Tuesday Crossword — May 17, 1988 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 5/17/1988. By Frances Hansen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Broadway bomb (4)
- FLOP
- 5 Across: Tropical lizard (5)
- AGAMA
- 10 Across: Tennis ace Wilander (4)
- MATS
- 14 Across: Father of Hel (4)
- LOKI
- 15 Across: Fabius's 557 (5)
- DLVII
- 16 Across: Quiz (4)
- EXAM
- 17 Across: 43,560 square feet (4)
- ACRE
- 18 Across: Low dive (5)
- JOINT
- 19 Across: Blackthorn (4)
- SLOE
- 20 Across: With 22 and 58 Across, bakery-window sign (9)
- WHATFOODS
- 22 Across: See 20 Across (5)
- THESE
- 23 Across: Cuckoopint (4)
- ARUM
- 24 Across: Memorable Chiang ___-shek (3)
- KAI
- 26 Across: Knucklehead (3)
- SAP
- 29 Across: William Tell's canton (3)
- URI
- 30 Across: Typewriter bar (6)
- SPACER
- 35 Across: Honey-pecan confections (8)
- PRALINES
- 38 Across: Eritrea's capital (6)
- ASMARA
- 39 Across: Boot tie (5)
- LACET
- 40 Across: Eve-making material (3)
- RIB
- 42 Across: Tall tales (5)
- YARNS
- 43 Across: Carol starter (6)
- ADESTE
- 45 Across: Relative of a cobbler (8)
- PEACHPIE
- 47 Across: Xanthippe, e.g. (6)
- TARTAR
- 48 Across: "I ___ great eater . . . ": Shak. (3)
- AMA
- 49 Across: But, to Brutus (3)
- SED
- 50 Across: Genetic inits. (3)
- RNA
- 52 Across: Appropriate (4)
- TAKE
- 54 Across: Own up (5)
- ADMIT
- 58 Across: See 20 Across (9)
- MORSELSBE
- 63 Across: Expensive (4)
- DEAR
- 64 Across: Hemingway's "movable feast" (5)
- PARIS
- 65 Across: Religious image (4)
- ICON
- 66 Across: Zilch (4)
- ZERO
- 67 Across: In reserve (5)
- ONICE
- 68 Across: Japanese sandal (4)
- ZORI
- 69 Across: Fall setting (4)
- EDEN
- 70 Across: Like glass houses (5)
- PANED
- 71 Across: Rapt in reverence (4)
- AWED
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Glitch (4)
- FLAW
- 2 Down: Lomond, for one (4)
- LOCH
- 3 Down: Gumbo ingredient (4)
- OKRA
- 4 Down: Michelangelo masterpiece (5)
- PIETA
- 5 Down: Suspend a meeting until later (7)
- ADJOURN
- 6 Down: More despondent (8)
- GLOOMIER
- 7 Down: Eager (4)
- AVID
- 8 Down: Byelorussian hub (5)
- MINSK
- 9 Down: River isle (3)
- AIT
- 10 Down: Network (4)
- MESH
- 11 Down: Car bar (4)
- AXLE
- 12 Down: Western art colony (4)
- TAOS
- 13 Down: Captain Hook's henchman (4)
- SMEE
- 21 Down: Knave of Hearts's preference? (9)
- FRUITTART
- 22 Down: Englishman's wine-soaked dessert (9)
- TIPSYCAKE
- 25 Down: High ___ kite (3)
- ASA
- 26 Down: Chair-back piece (5)
- SPLAT
- 27 Down: Pedro's plowed land (5)
- ARADA
- 28 Down: Harness-race horse (5)
- PACER
- 31 Down: Nanking nanny (4)
- AMAH
- 32 Down: Cavils (5)
- CARPS
- 33 Down: Kovacs or Ford (5)
- ERNIE
- 34 Down: Brought down the house, in Kew (5)
- RASED
- 36 Down: "___ we forget": Kipling (4)
- LEST
- 37 Down: Wee drink (3)
- SIP
- 41 Down: Dante's love (8)
- BEATRICE
- 44 Down: Deserving bird? (3)
- ERN
- 46 Down: Piled up (7)
- AMASSED
- 51 Down: Iowan church society (5)
- AMANA
- 53 Down: Miss Doolittle (5)
- ELIZA
- 54 Down: Carpenter's tool (4)
- ADZE
- 55 Down: Exploit (4)
- DEED
- 56 Down: Grown-up filly (4)
- MARE
- 57 Down: Keep a pressing engagement (4)
- IRON
- 59 Down: "Mourning Becomes Electra" man (4)
- ORIN
- 60 Down: Clumsy boat (4)
- SCOW
- 61 Down: Drill (4)
- BORE
- 62 Down: Writer Bagnold (4)
- ENID
- 64 Down: How the weasel goes (3)
- POP
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