Saturday Crossword — December 31, 1988

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1578 clues~30-60 minBy Joy L. Wouk12/31/1988

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
Bosnian river (5 letters)
6 Across
"___ Sanctorum" (4 letters)
10 Across
Do a road job (4 letters)
14 Across
Alps sound (5 letters)
15 Across
Den (4 letters)
16 Across
Admit frankly (4 letters)
17 Across
Reveler's gadget (10 letters)
19 Across
Propel a punt (4 letters)
20 Across
Tokyo, once (3 letters)
21 Across
Past (4 letters)
22 Across
Some are current (6 letters)
24 Across
Ski-lift feature (4 letters)
26 Across
Step (5 letters)
28 Across
Joel Grey vehicle (7 letters)
31 Across
J.F.K. abbr. (3 letters)
32 Across
Period (3 letters)
35 Across
One who acts: Suffix (4 letters)
36 Across
Sobriquet for Santa (4 letters)
38 Across
Domesticated (5 letters)
40 Across
Nose tickler (15 letters)
43 Across
Pegasus, e.g. (5 letters)
44 Across
Midnight to 1 A.M. (4 letters)
45 Across
Seethe (4 letters)
46 Across
Antiquity, formerly (3 letters)
47 Across
Iowa time, for short (3 letters)
49 Across
Cornmeal mush (7 letters)
51 Across
"Mosses From an Old ___": Hawthorne (5 letters)
53 Across
Inhale suddenly (4 letters)
54 Across
Bathhouse (6 letters)
57 Across
Ticket part (4 letters)
59 Across
"___ That Kiss," 1931 song (3 letters)
62 Across
Muscat is its capital (4 letters)
63 Across
Cartoonist's scythe carrier (10 letters)
66 Across
Director Vidor (4 letters)
67 Across
Eye part (4 letters)
68 Across
Sea eagles (5 letters)
69 Across
Whirlpool (4 letters)
70 Across
Espied (4 letters)
71 Across
Czechoslovakia's ___ Mountains (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Unit of force (4 letters)
2 Down
Large crucifix (4 letters)
3 Down
TV prompter (10 letters)
4 Down
Vane readings (3 letters)
5 Down
Sour drink (6 letters)
6 Down
Alda or Arkin (4 letters)
7 Down
Petits fours (5 letters)
8 Down
Restrain (3 letters)
9 Down
In ___ (behind in debt paying) (6 letters)
10 Down
Dissertation (5 letters)
11 Down
Name of three English rivers (4 letters)
12 Down
Fencer's leap (4 letters)
13 Down
Lambs' dams (4 letters)
18 Down
Sierra ___, Spanish range (6 letters)
23 Down
Artistic objects (5 letters)
25 Down
Malt-liquor foams (5 letters)
27 Down
Occupy (6 letters)
28 Down
Hiding place (5 letters)
29 Down
Town near Fitchburg, Mass. (5 letters)
30 Down
Dancer's hose (6 letters)
32 Down
Plumpness (10 letters)
33 Down
Started a fire again (5 letters)
34 Down
___ Rogers St. Johns (5 letters)
37 Down
Nimitz in '45 (3 letters)
39 Down
French priests' titles (5 letters)
41 Down
Praline ingredient (5 letters)
42 Down
Shoe or accent (6 letters)
48 Down
Throws into confusion (6 letters)
50 Down
Lip ornament (6 letters)
51 Down
Squalid (5 letters)
52 Down
A Lauder (5 letters)
54 Down
Blast-furnace fuel (4 letters)
55 Down
Surrounded by (4 letters)
56 Down
"And the ___ played on" (4 letters)
58 Down
Comparison word (4 letters)
60 Down
Hebrew measure (4 letters)
61 Down
"For ___ jolly good fellow" (4 letters)
64 Down
"___ atque vale" (3 letters)
65 Down
Musical syllable (3 letters)

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