Saturday Crossword — November 19, 1988 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 11/19/1988. By Keith Vaughn.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Military exchange (4)
- POST
- 5 Across: Nice friend (3)
- AMI
- 8 Across: Macadamize (4)
- PAVE
- 12 Across: Main ingredient of menudo (5)
- TRIPE
- 13 Across: Prosperous; peaceful (9)
- SATURNIAN
- 16 Across: Unwind (5)
- RELAX
- 17 Across: Erratic (9)
- PLANETARY
- 18 Across: "Dido and Aeneas," for one (5)
- OPERA
- 19 Across: Plural ending (3)
- IES
- 20 Across: Monogram of a memorable poet (3)
- TSE
- 21 Across: Parabolic weeds in the Bible (5)
- TARES
- 22 Across: Prefix with Baptist or basis (3)
- ANA
- 23 Across: Communications initials (3)
- ITT
- 24 Across: Org. (4)
- SYST
- 25 Across: Danish, e.g. (6)
- PASTRY
- 28 Across: Popular TV comic, for short (3)
- COS
- 29 Across: "The ___ of Greece . . . " (5)
- ISLES
- 31 Across: City on the Vistula (5)
- TORUN
- 33 Across: An antiseptic (13)
- MERCUROCHROME
- 36 Across: One of the Alaskans (5)
- ALEUT
- 37 Across: Family of a Korean president (5)
- RHEES
- 38 Across: Auxiliary verb (3)
- ARE
- 39 Across: Shed (6)
- MOLTED
- 41 Across: Young demons (4)
- IMPS
- 45 Across: Chew the fat (3)
- RAP
- 46 Across: En tout ___ (at any rate): Fr. (3)
- CAS
- 47 Across: "For want of ___ . . . " (5)
- ANAIL
- 48 Across: Suffix with sheep or child (3)
- ISH
- 49 Across: ___-Magnon (3)
- CRO
- 50 Across: A Fla. key (5)
- LARGO
- 51 Across: Wasted (9)
- EMACIATED
- 55 Across: Small map (5)
- INSET
- 56 Across: Chinese revolutionary (9)
- SUNYATSEN
- 57 Across: Chalcidian mountain (5)
- ATHOS
- 58 Across: W.W. II battle site (4)
- STLO
- 59 Across: Issue for NOW (3)
- ERA
- 60 Across: Writer O'Faoláin (4)
- SEAN
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Advance, in a way (6)
- PREPAY
- 2 Down: A.F.C. team (6)
- OILERS
- 3 Down: Spread caused by too many spreads (9)
- SPARETIRE
- 4 Down: Where to find 2 Down (5)
- TEXAS
- 5 Down: Prop for Elizabeth Taylor (3)
- ASP
- 6 Down: ___ de siècle (3)
- MAL
- 7 Down: "___ Necessarily So" (6)
- ITAINT
- 8 Down: C.I.C. (4)
- PRES
- 9 Down: Myrmecologist's subject (3)
- ANT
- 10 Down: Voyager's supplies (8)
- VIATICUM
- 11 Down: Otolith (8)
- EARSTONE
- 12 Down: Jogs (5)
- TROTS
- 14 Down: Emulated Schliemann (9)
- UNEARTHED
- 15 Down: Muscovite negatives (5)
- NYETS
- 22 Down: Classifies (7)
- ASSORTS
- 25 Down: Wealthy ruler (9)
- PLUTOCRAT
- 26 Down: Air, in compounds (3)
- AER
- 27 Down: Long ago, long ago (4)
- YORE
- 30 Down: Floating algae (4)
- SCUM
- 32 Down: Don Quixote's horse (9)
- ROSINANTE
- 33 Down: Infant's malnutrition (8)
- MARASMUS
- 34 Down: Babar, e.g. (8)
- ELEPHANT
- 35 Down: Guevara (3)
- CHE
- 38 Down: Constellation near Andromeda (5)
- ARIES
- 40 Down: Founder of Taoism (6)
- LAOTSE
- 42 Down: Actress ___ Mason (6)
- MARSHA
- 43 Down: Trafalgar Square denizen (6)
- PIGEON
- 44 Down: Atlantic City machines (5)
- SLOTS
- 47 Down: A k a (5)
- ALIAS
- 49 Down: Aloha, in Italy (4)
- CIAO
- 52 Down: Engine part: Abbr. (3)
- CYL
- 53 Down: Poetic contraction (3)
- EER
- 54 Down: Genetic material (3)
- DNA
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