4 letters)
25 Down
___ of (rather than) (6 letters)
27 Down
Mont. neighbor (4 letters)
28 Down
Disney dog (5 letters)
29 Down
External (5 letters)
30 Down
Medieval French coin (5 letters)
31 Down
Roosevelt entry (5 letters)
32 Down
Anagram for soared (6 letters)
33 Down
Nishapur natives (5 letters)
34 Down
Drug-yielding plant (5 letters)
35 Down
Ford's folly (5 letters)
40 Down
Musetta's amie (4 letters)
42 Down
Leaf projection (4 letters)
45 Down
Saguaros, e.g. (5 letters)
49 Down
King Henry VII's 12 pence (6 letters)
50 Down
Oquirrh Mountains site (4 letters)
51 Down
Very seldom (6 letters)
54 Down
Egyptian deity (4 letters)
55 Down
McKinley's home state (4 letters)
56 Down
Slippery (4 letters)
58 Down
Ring (4 letters)
59 Down
Helmsman's concern (4 letters)
61 Down
Largest of seven (4 letters)
62 Down
A biographer of John Foster Dulles (4 letters)
63 Down
Easily handled, as a ship (4 letters)
65 Down
Chicago time inits. (3 letters)
66 Down
Beatty or Rorem (3 letters)
67 Down
Adjudicate (3 letters)

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