Saturday Crossword — October 15, 1988

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1578 clues~30-60 minBy Walter Covell10/15/1988

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Made the wild mild (5 letters)
6 Across
Like a Simon couple (3 letters)
9 Across
Place for a chip (3 letters)
12 Across
Mahre specialties (7 letters)
15 Across
Aberdeen's river (3 letters)
16 Across
Cardinal number (3 letters)
17 Across
Delivery by parachute (7 letters)
18 Across
Alan Paton, e.g. (7 letters)
20 Across
Mil. unit (3 letters)
21 Across
Irritated state (4 letters)
23 Across
Image: Comb. form (3 letters)
24 Across
Popular song since 1908 (15 letters)
30 Across
Literary monogram (3 letters)
31 Across
High-schooler, usually (4 letters)
32 Across
Plains Indian (4 letters)
33 Across
The ___ (rock group) (3 letters)
35 Across
Lunar halo's bright spot (4 letters)
38 Across
Suffix with honor (3 letters)
39 Across
Maugham opus: 1919 (15 letters)
44 Across
Macerate (3 letters)
45 Across
Encounter (4 letters)
46 Across
"Babi ___," Kuznetsov novel (3 letters)
47 Across
Performing ___ (4 letters)
49 Across
Garden soil (4 letters)
51 Across
Graduate deg. (3 letters)
54 Across
African heights, mentioned by Ptolemy (15 letters)
59 Across
Charged atom (3 letters)
60 Across
Emerald Isle (4 letters)
61 Across
Oaf (3 letters)
62 Across
Jawless fish (7 letters)
66 Across
Scottish schoolmaster (7 letters)
68 Across
Lamb's dam (3 letters)
69 Across
Oft-quoted Chairman (3 letters)
70 Across
Complete, in Cannes (7 letters)
71 Across
Describing some blankets (3 letters)
72 Across
Sea eagle (3 letters)
73 Across
Lubricated (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Nicholas and Ivan (5 letters)
2 Down
Land (6 letters)
3 Down
Memorable Cuban hero and family (6 letters)
4 Down
Antiquity, once (3 letters)
5 Down
Back of a book, to old-timers (5 letters)
6 Down
Seraglio room (3 letters)
7 Down
Postpone (5 letters)
8 Down
Origin: Abbr. (5 letters)
9 Down
One of seven (3 letters)
10 Down
Actress Claire (3 letters)
11 Down
Cob's mate (3 letters)
13 Down
Plainsong feature (8 letters)
14 Down
Backbone (5 letters)
19 Down
Thought: Comb. form (4 letters)
22 Down
Wilkie Collins mystery (9 letters)
25 Down
Nelson Eddy film (4 letters)
26 Down
"The King ___" (4 letters)
27 Down
Laurel or Musial (4 letters)
28 Down
Ancient ornamental collar (4 letters)
29 Down
Silvery freshwater fish (4 letters)
34 Down
Stage emoter (3 letters)
36 Down
Phrase like "thundering silence" (8 letters)
37 Down
RR employee (3 letters)
39 Down
Coal-mine vehicle (4 letters)
40 Down
Leander's beloved (4 letters)
41 Down
Words to Brutus (4 letters)
42 Down
Prepared-foods shop (4 letters)
43 Down
Once, once (4 letters)
48 Down
Emulate Delilah (4 letters)
50 Down
Stage comment (5 letters)
52 Down
Coco of perfumery (6 letters)
53 Down
Yen (6 letters)
55 Down
The Velvet Fog (5 letters)
56 Down
Have ___ to the ground (5 letters)
57 Down
One-quadrillionth: Comb. form (5 letters)
58 Down
Climbing plant (5 letters)
62 Down
Actor Ayres (3 letters)
63 Down
Dread of a sort (3 letters)
64 Down
Shea player (3 letters)
65 Down
Hither's partner (3 letters)
67 Down
VII minus IV (3 letters)

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