Friday Crossword — May 13, 1988 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 5/13/1988. By Daniel Girardi.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Former Asian kingdom (4)
- ANAM
- 5 Across: Fictional castle (5)
- ZENDA
- 10 Across: Sorb (4)
- WEND
- 14 Across: Vein (4)
- LODE
- 15 Across: French spa (5)
- EVIAN
- 16 Across: Lorain's lake (4)
- ERIE
- 17 Across: Tale by 54 Across (15)
- FOURBEASTSINONE
- 20 Across: Pico de ___, Spanish mountain (5)
- ANETO
- 21 Across: Mournful cry (4)
- HOWL
- 22 Across: Weaken (3)
- SAP
- 23 Across: Bone: Comb. form (4)
- OSSI
- 26 Across: An, in Ansbach (3)
- EIN
- 28 Across: Poem by 54 Across (15)
- TOONEINPARADISE
- 36 Across: Impediment (3)
- RUB
- 37 Across: Rags preceder (4)
- GLAD
- 38 Across: Was solicitous (5)
- CARED
- 39 Across: Monad (4)
- ATOM
- 41 Across: Williamson from Scotland (5)
- NICOL
- 43 Across: Dutch liquid measures (4)
- KANS
- 44 Across: Lyrical (5)
- MELIC
- 46 Across: Saarinen (4)
- EERO
- 47 Across: N.Y.C.-Boston dir. (3)
- NNE
- 48 Across: Tale by 54 Across, with "The" (15)
- PREMATUREBURIAL
- 52 Across: Manhattan chiller (3)
- ICE
- 53 Across: Bristle (4)
- SETA
- 54 Across: Creator of 17, 28, 48 and 64 Across (3)
- POE
- 57 Across: Cpl.'s superior (4)
- TSGT
- 60 Across: Sheik's land in an old song (5)
- ARABY
- 64 Across: Poem by 54 Across (15)
- THECITYINTHESEA
- 68 Across: Bothers (4)
- AILS
- 69 Across: Franciscan, e.g. (5)
- ORDER
- 70 Across: Ananias (4)
- LIAR
- 71 Across: A Cy Young Award winner: 1983 (4)
- HOYT
- 72 Across: Indigent (5)
- NEEDY
- 73 Across: Where Albie Booth once starred (4)
- YALE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Code word for "A" (4)
- ALFA
- 2 Down: High time for Cooper (4)
- NOON
- 3 Down: Direction from Mehta (4)
- ADUE
- 4 Down: Skelton role (6)
- MERTON
- 5 Down: Zuider follower (3)
- ZEE
- 6 Down: "Die Meistersinger" heroine (3)
- EVA
- 7 Down: Birthplace of Constantine I (4)
- NISH
- 8 Down: Moro chief (4)
- DATO
- 9 Down: "The ___ Man," old radio show (6)
- ANSWER
- 10 Down: Cyst (3)
- WEN
- 11 Down: Statue in Piccadilly (4)
- EROS
- 12 Down: Skeezix's wife (4)
- NINA
- 13 Down: Esoteric (4)
- DEEP
- 18 Down: A Gandhi contemporary (4)
- BOSE
- 19 Down: Of the innominate bone (5)
- ILIAC
- 24 Down: Catcher-pitcher ploy (4)
- SIGN
- 25 Down: ___ of (rather than) (6)
- INLIEU
- 27 Down: Mont. neighbor (4)
- NDAK
- 28 Down: Disney dog (5)
- TRAMP
- 29 Down: External (5)
- OUTER
- 30 Down: Medieval French coin (5)
- OBOLE
- 31 Down: Roosevelt entry (5)
- PACER
- 32 Down: Anagram for soared (6)
- ADORES
- 33 Down: Nishapur natives (5)
- IRANI
- 34 Down: Drug-yielding plant (5)
- SENNA
- 35 Down: Ford's folly (5)
- EDSEL
- 40 Down: Musetta's amie (4)
- MIMI
- 42 Down: Leaf projection (4)
- LOBE
- 45 Down: Saguaros, e.g. (5)
- CACTI
- 49 Down: King Henry VII's 12 pence (6)
- TESTON
- 50 Down: Oquirrh Mountains site (4)
- UTAH
- 51 Down: Very seldom (6)
- RARELY
- 54 Down: Egyptian deity (4)
- PTAH
- 55 Down: McKinley's home state (4)
- OHIO
- 56 Down: Slippery (4)
- EELY
- 58 Down: Ring (4)
- GYRE
- 59 Down: Helmsman's concern (4)
- TIDE
- 61 Down: Largest of seven (4)
- ASIA
- 62 Down: A biographer of John Foster Dulles (4)
- BEAL
- 63 Down: Easily handled, as a ship (4)
- YARE
- 65 Down: Chicago time inits. (3)
- CST
- 66 Down: Beatty or Rorem (3)
- NED
- 67 Down: Adjudicate (3)
- TRY
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