Friday Crossword — December 21, 1990 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 70 clues). Published 12/21/1990. By Eileen Lexau.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Cringe (6)
- GROVEL
- 7 Across: Noted (5)
- FAMED
- 12 Across: Private chapel (7)
- ORATORY
- 13 Across: Looked for food (7)
- FORAGED
- 15 Across: Concise (7)
- LACONIC
- 16 Across: Pizza spice (7)
- OREGANO
- 17 Across: Penrod's dog (4)
- DUKE
- 18 Across: Whit (4)
- HOOT
- 20 Across: Astringent (4)
- ALUM
- 21 Across: Coarse person (3)
- APE
- 22 Across: Ski-slope mound (5)
- MOGUL
- 24 Across: Chemical compound (5)
- AZIDE
- 25 Across: Firm (3)
- SET
- 26 Across: "I smell ___" (4)
- ARAT
- 27 Across: Treats maliciously (6)
- SPITES
- 28 Across: Sammy Cahn is one (6)
- LYRIST
- 30 Across: Dawdled (6)
- MOONED
- 31 Across: Lotion plant (4)
- ALOE
- 32 Across: River in Poland, to Germans (4)
- ALLE
- 33 Across: Deceives (6)
- COZENS
- 35 Across: Less tight (6)
- LOOSER
- 38 Across: Preadults (6)
- MINORS
- 39 Across: Mild oath (4)
- DANG
- 40 Across: ___ de plume (3)
- NOM
- 42 Across: Anatomical passages (5)
- ITERS
- 43 Across: Chubby (5)
- PUDGY
- 44 Across: River in Portugal (3)
- TUA
- 45 Across: Plagiarize (4)
- CRIB
- 46 Across: Indonesian island (4)
- ALOR
- 47 Across: Spring period (4)
- LENT
- 48 Across: Lesser nobleman, in Spain (7)
- HIDALGO
- 50 Across: Canada goose (7)
- OUTARDE
- 53 Across: Made into law (7)
- ENACTED
- 54 Across: In a silly way (7)
- INANELY
- 55 Across: Glacial ridge (5)
- ESKAR
- 56 Across: Cheap and gaudy (6)
- TAWDRY
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Soft hail (7)
- GRAUPEL
- 2 Down: Raffish (7)
- RACKETY
- 3 Down: North American Indian (4)
- OTOE
- 4 Down: Ludwig ___ Beethoven (3)
- VON
- 5 Down: Silkworm (3)
- ERI
- 6 Down: Roofed churchyard structures (9)
- LYCHGATES
- 7 Down: Ord, e.g. (4)
- FORT
- 8 Down: "You ___ There" (3)
- ARE
- 9 Down: Periodicals (9)
- MAGAZINES
- 10 Down: A goal of the French Revolution (7)
- EGALITE
- 11 Down: Stripped (7)
- DENUDED
- 12 Down: ___ the hills (5)
- OLDAS
- 13 Down: Dolt (4)
- FOOL
- 14 Down: Cathedral tops (5)
- DOMES
- 19 Down: Baseball call (3)
- OUT
- 22 Down: "Marilyn" author's family (7)
- MAILERS
- 23 Down: Bean and Welles (6)
- ORSONS
- 24 Down: Excuse, sometimes (7)
- APOLOGY
- 27 Down: Goodbye (6)
- SOLONG
- 29 Down: Kind of hog (9)
- RAZORBACK
- 30 Down: Clumsy (9)
- MALADROIT
- 33 Down: Yellow variety of quartz (7)
- CITRINE
- 34 Down: Iroquois Indians (7)
- ONEIDAS
- 36 Down: Computer-terminal worker, e.g. (7)
- ENTERER
- 37 Down: In a blunt manner (7)
- ROUNDLY
- 38 Down: Round French loaf (5)
- MICHE
- 39 Down: Two-piano piece (3)
- DUO
- 41 Down: Chummy, in Cheshire (5)
- MATEY
- 43 Down: Trudge (4)
- PLOD
- 46 Down: Ripening agent (4)
- AGER
- 47 Down: Bring an aircraft down (4)
- LAND
- 49 Down: Like balloons: Abbr. (3)
- LTA
- 51 Down: Actress Merkel (3)
- UNA
- 52 Down: Shooter marble (3)
- TAW
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