Friday Crossword — July 14, 1989 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 7/14/1989. By Walter Covell.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Eurasian wheat (5)
- EMMER
- 6 Across: Napoleon's sometime address (4)
- ELBA
- 10 Across: Hillside dugout (4)
- ABRI
- 14 Across: Sheer linen fabric (5)
- TOILE
- 15 Across: Sal et al. (4)
- GALS
- 16 Across: Riv. flowing into a larger riv. (4)
- TRIB
- 17 Across: Chicanery (10)
- HOCUSPOCUS
- 19 Across: Anklebones (4)
- TALI
- 20 Across: Dynamo parts (7)
- STATORS
- 21 Across: Sells directly to consumers (7)
- RETAILS
- 23 Across: Character in "Charley's Aunt" (3)
- ELA
- 24 Across: Part of a bridle (4)
- REIN
- 25 Across: Cutting-tool benders (7)
- SAWSETS
- 29 Across: Kind of comic (7)
- STANDUP
- 32 Across: Kimono sash (3)
- OBI
- 33 Across: Psalm word (5)
- SELAH
- 35 Across: Old World blackbird (5)
- MERLE
- 36 Across: Mountain passes (4)
- COLS
- 38 Across: Peloponnesian dialect (5)
- DORIC
- 40 Across: Computer fare (4)
- DATA
- 41 Across: Landed peasant in the czars' Russia (5)
- KULAK
- 43 Across: Rinds (5)
- PEELS
- 45 Across: Vex (3)
- IRK
- 46 Across: Colorless, fragrant liquid (7)
- STYRENE
- 48 Across: City near Monterey Bay (7)
- SALINAS
- 50 Across: Nucha or nuque (4)
- NAPE
- 51 Across: A Burmese native (3)
- MON
- 52 Across: Evokes (7)
- ELICITS
- 55 Across: Entangle (7)
- EMBROIL
- 59 Across: River near Eboli (4)
- SELE
- 60 Across: Uproar (10)
- HURLYBURLY
- 62 Across: Lime or brick follower (4)
- KILN
- 63 Across: Biographer Ludwig (4)
- EMIL
- 64 Across: Certain curves (5)
- ESSES
- 65 Across: Utters (4)
- SAYS
- 66 Across: Central N.Y. city (4)
- ROME
- 67 Across: ___ Island Red (5)
- RHODE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Old English letters (4)
- ETHS
- 2 Down: Subject to debate (4)
- MOOT
- 3 Down: Insulating silicate (4)
- MICA
- 4 Down: Extracts with a solvent (6)
- ELUTES
- 5 Down: Cobbles, in a way (7)
- RESOLES
- 6 Down: These may take trips (4)
- EGOS
- 7 Down: It's 100,000 in New Delhi (3)
- LAC
- 8 Down: Obscure (4)
- BLUR
- 9 Down: State (6)
- ASSERT
- 10 Down: Reached (8)
- ATTAINED
- 11 Down: Loss caused by emigration for profit (10)
- BRAINDRAIN
- 12 Down: Brooklet (4)
- RILL
- 13 Down: Long-billed wader (4)
- IBIS
- 18 Down: Chattered (6)
- PRATED
- 22 Down: A live or a nine, e.g. (4)
- TEAM
- 25 Down: Short hose (5)
- SOCKS
- 26 Down: In re (5)
- ABOUT
- 27 Down: Perforce (10)
- WILLYNILLY
- 28 Down: Site for a wedeln (5)
- SLOPE
- 29 Down: Flings (5)
- SHIES
- 30 Down: Extreme (5)
- ULTRA
- 31 Down: Becomes weak, thin and sickly (5)
- PEAKS
- 34 Down: A verb for you (3)
- ARE
- 37 Down: Crusaders' foes (8)
- SARACENS
- 39 Down: Cold and damp (6)
- CLAMMY
- 42 Down: French military cap (4)
- KEPI
- 44 Down: Slaver (7)
- SLOBBER
- 47 Down: Lower (6)
- NETHER
- 49 Down: Event when a dam breaks (6)
- INRUSH
- 52 Down: N. Pole dwellers (4)
- ESKS
- 53 Down: ___ Organa, "Star Wars" princess (4)
- LEIA
- 54 Down: Japanese wrestling (4)
- SUMO
- 55 Down: Swiss linear unit (4)
- ELLE
- 56 Down: Bear, to Luigi (4)
- ORSO
- 57 Down: "___ Three Lives": Philbrick (4)
- ILED
- 58 Down: Cause symptoms to subside (4)
- LYSE
- 61 Down: Felly (3)
- RIM
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