Monday Crossword — August 5, 1991 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 8/5/1991. By Bernice Gordon.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Sailor's mop (4)
SWAB
5 Across: Tree-climbing civet (5)
RASSE
10 Across: Margaret Truman's "Murder at the ___" (3)
FBI
13 Across: City in Kan. (4)
IOLA
14 Across: Vest (6)
WESKIT
15 Across: Shutout spoiler (3)
RUN
16 Across: Admirer of Gallic people (11)
FRANCOPHILE
18 Across: Transport in Genesis (3)
ARK
19 Across: Clooney hit: 1955 (8)
TENDERLY
20 Across: Tall and slim (5)
RANGY
22 Across: Suburb of Paris (4)
ISSY
23 Across: Kind of barrier (5)
SONIC
25 Across: Worn out (6)
EFFETE
28 Across: Corrective (8)
REMEDIAL
31 Across: Concealed (5)
PERDU
32 Across: Telegram (4)
WIRE
33 Across: The Charles's pet (4)
ASTA
34 Across: Whoopi's role in "Ghost" (3)
ODA
35 Across: Kind of cream (7)
SHAVING
38 Across: Short-legged horse (3)
COB
39 Across: Finished (4)
DONE
41 Across: Covered-wagon team (4)
OXEN
42 Across: Hersey's town in Italy (5)
ADANO
44 Across: Weigh down (8)
ENCUMBER
46 Across: Hot dog (6)
WIENER
47 Across: Hunter on high (5)
ORION
48 Across: ___ Blanc (4)
MONT
49 Across: Hope-chest fabric (5)
LINEN
51 Across: Perrine and Bertinelli (8)
VALERIES
55 Across: Baba, the woodcutter (3)
ALI
56 Across: Symphony in D minor composer (11)
CESARFRANCK
59 Across: Orel's stream (3)
OKA
60 Across: Casts out (6)
EGESTS
61 Across: Actress Witherspoon (4)
CORA
62 Across: Juan or Jose (3)
SAN
63 Across: Loco (5)
DOTTY
64 Across: Carpentry item (4)
TNUT

Down Answers

1 Down: Prepare flour (4)
SIFT
2 Down: Had on (4)
WORE
3 Down: Comical King (4)
ALAN
4 Down: Tossed from side to side (7)
BANDIED
5 Down: Answer (5)
REPLY
6 Down: Deadly pale (4)
ASHY
7 Down: Emulate Phil Mahre (3)
SKI
8 Down: Part of R.S.V.P. (3)
SIL
9 Down: Forever, in verse (6)
ETERNE
10 Down: Order founded in Assisi: 1209 (10)
FRANCISCAN
11 Down: Walled town (4)
BURG
12 Down: Very dark (4)
INKY
14 Down: In a poorer state (5)
WORSE
17 Down: Hand covering for Roman boxers (6)
CESTUS
21 Down: Role for Price (4)
AIDA
23 Down: Canary's cousin (5)
SERIN
24 Down: Foretoken (4)
OMEN
25 Down: Lyric poem (5)
EPODE
26 Down: " . . . grown by what it ___": Hamlet (5)
FEDON
27 Down: Native of Hesse (10)
FRANCONIAN
28 Down: "The ___," 1984 film (5)
RIVER
29 Down: Make amends (5)
ATONE
30 Down: Toil (5)
LABOR
32 Down: Pallid (5)
WAXEN
36 Down: Rider of the rails (4)
HOBO
37 Down: Louganis feat (6)
GAINER
40 Down: Seine feeder (4)
EURE
43 Down: Take away (7)
DETRACT
45 Down: Finely chopped (6)
MINCED
46 Down: Eats greedily (5)
WOLFS
48 Down: Oscar-winning Borgnine part (5)
MARTY
49 Down: Vientiane is its capital (4)
LAOS
50 Down: Actress-writer Chase (4)
ILKA
51 Down: Immense (4)
VAST
52 Down: Privy to (4)
INON
53 Down: Yellowish gray (4)
ECRU
54 Down: Three-handed card game (4)
SKAT
57 Down: Alter follower (3)
EGO
58 Down: Mount a diamond (3)
SET

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