Wednesday Crossword — December 13, 1989 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 12/13/1989. By Betty Jorgensen.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Defame (5)
- LIBEL
- 6 Across: Soggy lump (4)
- GLOB
- 10 Across: Kitchen king (4)
- CHEF
- 14 Across: What there is "nothin' like" (5)
- ADAME
- 15 Across: Verdi opera (4)
- AIDA
- 16 Across: Crowning glory (4)
- HAIR
- 17 Across: Word with jury or larceny (5)
- PETIT
- 18 Across: Radiate (4)
- GLOW
- 19 Across: The Gloomy Dean (4)
- INGE
- 20 Across: Start of a quip overheard on the stag line (15)
- SEETHEGIRLINTHE
- 23 Across: Entire (3)
- ALL
- 24 Across: Tries (5)
- TESTS
- 25 Across: More of the quip (11)
- DECOLLETAGE
- 32 Across: April forecast (4)
- RAIN
- 33 Across: Fragrant (8)
- AROMATIC
- 38 Across: Anglo-Saxon laborer (4)
- ESNE
- 39 Across: Kind of transit (5)
- RAPID
- 41 Across: Actress Lillian or Dorothy (4)
- GISH
- 42 Across: Ebb (8)
- DECREASE
- 44 Across: "Do ___ others . . . " (4)
- UNTO
- 45 Across: More of the quip (11)
- SHEDGIVEYOU
- 49 Across: Spar (5)
- SPRIT
- 53 Across: Seraglio room (3)
- ODA
- 54 Across: End of the quip (15)
- THECOLDSHOULDER
- 62 Across: Wedding missiles (4)
- RICE
- 63 Across: A Guthrie (4)
- ARLO
- 64 Across: Din (5)
- NOISE
- 65 Across: Controversial apple spray (4)
- ALAR
- 66 Across: Appear (4)
- SEEM
- 67 Across: Legal wrongs (5)
- TORTS
- 68 Across: Kind of concert (4)
- POPS
- 69 Across: It's caused by lunar attraction (4)
- TIDE
- 70 Across: Shooting sport (5)
- SKEET
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Track circuits (4)
- LAPS
- 2 Down: ___ fixe (4)
- IDEE
- 3 Down: Lessen (4)
- BATE
- 4 Down: Put forth (4)
- EMIT
- 5 Down: Fatal (6)
- LETHAL
- 6 Down: Group of geese (6)
- GAGGLE
- 7 Down: "___ Marlene" (4)
- LILI
- 8 Down: Repute (4)
- ODOR
- 9 Down: Cry like a baby (4)
- BAWL
- 10 Down: Backbone (5)
- CHINE
- 11 Down: Eng. county (5)
- HANTS
- 12 Down: Octad (5)
- EIGHT
- 13 Down: Releases (5)
- FREES
- 21 Down: House wing (3)
- ELL
- 22 Down: Columnist's tidbit (4)
- ITEM
- 25 Down: A Scott (4)
- DRED
- 26 Down: Vacationer's delight (4)
- EASE
- 27 Down: Title for a U.S. Pres. (4)
- CINC
- 28 Down: Nonesuch (4)
- ONER
- 29 Down: Used a VCR (5)
- TAPED
- 30 Down: Jackie's second (3)
- ARI
- 31 Down: Zeus or Odin (3)
- GOD
- 34 Down: Chills and fever (4)
- AGUE
- 35 Down: Minute (4)
- TINY
- 36 Down: Ratio words (4)
- ISTO
- 37 Down: French pet name (4)
- CHOU
- 39 Down: Stadium cheer (3)
- RAH
- 40 Down: Peer Gynt's mother (3)
- ASE
- 43 Down: This, to Pedro (4)
- ESTO
- 46 Down: "You Can't ___ Again": Wolfe (6)
- GOHOME
- 47 Down: Altar vow (3)
- IDO
- 48 Down: Brags (6)
- VAUNTS
- 49 Down: Subway support (5)
- STRAP
- 50 Down: Fictional sleuth Vance (5)
- PHILO
- 51 Down: List the gist again (5)
- RECAP
- 52 Down: Wine buckets (5)
- ICERS
- 55 Down: Tail-end (4)
- LAST
- 56 Down: Three, in Dresden (4)
- DREI
- 57 Down: Luge (4)
- SLED
- 58 Down: Mien (4)
- LOOK
- 59 Down: Drastic (4)
- DIRE
- 60 Down: Noble Italian family (4)
- ESTE
- 61 Down: Remainder (4)
- REST
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