Monday Crossword — July 17, 1989 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 7/17/1989. By Peter G. Snow.

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Across Answers

1 Across: European range (4)
ALPS
5 Across: Securing instrument (5)
STRAP
10 Across: Puncture (4)
STAB
14 Across: Totem follower (4)
POLE
15 Across: Walking ___ (elated) (5)
ONAIR
16 Across: By way of, informally (4)
THRU
17 Across: Singly (10)
ONEATATIME
19 Across: River to the Caspian (4)
URAL
20 Across: One to be forgiven (6)
DEBTOR
21 Across: C-G connection (3)
DEF
22 Across: Rhode Island Senator (4)
PELL
23 Across: Marry (3)
WED
25 Across: English novelist Daniel (5)
DEFOE
27 Across: Transgressor (8)
OFFENDER
32 Across: ___ Christi, Tex. (6)
CORPUS
35 Across: Dental hygienist's thread (5)
FLOSS
36 Across: Wren's "Beau ___" (5)
GESTE
38 Across: Suffix with insist or differ (3)
ENT
39 Across: Tense (4)
TAUT
40 Across: Trousers (5)
PANTS
41 Across: Pot sweetener (4)
ANTE
42 Across: Behave humanly (3)
ERR
43 Across: Light-amplification device (5)
LASER
44 Across: Banks or Ford (5)
ERNIE
45 Across: Settler (6)
NESTER
47 Across: Extremely irrational (8)
WILDEYED
49 Across: Still (5)
QUIET
51 Across: Sword beater (3)
PEN
52 Across: Acidic (4)
SOUR
54 Across: Catch (3)
NAB
56 Across: Shoots the breeze (6)
GASSES
61 Across: Persian poet (4)
OMAR
62 Across: Double (10)
TWOBASEHIT
64 Across: Telegram (4)
WIRE
65 Across: Scarf of a sort (5)
ASCOT
66 Across: He was a man for all seasons (4)
MORE
67 Across: Editor's notation (4)
STET
68 Across: Rent (5)
LEASE
69 Across: List part (4)
ITEM

Down Answers

1 Down: Footless (4)
APOD
2 Down: Sole (4)
LONE
3 Down: Academy freshman (4)
PLEB
4 Down: Sofa or couch (4)
SEAT
5 Down: Went up, up and away (6)
SOARED
6 Down: Nobel invention (3)
TNT
7 Down: Sudden attack (4)
RAID
8 Down: Emulated a marksman (5)
AIMED
9 Down: Administrative officials (8)
PREFECTS
10 Down: Apathy (6)
STUPOR
11 Down: Of little worth (10)
THREEPENNY
12 Down: Soviet sea (4)
ARAL
13 Down: China-shop wrecker (4)
BULL
18 Down: Hamlets' big sisters (5)
TOWNS
24 Down: French painter Edgar ___ (5)
DEGAS
26 Down: Enemy (3)
FOE
27 Down: Seldom's antithesis (5)
OFTEN
28 Down: Spread outward, as a skirt (5)
FLARE
29 Down: Honest (10)
FOURSQUARE
30 Down: Superlative suffix (3)
EST
31 Down: Extend, as a subscription (5)
RENEW
33 Down: Free (5)
UNTIE
34 Down: High-spirited horse (5)
STEED
37 Down: Undress (5)
STRIP
40 Down: Pertaining to one's mother or father (8)
PARENTAL
41 Down: "You ___ My Sunshine" (3)
ARE
43 Down: Hawaiian garland (3)
LEI
44 Down: Best and Millay (5)
EDNAS
46 Down: Small tower (6)
TURRET
48 Down: Papal envoy (6)
LEGATE
50 Down: British whip (5)
TAWSE
52 Down: Plants (4)
SOWS
53 Down: Leave out (4)
OMIT
55 Down: ___ Raton, Fla. (4)
BOCA
57 Down: Half: Prefix (4)
SEMI
58 Down: Hypodermic injection (4)
SHOT
59 Down: Ireland, to a Gael (4)
EIRE
60 Down: Dam up (4)
STEM
63 Down: Derek and Peep (3)
BOS

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