Saturday Crossword — February 24, 1990 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 2/24/1990. By Nancy Joline.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Decrees (5)
- FIATS
- 6 Across: "Hans Brinker" author (5)
- DODGE
- 11 Across: Daffodil's kin (7)
- JONQUIL
- 13 Across: Memorial Stadium regular (6)
- ORIOLE
- 15 Across: Magnify (7)
- ENHANCE
- 16 Across: Substance used in chemical analysis (7)
- REAGENT
- 18 Across: Attempts (5)
- STABS
- 19 Across: Rakes (9)
- CASANOVAS
- 21 Across: Large hall (4)
- SALA
- 22 Across: Exposed (5)
- BARED
- 23 Across: Housewife, in Jerez (3)
- AMA
- 24 Across: Butyl follower (3)
- ENE
- 25 Across: Borgnine's Oscar-winning role (5)
- MARTY
- 26 Across: Word before alligator (5)
- LATER
- 28 Across: Austerlitz's adopted name (7)
- ASTAIRE
- 30 Across: Edible mushrooms (6)
- MORELS
- 31 Across: Off the cuff (9)
- EXTEMPORE
- 33 Across: Famed Cremona violins (6)
- AMATIS
- 36 Across: "Rhinoceros" playwright (7)
- IONESCO
- 39 Across: Units of force (5)
- DYNES
- 40 Across: Nile dam (5)
- ASWAN
- 41 Across: Medieval Czech martyr (3)
- HUS
- 43 Across: Holliday of westerns (3)
- DOC
- 44 Across: Like some flower arrangements (5)
- DRIED
- 45 Across: Actor Dillon (4)
- MATT
- 46 Across: Evanescent (9)
- EPHEMERAL
- 49 Across: Sojourn (5)
- TARRY
- 50 Across: Museum scenic display (7)
- DIORAMA
- 51 Across: Luang Prabang native (7)
- LAOTIAN
- 53 Across: Catherine of ___ (6)
- ARAGON
- 54 Across: Irrigation device (7)
- SYRINGE
- 55 Across: Restrain (5)
- STINT
- 56 Across: "Playboy of the Western World" playwright (5)
- SYNGE
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Roma's ___ di Trevi (7)
- FONTANA
- 2 Down: Takes a puff (7)
- INHALES
- 3 Down: Red Sea gulf (5)
- AQABA
- 4 Down: Wine casks (4)
- TUNS
- 5 Down: "___ 'em!" (3)
- SIC
- 6 Down: Big-band era name (6)
- DORSEY
- 7 Down: Mountain nymph (5)
- OREAD
- 8 Down: Naturalist Fossey (4)
- DIAN
- 9 Down: Galore, with "à" (4)
- GOGO
- 10 Down: Hoist (7)
- ELEVATE
- 11 Down: Father of David (5)
- JESSE
- 12 Down: Smiley's creator (7)
- LECARRE
- 14 Down: Cloisonné, e.g. (6)
- ENAMEL
- 17 Down: Autocrats (5)
- TSARS
- 20 Down: Plant with aromatic foliage (9)
- ARTEMISIA
- 22 Down: Entices (5)
- BAITS
- 25 Down: Certain skirts (5)
- MAXIS
- 26 Down: Signora Ponti (5)
- LOREN
- 27 Down: God imprisoned by the Aloadae (4)
- ARES
- 29 Down: Henri's head (4)
- TETE
- 30 Down: Single-celled organism (5)
- MONAD
- 32 Down: Dick, Eleanor, Jane and William of films (7)
- POWELLS
- 33 Down: Supplementary (5)
- ADDED
- 34 Down: Mr. Magoo's problem (6)
- MYOPIA
- 35 Down: Newscast honchos (7)
- ANCHORS
- 37 Down: "84 ___ Cross Road," 1987 film (7)
- CHARING
- 38 Down: Indignity (7)
- OUTRAGE
- 40 Down: Utter (6)
- ARRANT
- 42 Down: "Gypsy" composer (5)
- STYNE
- 44 Down: Incubus (5)
- DEMON
- 45 Down: Morning, in Marseille (5)
- MATIN
- 47 Down: It was, to Cato (4)
- ERAT
- 48 Down: O. Henry's "The Gift of the ___" (4)
- MAGI
- 49 Down: Disraeli, for one (4)
- TORY
- 52 Down: British Parliament sounds (3)
- AYS
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