Monday Crossword — November 12, 1990 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 11/12/1990. By Peter Swift.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Combos (5)
BANDS
6 Across: Breathe laboriously (4)
GASP
10 Across: Box (4)
SPAR
14 Across: Prufrock's creator (5)
ELIOT
15 Across: Movie dog (4)
ASTA
16 Across: Pa. city (4)
ERIE
17 Across: Speechless (10)
TONGUETIED
19 Across: Soggy ground (4)
MIRE
20 Across: Sailor (6)
SEAMAN
21 Across: Shows up (7)
ARRIVES
23 Across: Engraving, for one (3)
ART
24 Across: Swiss painter: 1879-1940 (4)
KLEE
25 Across: Summer drink (3)
ADE
26 Across: Beat or shoot preceder (3)
OFF
29 Across: Genuine (4)
TRUE
31 Across: Utah's Great ___ Lake (4)
SALT
33 Across: Word of grief (4)
ALAS
35 Across: Gibbons (4)
APES
37 Across: Twosome in Mecca (4)
CEES
39 Across: Frolic (15)
KICKUPONESHEELS
43 Across: Sneak a look (4)
PEEK
44 Across: Trim (4)
NEAT
45 Across: Whiskies (4)
RYES
46 Across: Yuletide poem opener (4)
TWAS
48 Across: Coaster (4)
SLED
50 Across: Farm animal (3)
EWE
51 Across: G.I.'s mail address (3)
APO
53 Across: R.b.i., for one (4)
STAT
55 Across: Limb (3)
ARM
57 Across: One point, in tennis (7)
FIFTEEN
59 Across: Merchant (6)
DEALER
63 Across: Rush headlong (4)
TEAR
64 Across: Triumph in a close race (10)
WINBYANOSE
67 Across: ___ homo (4)
ECCE
68 Across: Filmdom's Kazan (4)
ELIA
69 Across: Singer Ross (5)
DIANA
70 Across: Strong odor (4)
REEK
71 Across: Obligation (4)
DEBT
72 Across: Wallace associate (5)
SAFER

Down Answers

1 Down: Gambles (4)
BETS
2 Down: Medicinal plant (4)
ALOE
3 Down: Actress Foch (4)
NINA
4 Down: Fixed belief (5)
DOGMA
5 Down: Portrait painter Gilbert ___ (6)
STUART
6 Down: Roscoe (3)
GAT
7 Down: "___ was saying . . . " (3)
ASI
8 Down: Embezzle (5)
STEAL
9 Down: San Diego nine (6)
PADRES
10 Down: Half: Prefix (4)
SEMI
11 Down: Tec (10)
PRIVATEEYE
12 Down: Ventilated (5)
AIRED
13 Down: Pee Wee of the Dodgers (5)
REESE
18 Down: Snare (6)
ENTRAP
22 Down: Attain (5)
REACH
24 Down: Most acute (7)
KEENEST
26 Down: Durable wood (3)
OAK
27 Down: Toss (4)
FLIP
28 Down: In confrontation (10)
FACETOFACE
30 Down: Bone ___ (study) (4)
UPON
32 Down: Smirk's relative (4)
LEER
34 Down: Twist (4)
SKEW
36 Down: Close tightly (4)
SEAL
38 Down: Large number (4)
SLEW
40 Down: Imperial command (5)
UKASE
41 Down: Stable (6)
STEADY
42 Down: Köln-to-Bonn dir. (3)
SSE
47 Down: Cooked (6)
STEWED
49 Down: Fears greatly (6)
DREADS
51 Down: Look ___ (tend) (5)
AFTER
52 Down: Hunk (5)
PIECE
54 Down: Old-womanish (5)
ANILE
56 Down: Craze (5)
MANIA
58 Down: Arduous journey (4)
TREK
60 Down: Dawdle (4)
LOAF
61 Down: Slave of yore (4)
ESNE
62 Down: Raise (4)
REAR
65 Down: Sparrow's beak (3)
NIB
66 Down: Binge (3)
BAT

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