Saturday Crossword — August 4, 1990 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 8/4/1990. By Michael A. Rampino.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: More attractive (5)
- CUTER
- 6 Across: Air-raid shelters (5)
- ABRIS
- 11 Across: Ill. city (6)
- MOLINE
- 12 Across: Marvel (6)
- WONDER
- 14 Across: Swoops (7)
- POUNCES
- 15 Across: Place for matériel (7)
- ARSENAL
- 17 Across: Meat and vegetable stews (5)
- OLLAS
- 18 Across: Three winning lotto numbers (4)
- TERN
- 20 Across: Italian wine region (4)
- ASTI
- 21 Across: Japanese statesman and family (4)
- ITOS
- 22 Across: Like some carriers or goods (6)
- BONDED
- 24 Across: "Gotcha!" exclamation (3)
- AHA
- 25 Across: Author of "One Human Minute" (3)
- LEM
- 26 Across: Persian king (5)
- CYRUS
- 27 Across: Professor, at times (5)
- RATER
- 29 Across: Never defeated (8)
- UNBEATEN
- 31 Across: Eremites (6)
- LONERS
- 32 Across: Foreknowing (9)
- PRESCIENT
- 34 Across: Counts (on) (6)
- RELIES
- 37 Across: Broker's customer (8)
- INVESTOR
- 41 Across: Raise (5)
- ERECT
- 42 Across: Foundations (5)
- BASES
- 43 Across: Palindromic word (3)
- ERE
- 44 Across: Songwriter Kahn (3)
- GUS
- 45 Across: Diving duck (6)
- SCOTER
- 47 Across: Billow, at Brest (4)
- ONDE
- 48 Across: ___ dixit (4)
- IPSE
- 50 Across: Who's sorry now? (4)
- RUER
- 51 Across: Showed partisanship (5)
- SIDED
- 52 Across: More pitiless (7)
- STONIER
- 54 Across: Laborers (7)
- TOILERS
- 56 Across: Saws wood in bed (6)
- SNORES
- 57 Across: Records (6)
- ENTERS
- 58 Across: Low-lying marsh area (5)
- SWALE
- 59 Across: Activists (5)
- DOERS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Electrical unit (7)
- COULOMB
- 2 Down: Counterparts of tibias (5)
- ULNAS
- 3 Down: Fixations (4)
- TICS
- 4 Down: Nantes-to-Angers dir. (3)
- ENE
- 5 Down: Touches up old masters (8)
- RESTORES
- 6 Down: Emmy and Oscar (6)
- AWARDS
- 7 Down: "___, like thy bubbles, onward": Byron (5)
- BORNE
- 8 Down: Important hosp. personnel (3)
- RNS
- 9 Down: Brainchild (4)
- IDEA
- 10 Down: Having esthesia (7)
- SENSATE
- 11 Down: Liquified by heat (6)
- MOLTEN
- 13 Down: Rival of Brokaw (6)
- RATHER
- 14 Down: French soldier (5)
- POILU
- 16 Down: Prevaricators (5)
- LIARS
- 19 Down: Utter in an articulate way (9)
- ENUNCIATE
- 22 Down: Computer quantities (5)
- BYTES
- 23 Down: Hive idlers (6)
- DRONES
- 26 Down: Proofreaders' marks (6)
- CARETS
- 28 Down: Formicary dwellers (4)
- ANTS
- 30 Down: "Poema del Cid," e.g. (4)
- EPIC
- 31 Down: Peavy (5)
- LEVER
- 33 Down: Put in (8)
- INSERTED
- 34 Down: Noted Jesuit high school in N.Y.C. (5)
- REGIS
- 35 Down: Bursts (6)
- ERUPTS
- 36 Down: Teaching sessions (7)
- LESSONS
- 38 Down: Offers (7)
- TENDERS
- 39 Down: Church ranks (6)
- ORDERS
- 40 Down: Bamboolike grasses (5)
- REEDS
- 42 Down: Stock exchange (6)
- BOURSE
- 46 Down: Fisherman's basket (5)
- CREEL
- 47 Down: Engine-room employee (5)
- OILER
- 49 Down: FitzGerald's "enough" (4)
- ENOW
- 51 Down: Locale (4)
- SITE
- 53 Down: Novelist Levin (3)
- IRA
- 55 Down: "Sail ___ Union!" (3)
- ONO
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