Friday Crossword — February 22, 1991 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 2/22/1991. By Arthur W. Palmer.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Like George Apley (4)
LATE
5 Across: Word with word (5)
CATCH
10 Across: Certain cholesterol containers (4)
EGGS
14 Across: Oculus mundi (4)
OPAL
15 Across: City NW of Orlando (5)
OCALA
16 Across: Author Eliav (4)
ARIE
17 Across: Supermarket section (4)
DELI
18 Across: Eminent (5)
NOTED
19 Across: ___ voce (orally) (4)
VIVA
20 Across: Former supermarket employee? (9)
EXCHEQUER
22 Across: Pulitzer Prize poet: 1944 (5)
BENET
23 Across: Extinct German ox (4)
URUS
24 Across: Actor Kristofferson (4)
KRIS
26 Across: Crux (3)
NUB
29 Across: Defeats a bidder (4)
SETS
31 Across: Adjective for Cain (6)
ELDEST
35 Across: Exciting (8)
ELECTRIC
37 Across: "My Fair Lady" lyricist (6)
LERNER
38 Across: Town on the Vire (4)
STLO
39 Across: Barret or biggin (3)
CAP
41 Across: "Beetle Bailey" dog (4)
OTTO
42 Across: Spoil (6)
TROPHY
45 Across: Sheridan's Mrs. ___ (8)
MALAPROP
48 Across: Finn's pal (6)
SAWYER
49 Across: Prudish (4)
PRIM
50 Across: N.Y.C.-to-Boston dir. (3)
ENE
51 Across: Acclivity (4)
RISE
53 Across: "Gigi" playwright (4)
LOOS
55 Across: Run a meeting (5)
CHAIR
58 Across: Trial of a grouch? (9)
CRANKCASE
63 Across: Chinese warehouse (4)
HONG
64 Across: "Hec Ramsey" actor (5)
BOONE
65 Across: "___ Named Sue" (4)
ABOY
66 Across: Part of a foot (4)
INCH
67 Across: Unions (5)
BLOCS
68 Across: Shade of yellow (4)
LIME
69 Across: Painter Mondrian (4)
PIET
70 Across: Gives up (5)
CEDES
71 Across: Guazuti or guemal (4)
DEER

Down Answers

1 Down: Miner's strike (4)
LODE
2 Down: Peak (4)
APEX
3 Down: Mica of muscovite (4)
TALC
4 Down: A forefather of Samuel (5)
ELIHU
5 Down: Emulate William I of England (7)
CONQUER
6 Down: Kind of guitar (8)
ACOUSTIC
7 Down: Poet Nahum ___ (4)
TATE
8 Down: A Canterbury pilgrim (5)
CLERK
9 Down: Stung: Slang (3)
HAD
10 Down: Rain on the roof? (9)
EAVESDROP
11 Down: Beam (4)
GRIN
12 Down: Elasticity (4)
GIVE
13 Down: Membership (4)
SEAT
21 Down: Once, once (4)
ERST
22 Down: Irascibility (4)
BILE
25 Down: Bro., for one (3)
REL
26 Down: Hornets' homes (5)
NESTS
27 Down: Way out (5)
ULTRA
28 Down: In Hades (5)
BELOW
30 Down: Scaramouch (5)
SCAMP
32 Down: Among, in Amiens (5)
ENTRE
33 Down: "Dragonwyck" author (5)
SETON
34 Down: Simile, e.g. (5)
TROPE
36 Down: Make a true facsimile? (9)
COPYRIGHT
40 Down: Vernacular (8)
PARLANCE
43 Down: ___ apparent (4)
HEIR
44 Down: Parts of cents. (3)
YRS
46 Down: Elsa, for one (7)
LIONESS
47 Down: Needlessly (4)
AMOK
52 Down: Lycée's kin (5)
ECOLE
54 Down: Cooking direction (5)
SCALD
55 Down: Block part (4)
CHIP
56 Down: Tap dancer Coles (4)
HONI
57 Down: Utter attachment (4)
ANCE
59 Down: Cross (4)
ROOD
60 Down: Nicols hero (4)
ABIE
61 Down: Considerably (4)
SOME
62 Down: Witness (4)
EYER
64 Down: Eng. network (3)
BBC

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