Friday Crossword — August 24, 1990 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 8/24/1990. By June A. Boggs.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Row (5)
- SCRAP
- 6 Across: Before surgery, in hosp. argot (5)
- PREOP
- 11 Across: Thud (3)
- BAM
- 14 Across: "___ in the Dark," 1982 film (5)
- ALONE
- 15 Across: Chilling (5)
- EERIE
- 16 Across: Scorpius neighbor (3)
- ARA
- 17 Across: Hayworth title role (5)
- GILDA
- 18 Across: Wading bird (5)
- STILT
- 19 Across: Soused (3)
- LIT
- 20 Across: Peevish (9)
- SPLENETIC
- 22 Across: Angry (5)
- UPSET
- 24 Across: Grapevine concern (5)
- RUMOR
- 25 Across: "___ Be Kind," 1938 song (6)
- PLEASE
- 26 Across: Type of earthenware (6)
- FIESTA
- 29 Across: Publisher-critic Joel ___ Spingarn: 1875-1939 (5)
- ELIAS
- 31 Across: A Guthrie in "Alice's Restaurant" (4)
- ARLO
- 32 Across: Back another's promissory note (6)
- COSIGN
- 34 Across: British builder's bar (3)
- ZED
- 37 Across: Sanhedrin, e.g. (7)
- COUNCIL
- 39 Across: Dilettante (7)
- ESTHETE
- 41 Across: Photography abbr. (3)
- ENL
- 42 Across: Most fit (6)
- HALEST
- 44 Across: "Artaxerxes" composer (4)
- ARNE
- 45 Across: Xinjiang oasis (5)
- HOTAN
- 46 Across: Encroachment (6)
- INROAD
- 48 Across: Tractable (6)
- DOCILE
- 51 Across: Churchill's "___ Finest Hour" (5)
- THEIR
- 53 Across: Fuming (5)
- IRATE
- 54 Across: Peppery; testy (9)
- IRASCIBLE
- 58 Across: Coach-and-four (3)
- RIG
- 59 Across: Johnson of decathlon fame (5)
- RAFER
- 61 Across: Brickell and Adams (5)
- EDIES
- 62 Across: Turn right (3)
- GEE
- 63 Across: Long series of woes (5)
- ILIAD
- 64 Across: Springarn Medal presenter (5)
- NAACP
- 65 Across: Town on the Ouse (3)
- ELY
- 66 Across: Feline (5)
- CATTY
- 67 Across: Exalt (5)
- ENSKY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Flags (4)
- SAGS
- 2 Down: Swindle (4)
- CLIP
- 3 Down: Brötchen (4)
- ROLL
- 4 Down: A star in "Rebecca": 1940 (8)
- ANDERSON
- 5 Down: Certain gallery (6)
- PEANUT
- 6 Down: Italian sauce (5)
- PESTO
- 7 Down: Ballet movements (7)
- RETIRES
- 8 Down: Stoltz of "Mask" (4)
- ERIC
- 9 Down: Balm base (3)
- OIL
- 10 Down: Touchy (8)
- PETULANT
- 11 Down: Life raft (5)
- BALSA
- 12 Down: Heavenly butter (5)
- ARIES
- 13 Down: Roughened surface (5)
- MATTE
- 21 Down: Make abnormally lean (8)
- EMACIATE
- 23 Down: Footlike part (3)
- PES
- 25 Down: Filthy places (8)
- PIGSTIES
- 26 Down: Confront (4)
- FACE
- 27 Down: Mangle (4)
- IRON
- 28 Down: Jewish month (4)
- ELUL
- 30 Down: Taradiddles (4)
- LIES
- 33 Down: Spanish stew (4)
- OLLA
- 34 Down: The mark of sorrow (4)
- ZERO
- 35 Down: Pittsburgh suburb (4)
- ETNA
- 36 Down: Doing (4)
- DEED
- 38 Down: Irritable (8)
- CHOLERIC
- 40 Down: Nag (8)
- HARRIDAN
- 43 Down: Beseech (7)
- ENTREAT
- 45 Down: Belt (3)
- HIT
- 47 Down: ___ Creed: A.D. 325 (6)
- NICENE
- 48 Down: "Dies Irae" is one (5)
- DIRGE
- 49 Down: Protruding window (5)
- ORIEL
- 50 Down: Shrewd (5)
- CAGEY
- 52 Down: Strong (5)
- HARDY
- 54 Down: "___ Die": Gide (4)
- IFIT
- 55 Down: Predispose (4)
- BIAS
- 56 Down: Leaky, in Lübeck (4)
- LECK
- 57 Down: Make out (4)
- ESPY
- 60 Down: ___ rigueur (literally) (3)
- ALA
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