Saturday Crossword — August 4, 1990

Difficulty: HardGrid: 15x1570 clues~30-60 minBy Michael A. Rampino8/4/1990

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Crossword Clues

Across

1 Across
More attractive (5 letters)
6 Across
Air-raid shelters (5 letters)
11 Across
Ill. city (6 letters)
12 Across
Marvel (6 letters)
14 Across
Swoops (7 letters)
15 Across
Place for matériel (7 letters)
17 Across
Meat and vegetable stews (5 letters)
18 Across
Three winning lotto numbers (4 letters)
20 Across
Italian wine region (4 letters)
21 Across
Japanese statesman and family (4 letters)
22 Across
Like some carriers or goods (6 letters)
24 Across
"Gotcha!" exclamation (3 letters)
25 Across
Author of "One Human Minute" (3 letters)
26 Across
Persian king (5 letters)
27 Across
Professor, at times (5 letters)
29 Across
Never defeated (8 letters)
31 Across
Eremites (6 letters)
32 Across
Foreknowing (9 letters)
34 Across
Counts (on) (6 letters)
37 Across
Broker's customer (8 letters)
41 Across
Raise (5 letters)
42 Across
Foundations (5 letters)
43 Across
Palindromic word (3 letters)
44 Across
Songwriter Kahn (3 letters)
45 Across
Diving duck (6 letters)
47 Across
Billow, at Brest (4 letters)
48 Across
___ dixit (4 letters)
50 Across
Who's sorry now? (4 letters)
51 Across
Showed partisanship (5 letters)
52 Across
More pitiless (7 letters)
54 Across
Laborers (7 letters)
56 Across
Saws wood in bed (6 letters)
57 Across
Records (6 letters)
58 Across
Low-lying marsh area (5 letters)
59 Across
Activists (5 letters)

Down

1 Down
Electrical unit (7 letters)
2 Down
Counterparts of tibias (5 letters)
3 Down
Fixations (4 letters)
4 Down
Nantes-to-Angers dir. (3 letters)
5 Down
Touches up old masters (8 letters)
6 Down
Emmy and Oscar (6 letters)
7 Down
"___, like thy bubbles, onward": Byron (5 letters)
8 Down
Important hosp. personnel (3 letters)
9 Down
Brainchild (4 letters)
10 Down
Having esthesia (7 letters)
11 Down
Liquified by heat (6 letters)
13 Down
Rival of Brokaw (6 letters)
14 Down
French soldier (5 letters)
16 Down
Prevaricators (5 letters)
19 Down
Utter in an articulate way (9 letters)
22 Down
Computer quantities (5 letters)
23 Down
Hive idlers (6 letters)
26 Down
Proofreaders' marks (6 letters)
28 Down
Formicary dwellers (4 letters)
30 Down
"Poema del Cid," e.g. (4 letters)
31 Down
Peavy (5 letters)
33 Down
Put in (8 letters)
34 Down
Noted Jesuit high school in N.Y.C. (5 letters)
35 Down
Bursts (6 letters)
36 Down
Teaching sessions (7 letters)
38 Down
Offers (7 letters)
39 Down
Church ranks (6 letters)
40 Down
Bamboolike grasses (5 letters)
42 Down
Stock exchange (6 letters)
46 Down
Fisherman's basket (5 letters)
47 Down
Engine-room employee (5 letters)
49 Down
FitzGerald's "enough" (4 letters)
51 Down
Locale (4 letters)
53 Down
Novelist Levin (3 letters)
55 Down
"Sail ___ Union!" (3 letters)

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