Monday Crossword — May 27, 1991 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 78 clues). Published 5/27/1991. By Peter Swift.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Festival (4)
GALA
5 Across: Zasu of films (5)
PITTS
10 Across: ___ Plaines, Ill. (3)
DES
13 Across: Soviet sea (4)
ARAL
14 Across: Direction indicator (5)
ARROW
15 Across: Maize (4)
CORN
16 Across: Harry Woods's 1927 hit song (10)
SIDEBYSIDE
18 Across: Hebrides island (4)
IONA
19 Across: Army chaplain (5)
PADRE
20 Across: Stylish (3)
MOD
21 Across: Stumble (4)
TRIP
22 Across: Sharp taste (4)
TANG
25 Across: Composed (6)
SEDATE
27 Across: Wind up (3)
END
30 Across: Legal wrong (4)
TORT
32 Across: Intl. pact (4)
NATO
33 Across: Malicious gossip (4)
DIRT
35 Across: Swiss river (4)
AARE
37 Across: Goes horseback (5)
RIDES
40 Across: Half of an avenger's motto (15)
ATOOTHFORATOOTH
43 Across: Autumnal beauty (5)
MAPLE
44 Across: Actor Rip ___ (4)
TORN
45 Across: Something forbidden (4)
NONO
46 Across: Composer Bartók (4)
BELA
48 Across: Subject of Thoreau's "Walden" (4)
POND
50 Across: Inexperienced (3)
RAW
51 Across: Despot (6)
TYRANT
53 Across: Cupola's locale (4)
ROOF
55 Across: Soft drink (4)
SODA
56 Across: ___ Jima (3)
IWO
58 Across: Procrastinate (5)
DELAY
62 Across: ___ out (exhausted) (4)
WORN
63 Across: From ___ (occasionally) (10)
TIMETOTIME
66 Across: "Thanks ___!" (4)
ALOT
67 Across: Wind: Comb. form (5)
ANEMO
68 Across: Niblick, for one (4)
IRON
69 Across: Ginger (3)
PEP
70 Across: Be aware of (5)
SENSE
71 Across: Speaker's platform (4)
DAIS

Down Answers

1 Down: Breathe laboriously (4)
GASP
2 Down: Air for Aprile Millo (4)
ARIA
3 Down: Cheryl or Alan (4)
LADD
4 Down: Wide-awake (5)
ALERT
5 Down: Recompense (3)
PAY
6 Down: Apr. is its month (3)
IRS
7 Down: Orderly (4)
TRIM
8 Down: Commotions (5)
TODOS
9 Down: Nobel's land (6)
SWEDEN
10 Down: Kind of salesman (10)
DOORTODOOR
11 Down: Comic Kovacs (5)
ERNIE
12 Down: Something easy (4)
SNAP
15 Down: Military honor (8)
CITATION
17 Down: Thrash (4)
BEAT
23 Down: A Beery (4)
NOAH
24 Down: Dishonest gain (5)
GRAFT
26 Down: Pub missile (4)
DART
27 Down: A Dutch treat (4)
EDAM
28 Down: Girl in an old song (4)
NITA
29 Down: A little at a time (10)
DROPBYDROP
31 Down: Boy Scout unit (5)
TROOP
34 Down: Forbearing (8)
TOLERANT
36 Down: Faux pas (5)
ERROR
38 Down: Sicilian menace (4)
ETNA
39 Down: ___ up (arrive) (4)
SHOW
41 Down: Weblike membrane (4)
TELA
42 Down: Part of A.D. (4)
ANNO
47 Down: Loos and Ekberg (6)
ANITAS
49 Down: Fuddy-duddy (4)
DODO
51 Down: Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1981 (5)
TOOLE
52 Down: Strong string (5)
TWINE
54 Down: Foul smelling (5)
FETID
55 Down: Trade (4)
SWAP
57 Down: Portent (4)
OMEN
59 Down: Cremona coin (4)
LIRA
60 Down: Mine, to Jacques (4)
AMOI
61 Down: Cravings (4)
YENS
64 Down: Bad ___, German spa (3)
EMS
65 Down: Low digit (3)
TOE

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