Wednesday Crossword — January 24, 1990 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this medium crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 1/24/1990. By Richard Silvestri.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Covenant (4)
PACT
5 Across: Pkg. (3)
BDL
8 Across: Screen vamp (4)
BARA
12 Across: Support beam (4)
IBAR
13 Across: Cote mothers (4)
EWES
15 Across: Spurred (5)
URGED
16 Across: It, in Mexico (4)
ELLO
17 Across: Sitarist Shankar (4)
RAVI
18 Across: Weeper of myth (5)
NIOBE
19 Across: Turn down trash? (12)
REFUSEREFUSE
22 Across: Smorgasbord smack? (12)
BUFFETBUFFET
26 Across: Talisman (6)
AMULET
29 Across: Reduced in price (6)
ONSALE
30 Across: Highway divisions (5)
LANES
31 Across: Rawboned one (5)
SCRAG
34 Across: Interdiction (3)
BAN
35 Across: Midpts. (4)
CTRS
36 Across: Mock (5)
FLOUT
37 Across: Move like a butterfly (4)
FLIT
38 Across: Refreshed the inner man (3)
ATE
39 Across: Senior member (5)
DOYEN
40 Across: Compound with two double bonds (5)
DIENE
41 Across: Carolina river (6)
PEEDEE
43 Across: ___ Antilles (6)
LESSER
44 Across: Warsaw wax? (12)
POLISHPOLISH
48 Across: Tiny time period? (12)
MINUTEMINUTE
52 Across: Practices prestidigitation (5)
PALMS
55 Across: Comparison word (4)
THAN
56 Across: Sinful (4)
EVIL
57 Across: Argosy (5)
FLEET
58 Across: Golfer Ballesteros (4)
SEVE
59 Across: Change for a twenty (4)
TENS
60 Across: Bedecked (4)
CLAD
61 Across: Checkers choice (3)
RED
62 Across: Surfeit (4)
SATE

Down Answers

1 Down: Stevedore's spot (4)
PIER
2 Down: Up to snuff (4)
ABLE
3 Down: Dogie (4)
CALF
4 Down: Worries (8)
TROUBLES
5 Down: Deprived (6)
BEREFT
6 Down: Doc, for one (5)
DWARF
7 Down: Mississippi River sight (5)
LEVEE
8 Down: Legal outlines (6)
BRIEFS
9 Down: Earlier than now (3)
AGO
10 Down: Confederate Johnny (3)
REB
11 Down: Dog-days drink (3)
ADE
14 Down: Put through a sieve (4)
SIFT
15 Down: Renownless (6)
UNSUNG
20 Down: Takes to court (4)
SUES
21 Down: Lusitania sinker (5)
UBOAT
23 Down: Aesopian output (6)
FABLES
24 Down: Mother of Galahad (6)
ELAINE
25 Down: Frame for drying clothes (6)
TENTER
26 Down: Dogpatch creator (6)
ALCAPP
27 Down: Capuchin order founder ___ da Bascio (6)
MATTEO
28 Down: Spin off the spool (6)
UNREEL
31 Down: Wily (3)
SLY
32 Down: Cedar Rapids college (3)
COE
33 Down: Shutout spoiler (3)
RUN
36 Down: Mountain wind (5)
FOEHN
37 Down: Seines (8)
FISHNETS
39 Down: Proceed no more (6)
DESIST
40 Down: Lucy's mate (4)
DESI
42 Down: Switched to the low beam (6)
DIMMED
43 Down: Delineated (6)
LIMNED
45 Down: Expresses (4)
PUTS
46 Down: Different (5)
OTHER
47 Down: Head for the exit (5)
LEAVE
49 Down: Iris layer (4)
UVEA
50 Down: Hair dye (4)
TINT
51 Down: Additionally (4)
ELSE
52 Down: Promoted pvt. (3)
PFC
53 Down: Wholly (3)
ALL
54 Down: Grazing ground (3)
LEA

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