Friday Crossword — September 30, 1988 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 9/30/1988. By Jeanne Wilson.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Quick study? (4)
- CRAM
- 5 Across: Minotaur's place (4)
- MAZE
- 9 Across: N.M. art colony (4)
- TAOS
- 13 Across: Oared (5)
- ROWED
- 15 Across: Windmill sails (4)
- AWES
- 16 Across: Chassis part (4)
- AXLE
- 17 Across: "Mother ___," Kipling poem (5)
- OMINE
- 18 Across: Chaney and pitcher Warnecke (4)
- LONS
- 19 Across: Lecher's look (4)
- LEER
- 20 Across: Humpty's big finish? (8)
- WALLFALL
- 22 Across: "The ___ King" (Schubert art song) (3)
- ERL
- 24 Across: Of Karnak's river (7)
- NILOTIC
- 25 Across: Well-plumed heron (5)
- EGRET
- 29 Across: Baseball's Slaughter (4)
- ENOS
- 30 Across: Unrefined (3)
- RAW
- 32 Across: Prejudiced (6)
- BIASED
- 33 Across: Morning moisture (3)
- DEW
- 34 Across: Code word for "A" (4)
- ABLE
- 35 Across: Removes by dissolving (6)
- ELUTES
- 36 Across: Barn dance? (9)
- STALLBALL
- 38 Across: Mideast money (6)
- DINARS
- 41 Across: Chip-on-the-shoulder word (4)
- DEFY
- 42 Across: A hormone, for short (3)
- MSH
- 45 Across: Edith's spouse (6)
- ARCHIE
- 46 Across: Shortened road sign (3)
- SLO
- 47 Across: Facts (4)
- DATA
- 48 Across: Lucre (5)
- MOOLA
- 49 Across: Airline "second banana" (7)
- COPILOT
- 51 Across: Nanty-___, Pa. borough (3)
- GLO
- 53 Across: Southern R.S.V.P.? (8)
- YALLCALL
- 54 Across: "Un bel dì" is one (4)
- ARIA
- 57 Across: Holier-___-thou (4)
- THAN
- 59 Across: Practical (5)
- UTILE
- 60 Across: Croissant (4)
- ROLL
- 61 Across: Moss or Gary (4)
- HART
- 62 Across: Nine daughters of Zeus (5)
- MUSES
- 63 Across: Part of a univ. (4)
- COLL
- 64 Across: Spread on bread (4)
- OLEO
- 65 Across: "___ sana in corpore sano" (4)
- MENS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Topped, in a way (7)
- CROWNED
- 2 Down: Lettuce variety (7)
- ROMAINE
- 3 Down: "Stood Dido with ___ in her hand": Shak. (7)
- AWILLOW
- 4 Down: Parks in Calif. and N.J. (6)
- MENLOS
- 5 Down: Paging at an emporium? (8)
- MALLCALL
- 6 Down: Over the hill, G.I. style (4)
- AWOL
- 7 Down: Buddhism branch (3)
- ZEN
- 8 Down: Being, in philosophy (4)
- ESSE
- 9 Down: De Gaulle description? (8)
- TALLGAUL
- 10 Down: Tree feller (3)
- AXE
- 11 Down: Fronton shout (3)
- OLE
- 12 Down: To be, in Barcelona (3)
- SER
- 14 Down: Dexterous (4)
- DEFT
- 21 Down: U.S.A.F. operations center (7)
- AIRBASE
- 23 Down: Comedic actor from N.Y.C. (6)
- REILLY
- 26 Down: Q–U connection (3)
- RST
- 27 Down: Big Foot's width? (3)
- EEE
- 28 Down: Grid scores (3)
- TDS
- 31 Down: Fuses (5)
- WELDS
- 32 Down: "It is better to ___ than . . . ": Stevenson (7)
- BEAFOOL
- 34 Down: Of Roman rooms (6)
- ATRIAL
- 36 Down: Mort's biting humor? (8)
- SAHLGALL
- 37 Down: Singing discipline (8)
- BELCANTO
- 38 Down: Beaver's business (3)
- DAM
- 39 Down: Displaced persons' gp. (3)
- IRO
- 40 Down: Sgt. or cpl. (3)
- NCO
- 42 Down: Discomfort (7)
- MALAISE
- 43 Down: German bakery item (7)
- STOLLEN
- 44 Down: Like J.F.K. at his inauguration (7)
- HATLESS
- 47 Down: Obiter ___ (6)
- DICTUM
- 50 Down: Unwrinkled prune (4)
- PLUM
- 52 Down: Galba's successor (4)
- OTHO
- 53 Down: River on The Broads (4)
- YARE
- 54 Down: Jumping spark (3)
- ARC
- 55 Down: Aussie animal (3)
- ROO
- 56 Down: Suffering from 42 Down (3)
- ILL
- 58 Down: Actor Linden (3)
- HAL
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