Wednesday Crossword — January 3, 1990 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 1/3/1990. By Peter Swift.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Marten's fur (5)
- SABLE
- 6 Across: Cudgel (4)
- CLUB
- 10 Across: Neat (4)
- TRIM
- 14 Across: Swiftly, to a poet (5)
- AMAIN
- 15 Across: Singer Coolidge (4)
- RITA
- 16 Across: Decorate anew (4)
- REDO
- 17 Across: Make merry (15)
- KICKUPONESHEELS
- 20 Across: Native (8)
- INHERENT
- 21 Across: Mollifies (5)
- EASES
- 22 Across: Bridge ace Culbertson (3)
- ELY
- 23 Across: Hit hard (6)
- BELTED
- 25 Across: Reserved; retiring (6)
- MODEST
- 29 Across: Frolics (5)
- ROMPS
- 30 Across: Incite (4)
- ABET
- 31 Across: Avian perch (5)
- AERIE
- 32 Across: Delight (3)
- JOY
- 35 Across: Carouse (15)
- SOWONESWILDOATS
- 39 Across: Fla.'s ___ Largo (3)
- KEY
- 40 Across: Adlai's running mate: 1956 (5)
- ESTES
- 41 Across: Sacrament (4)
- RITE
- 42 Across: Admitted (5)
- OWNED
- 43 Across: Kind of car or game (6)
- PARLOR
- 45 Across: Run at full speed (6)
- CAREER
- 47 Across: Range of vision (3)
- KEN
- 48 Across: Wall decoration (5)
- ARRAS
- 49 Across: Deter from doing (8)
- DISSUADE
- 54 Across: Go on a spree (15)
- PAINTTHETOWNRED
- 57 Across: Stolen goods (4)
- SWAG
- 58 Across: Artifice (4)
- RUSE
- 59 Across: Moved gradually (5)
- EDGED
- 60 Across: Other (4)
- ELSE
- 61 Across: Long-billed bird (4)
- IBIS
- 62 Across: Spacious (5)
- ROOMY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: "The Square Egg" author (4)
- SAKI
- 2 Down: Ugandan exile (4)
- AMIN
- 3 Down: Famed organist-composer (4)
- BACH
- 4 Down: Comparable to (4)
- LIKE
- 5 Down: Acclimates (6)
- ENURES
- 6 Down: Close friend (5)
- CRONY
- 7 Down: Fuzz (4)
- LINT
- 8 Down: Western Amerind (3)
- UTE
- 9 Down: Kind of relief (3)
- BAS
- 10 Down: Gives medical aid to (6)
- TREATS
- 11 Down: Singer Della (5)
- REESE
- 12 Down: Dawdled (5)
- IDLED
- 13 Down: Sphagnum, e.g. (4)
- MOSS
- 18 Down: Animal's skin (4)
- PELT
- 19 Down: Succored (6)
- HELPED
- 23 Down: Writer Pasternak (5)
- BORIS
- 24 Down: Writer Ludwig (4)
- EMIL
- 25 Down: Mummer's cover-up (4)
- MASK
- 26 Down: A double-reed (4)
- OBOE
- 27 Down: Moist (4)
- DEWY
- 28 Down: D.D.E.'s command (3)
- ETO
- 29 Down: Tied the knot again (5)
- REWED
- 31 Down: Daisylike flower (5)
- ASTER
- 32 Down: Lockup (4)
- JAIL
- 33 Down: Lyricist Harbach (4)
- OTTO
- 34 Down: North Sea feeder (4)
- YSER
- 36 Down: Most recent (6)
- NEWEST
- 37 Down: Anglo-Saxon laborer (4)
- ESNE
- 38 Down: Bruin great (3)
- ORR
- 42 Down: Mandarin or Temple (6)
- ORANGE
- 43 Down: Jalapa coin (4)
- PESO
- 44 Down: Rebuttal (6)
- ANSWER
- 45 Down: Swimmer's stroke (5)
- CRAWL
- 46 Down: Costa Rican statesman (5)
- ARIAS
- 47 Down: Predatory birds (5)
- KITES
- 48 Down: Cathedral's projection (4)
- APSE
- 49 Down: An Arnaz (4)
- DESI
- 50 Down: Cause the ruin of (4)
- UNDO
- 51 Down: Jason's ship (4)
- ARGO
- 52 Down: Consider (4)
- DEEM
- 53 Down: Small whirlpool (4)
- EDDY
- 55 Down: Prefix with corn or pod (3)
- TRI
- 56 Down: Focal point (3)
- HUB
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