Saturday Crossword — November 23, 1991 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 72 clues). Published 11/23/1991. By Kevin Boyle.

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Across Answers

1 Across: Moonlighter's second job (8)
PARERGON
9 Across: Ancient Roman garments (6)
PALLAE
15 Across: Shed (8)
EXUVIATE
16 Across: "___ Eleven," Sinatra film (6)
OCEANS
17 Across: This makes one forget sorrow (8)
NEPENTHE
18 Across: Pistols or coins (6)
PIECES
19 Across: In the preceding mo. (3)
ULT
20 Across: Legal paper (4)
DEED
21 Across: Running: Comb. form (5)
DROME
22 Across: Heart of the matter (4)
CRUX
24 Across: Has the willies (6)
DREADS
27 Across: ___ compos mentis (3)
NON
28 Across: Eunomia, Dike and Eirene (5)
HORAE
30 Across: Spotted cube (3)
DIE
31 Across: Dandy's partner (4)
FINE
32 Across: Paradisiacal (6)
EDENIC
34 Across: Spoils (7)
DEFACES
36 Across: Mother of Miletus (4)
ARIA
38 Across: Australian bird (4)
EMEU
39 Across: Devices for inducing rain (7)
SEEDERS
42 Across: Persian dulcimer (6)
SANTIR
46 Across: Nobelist for Peace: 1984 (4)
TUTU
47 Across: Ymir's Audhumia, for one (3)
COW
49 Across: Sierra Nevada lake (5)
TAHOE
50 Across: Violinist Bull (3)
OLE
51 Across: Native Hawaiian (6)
KANAKA
54 Across: Wagnerian earth goddess (4)
ERDA
55 Across: Top of Hernando's head (5)
MORRA
57 Across: ___ ha-Shanah (4)
ROSH
59 Across: Bribe (3)
OIL
60 Across: Felon's kin (6)
AGNAIL
62 Across: Indian princess (8)
MAHARANI
64 Across: U.S. poet who wrote "I Marry You" (6)
CIARDI
65 Across: Hoots like an owl (8)
ULULATES
66 Across: Most robust (6)
HALEST
67 Across: Fit (8)
PAROXYSM

Down Answers

1 Down: Fudgelike candy (7)
PENUCHE
2 Down: Co-Nobelist in Medicine: 1970 (7)
AXELROD
3 Down: Breach of the peace (7)
RUPTURE
4 Down: Mary Orr's "The Wisdom of ___" (3)
EVE
5 Down: Tree bark (4)
RIND
6 Down: Grounded, at Oxford (5)
GATED
7 Down: Not long past (5)
OTHER
8 Down: "If I ___ Someone," Beatles hit (6)
NEEDED
9 Down: Burst (3)
POP
10 Down: Sour substances (5)
ACIDS
11 Down: Lascivious look (4)
LEER
12 Down: Like a Spartan's speech (7)
LACONIC
13 Down: A buttercup (7)
ANEMONE
14 Down: Ancient ascetics (7)
ESSENES
23 Down: Beauteous place (6)
XANADU
25 Down: Confidential helper (4)
AIDE
26 Down: Musicologist Taylor (5)
DEEMS
29 Down: The Emerald Isle (4)
EIRE
31 Down: Treatises on animals (6)
FAUNAE
33 Down: About (5)
CIRCA
35 Down: Herculean act (4)
FEAT
37 Down: " . . . unto us ___ is given" (4)
ASON
39 Down: Stand (7)
STOMACH
40 Down: Expressions of praise (7)
EULOGIA
41 Down: "Love is ___," I. Stone best seller (7)
ETERNAL
43 Down: Guttural (7)
THROATY
44 Down: Antiseptics (7)
IODINES
45 Down: Literary style (7)
REALISM
48 Down: Prepare to perform (6)
WARMUP
51 Down: N African tribal chiefs (5)
KAIDS
52 Down: Sluggish marsupial (5)
KOALA
53 Down: Assyrian god of war (5)
ASHUR
56 Down: Hard to find (4)
RARE
58 Down: Nimbus (4)
HALO
61 Down: Turned on (3)
LIT
63 Down: Stretch, in Scotland (3)
RAX

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