Friday Crossword — October 18, 1991 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 80 clues). Published 10/18/1991. By Virginia L. Yates.

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Across Answers

1 Across: "Let us ___ die!": Burns (4)
DOOR
5 Across: Topknot (5)
CREST
10 Across: Lose pizazz (4)
FLAG
14 Across: Rice-shaped pasta (4)
ORZO
15 Across: Word to Dolly (5)
HELLO
16 Across: Craze (4)
RAGE
17 Across: Bankrupt firm? (10)
FIZZLEDBIZ
19 Across: Concerning (4)
INRE
20 Across: "Murder at the ___": Margaret Truman (3)
FBI
21 Across: Knock for ___ (5)
ALOOP
22 Across: A Walton (5)
IZAAK
23 Across: Sonora snooze (6)
SIESTA
25 Across: Thing easy to do (5)
WALTZ
27 Across: Finish first (3)
WIN
28 Across: Wake, for one (6)
ISLAND
32 Across: Passengers' area in a plane (5)
CABIN
35 Across: Charlie Parker's specialty (4)
JAZZ
38 Across: " . . . ___ saw Elba" (4)
EREI
39 Across: Forty-eighth st. (4)
ARIZ
40 Across: Mario of music (5)
LANZA
41 Across: More minute (4)
WEER
42 Across: Ring (4)
BUZZ
43 Across: Court crier's word (4)
OYEZ
44 Across: Whit (5)
SHADE
45 Across: Mrs. Kowalski (6)
STELLA
47 Across: ___-disant (so-called) (3)
SOI
48 Across: Quilt source (5)
EIDER
51 Across: Cheer (6)
HUZZAH
55 Across: One from Kirkuk (5)
IRAQI
58 Across: Adds punch to the punch (5)
LACES
60 Across: "___ Man Answers," 1962 film (3)
IFA
61 Across: Freud's "Totem und ___" (4)
TABU
62 Across: Irate Taylor? (10)
SIZZLEDLIZ
64 Across: Cherie's case (4)
ETUI
65 Across: Ermine in summer (5)
STOAT
66 Across: Rod multiple (4)
ACRE
67 Across: Historic city on the Moselle (4)
METZ
68 Across: Toweling (5)
TERRY
69 Across: Slough (4)
SHED

Down Answers

1 Down: Takes off (5)
DOFFS
2 Down: Bushbuck's kin (5)
ORIBI
3 Down: One of the Nelsons (5)
OZZIE
4 Down: Cartoonist Chast (3)
ROZ
5 Down: Lake in Wash. (6)
CHELAN
6 Down: Fix up (4)
REDO
7 Down: Shove (5)
ELBOW
8 Down: ___ cog (err) (5)
SLIPA
9 Down: From A ___ (3)
TOZ
10 Down: Hairdresser? (11)
FRIZZLEWHIZ
11 Down: Singer Cantrell (4)
LANA
12 Down: Taj Mahal's locale (4)
AGRA
13 Down: A carny (4)
GEEK
18 Down: Quarter in Paris (5)
LATIN
22 Down: "___ in the bag!" (3)
ITS
24 Down: Part of a bartender's test? (11)
SWIZZLEQUIZ
26 Down: "Li'l ___ Jane," 1916 song (4)
LIZA
29 Down: Kind of code (4)
AREA
30 Down: Indigence (4)
NEED
31 Down: ___ Straits, rock group (4)
DIRE
32 Down: Yonkers honkers (4)
CABS
33 Down: In ___ (stuck) (4)
ARUT
34 Down: Cold wind: Var. (4)
BIZE
35 Down: First Chief Justice (3)
JAY
36 Down: One, in Ayr (3)
ANE
37 Down: What a snorer counts (3)
ZZZ
40 Down: Thing to get off one's mind (4)
LOAD
44 Down: Pickle (5)
SOUSE
46 Down: Twice XXVI (3)
LII
47 Down: Sheepdog (6)
SHELTY
49 Down: Top-drawer (5)
ELITE
50 Down: Tonsorial tool (5)
RAZOR
52 Down: Zip (5)
ZILCH
53 Down: Like a house ___ (5)
AFIRE
54 Down: Clouded (5)
HAZED
55 Down: New Hollywood couple (4)
ITEM
56 Down: Count (4)
RATE
57 Down: Touch on (4)
ABUT
59 Down: Boris Godunov was one (4)
CZAR
62 Down: J.F.K. visitor (3)
SST
63 Down: Some legal eagles, for short (3)
DAS

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