Saturday Crossword — October 7, 1989 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 66 clues). Published 10/7/1989. By Bernard Meren.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Group of 11 Across (5)
- DROVE
- 6 Across: Character (5)
- STAMP
- 11 Across: Oxen and cows (6)
- BEEVES
- 12 Across: Loyalists of George III (6)
- TORIES
- 14 Across: They babble on and on (7)
- RANTERS
- 15 Across: Like a rat ___ (7)
- INATRAP
- 17 Across: Cross (9)
- INTERSECT
- 19 Across: Exploit (5)
- GESTE
- 20 Across: Similar (4)
- AKIN
- 21 Across: Make into law (5)
- ENACT
- 23 Across: Long Island park (4)
- RIIS
- 24 Across: Seed integument (5)
- TESTA
- 26 Across: Upper regions of space (5)
- ETHER
- 28 Across: Nigerian native (3)
- ARO
- 29 Across: Manet or Monet (6)
- ARTIST
- 31 Across: Leading ladies (8)
- HEROINES
- 33 Across: Cloth for G.I. garb (9)
- OLIVEDRAB
- 35 Across: Cuomo was one in 1984 (8)
- KEYNOTER
- 38 Across: Store fodder (6)
- ENSILE
- 42 Across: Ancient capital of Myanmar (3)
- AVA
- 43 Across: Dried-up desert streams (5)
- WADIS
- 45 Across: Seat, in Siena (5)
- SEDIA
- 46 Across: Superman's alter ego (4)
- KENT
- 48 Across: Bilbao babes (5)
- NENES
- 50 Across: Monster's loch (4)
- NESS
- 51 Across: Singer-composer Paul and family (5)
- ANKAS
- 53 Across: Mild (9)
- TEMPERATE
- 55 Across: Caviar source (7)
- STERLET
- 57 Across: Conned (7)
- PILOTED
- 58 Across: Til (6)
- SESAME
- 59 Across: Dervish, for one (6)
- REELER
- 60 Across: Scenes (5)
- SITES
- 61 Across: Ouphs (5)
- ELVES
Down Answers
- 1 Down: William Thomas Green Morton was one (7)
- DENTIST
- 2 Down: Memory (9)
- RETENTION
- 3 Down: Throughout (4)
- OVER
- 4 Down: Forte of William Meredith (5)
- VERSE
- 5 Down: Ancient native of Qumran (6)
- ESSENE
- 6 Down: Basted (8)
- STITCHED
- 7 Down: Won ___ (Chinese soup) (3)
- TON
- 8 Down: "To ___ and a bone . . . ": Kipling (4)
- ARAG
- 9 Down: Bishopric (5)
- MITER
- 10 Down: "One man's Mede is another man's ___" (7)
- PERSIAN
- 11 Down: Coal-furnace tender, at times (6)
- BANKER
- 13 Down: Lucilius's forte (6)
- SATIRE
- 14 Down: Dogie catcher (5)
- RIATA
- 16 Down: Mexican mazuma (5)
- PESOS
- 18 Down: Name of three of Henry VIII's wives (9)
- CATHERINE
- 22 Down: ___-verte (green pigment for 29 Across) (5)
- TERRE
- 25 Down: "On ___ Boat to China" (5)
- ASLOW
- 27 Down: Chestnut horses (5)
- ROANS
- 30 Down: Coeus or Crius (5)
- TITAN
- 32 Down: Nora Helmer or Hedda Tessman (9)
- IBSENROLE
- 34 Down: Old naval scouting launches (8)
- VEDETTES
- 35 Down: New Zealand parrots (5)
- KAKAS
- 36 Down: What reporters cover (6)
- EVENTS
- 37 Down: New Englanders (7)
- YANKEES
- 39 Down: Conceives (7)
- IDEATES
- 40 Down: Antiseptic-surgery pioneer (6)
- LISTER
- 41 Down: Let up (5)
- EASED
- 44 Down: Always, in music (6)
- SEMPRE
- 47 Down: Where the astragali are (5)
- TARSI
- 49 Down: Pitch (5)
- SPIEL
- 52 Down: Mattress support (4)
- SLAT
- 54 Down: Alt. (4)
- ELEV
- 56 Down: Highlander's uncle (3)
- EME
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