Saturday Crossword — August 26, 1989 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 8/26/1989. By Nancy Joline.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Makes one's own (6)
- ADOPTS
- 7 Across: Palestinian leader (6)
- ARAFAT
- 13 Across: Author-illustrator Maurice (6)
- SENDAK
- 14 Across: Emends (7)
- REVISES
- 16 Across: Very long words (15)
- SESQUIPEDALIANS
- 19 Across: Egg: Comb. form (3)
- OVI
- 20 Across: Banal (5)
- TRITE
- 21 Across: Naval historian Alfred ___ (5)
- MAHAN
- 22 Across: Beatty film: 1981 (4)
- REDS
- 24 Across: "The Merry Widow" composer (5)
- LEHAR
- 26 Across: "A Doll's House" heroine (4)
- NORA
- 27 Across: Deuces' neighbors (5)
- TREYS
- 29 Across: "I could a ___ unfold . . . ": Shak. (4)
- TALE
- 30 Across: Brood (4)
- SULK
- 31 Across: Part of N.B. (4)
- NOTA
- 33 Across: Dry, as wine (3)
- SEC
- 35 Across: Notice (3)
- SEE
- 36 Across: Places of great interest (6)
- MECCAS
- 39 Across: Expedites (6)
- SPEEDS
- 41 Across: "___ Clear Day," 1965 song (3)
- ONA
- 42 Across: Bowl sound (3)
- RAH
- 44 Across: Equip (4)
- GEAR
- 45 Across: Poet Teasdale (4)
- SARA
- 47 Across: Libertine (4)
- RAKE
- 49 Across: Trigonometric functions (5)
- SINES
- 53 Across: "Omnia vincit ___" (4)
- AMOR
- 54 Across: Word with fry or potatoes (5)
- SMALL
- 56 Across: Smoked salmon (4)
- NOVA
- 57 Across: Ancient region of Asia Minor (5)
- IONIA
- 59 Across: Ephemeral (5)
- BRIEF
- 61 Across: Buddhist sect (3)
- ZEN
- 62 Across: Place to find 16 Across (15)
- CROSSWORDPUZZLE
- 65 Across: "The Bartered Bride" composer (7)
- SMETANA
- 66 Across: Dickinson and Post (6)
- EMILYS
- 67 Across: Relatives on one's mother's side (6)
- ENATES
- 68 Across: Exhortation to sinners (6)
- REPENT
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Classify (6)
- ASSORT
- 2 Down: Kipling's Danny (6)
- DEEVER
- 3 Down: One kind of kick in football (6)
- ONSIDE
- 4 Down: Right away (3)
- PDQ
- 5 Down: Trim (4)
- TAUT
- 6 Down: Play a bagpipe (5)
- SKIRL
- 7 Down: Singer Franklin (6)
- ARETHA
- 8 Down: Cardplayers' sometime demands (7)
- REDEALS
- 9 Down: Ex of Mickey and Frank (3)
- AVA
- 10 Down: Thin membrane (4)
- FILM
- 11 Down: Tamils and Thais (6)
- ASIANS
- 12 Down: Far Eastern eatery (8)
- TEAHOUSE
- 15 Down: Like rush-hour traffic (7)
- SNARLED
- 17 Down: Famed Michelangelo sculpture (5)
- PIETA
- 18 Down: Bushmaster and mamba (6)
- SNAKES
- 23 Down: Harmony, informally (4)
- SYNC
- 25 Down: A.F.B. in Tex. (5)
- REESE
- 28 Down: What hawks and hopes can do (4)
- SOAR
- 32 Down: Winter Palace residents, once (5)
- TSARS
- 34 Down: Inc.-tax pros (4)
- CPAS
- 36 Down: Where tesserae are found (6)
- MOSAIC
- 37 Down: Charms (7)
- ENAMORS
- 38 Down: Gilda's "Rigoletto" aria (8)
- CARONOME
- 40 Down: Anagram for rein (4)
- ERIN
- 43 Down: Pea-soup ingredient (7)
- HAMBONE
- 44 Down: Icy (5)
- GELID
- 46 Down: Out of the sack (6)
- ARISEN
- 48 Down: Actor Alex (6)
- KARRAS
- 50 Down: Spout (6)
- NOZZLE
- 51 Down: Track star Ashford (6)
- EVELYN
- 52 Down: Most compos mentis (6)
- SANEST
- 55 Down: Outcast (5)
- LEPER
- 58 Down: Shaft, in Sevilla (4)
- ASTA
- 60 Down: "Drows'd with the ___ of poppies . . . ": Keats (4)
- FUME
- 63 Down: Angkor ___, Cambodian temple (3)
- WAT
- 64 Down: Pizazz (3)
- ZIP
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