Saturday Crossword — February 29, 1992 - Answers & Solutions
Complete answers for this hard crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 68 clues). Published 2/29/1992. By Eileen Lexau.
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Across Answers
- 1 Across: Eases up (6)
- ABATES
- 7 Across: Hose description (5)
- SHEER
- 12 Across: Cut of beef (7)
- BRISKET
- 13 Across: Band instrument (6)
- CORNET
- 15 Across: Renounce interest in (15)
- WASHONESHANDSOF
- 18 Across: Some matériels, for short (5)
- AMMOS
- 19 Across: Remorseful ones (5)
- RUERS
- 20 Across: "Sail ___ Ship of State!" (3)
- ONO
- 21 Across: Of ships and tars: Abbr. (4)
- NAUT
- 22 Across: Mr. Atkins (5)
- TOMMY
- 23 Across: Half of MCXVIII (4)
- DLIX
- 24 Across: River island (3)
- AIT
- 25 Across: Big Ben's sound (5)
- CHIME
- 26 Across: Minos's kingdom (5)
- CRETE
- 27 Across: Pretense (7)
- CHARADE
- 29 Across: Made an incised mark (5)
- RASED
- 30 Across: Throws out (9)
- GETSRIDOF
- 33 Across: Reads cursorily (5)
- SCANS
- 36 Across: Michael Jordan is one (7)
- SHOOTER
- 39 Across: Golden-calf destroyer (5)
- MOSES
- 40 Across: Ritzy (5)
- SWANK
- 41 Across: Indian rice (3)
- AUS
- 43 Across: Wallet fillers (4)
- ONES
- 44 Across: Sweden, to a Parisian (5)
- SUEDE
- 45 Across: Attention getter (4)
- PSST
- 46 Across: Now and then: Abbr. (3)
- OCC
- 47 Across: Sleeper's breathing problem (5)
- APNEA
- 48 Across: Authority (5)
- SAYSO
- 49 Across: Give up (15)
- THROWINTHETOWEL
- 52 Across: Pump in oxygen (6)
- AERATE
- 53 Across: Flatter (7)
- ADULATE
- 54 Across: Trifled (with) (5)
- TOYED
- 55 Across: " . . . ___ achievement is only tomorrow's confusion": Howells (6)
- TODAYS
Down Answers
- 1 Down: Early Semitic language (7)
- ARAMAIC
- 2 Down: Metallic element (7)
- BISMUTH
- 3 Down: "___ in the Dark," Sellers film (5)
- ASHOT
- 4 Down: Fight refs' decisions (4)
- TKOS
- 5 Down: Poetic contraction (3)
- EEN
- 6 Down: Sports no-no's (8)
- STEROIDS
- 7 Down: Intrigue (6)
- SCHEME
- 8 Down: Grizzled (5)
- HOARY
- 9 Down: Fulmars' kin (4)
- ERNS
- 10 Down: Objective (3)
- END
- 11 Down: Cobbles (7)
- RESOLES
- 12 Down: Boss, in Africa (5)
- BWANA
- 14 Down: Blaster's explosive (6)
- TONITE
- 16 Down: Type of pepperbush (11)
- SUMMERSWEET
- 17 Down: Outsmarted (5)
- FOXED
- 22 Down: "Goodbye to All ___": R. Graves (4)
- THAT
- 23 Down: Air current (5)
- DRAFT
- 25 Down: Plant of the mustard family (5)
- CRESS
- 26 Down: Bo-peep's rod (5)
- CROOK
- 28 Down: "___ of God," Fonda film (5)
- AGNES
- 31 Down: "___ When I Came In," old Irish song (8)
- IHADAHAT
- 32 Down: Over (4)
- DONE
- 33 Down: ___-Hawley Tariff Act (5)
- SMOOT
- 34 Down: Bone in the nose (6)
- CONCHA
- 35 Down: "I've Got ___," TV show (7)
- ASECRET
- 37 Down: Take the ___ out (7)
- EASYWAY
- 38 Down: Certain apples (7)
- RUSSETS
- 40 Down: Basked (6)
- SUNNED
- 42 Down: Ripped off (5)
- STOLE
- 44 Down: Malice (5)
- SPITE
- 45 Down: City in Kan. (5)
- PAOLA
- 47 Down: S. Foster's "___ Down South" (4)
- AWAY
- 48 Down: Collar button (4)
- STUD
- 50 Down: Spanish Main booty (3)
- ORO
- 51 Down: Tokyo, once (3)
- EDO
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