Tuesday Crossword — May 17, 1988
Difficulty: EasyGrid: 15x1578 clues~5-15 minBy Frances Hansen5/17/1988
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Crossword Clues
Across
- 1 Across
- Broadway bomb (4 letters)
- 5 Across
- Tropical lizard (5 letters)
- 10 Across
- Tennis ace Wilander (4 letters)
- 14 Across
- Father of Hel (4 letters)
- 15 Across
- Fabius's 557 (5 letters)
- 16 Across
- Quiz (4 letters)
- 17 Across
- 43,560 square feet (4 letters)
- 18 Across
- Low dive (5 letters)
- 19 Across
- Blackthorn (4 letters)
- 20 Across
- With 22 and 58 Across, bakery-window sign (9 letters)
- 22 Across
- See 20 Across (5 letters)
- 23 Across
- Cuckoopint (4 letters)
- 24 Across
- Memorable Chiang ___-shek (3 letters)
- 26 Across
- Knucklehead (3 letters)
- 29 Across
- William Tell's canton (3 letters)
- 30 Across
- Typewriter bar (6 letters)
- 35 Across
- Honey-pecan confections (8 letters)
- 38 Across
- Eritrea's capital (6 letters)
- 39 Across
- Boot tie (5 letters)
- 40 Across
- Eve-making material (3 letters)
- 42 Across
- Tall tales (5 letters)
- 43 Across
- Carol starter (6 letters)
- 45 Across
- Relative of a cobbler (8 letters)
- 47 Across
- Xanthippe, e.g. (6 letters)
- 48 Across
- "I ___ great eater . . . ": Shak. (3 letters)
- 49 Across
- But, to Brutus (3 letters)
- 50 Across
- Genetic inits. (3 letters)
- 52 Across
- Appropriate (4 letters)
- 54 Across
- Own up (5 letters)
- 58 Across
- See 20 Across (9 letters)
- 63 Across
- Expensive (4 letters)
- 64 Across
- Hemingway's "movable feast" (5 letters)
- 65 Across
- Religious image (4 letters)
- 66 Across
- Zilch (4 letters)
- 67 Across
- In reserve (5 letters)
- 68 Across
- Japanese sandal (4 letters)
- 69 Across
- Fall setting (4 letters)
- 70 Across
- Like glass houses (5 letters)
- 71 Across
- Rapt in reverence (4 letters)
Down
- 1 Down
- Glitch (4 letters)
- 2 Down
- Lomond, for one (4 letters)
- 3 Down
- Gumbo ingredient (4 letters)
- 4 Down
- Michelangelo masterpiece (5 letters)
- 5 Down
- Suspend a meeting until later (7 letters)
- 6 Down
- More despondent (8 letters)
- 7 Down
- Eager (4 letters)
- 8 Down
- Byelorussian hub (5 letters)
- 9 Down
- River isle (3 letters)
- 10 Down
- Network (4 letters)
- 11 Down
- Car bar (4 letters)
- 12 Down
- Western art colony (4 letters)
- 13 Down
- Captain Hook's henchman (4 letters)
- 21 Down
- Knave of Hearts's preference? (9 letters)
- 22 Down
- Englishman's wine-soaked dessert (9 letters)
- 25 Down
- High ___ kite (3 letters)
- 26 Down
- Chair-back piece (5 letters)
- 27 Down
- Pedro's plowed land (5 letters)
- 28 Down
- Harness-race horse (5 letters)
- 31 Down
- Nanking nanny (4 letters)
- 32 Down
- Cavils (5 letters)
- 33 Down
- Kovacs or Ford (5 letters)
- 34 Down
- Brought down the house, in Kew (5 letters)
- 36 Down
- "___ we forget": Kipling (4 letters)
- 37 Down
- Wee drink (3 letters)
- 41 Down
- Dante's love (8 letters)
- 44 Down
- Deserving bird? (3 letters)
- 46 Down
- Piled up (7 letters)
- 51 Down
- Iowan church society (5 letters)
- 53 Down
- Miss Doolittle (5 letters)
- 54 Down
- Carpenter's tool (4 letters)
- 55 Down
- Exploit (4 letters)
- 56 Down
- Grown-up filly (4 letters)
- 57 Down
- Keep a pressing engagement (4 letters)
- 59 Down
- "Mourning Becomes Electra" man (4 letters)
- 60 Down
- Clumsy boat (4 letters)
- 61 Down
- Drill (4 letters)
- 62 Down
- Writer Bagnold (4 letters)
- 64 Down
- How the weasel goes (3 letters)
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