Friday Crossword — September 27, 1991 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 74 clues). Published 9/27/1991. By Norma Steinberg.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Elec. units (4)
AMPS
5 Across: Wallace sidekick (5)
SAFER
10 Across: Thrash (4)
WHIP
14 Across: Author of "Men of Iron" (4)
PYLE
15 Across: Simulacrum (5)
IMAGE
16 Across: Con job (4)
RUSE
17 Across: Butcher shop: Fr. (4)
ETAL
18 Across: Underaged digger? (10)
MINORMINER
20 Across: English coin (8)
SHILLING
22 Across: Start (6)
OUTSET
23 Across: Dancer-mime Parenti (4)
NOEL
24 Across: Like a button? (4)
CUTE
25 Across: Lay blame upon (6)
IMPUTE
27 Across: Choice for a Wave's boudoir? (8)
WATERBED
31 Across: Skeezix's adoptive father (4)
WALT
32 Across: Rubbed clean (5)
WIPED
33 Across: Yay, matador! (3)
OLE
34 Across: Co-attendant on Cleo (4)
IRAS
35 Across: Got by (5)
FARED
36 Across: Align (4)
TRUE
37 Across: Peccancy (3)
SIN
38 Across: Muezzin (5)
CRIER
39 Across: Trouts' spawning ground (4)
REDD
40 Across: Unmindful (8)
HEEDLESS
42 Across: A to F (6)
GRADES
44 Across: Eden-to-Nod direction (4)
EAST
45 Across: Schoolgoer in a rhyme (4)
LAMB
46 Across: Lie in wait for (6)
AMBUSH
49 Across: Containers for slow cooking of stews (8)
BEANPOTS
53 Across: Chagall's lines? (10)
MARCSMARKS
55 Across: Julie Christie role: 1965 (4)
LARA
56 Across: Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 (4)
AGEE
57 Across: Ram that is starry-eyed (5)
ARIES
58 Across: Comic Idle (4)
ERIC
59 Across: A salutation (4)
SIRS
60 Across: Indigent (5)
NEEDY
61 Across: Dental degs. (4)
DDSS

Down Answers

1 Down: Barbary swingers (4)
APES
2 Down: Theseus-Minotaur tale, e.g. (4)
MYTH
3 Down: Stripped-down aircraft? (10)
PLAINPLANE
4 Down: S.R.O. shows (8)
SELLOUTS
5 Down: One of the tropes (6)
SIMILE
6 Down: Lebanon's ___ Gemayel (4)
AMIN
7 Down: Diller's "husband" (4)
FANG
8 Down: I, to Claudius (3)
EGO
9 Down: Detoured (8)
REROUTED
10 Down: Grub Street denizen (6)
WRITER
11 Down: Ephthalites (4)
HUNS
12 Down: "The More ___ You" (4)
ISEE
13 Down: Sassy (4)
PERT
19 Down: Toned down (5)
MUTED
21 Down: Service call (3)
LET
24 Down: Prank (5)
CAPER
25 Down: "Den ___ I was in Dixie" (5)
IWISH
26 Down: Mme. Curie (5)
MARIE
27 Down: Filigree materials (5)
WIRES
28 Down: Committee afflicted with ennui? (10)
BOREDBOARD
29 Down: Baffle (5)
ELUDE
30 Down: Homeowners' papers (5)
DEEDS
32 Down: In 36-26-36, the 26 (5)
WAIST
35 Down: Novice (8)
FRESHMAN
36 Down: Trod upon (8)
TRAMPLED
38 Down: Kidney (5)
CLASS
41 Down: These are often wild (6)
DEUCES
42 Down: Vitreous (6)
GLASSY
43 Down: Award-winning Japanese film (3)
RAN
46 Down: Candlenuts (4)
AMAS
47 Down: Subjects of a T. S. Eliot poem (4)
MAGI
48 Down: ___ Rabbit (4)
BRER
49 Down: Historic dairy land E of Paris (4)
BRIE
50 Down: A rhyme for leaked (4)
EKED
51 Down: Baseball star Speaker (4)
TRIS
52 Down: Black Hawk's tribe (4)
SACS
54 Down: "We ___ the World" (3)
ARE

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