Thursday Crossword — March 2, 1989 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 3/2/1989. By Barbara J. Weakley.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Home, to some potatoes (5)
- IDAHO
- 6 Across: Wear well (4)
- LAST
- 10 Across: Something to eat, sometimes (4)
- CROW
- 14 Across: It's after James or before jar (5)
- MASON
- 15 Across: Head or heart condition (4)
- ACHE
- 16 Across: Role for Jose Ferrer (4)
- IAGO
- 17 Across: Goodbye, amigo (5)
- ADIOS
- 18 Across: Strip (4)
- PEEL
- 19 Across: Biblical port (4)
- TYRE
- 20 Across: Pertaining to distance (6)
- METRIC
- 22 Across: Gives to the press (8)
- RELEASES
- 24 Across: Commotions (4)
- ADOS
- 26 Across: Late author Ayn ___ (4)
- RAND
- 27 Across: Where The Kingston Trio's Charlie rode (8)
- ONTHEMTA
- 31 Across: Niobe, for one (6)
- WEEPER
- 35 Across: Entre ___ (4)
- NOUS
- 36 Across: Troubled planet (5)
- EARTH
- 38 Across: V.I.P.'s wheels (4)
- LIMO
- 39 Across: Antiquity, to Poe (3)
- ELD
- 40 Across: Houston baseball player (5)
- ASTRO
- 41 Across: Big bird (3)
- EMU
- 42 Across: Upon (4)
- ATOP
- 44 Across: Sound from a brooder (5)
- CHEEP
- 45 Across: Sweetsop (4)
- ATES
- 46 Across: Great fear (6)
- TERROR
- 48 Across: Disconnected (8)
- SEPARATE
- 50 Across: A grandson of Eve (4)
- ENOS
- 52 Across: Fender blemish (4)
- DENT
- 53 Across: Sped (8)
- GALLOPED
- 57 Across: Opposite of disassociate (6)
- RELATE
- 61 Across: Jai ___ (4)
- ALAI
- 62 Across: Malayan outrigger (4)
- PROA
- 64 Across: Gold, silver or bronze object (5)
- MEDAL
- 65 Across: Cripple (4)
- MAIM
- 66 Across: All tied up (4)
- EVEN
- 67 Across: French river (5)
- ISERE
- 68 Across: What to make meet (4)
- ENDS
- 69 Across: Take five (4)
- REST
- 70 Across: Type of tea (5)
- ASSAM
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Moslem priest (4)
- IMAM
- 2 Down: Miami's county (4)
- DADE
- 3 Down: "___ was in the beginning . . . " (4)
- ASIT
- 4 Down: Cheering words (7)
- HOORAHS
- 5 Down: One kind of kick (6)
- ONSIDE
- 6 Down: In the ___ of luxury (3)
- LAP
- 7 Down: Maple genus (4)
- ACER
- 8 Down: Diaphanous (5)
- SHEER
- 9 Down: Come up with a big lie (12)
- TELLAWHOPPER
- 10 Down: Fortress (7)
- CITADEL
- 11 Down: Beta and gamma (4)
- RAYS
- 12 Down: Fee-faw-fum (4)
- OGRE
- 13 Down: Miseries (4)
- WOES
- 21 Down: Fail (12)
- COMEACROPPER
- 23 Down: Compass dir. (3)
- ENE
- 25 Down: Put into a hidey-hole (5)
- STASH
- 27 Down: ___ a time (5)
- ONEAT
- 28 Down: Actor Nick from Omaha (5)
- NOLTE
- 29 Down: English dynasty (5)
- TUDOR
- 30 Down: Namesakes of comedian Johnson (5)
- ARTES
- 32 Down: Michelangelo masterpiece (5)
- PIETA
- 33 Down: Irish patriot (5)
- EMMET
- 34 Down: Incite (5)
- ROUSE
- 37 Down: In a corner (5)
- TREED
- 43 Down: Bouts before the finals, for short (7)
- PRELIMS
- 45 Down: Naïve (7)
- ARTLESS
- 47 Down: Yoko ___ (3)
- ONO
- 49 Down: Lack of vigor (6)
- ANEMIA
- 51 Down: Cater to (5)
- SERVE
- 53 Down: Willing and able (4)
- GAME
- 54 Down: Arkin or Thicke (4)
- ALAN
- 55 Down: Deposited (4)
- LAID
- 56 Down: Hinds (4)
- DOES
- 58 Down: Summer refreshers (4)
- ADES
- 59 Down: Residence created by M. Mitchell (4)
- TARA
- 60 Down: Kind of sch. (4)
- ELEM
- 63 Down: Colony dweller (3)
- ANT
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